David Edelstein of New York Magazine, while also praising DiCaprio, wrote, " It's too bad J. Edgar is so shapeless and turgid and ham-handed, so rich in bad lines and worse readings ".

Binks became symbolic of what many reviewers such as Brent Staples ( The New York Times ), David Edelstein ( Slate ), and Eric Harrison ( Los Angeles Times ) considered to be creative flaws of the film.

David Edelstein for The New York Times said " It remains the most caustic anti-war movie of this generation.

However, Slate reviewer David Edelstein called it " a two-hour-and-six-minute snuff movie ," while Jami Bernard of the New York Daily News called it " the most virulently anti-Semitic movie made since the German propaganda films of World War II.

" David Edelstein, Slate's film critic, dubbed the film " a two-hour-and-six-minute snuff movie – The Jesus Chainsaw Massacre – that thinks it's an act of faith ", and further criticized Gibson for focusing on the brutality of Jesus ' execution, instead of his religious teachings.

*" Playboy Bunny: Vincent Gallo proves he just wants to be loved ", David Edelstein, Slate. com, 10 September 2004.

Film critic David Edelstein argues that " Irreversible might be the most homophobic movie ever made.

In his review of the movie Larry Crowne on CBS News Sunday Morning, David Edelstein describes the movie as "... a thoughtful portrait of middle-class life in the age of corporate capitalism, and of ( pay attention, class ) people who survive without becoming either zombie wage-slaves or pinko malcontents.

The program also features commentary from a range of regular contributors, including Maureen Corrigan, David Bianculli, Dave Davies, Ken Tucker, Kevin Whitehead, John Powers, Lloyd Schwartz, David Edelstein, Milo Miles, and Ed Ward.

* David Edelstein

Filmmaker Eli Roth's Hostel ( 2005 ), released in January 2006, was the first to be called " torture porn " by critic David Edelstein, but the classification has since been applied to Saw ( 2004 ) and its sequels ( though its creators disagree with the classification ), The Devil's Rejects ( 2005 ), Wolf Creek ( 2005 ), and the earlier films Baise-moi ( 2000 ) and Ichi the Killer ( 2001 ).

Slate < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s David Edelstein panned the film as well, writing: " When I go to a serial-killer flick, I don't want to see the serial killer ( or even his inner child ) coddled and empathized with and forgiven.

Its well-regarded culture critics include David Edelstein ( movies ), Emily Nussbaum ( TV ), Jerry Saltz ( art ), Justin Davidson ( classical music and architecture ), and Sam Anderson ( books ), who won the National Book Critics Circle's Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing in 2007.

* David Edelstein

The longest serving judge, David Norton Edelstein, served as an active judge for 43 years to the day, and in senior status for an additional six years.

* David Edelstein 1977 – Film Critic, New York Magazine, NPR's Fresh Air, CBS Sunday Morning, Slate, the New York Post, the Village Voice, and the Boston Phoenix.

Fellow Slate columnist and Iraq war critic David Edelstein, though generally supportive of the film, wrote Fahrenheit 9 / 11 " is an act of counterpropaganda that has a boorish, bullying force ", but called it a " legitimate abuse of power.

Slate film critic David Edelstein reviewed the work of actor Val Kilmer favorably, writing:

In January 2006, film critic David Edelstein in New York Magazine credited Roth with creating the horror sub-genre ' torture porn ,' or ' gorno ,' using excessive violence to excite audiences like a sexual act.

" David Edelstein called the movie a hagiography whose " music ties together all the pretty pictures, gives the narrative some momentum, and helps to induce a kind of alert detachment, so that you're neither especially interested nor especially bored.

Slate Magazine critic David Edelstein also praised the film, in particular the action scenes, villains, and chemistry between Banderas and Zeta-Jones.

David Edelstein of the magazine Slate said the film is " a good, thoughtful horror picture, and close to being a very good one.

David Edelstein of Slate also compared the film to Cocteau's work, commenting that " the storyline is your standard obsessed-mad-doctor saga, one step above a Poverty Row Bela Lugosi feature ... ut it's Lugosi by way of Cocteau and Ionesco ".

