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Rex Reed: The Cuntiest Film Critic Who Ever Cunted

I'm convinced Rex Reed posts on DL now....read and weep:

“Mumbling incoherently and looking creepier than usual, Matthew McConaughey appears to be no stranger to cryogenics, thawed out in a microwave at room temperature." White Boy Rick (2018)

"Melissa McCarthy is a gimmick comedian who has devoted her short career to being obese and obnoxious with equal success." Identity Thief (2013)

"Not one scene in the entire film makes a shred of sense. If Kim Basinger still knows how to act, there is no evidence of it here." The 11th Hour (2015)

"Looking lovely and catatonic, Angelina Jolie, who now calls herself Angelina Jolie Pitt, has come up with an exercise in self-indulgence for herself and husband Brad that is so boring it defies description" By The Sea (2015)

"If there is one thing worse than a Guy Ritchie movie, it's a Guy Ritchie movie with Madonna in it." Swept Away (2002)

"A lunk-headed train wreck that looks like a tag sale in a 323 B.C. supermarket in old Peking" Alexander (2004)

"It looks like it was made for one-half of Joan Crawford's old soundstage Pepsi-Cola budget and sounds like it was written by chimpanzees" Gigantic (2009)

"The title is wrong. They should call it Spinning Into Margarine" Spinning into Butter (2009)

"Every decade produces its own bloated, undeserving, media-created curiosity. The overrated Amy Schumer is the latest" Trainwreck (2015)

"Just because Keanu Reeves stopped shaving doesn't mean he can suddently act" Siberia (2014)

"Not since The Informers, based catatonically on the idiotic Bret Easton Ellis book, has the screen unleashed a Hollywood abortion as dismal and dead-on-arrival as Shrink" Shrink (2009)

"The only thing memorable about Sex and the City 2 is the number two part, which describes it totally, if you get my drift" SATC 2 (2010)

"Lena Dunham makes a 98-minute home video seem like 98 days of hard labor." Tiny Furniture (2010)

"Quite the most appalling piece of junk I have seen lately, Hobo With a Shotgun just lies there like an autopsy." Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)

"They should have called it I Vomit With You." I Melt With You (2011)

"You start squirming early and end up feeling you desperately need a bath." The Paperboy (2012)

"Part schlockfest, part campy fairy tale, this is a movie that begs you to bring your own barf bag" Only God Forgives (2013)

"Years seem to pass between scenes. To be honest, years seem to pass during scenes" To The Wonder (2013)

"About as funny as a liver transplant" Tammy (2014)

"The film is such a James Franco ego trip that it even features a curious end credit for "Mr. Franco's scheduling coordinator." That's a new one. I'm waiting for the one that thanks "Mr. Franco's career-retirement counselor." I'll pay money to see that one." Child of God (2013)

"I consider suffering through a Terrence Malick film nothing short of waterboarding in Afghanistan." Song to Song (2017)

"A guaranteed cure for insomnia, an abomination starring Renée Zellweger's new face and Keanu Reeves, who has the charisma and animated visual appeal of a mud fence." The Whole Truth (2016)

"The filthy, disgusting script is by three people who should remain nameless, but I can hardly believe one of them is Justin Theroux, a good actor who would do the world a favor if he dropped his laptop off the top of the Chrysler Building." Rock of Ages (2012)

"He couldn't direct traffic" on Nicolas Winding Refn, Only God Forgives (2013)

by Anonymousreply 40April 25, 2020 7:13 PM

Those who can, do.

Those who can't, become critics.

by Anonymousreply 1April 5, 2020 7:58 PM

I thought he was dead. What's he shoplifting nowadays that CDs are dead?

by Anonymousreply 2April 5, 2020 8:00 PM

I love him. He is a riot.

by Anonymousreply 3April 5, 2020 8:10 PM

He needs to go back to "Myra Breckinridge," where he belongs.

by Anonymousreply 4April 5, 2020 8:30 PM

Or perhaps to Beyond the Valley of the Dolls?

by Anonymousreply 5April 5, 2020 8:36 PM

He’s not wrong. Harsh but hilarious 😆!

by Anonymousreply 6April 5, 2020 8:45 PM

Oh dear, OP. That should of course be:

[quote] Rex Reed: The Cuntiest Film Cunt Who Ever Cunted

by Anonymousreply 7April 5, 2020 8:48 PM

Love Rex Reed. His reviews are generally on point.

by Anonymousreply 8April 23, 2020 7:20 PM

How can he afford to live at the Dakota?

by Anonymousreply 9April 23, 2020 7:28 PM

I don’t mind a good cunty critic, but I don’t find Rex witty or insightful.

by Anonymousreply 10April 23, 2020 7:30 PM

"You start squirming early and end up feeling you desperately need a bath." The Paperboy (2012)

Rex Reed tells no lies. That film was a hot fucking mess!

by Anonymousreply 11April 23, 2020 7:39 PM

I am suddenly a fan.

by Anonymousreply 12April 23, 2020 7:43 PM

Making Streisand out to be Neely O'Hara - in 1966.

