Critical One-Liners

In RV, the downwardly spiraling career trajectories of Robin Williams and director Barry Sonnenfeld intertwine like the ropes of a tangled parachute, and all the helpless viewer can do is look on aghast as the whole abortive fiasco plummets toward Earth.
-John Patterson, LA Weekly

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Mark Mauer likes movies cuz the pictures move, and the screen talks like it's people. He once watched Tales from the Gilmli Hostpial three times in a single night, and is amazed DeNiro made good movies throughout the 80s, only to screw it all up in the 90s and beyond. He has met both Udo Kier and Werner Herzog, and he knows an Irishman who can quote at length from the autobiography of Klaus Kinksi.

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  2. i remember reading a book of insults or put-downs or something like that in college. there were a bunch of brief critical dismissals compiled there. one was a review of the play i am a camera, which read only “me no leica”. elsewhere there was a review of a late beegees album: “more meaningless songs in high voices”. and i believe the first album by yes got a one word review in england: “no”. whoever reviewed kill bill vol. 1 in the new yorker had a great line in it: “this is what is formally known as decadence and popularly known as crap”. i disagree, but still.

  3. Dorothy Parker famously reviewed Katherine Hepburn’s performance on stage: “Runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.”

    I would rather travel cross-country in an RV with Robin Williams than see this movie. I’d even rather be married to him and traveling across country in an RV than see this movie.

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