“If the Red Hot Chili Peppers acoustically covered the 12 worst Primus songs for Starbucks, it would still be (slightly) better than this.”
Critics: Chuck Klosterman on Lou Reed & Metallica – Lulu (2011), Grantland
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Clear filters“This cover version of Moussorgsky's mouldy oldie does have a big new beat, but you can't dance to it, and the instrumentation seems a bit spare. Anyway, the truth is that I don't even listen to the original much.”
Critics: Robert Christgau on Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Pictures at an Exhibition (1972), Christgau's Consumer Guide
“Thou hast to be kidding.”
Critics: Anthony Lane on The Scarlet Letter (1995), The New Yorker
“What is this? Crap. Say it loud: Crap.”
Critics: Anthony Lane on Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999), The New Yorker
“I won't soon forget the spectacle of watching the mummified Sidney rise from his wheelchair to kick an intruder, unaccountably dressed in a moose costume, in the groin.”
Critics: Frank Rich on Moose Murders (1983), The New York Times
“I doubt if I could love anyone who did not wish to see Look Back in Anger. It is the best young play of its decade.”
Critics: Kenneth Tynan on Look Back in Anger (1956), The Observer
“It is decorated in various shades of taupe, biscuit and fuck you. There's a little gilt here and there, to remind us that this is a room designed for people for whom guilt is unfamiliar.”
Critics: Jay Rayner on Le Cinq, Paris (2017), The Observer
“Mr. Patterson and Mr. Choi seem to have thought about the social dimensions of fast food so much that they now see their target audience as problems to be solved, not customers to be pleased. The most nutritious burger on earth won't help you if you don't want to eat it.”
Critics: Pete Wells on Locol, Oakland (2017), The New York Times
“Hey, did you try that blue drink, the one that glows like nuclear waste? The watermelon margarita? Any idea why it tastes like some combination of radiator fluid and formaldehyde?”
Critics: Pete Wells on Guy's American Kitchen & Bar, New York (2012), The New York Times