Today, the film is seen by the British Film Institute as one of Chaplin's " great features ", while David Robinson says it shows the star at " his unrivalled peak as a creator of visual comedy.

Film critic David Thomson has stated: " Marker told me himself that Mongolia is correct.

* Bordwell, David, " Film Art: An Introduction "; McGraw-Hill ; 7th edition ( June, 2003 ).

Editorial Supervision by David Elliot, Production Supervision by Jim Marsh, Film Editor was Bert Rule.

Film critic David Thomson wrote of Hawks in The New Biographical Dictionary of Film " Far from the the meek purveyor of Hollywood forms, he always chose to turn them upside down, To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep, ostensibly an adventure and a thriller, are really love stories.

In his book Dark Romance: Sexuality in the Horror Film, David Hogan called it " the most affecting gore thriller of all and, in a broader view, among the most effective horror films ever made ... the driving force of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is something far more horrible than aberrant sexuality: total insanity.

In 1969, a plaque to Leigh was placed in the Actors Church, St Paul's, Covent Garden ; in 1985, a portrait of her was included in a series of postage stamps, along with Alfred Hitchcock, Charles Chaplin, Peter Sellers and David Niven to commemorate " British Film Year ".

Film historian David Bordwell writes that in his films, " Vacations, parties and artistic pursuits are vain efforts to conceal the characters ' lack of purpose and emotion.

" Film critic David Richard Jones adds that Kazan, during the 1940s and 1950s, was one of America's foremost Stanislavskians, and " influenced thousands of contemporaries " in the theatre, film, and the Actors Studio that he helped found.

* Robinson, David, Buster Keaton ( 1969 ) Indiana University Press, in association with British Film Institute

* Robinson, David, The Great Funnies: A History of Film Comedy ( 1969 ) E. P.

Film critic David Shipman called Muni " an actor of great integrity " and he prepared for his roles meticulously.

He has also won Golden Globe, Cannes, Berlinale, BAFTA, Cesar, David di Donatello, European Film Academy, and Czech Lion awards.

Film critic David Thomson calls the film " a superb, languid fantasia on the theme of the gangster film that repays endless viewing.

* David di Donatello for Best Foreign Film ( winner )

* 1994 ( 67th ) Bob's Birthday-Snowden Fine Animation, National Film Board of Canada, Channel 4-Alison Snowden and David Fine

Candy was in the audience for the American Film Institute's tribute to David Lean, director of Bridge on the River Kwai.

Rossellini with David Lynch at the Cannes Film Festival

" David Lean was given honorary membership of the Guild of British Film Editors in 1968.

was also honored abroad: the film won the Best Foreign Language Film award at the Blue Ribbon Awards in Japan, Cinema Writers Circle Awards in Spain, César Awards in France, and David di Donatello in Italy.

* Beckett's Catastrophe – dedicated to then-imprisoned Czech dissident playwright Václav Havel, who became president of Czechoslovakia after the 1989 Velvet Revolution – was first performed at the Avignon Festival on July 21, 1982 ; the film version ( in Beckett on Film ) was directed by David Mamet and performed by Harold Pinter, Sir John Gielgud, and Rebecca Pidgeon.

In 1995, the film was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Film Editing, Best Sound ( Gregg Landaker, Steve Maslow, Bob Beemer, David MacMillan ) and Best Sound Effects Editing, winning the latter two.

In 1943, Zack Schwartz, David Hilberman, and Stephen Bosustow formed a studio called first Industrial Film & Poster Service and later United Productions of America, where they were free to apply their concepts.

The latter cast also won a Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution, at the 2002 Berlin Film Festival ( Halle Berry won Best Actress at Berlin in 2002 ).. She won the Best Actress award at the Montréal World Film Festival ( in 2002 for Merci pour le chocolat ), at the Moscow International Film Festival ( in 1991 for Madame Bovary ), at the Deutscher Filmpreis ( in 1991 for Malina ) and twice at the David di Donatello ( in 1978 for La Dentellière and in 2001 for The Piano Teacher ).