Alien-acid queen, movie-crit staple and star of the infamous 1970 flop Myra Breckinridge Rex Reed describes Identity Thief star Melissa McCarthy as "tractor-sized," "humongous" and a "female hippo" in his Observer review of Seth Gordon's probable hit, which opens this weekend. These words are uncivil and the product…

The newest batch of ladygoop premiered last night to much fanfare and fancy dressery. But how was the actual movie? Well, judging by a few critics' reactions, it was not so good. Actually, it sounds terrible.

We have noted the ridiculously mean-spirited SATC review that curmudgeonly queen Rex Reed wrote for the NY Observer on these pages before. However, we have never printed the offending opening graf here on these pages, but seeing as how SJP had her beauty-mark lasered off sometime in the last few weeks (it wasn't…

Rascally old blurb machine Rex Reed was spotted by a reader while Reed was, uh, spotting him: "Shoplifting elderly movie critic Rex Reed cruised me yesterday afternoon on that super long escalator at the 53rd and Lex E/V subway station. I was going up; he was going down! I don't know what's scarier - the fact that I…

Should Tom Cruise decide to purchase a pied terre in the Dakota—an event, sadly, more longed for than likely; a source tells us that "Tom prefers the Carlyle"—he'd face some fairly strict scrutiny. A tipster explains who does and doesn't get into the Dakota:

While Edelstein and Scott may have been swept away by Miami Vice, Observer film critic Rex Reed is decidedly less enthusiastic, calling the picture "crummy, pointless, and brain dead." Why such a disproportionate reaction? Perhaps Reed found director Michael Mann's visual style too hard-charging. He might have been…