Movies suddenly became film and cinema an art form and terribly chic.

- Judith Crist

All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.

- Judith Crist

Film criticism became the means whereby a stream of young intellectuals could go straight from the campus film society into the professionals' screen…

- Judith Crist

The critics who love are the severe ones . . . we know our relationship must be based on honesty.

- Judith Crist

Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let's just wish each other a bileless New Year and leave it at…

- Judith Crist

The one and original lovable monster is lost amid all the hydraulic manipulations in what now emerges as the story of a dumb blonde who falls for a h…

- Judith Crist

In this era of affluence and of permissiveness, we have, in all but cultural areas, bred a nation of overprivileged youngsters, saturated with vitami…

- Judith Crist

Amid all the easily loved darlings of Charlie Brown's circle, obstreperous Lucy holds a special place in my heart. She fusses and fumes and she carps…

- Judith Crist

It is essential for the good of criticism that both the critic and the public face the fact that a review is not the voice of God.

- Judith Crist