It was described by Bosley Crowther as, " whoop-de-doo ... one of the finest ever put on the screen.

The film was a success, and The New York Times Bosley Crowther singled its star out for praise: " It is Mr. Cagney's performance, controlled to the last detail, that gives life and strong, heroic stature to the principal figure in the film.

Influential reviewer Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote that " Nancy Davis delightful as gentle, plain, and understanding wife.

The New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther, while dismissing the movie as " an average gangster film ", singled out Falk's " amusingly vicious performance.

** Bosley Crowther, American film critic ( b. 1905 )

New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther lauded the acting in the drama, and wrote, " Mr. Dmytryk has handled most excellently a superlative cast which plays the drama.

In 1952, Bosley Crowther called The Greatest Show on Earth a " lusty triumph of circus showmanship and movie skill " and a " piece of entertainment that will delight movie audiences for years ":

Shortly after its premiere at the Astor Theater, New York, Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, hailed the film as a masterpiece.

Time magazine drew attention to the film's wooden acting, especially on the part of Eastwood, though a few critics such as Vincent Canby and Bosley Crowther of The New York Times praised Eastwood's coolness in playing the tall, lone stranger.

Bosley Crowther wrote in The New York Times, " all a fairly respectful admirer of movies can do is laugh at it and turn away ".

Film critic Bosley Crowther wrote, " Mr. Tracy and Miss Hepburn are the stellar performers in this show and their perfect compatibility in comic capers is delightful to see.

" Bosley Crowther called the film " wonderful ", and declared, " As a father, torn by jealousy, devotion, pride and righteous wrath, Mr. Tracy is tops.

Bosley Crowther for one wrote in The New York Times, " More and more, Walt Disney's craftsmen have been loading their feature films with so-called ' live action ' in place of their animated whimsies of the past, and by just those proportions has the magic of these Disney films decreased ," citing the ratio of live action to animation at two to one, concluding that is " approximately the ratio of its mediocrity to its charm.

New York Times ’ Bosley Crowther, mentioned above, made a similar assumption, writing that the movie was a " travesty on the antebellum South.

" On the other hand, Bosley Crowther of the New York Times declared that Forever and a Day boasted " superb performances ".

Critic Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, liked the screenplay, the message of the film, and John Ford's direction, and wrote, " John Ford has truly fashioned a modern Odyssey — a stark and tough-fibered motion picture which tells with lean economy the never-ending story of man's wanderings over the waters of the world in search of peace for his soul ... it is harsh and relentless and only briefly compassionate in its revelation of man's pathetic shortcomings.

The film received poor reviews and was described by Bosley Crowther as " a distressingly empty piece "; but, with a profit of $ 2. 5 million, it was one of her biggest box-office successes.

The film was later described by Bosley Crowther as " interminable "; and he noted that " of all the miserable dilemmas in which Miss Davis has been involved ... this one is probably the worst ".

Bosley Crowther generally panned the film and commented in the New York Times of February 29, 1956: " The script was obviously written to bring and Mr. Hudson, who made a popular twosome in the Magnificent Obsession, together again.

Bosley Crowther of The New York Times was so appalled that he began to campaign against the increasing brutality of American films.

This 2009 documentary film chronicles what occurred as a result: the New York Times fired Bosley Crowther because his negative review seemed so out of touch with the public, and Pauline Kael, who wrote a lengthy freelance essay in The New Yorker in praise of the film, became the magazine's new staff critic.

* Bosley Crowther ’ s original review, the New York Times, 14 April 1967, and his follow-up of 3 September 1967.

* Review by Bosley Crowther in New York Times ( 1942 )

" Bosley Crowther of The New York Times called it " tepid entertainment.

Among those at the film's premiere was film critic Bosley Crowther of The New York Times, who noted that " motion history was made last night ... Fantasia dumps conventional formulas overboard and reveals the scope of films for imaginative excursion ... Fantasia ... is simply terrific.

Frank Beaver wrote in Bosley Crowther: Social Critic of the Film, 1940-1967 that Crowther opposed displays of patriotism in films and believed that a movie producer " should balance his political attitudes even in the uncertain times of the 1940s and 1950s, during the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Critic Bosley Crowther noted that its " striking and authentic documentary quality has been imported to the whole film in every detail, attitude and word.

Critic Bosley Crowther liked the acting in the picture, and wrote, " As gangster pictures go, this one has everything — speed, excitement, suspense and that ennobling suggestion of futility which makes for irony and pity.

Critic Bosley Crowther was not impressed with the atmospherics of the film and panned the film due to its screenplay, writing, " We wish we could recommend it as a perfect combination of the styles of the eminent Mr. Hitchcock and the old German psychological films, for that is plainly and precisely what it tries very hard to be.

Critic Bosley Crowther gave the drama a mixed review, and wrote, " Therefore, The Sniper develops, as it casually gets along, into nothing more forceful or impressive than a moderately fascinating " chase.

Film critic Bosley Crowther lauded the film and wrote, " The eminent director, John Ford, is a man who has a way with a Western like nobody in the picture trade.

Film critic Bosley Crowther liked the film and wrote, "... Miss Hayward plays it superbly, under the consistently sharp direction of Robert Wise, who has shown here a stunning mastery of the staccato realistic style.

Film critic Bosley Crowther gave the film a mixed review, writing, " In telling the picaresque story of a mystery writer on the trail of a Levantine bum whose career of crime in the Balkans has stimulated the writer's awe, the film wallows deeply in discourse and tediously trite flashbacks ... To be sure, the Warner schemists have poured some scabby atmosphere into this film and have been very liberal with the scenery in picturing international haunts and Balkan dives ... This sort of worldly melodrama calls for refinement in cinematic style, but the writing and direction of this picture betray a rather clumsy, conventional approach.

* Film review by Bosley Crowther-New York Times-March 28, 1958

Film critic Bosley Crowther of the New York Times stated in a review of the film " An absolute knockout of a movie in the psychological horror line has been accomplished by Roman Polanski in his first English-language film.

Film critic Bosley Crowther gave the film a harsh review based on the screenplay.

Film critic Bosley Crowther gave the film a mixed review and was not impressed by Bogart's performance but was by Bacall's work.

Film critic Bosley Crowther liked the film, writing, " It's a brutal and disagreeable story, probably a little far-fetched, and without Mr. Schulberg's warmest character — the wistful widow who bestowed her favors on busted pugs.

Film critic Bosley Crowther, while having problems with the script, liked the location shooting and wrote, " Thanks to the actuality filming of much of its action in New York, a definite parochial fascination is liberally assured all the way and the seams in a none-too-good whodunnit are rather cleverly concealed.

Film critic Bosley Crowther wrote, " Not having intimate knowledge of prisons or prisoners, we wouldn't know whether the average American convict is so cruelly victimized as are the principal prison inmates in Brute Force, which came to Loew's Criterion yesterday.

Film critic Bosley Crowther lauded the film and the acting, writing, " Cornered is a drama of smoldering vengeance and political scheming which builds purposefully and with graduating tension to a violent climax, a committing of murder that is as thrilling and brutal as any you are likely to encounter in a month of movie-going.

The career of Bosley Crowther is discussed at length in For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism, including his support for foreign-language cinema and his public repudiation of McCarthyism and the Blacklist.