Movie Critic Quotes

• I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win.

  Roger Ebert

  Winning, Years, Oscars

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• I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Literature, Critics, Journalist

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• People send me e-mails saying, "You're a movie critic. You don't know anything about politics." Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.

  Roger Ebert

  Years, Daddy, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• In December of 2002, the late Richard Corliss, a respected movie critic with a long and illustrious career, wrote an embarrassing letter of support for the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan in the guise of a Time magazine review of Peter Jackson's The Two Towers.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Careers, Two, Iraq

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I love to go to the movies with people, but a lot of the time it's me in a room with a bunch of other movie critics, which is fine.

  Wesley Morris

  People, Rooms, Bunch

  "Wesley Morris, boston globe film critic: 'they hate people who have opinions that run contrary to their fanaticism'". Interview with Naoki O'Bryan, jameson-zimmer.squarespace.com. April 15, 2013.

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• There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Television, Theater, Critics

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I love to see the rarest movies, the most talked-about movies and documentaries. I read all the reviews and compare them to see if its worth going! I have a secret movie critic blog I have shown no one or promoted, and I intend to keep it that way.

  Theophilus London

  Secret, Documentaries, Way

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• I think whether you're a movie critic and have seen a million movies, or you're just a normal popcorn movie watcher, you can tell the difference when someone is just laying it on too thick.

  Josh Peck

  Thinking, Differences, Popcorn

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• I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.

  Roger Ebert

  Long, Boring, Praise

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.441, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle.

  James Wolcott

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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