Star Wars
"It’s an assemblage of spare parts—it has no emotional grip... an epic without a dream."—Pauline Kael, The New Yorker
Forrest Gump
"It is... glib, shallow, and monotonous, a movie that spends so much time sanctifying its hero that, despite his 'innocence,' he ends up seeming about as vulnerable as Superman."—Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
2001: A Space Odyssey
"pretentious, abysmally slow, amateurishly acted and, above all, wrong”—Stephen hunter, Washington Post.
Gladiator
"By the end of this long film, I would have traded any given gladiatorial victory for just one shot of blue skies."—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
The Godfather, Part II
"It's a Frankenstein monster stitched together from leftover parts. It talks. It moves in fits and starts but it has no mind of its own... Looking very expensive but spiritually desperate, Part II has the air of a very long, very elaborate revue sketch."—Vincent Canby, The New York Times
The Wizard of Oz
"It has dwarfs, music, Technicolor, freak characters and Judy Garland. It can't be expected to have a sense of humor as well, and as for the light touch of fantasy, it weighs like a pound of fruitcake soaking wet."—The New Republic
Alien
“An empty-headed horror movie with nothing to recommend it” –Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Schindler’s list
“A theme park masquerading as master’s thesis”—Luke Y Thompson, New Times
The Matrix
“It’s astonishing that so much money, talent, technical expertise and visual imagination can be put in service of something so stupid”—Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle
Gone with the wind
"Badly written…a bore” Arthur Schlesinger, The Atlantic
Okay, now you can scratch your heads.
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