A review in NextGen reported that " the game caters to both the goody-goody player who wants to be nice and lawful, and the evil bastards who just want to kill everything and take no guff from anyone ".

The Independent review of the 1995 National Theatre revival praised the production, writing " For three hours of gloriously barbed bliss and bewitchment, Sean Mathias's production establishes the show as a minor miracle of astringent worldly wisdom and one that is haunted by less earthy intimations.

In her review for the New York Times, Janet Maslin praised, " Mr. Campbell's manly, mock-heroic posturing is perfectly in keeping with the director's droll outlook ".

Desson Howe, in this review for the Washington Post praised the film's style: " Bill Pope's cinematography is gymnastic and appropriately frenetic.

In a 1995 review of Rushton's Race, Evolution and Behavior, anthropologist and population geneticist Henry Harpending expressed doubt as to whether all of Rushton's data fit the r / K model he proposed, but nonetheless praised the book for its proposing of a theoretical model that makes testable predictions about differences between human groups.

In his review for the Washington Post, Desson Howe praised the Coens and " their inspired, absurdist taste for weird, peculiar Americana – but a sort of neo-Americana that is entirely invented – the Coens have defined and mastered their own bizarre subgenre.

Janet Maslin praised Bridges ' performance in her review for The New York Times: " Mr. Bridges finds a role so right for him that he seems never to have been anywhere else.

Rita Kempley's review in The Washington Post praised Meg Ryan as the " summer's Melanie Griffith – a honey-haired blonde who finally finds a showcase for her sheer exuberance.

A review by Computer Gaming World considered each robot to have a unique personality, and praised the use of the library computer as an in-game hint system.

A 1988 review in Computer Gaming World praised the game for being " pure and simple, very playable and mentally challenging ", citing its addictive qualities.

In a September 1900 review, The New York Times praised the novel, writing that it would appeal to child readers and to younger children who could not read yet.

The review also praised the illustrations for being a pleasant complement to the text.

In a 2002 review, Bill Delaney of Salem Press praised Baum for giving children the opportunity to discover magic in the mundane things in their everyday lives.

In his review for The New York Times, Vincent Canby, while quite critical of the film overall, praised Douglas ' work as " the funniest, canniest performance of his career ".

In his review for the Globe and Mail, Jay Scott praised the performances of the two leads: " But Douglas's portrayal of Gordon Gekko is an oily triumph and as the kid Gekko thinks he has found in Fox (' Poor, smart and hungry ; no feelings '), Charlie Sheen evolves persuasively from gung-ho capitalist child to wily adolescent corporate raider to morally appalled adult ".

New York Times critic Elvis Mitchell gave the film a generally negative review, although he praised its casting and called Mel Gibson " an astonishing actor ", particularly for his " on-screen comfort and expansiveness ".

The AAH does not appear to have passed the peer review process, and despite Morgan being praised by various scholars, none of her work has appeared in any academic journals of anthropology or related disciplines.

With the press still heavily controlled and censored under Nikita Khrushchev, a translation by Akhmatova was praised in a public review in 1955, and her own poems began to re-appear in 1956.

In a Variety review " Wear " praised the film, singling out Hawks ' pacing and comedy direction, calling Hepburn's performance " one of her most invigorating screen characterizations " and stating that Grant " performs his role to the hilt.

Although the review in the New York Times called the film " the most brilliant picture yet this year " and praised Sturges's mix of escapist fun with underlying significance, the Hollywood Reporter said that it lacked the " down to earth quality and sincerity which made other three pictures a joy to behold " and that " Sturges ... fails to heed the message that writer Sturges proves in his script.

Critics Bob Porfiero and Alain Silver, in a review and analysis of the film, praised Lupino's use of shooting locations.

" Another review in the same paper also commended the " simple beauty of the story itself " and also praised Beban's performance :" George Beban, who has the difficult role of Pietro Donnetti, gives a piece of character work that is truly marvelous.

Hal Hinson, in his review for The Washington Post, praised Sandra Bullock's performance: " The only performer to stand out is Sandra Bullock as Annie ...

" Vincent Canby's review for The New York Times praised Martin's performance: " the film has an actor who's one of America's best sketch artists, a man blessed with a great sense of timing, who is also self-effacing enough to meet the most cockeyed demands of the material.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, in his review for the Chicago Reader, praised Holly Hunter's performance as " something of a revelation: her short, feisty, socially gauche, aggressive-compulsive character may be the most intricately layered portrait of a career woman that contemporary Hollywood has given us ".

In his review for Time, Richard Corliss praised William Hurt's performance: " Hurt is neat too, never standing safely outside his character, always allowing Tom to find the humor in his too-rapid success, locating a dimness behind his eyes when Tom is asked a tough question -- and for Tom, poor soulless sensation-to-be, all questions are tough ones ".

The station itself also runs other television shows referenced by Frontline staff, such as 6 o ' clock news program, a 3 hour news review show Sunday Forum, a sketch show The Komedy Bunch, a game show Jackpot, a teen soap opera Sunshine Cove which later changed to Rainbow Island, also lesser mentioned shows such as the football show Ball-to-Ball, Late-Night OZ, Cartoon Crazies and Vacation.

Edge gave it a score of 8 / 10 in its original 1996 review of the game, and in its October 2003 issue the magazine's staff placed Nights in its list of the ten greatest platform games.

A GameSpot review by Jeff Gerstmann described the game as outstanding.

An IGN review felt the game lacked originality but enjoyed the detailed wall textures and outer space jump levels.

A Eurogamer review described the game as " polished " and " stunning " and thought that it " was extremely well balanced and plays very well ".

" In his review of Benaud's autobiography Anything But, Sri Lankan cricket writer Harold de Andrado wrote: " Richie Benaud possibly next to Sir Don Bradman has been one of the greatest cricketing personalities as player, researcher, writer, critic, author, organiser, adviser and student of the game.

Retrospective reviews of the game have been positive with perfect scores given by review sites including Thunderbolt and HonestGamers.

Meanwhile, the 1993 title Mortal Kombat II captivated American audiences, and was considered the best Mortal Kombat game in retrospect during a 2008 review.

The map and counters are presented to the user who can then manipulate these, more-or-less as if he were playing the physical game, and send a saved file off to his opponent, who can review what has been done without having to duplicate everything on his physical set-up of the game, and respond.

However, in a later ScrewAttack review, it was noted the game was " not that bad ".

Retro review site HonestGamers noted that " Much is made of this game, all things considered.

The review also says the game " reeks of plagiarism ", stating it is worse than the original games it is modelled after.

The game was generally well received among players and critics alike, the PC version on average scoring in the 85 – 90 % region according to review aggregates by IGN and Metacritic.

" He described the game as having an " extremely high " random factor and concluded his review stating " I'm fairly certain there's a damned good game in this box somewhere, it's just not the one described in the rulebook.

Biff Kritzen of Computer Gaming World gave the game a positive review, noting, " as heavy-handed as the premise sounds, it really is a rather light-hearted game.

Although the show — a repackaging of somewhat dated British video game review shows ( mostly Gamer. tv )— was short-lived, it was a sign of the network's change of format from Game Show Network's " all game shows, all the time " to what eventually became " GSN: The Network for Games ".

Wee ended his review by calling Fate of Atlantis " a brilliant game, even beating Secret of Monkey Island 2.

He ended his review, " At last an adventure game that's enjoyable rather than frustrating.

In a review of the Virtual Console game, GameSpot criticized the NES version for being a poor port of the arcade version.

IGN called this mode fun in its review of Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2, but complained that it would have been nice if the developers had come up with a new game to replace it.