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.

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 ".

* David Edelstein ( Film and Television Critic )

* 1977 – In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz (" Son of Sam ") is arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over the period of one year.

Being a pioneer of peace making in the region and driven from its belief that a peaceful Middle East is the best solution for the development of Egypt, the third Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's groundbreaking trip to Israel in 1977, the 1978 Camp David Accords, and the 1979 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty represented a fundamental shift in the politics of the region ; from a strategy of confrontation to one of peace as a strategic choice.

Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes ( 1977 ) and Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ( 1974 ) recalled the Vietnam war ; George A. Romero satirized the consumer society in his zombie sequel, Dawn of the Dead ( 1978 ); Canadian director David Cronenberg featured the " mad scientist " movie sub-genre by exploring contemporary fears about technology and society, and reinventing " body horror ", starting with Shivers ( 1975 ).

In April 1977 the Young Liberals ' annual conference unanimously passed a motion to call on the Liberal leader ( David Steel ) to move for the impeachment of Ronald King Murray QC, the Lord Advocate.

* 1977 – David Bowens, American football player

The use of Prolog as a practical programming language was given great momentum by the development of a compiler by David Warren in Edinburgh in 1977.

Begin was played by David Opatoshu in the 1977 TV film Raid on Entebbe and by Barry Morse in the 1983 miniseries Sadat.

The northern blot technique was developed in 1977 by James Alwine, David Kemp, and George Stark at Stanford University.

* 1977 – David Trezeguet, French footballer

The most critical of these was David Thomson's Scott's Men ( 1977 ); in Thomson's view, Scott was not a great man, " at least, not until near the end "; his planning is described as " haphazard " and " flawed ", his leadership characterised by lack of foresight.

This decision, prompted in part by Syria's need for Arab League support of its own position in Lebanon, marked the end of the Syrian-led opposition to Egypt and the 1977 – 79 Sadat initiatives toward Israel, as well as the Camp David Accords.

* 1977 – David Albelda, Spanish footballer

* 1977 – David Thompson, English footballer

They include Last House on Dead End Street ( 1977 ), Paul Schrader's film Hardcore ( 1979 ), Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline ( 1979 ), the Ruggero Deodato film Cannibal Holocaust ( 1980 ), David Cronenberg's Videodrome ( 1983 ), the Nine Inch Nails film The Broken Movie ( 1993 ), the film Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer ( 1986 ), the Alejandro Amenábar film Tesis ( 1996 ), the film Strange Days ( 1995 ), the Anthony Waller film Mute Witness ( 1994 ), the Johnny Depp film The Brave ( 1997 ), the Joel Schumacher film 8mm ( 1999 ), the John Ottman film, Urban Legends: Final Cut ( 2000 ), and Fred Vogel's film August Underground ( 2001 ) and its sequels.

It was with their second album, 1978's More Songs About Buildings and Food that the band began its long-term collaboration with producer Brian Eno, who had previously worked with Roxy Music, David Bowie, John Cale and Robert Fripp ; the title of Eno's 1977 song " King's Lead Hat " is an anagram of the band's name.

Reprinted 1977, Greenwood Press Reprint, ISBN 0-8371-9341-9, and 2001 with Foreword by Caldwell Titcomb, David R. Godine Publisher, ISBN 1-56792-129-9.

It co-starred the aboriginal actor David Gulpilil, whose performance won the Golden Ibex ( Oscar equivalent ) at the Tehran International Festival in 1977 but was only a moderate commercial success at the time.

In 1977 her career was revived when the biographer David Cecil and the poet Philip Larkin both nominated her as the most underrated writer of the century.

The turning point for Pym came with an influential article in 1977 in the Times Literary Supplement in which two prominent writers, Lord David Cecil and Philip Larkin, nominated her as " the most underrated writer of the 20th century ".

* David Trezeguet ( born 1977 ), football striker

* 1977: The Impending Crisis, 1848 – 1861 by David M. Potter ( Completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher )

# David, M, 1977, Geostatistical Ore Reserve Estimation, Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, Amsterdam

* The Lavon Affair by David Hirst, Excerpts from his book: The Gun and the Olive Branch, 1977, 1984, Futura Publications

* Greene, David L .; Martin, Dick ( 1977 ).

* Antigone, comic book by David Hopkins ( b. 1977 )