Critic Georg Lukács points to middling main characters like Ivanhoe in Sir Walter Scott's other novels as one of the primary reasons Scott's historical novels depart from previous historical works and better explore social and cultural history.

Critic Walter Addiego considers Nava's work a worshipful biography of her.

Critic Dennis Schwartz appreciated the acting ensemble in the film and wrote, " The film was too stagebound to be effective cinema, but it scores points in its unsentimental portrait of the loser life of the lonely and desperate merchant seamen.

Critic Northrop Frye said that Menippean satire moves rapidly between styles and points of view.

Critic John Eyles writes, " Just as such labels as Blue Note, ECM, and Incus have captured and defined the zeitgeist at various points in the past, Erstwhile is now doing so.

Critic Jennifer M. Wood points to the Palace Theater in San Francisco's North Beach district where, in 1968, San Francisco Art Institute graduates Michael Wiese and Steven Arnold, after a sellout screening of their Dalí-esque thesis film Messages, Messages, were invited to program offbeat films at midnight.

Critic Dave Marsh, in The Rolling Stone Record Guide ( 1979 ), called Zevon " one of the toughest rockers ever to come out of Southern California ".

According to Kevin C. Johnson, Post-Dispatch Pop Music Critic ," What stood out about Mecca's two-hour, 50-song set was her song choices, full of selections music fans don't necessarily hear every weekend at the clubs ( unlike, say, DJ Solange, who totally pandered to the crowd at the gig at Exo earlier this year ).

Critic Steve Huey of Allmusic later rated the album with four and a half stars out of five, stating that the " record sounds like a bridge between Mother Love Bone's theatrical ' 70s-rock updates and Pearl Jam's hard-rocking seriousness.

Theatre review aggregator Curtain Critic gave the production a score of 63 out of 100 based on the opinions of 18 critics.

Others had also pointed out that as Finance Critic, he had been outspoken in his attacks on Paul Martin who was Finance Minister ; Brison was criticized as an opportunist for switching parties and accepting a position as parliamentary secretary.

" Critic Robert Christgau commented that " Anybody who thinks rock and roll is alive and well in the infinite variety of its garage-boy permutations had better figure out how these Hitler Youth rejects could crush the competition and quit simultaneously.

Critic Roger Ebert's review was four out of four stars ; at the end of the year, he named it the best film of 1999.

Critic Jitesh Pillai analyzed, " Ultimately your heart leaps out to the magical Shah Rukh Khan, who unarguably gives his career's finest performance.

Critic Stephen Burt at the Boston Review commented: " William Carlos Williams and Emily Dickinson together taught Armantrout how to dismantle and reassemble the forms of stanzaic lyric — how to turn it inside out and backwards, how to embody large questions and apprehensions in the conjunctions of individual words, how to generate productive clashes from arrangements of small groups of phrases.

Critic Harold Bloom remarked several years later that Fields ', " croaking his ghastly dirge to the uncertain sound of his dulcimer, is a parodic version of the Bard of Sensibility, a figure out of the primitivism of Thomas Gray or William Blake.

Critic Christopher Null wrote of the film, " One of the ' 70s juiciest entries into the horror genre, The Abominable Dr. Phibes is Vincent Price at his campy best, a former doctor and concert organist ( go figure that one out yourself ) who is exacting revenge on the nine doctors he blames for botching his wife's surgery, which ended with her death.

Critic Roger Ebert gave the film two out of four stars, praising the film's visual artistry but stating that there is " no narrative engine to pull us past the visual scenery ", and that he " suspected the filmmakers began with a lot of ideas about how the movie should look, but without a clue about pacing, plotting or destination.

The sketch was parodied on the animated show The Critic when the main character watches " Yesterday Night Live " and the Australian host comes out and says, " She's a girl mate, I saw her backstage ," and pulls her wig off with her saying, " You ruined my career!

* One episode of the short lived TV series, The Critic, features main character Jay Sherman reviewing a movie titled Dennis the Menace II Society, in which Dennis the Menace pulls out two machine guns and shoots up George Wilson's house.

* Micha Odenheimer, A “ Connected Critic ”, Micha Odenheimer speaks with an individual who has carved out a space for himself as a left-wing supporter of Israel, Eretz Acheret Magazine

Critic Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gives the film a score of 3 out of 5.

Critic Vincent Leo praised Penn's performance, noting, " While Oldman gets the accolades for his energetic performance, it is really Penn's inner demons that provides the film with the right amount of conflict, always letting us be aware that fine lines are the difference between life and death, as well as right and wrong, out in the streets of New York.

Critic Roger Ebert gave the movie three stars out of four, saying " Gibson gives an interesting performance, showing a man trying to think his way out of a crisis, and Sinise makes a good foil: Here are two smart men playing a game with deadly stakes.

Another version portrayed in The Critic features Welles, voiced by LaMarche, whispering " Rosebud " a la Citizen Kane before the shot pans out to reveal Welles at a table, with a plate of Rosebud Frozen Peas he is advertising.

Critic Geoff Pevere has pointed out, however, that American television has produced a lot of bad sitcoms as well.

