Shortest Movie Reviews
Leonard Maltin is credited with the shortest movie review. His review for Isn’t it Romantic? was simple and to-the-point, “no.” James Agee is supposed to have written off You Were Meant for Me with, “That’s what you think.” And Kenneth Tynan summed up the allure of I Am a Camera with, “Me no Leica.”
There’s even a website devoted to short movie reviews. The name of the site says it all: The Four Word Film Review. Examples of its four-words-or-less opinions include Groundhog Day (Monotony in Punxatawney), The Mummy (America’s first wrap star), The Ten Commandments (Runaway Jewry), and Citizen Kane (Publisher has last word).
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