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Rex Reed Quotes

Just living in Los Angeles guarantees the loss of a few I.Q. points each year.

Just living in Los Angeles guarantees the loss of a few I.Q. points each year.

Rex Reed
Travel, Home, Loss

In Hollywood, if you don't have happiness you send out for it.

Rex Reed
Happiness, Hollywood, Entertainment
Rex Reed (1978). “Valentines & vitriol”

Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks!

Rex Reed
Writing, Emotional, Rocks

The result is a twitching convulsion of vicious drivel passing itself off as a movie, which can be best appreciated by the kind of people who dig Showgirls, the Saw franchise and Spike Jonze-Charlie Kaufman flicks.

Rex Reed
People, Saws, Kind
"Going to the Dogs: With 'Seven Psychopaths,' The Once-Masterful McDonagh Stays Bent on an Ill-Advised Hiatus from Theater" by Rex Reed, observer.com. October 9, 2012.

In the numbing hands of pretentious filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, history does not repeat itself in any way whatsoever.

Rex Reed
Hands, Doe, Way
"Year-End Roundup: What to See (and Skip) Before the Ball Drops" by Rex Reed, observer.com. December 15, 2010.

F For Fake is a talentless concoction of unparalleled ineptitude... It would have been a more generous gesture to show a retrospective of old Welles films rather than remind everyone of how low his ability as a filmmaker has plummeted.

Rex Reed
Fake, Gestures, Ineptitude

Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) is a gimmick comedian who has devoted her short career to being obese and obnoxious with equal success.

Rex Reed
Careers, Comedian, Bridesmaids
"Declined: In Identity Thief, Bateman’s Bankable Billing Can’t Lift This Flick out of the Red" by Rex Reed, observer.com. February 5, 2013.

A wise, joyous bookit unfolds the knowledge and the beauty of the two lives it embraces-old wisdom and young discover, intertwining like vines.

Rex Reed
Wise, Two, Vines

Most of the time he [Marlon Brando] sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper.

Rex Reed
Art, Sound, Paper

In a musically imperfect world, there is still perfection in the voice of Barbara Cook. For anyone eulogizing the historic scores of a long-lost era of Broadway greatness, not to worry. Somebody is still singing them with purity and passion. She is Barbara Cook, and she sings them for the angels to applaud.

Rex Reed
Passion, Angel, Greatness

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