Critic Leonard Maltin gave the film three and a half stars out of four and compared it to Dr. Mabuse The Gambler stating that it is " less stylized but no less entertaining ".

Theatre review aggregator Curtain Critic gave the production a score of 73 out of 100 based on the opinions of 15 critics.

" Critic Robert Towers described McEwan's England in The New York Review of Books as a " flat, rubble-strewn wasteland, populated by freaks and monsters, most of them articulate enough to tell their own stories with mesmerizing narrative power and an unfaltering instinct for the perfect, sickening detail "; Towers called the collection " possibly the most brilliantly perverse and sinister batch of short stories to come out of England since Angus Wilson's The Wrong Set.

Critic Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that the film was the greatest adaptation of the novel and remarked on Dunst's performance, " The perfect contrast to take-charge Jo comes from Kirsten Dunst's scene-stealing Amy, whose vanity and twinkling mischief make so much more sense coming from an 11-year-old vixen than they did from grown-up Joan Bennett in 1933.

Critic Danél Griffin remarked, " Romero freely admits that his film was a direct rip-off of Matheson's novel ; I would be a little less harsh in my description and say that Romero merely expanded the author's ideas with deviations so completely original that of the Living Dead is expelled from being labeled a true ' rip-off '".

Critic Dave Marsh suggests it is this moment that gives the recording greatness: " went for it so avidly you'd have thought he'd spotted the jugular of a lifelong enemy, so crudely that, at that instant, Ely sounds like Donald Duck on helium.

By an authority so high as the London Critic, this essay was subsequently pronounced a fair refutation of Lord Mahon's charge.

Critic Brooks Atkinson, in his review for The New York Times wrote of the original 1949 Broadway production that Maxwell Anderson and Mr. Weill had encountered " obvious difficulty " in transforming " so thoroughly a work of literary art " into theatre, and was sometimes " skimming and literal where the novel is rich and allusive.

His time on The Critic also afforded LaMarche the opportunity to once again parody Orson Welles, this time after a video reading of a will ( the Sherman family was so wealthy, they had hired Welles to narrate it ) dissolves into a commercial for Mrs. Pells Fishsticks ( as well as another for Rosebud Frozen Peas, and another for Blotto Bros. wine ).

" Critic Richard Delap writes " There is an abundance of exploitable elements in Bishop's story, so it is astonishing to see how the author keeps them under strict rein, always with a highly keyed visual sense but also with a literary flair that says more by implication than by direct description.

Critic Glenn Erickson recently echoed the New York Times review, writing, " Although biographies on both Ib Melchior and Sid Pink would have you believe that The Angry Red Planet is an outer-space classic, it simply isn't so.

Critic Janet Maslin was dismissive of the film, and wrote, " Today, in the dazzling, superficial style that Mr. Friedkin has so thoroughly mastered, it's the car chases and shootouts and eye-catching settings that are truly the heart of the matter ".

In fact, the trend toward absurdly lofty bombast and sentiment was so strong that Richard Brinsley Sheridan reworked The Rehearsal for his play, The Critic ( 1779 ), where the target was the inflated importance and prose of theater criticism.

Critic / novelist Jonathan Barnes writes of encountering the story as a child and finding it " one of the richest and most singular investigations of Holmes ’ s long career – an opinion which I have had no reason to change ... Revisited in adulthood, the story reveals itself as a sour parable about the endurance of lust, a lurid treatment of the question that is put to Falstaff as Doll Tearsheet fidgets on his knee: ' is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance ?'.

" Critic Andre Meyer of CBS News thought the material on the album was " stronger " than on Charmbracelet, and described it as a move in Carey's long-term plan for pop domination, while giving off the " jittery R & B vibe that made Destiny's Child so potent.

Critic Harold Bloom praised Blood Meridian as one of the best 20th century American novels, describing it as " worthy of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick ," but admitted that he found the book's pervasive violence so distasteful that he had several false starts before reading the book entirely.

Critic Leonard Feather wrote " Alemán has more swing than any other guitarist on the continent ", and " His tone, phrasing, swing, and attack are so grand that if anyone ever mentions Django Reinhardt to me again, I shall stare coldly.

Critic Josip Novakovich, who compared One of the Guys to A Confederacy of Dunces, has said, " If you read the book in public, you will laugh so much and go through so many facial expressions that you'll run the risk of having the police called to check you out.

Poet Jordan Davis, writing for The Constant Critic, suggested that Wright's collection was so accomplished it would have to be kept " out of the reach of impulse kleptomaniacs.

Critic Ralph Gleason said, " So many taboos have been lifted and so many comics have rushed through the doors that Lenny opened.

Internet comedian Nostalgia Critic poked fun at both advertisements in his Top 11 Nostalgic Drug PSAs video, stating, " People know this one so well, they can say it in their sleep.

The Stage commented that Shaw was " a delectably wide-eyed Janet ", with Critic Chris High stating " Shaw is delightful as the naive Janet and proves she has far more to offer than anything a reality TV show could ever uncover " and the British Theatre guide stating " A big surprise to me was how outstanding former Hear ' Say popstar Suzanne Shaw was: she is so at home on stage with strong voice and fabulous presence ".