Capsule review

{{Short description|Short review of creative work}}

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A capsule review or mini reviewThe Word, 1976, issue 12, page 15 [https://books.google.com/books?id=iUViAAAAMAAJ Google Books] is a form of appraisal, usually associated with journalism, that offers a relatively short critique of a specified creative work (movie, music album, restaurant, painting, etc.). Capsule reviews generally appear in publications like newspapers and magazines and may be placed within the context of a cultural digest section of a publication.{{cite book | last=Mathijs | first=E. | title=The Lord of the Rings: Popular Culture in Global Context | publisher=Wallflower | series=Film Studies | year=2006 | isbn=978-1-904764-82-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I8mxughWAOEC&pg=PA137 | access-date=2019-06-01 | page=137}}

Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide is a well-known publication that includes thousands of capsule movie reviews by prolific film writer Leonard Maltin, including the world's shortest capsule review according to the Guinness Book of World Records, a 2 out of 4-star review of the 1948 musical Isn't It Romantic? that consisted of only the word "no".{{cite news |last=Bloomer |first=Jeffrey |url=https://slate.com/culture/2019/02/isnt-it-romantic-no-shortest-movie-review-ever-leonard-maltin.html |title=The Story Behind the Shortest Movie Review of All Time |work=Slate |location=New York City |publisher=The Slate Group |date=2019-02-14 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190215013021/https://slate.com/culture/2019/02/isnt-it-romantic-no-shortest-movie-review-ever-leonard-maltin.html |archivedate=2019-02-15 |accessdate=2019-06-01 |quote=Even in the pre-internet days, the pithy review became such a cult favorite that a fan, in the 1980s, submitted it to Guinness World Records, which later informed Maltin it would certify it as the world’s shortest movie review. }}