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by Anonymousreply 13April 23, 2020 7:43 PM

It's his schtick. He's good at it for what it is. At least he's not boring, or a "serious" critic suffering everyone by kissing the ass of Hollywood garbage and shitty celebrities, and trying to get his reviews blurbed on movie posters (although I'd imagine that has happened, with him being so long in the tooth).

by Anonymousreply 14April 23, 2020 7:46 PM

I always loved this line Reed's 1974 review of John Waters' FEMALE TROUBLE, one of my favorite films of all time:

"Where do these people come from? Where do they go when the sun goes down?"

by Anonymousreply 15April 23, 2020 7:48 PM

He's funny, but from the past. I had always put him in the same league as Erma Bombeck, and agree with other posters here who are surprised to learn he's still alive, and working.

by Anonymousreply 16April 23, 2020 7:50 PM

Cunted? Stealing.

by Anonymousreply 17April 23, 2020 7:58 PM

I think he is funny and many of his film reviews are far from bitchy.

by Anonymousreply 18April 23, 2020 7:58 PM

There's rarely anything insightful about his reviews and his 'humor' really isn't that funny. "About as funny as a liver transplant." True - but that line is as old as Rex (81).

by Anonymousreply 19April 23, 2020 8:10 PM

A queen with a sharp tongue who basically had nothing of interest to say.

by Anonymousreply 20April 24, 2020 9:30 PM

Kitsch, midbrow who thought he was a Karl or a Sontag, but was a trashy lower-rent Ebert, who at least could acknowledge his enjoyment of lowcult.

by Anonymousreply 21April 24, 2020 9:37 PM

Why is that ancient cunt still above ground cunting and I'm not?

by Anonymousreply 22April 24, 2020 9:52 PM

I adore him. Most of the time he's right on point. I get tired of some of these film reviews that are so ass kissy. We're living in a generation where film stars are put on such a pedestal. And they don't deserve it.

by Anonymousreply 23April 24, 2020 10:00 PM

He’s only 81 and it seems like he’s been ancient forever. I don’t find him funny or original, but his movie reviews are often correct.

by Anonymousreply 24April 24, 2020 10:17 PM

n understanding with Richard Gere, alledgedly

by Anonymousreply 25April 24, 2020 10:22 PM

He's more talented as a writer than Jennifer Aniston is as an actress.

Prove me wrong.

by Anonymousreply 26April 24, 2020 10:26 PM

Damning with faint praise.

by Anonymousreply 27April 24, 2020 10:34 PM

Interviewing Natalie Wood shortly before her death.

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by Anonymousreply 28April 24, 2020 10:59 PM

I remember seeing him on TV when I was a kid and thinking, “Now THERE is a cunty gay man!” But of course I didn’t know the word “cunty,” but knew he was “it” whatever “it” was.

by Anonymousreply 29April 25, 2020 12:46 AM

He slammed Myoeshi Umeki's Oscar win on some talk show once.

by Anonymousreply 30April 25, 2020 12:54 AM

R30 Did she get an Oscar for best song some how, I don’t remember this at all? Was it the animated movie with Prince in the title and Whitney singing too?

by Anonymousreply 31April 25, 2020 1:04 AM

R30 Did she get an Oscar for best song some how, I don’t remember this at all? Was it the animated movie with Prince in the title and Whitney singing too?

by Anonymousreply 32April 25, 2020 1:04 AM

I liked his song "You Take My Breath Away."

by Anonymousreply 33April 25, 2020 1:07 AM

R30 r31 How DARE you disparage a DL icon like the delicate, some would say flower-like, MIYOSHI UMEKI.

by Anonymousreply 34April 25, 2020 3:22 AM

Wait, are you talking about Courtship of Eddie’s Father caretaker? R34

by Anonymousreply 35April 25, 2020 3:38 AM

He is DEAD ON about Terence Malick. He is quite the cunt, and can be wrong, but he’s pretty hilarious at times. I’m surprised he’s still alive, boiling in all that bile, but I love that he’s fueled by so much anger.

by Anonymousreply 36April 25, 2020 3:42 AM

[quote] Wait, are you talking about Courtship of Eddie’s Father caretaker?

That was one of her roles.

by Anonymousreply 37April 25, 2020 3:52 AM

I have no idea who this guy is, but he was very kind to Keanu Reeves, regarding Siberia. That movie stunk. Full stop.

by Anonymousreply 38April 25, 2020 3:59 AM

^^^That's because Rex probably wanted to blow Keanu.

by Anonymousreply 39April 25, 2020 4:50 AM

I always wanted him to fuck me so I could hear him whisper, "Your hole is as miserable as the plot of Funny Lady."

by Anonymousreply 40April 25, 2020 7:13 PM
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