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“Unfortunately I already had this exact picture tattooed on my chest, but this shirt is very useful in colder weather.”
Customer reviews: overlook1977 on The Mountain Three Wolf Moon T-shirt, Amazon
“Speaking in my official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize winner, Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks.”
Critics: Roger Ebert on Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005), Chicago Sun-Times
“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
“What is this? Crap. Say it loud: Crap.”
Critics: Anthony Lane on Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999), The New Yorker
“I had a colonoscopy once, and they let me watch it on TV. It was more entertaining than ‘The Brown Bunny.'”
Critics: Roger Ebert on The Brown Bunny (2003), Chicago Sun-Times
“‘Mad Dog’ Time is the first movie I have seen that does not improve on the sight of a blank screen viewed for the same length of time. Oh, I’ve seen bad movies before. But they usually made me care about how bad they were. Watching Mad Dog Time is like waiting for the bus in a city where you’re not sure they have a bus line.”
Critics: Roger Ebert on Mad Dog Time (1996), Chicago Sun-Times
“This movie could have been made as a soft-core sex film, but it’s too restrained: There are so many palms carefully arranged in front of genital areas, and Brooke Shields’ long hair is so carefully draped to conceal her breasts, that there must have been a whole squad of costumers and set decorators on permanent Erogenous Zone Alert.”
Critics: Roger Ebert on The Blue Lagoon (1980), Chicago Sun-Times
“Cats is the biggest disaster of the decade, and possibly thus far in the millennium. It's Battlefield Earth with whiskers.”
Critics: Adam Graham on Cats (2019), The Detroit News
“What can I say about the 571B Banana Slicer that hasn’t already been said about the wheel, penicillin, or the iPhone … this is one of the greatest inventions of all time.”
Customer reviews: Mrs Toledo on Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer, Amazon
“Maybe this paper could be suitable for a journal with readers in statistical genetics or medical mathematics, if such journals exist.”
Peer review: Anonymous reviewer on Manuscript under review
“But legal reasons do not make for good technology, or good patches that I should apply.”
Code review: Anonymous reviewer on Patch to an operating system kernel
“The writing style is flowery and has an air of Oscar Wilde about it.”
Peer review: Anonymous reviewer on Manuscript under review, A journal in microbiology
“The biggest problem with this manuscript, which has nearly sucked the will to live out of me, is the terrible writing style.”
Peer review: Anonymous reviewer on Manuscript under review, A journal in microbiology
“Your model is a black hole from which no light escapes.”
Peer review: Anonymous reviewer on Manuscript under review
“The above code is sh*t, and it generates shit code. It looks bad, and there's no reason for it.”
Code review: Anonymous reviewer on Pull request to an operating system kernel
“I interpret this as evidence that the PI is an excellent networker but that he does not have sufficient required scientific expertise and capacity to successfully execute the project.”
Peer review: Anonymous reviewer on Grant proposal
“The arguments in the paper are compelling but not convincing.”
Peer review: Anonymous reviewer on Manuscript under review
“The finding is not novel and the solution induces despair.”
Peer review: Anonymous reviewer on Manuscript under review, A journal in microbiology
“The author writes like a drunken after-dinner speaker.”
Peer review: Anonymous reviewer on Manuscript under review, A journal in the social sciences