* 1922 – Richard Blackwell, American actor, journalist, fashion designer, and critic ( d. 2008 )

The term Left Bank was first coined by film critic Richard Roud, who has described them as having " fondness for a kind of Bohemian life and an impatience with the conformity of the Right Bank, a high degree of involvement in literature and the plastic arts, and a consequent interest in experimental filmmaking ", as well as an identification with the political left.

A high point for the group was their 1963 live album At Carnegie Hall, described by critic Richard Palmer as " arguably Dave Brubeck's greatest concert ".

In his review for Artforum, critic Richard Hennessy described a " shocking fun-house atmosphere " and " aura of ancient Roman patronage ".

* 1850 – Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic ( d. 1914 )

Prominent critic and noted musicologist Richard Taruskin called the work " anti-American, anti-Semitic and anti-bourgeois.

" Richard Holmes, in 1998, declared the importance of the poem's Preface while describing the reception of the 1816 volume of poems: " However, no contemporary critic saw the larger possible significance of Coleridge's Preface to ' Kubla Khan ', though it eventually became one of the most celebrated, and disputed, accounts of poetic composition ever written.

* 1638 – Richard Simon, French critic ( d. 1712 )

* 1944 – Richard Corliss, American film critic

* 1950 – Richard Ouzounian, Canadian / American theatre director and critic

Crowther said that Davis " does nicely as the fiancée who is widowed herself and knows the loneliness of grief ," while another noted critic, The Washington Post < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Richard L. Coe, said Davis " is splendid as the understanding widow.

Rock critic Richard Meltzer cofounded VOM ( short for " vomit ") in Los Angeles.

Some in the literary community expressed disapproval of the award: Richard Snyder, the former CEO of Simon & Schuster, described King's work as " non-literature ", and critic Harold Bloom denounced the choice:

Literary critic Richard Ellmann writes: Wilde does not name the book but at his trial he conceded that it was, or almost, Huysmans's A Rebours ... To a correspondent he wrote that he had played a ' fantastic variation ' upon A Rebours and some day must write it down.

* October 17 – Richard Roeper, American film critic

* July 14 – Richard Bentley, English scholar and critic ( b. 1662 )

* May 13 – Richard Simon, French Biblical critic ( d. 1712 )

* March 30 – Richard Sharp MP, known as ' Conversation Sharp ' London merchant, critic, poet and wit.

* April 11 – Richard Simon, French Biblical critic ( b. 1638 )

" 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.

He broke with the administration on Vietnam, was not always a faithful supporter of the Republican agenda, and was a very controversial critic of Richard Nixon during Watergate.

The film, notes critic Richard Corliss, while a serious gangster film, also " manages both to congratulate journalism for its importance and to chastise it for its chicanery, by underlining the newspapers ' complicity in promoting the underworld image.

* Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert ( ISBN 0-226-18200-2 ) – a collection of essays from his 40 years as a film critic, featuring interviews, profiles, essays, his initial reviews upon a film's release, as well as critical exchanges between the film critics Richard Corliss and Andrew Sarris

Richard Pohl, the German critic in Schumann's musical journal, the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, called Berlioz " the true pathbreaker ".

Film critic Richard Roeper stated that " this is the Queen Latifah performance I've been waiting for ever since she broke into movies ".

Film critic Richard Roeper praised Kunis's performance, calling it a " particularly strong piece of work ".

She also continues to appear on television, with appearances on Boston Legal, Reno 911 !, The Boondocks, and as a guest movie critic on several episodes of At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper, filling in for the absent Roger Ebert while he recuperated from surgery.

On April 13, 2008, Scott wrote that his " experiences guest critic ... ended when Michael Phillips of The Tribune was made Mr. Roeper's permanent foil ..." Phillips remained as Roeper's regular cohost until Roeper and Ebert ended their relationship with the series in August 2008.

Film critic Richard Roeper put the film at # 1 on his list of the worst films of 2004 amongst claims of unconvincing prosthetics and racism.

" On an episode of At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper, film critic Richard Roeper named it 1st place on his list of the worst films of 2003, he placed notorious bomb Gigli at number 3.

" Yet, fellow film critic Richard Roeper disagreed with this review, instead arguing, " I'm sure that it's sort of a ' Fractured Fairy Tale ' version of the real events that happened, but the fact that it was inspired by real-life events made me enjoy it all the more.

" The film did receive " Two Thumbs Up " from Richard Roeper and guest critic Govindini Murty.

Ebert's co-host on the television program Ebert & Roeper, Chicago Tribune critic Richard Roeper, said that the documentary was " a brilliantly executed, brutally entertaining dissection of what one observer called the greatest corporate fraud in American history.

" When Jay Leno appeared as a guest critic on the television show Ebert & Roeper, both Leno and Richard Roeper described Driven as the worst car film ever made, and a terrible depiction of auto racing.

Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.

Even so apparently impartial a critic as W. H. Frohock has taken for granted that the book was originally intended as a piece of Loyalist propaganda ; ;

`` Disaffiliation '', by the way, is the term used by the critic and poet, Lawrence Lipton, who has written several articles on this subject, the first of which, in The Nation, quoted as Epigraph: `` We disaffiliate.

Gladden has been an outspoken critic of the present city administration and led his union's battle against the teamsters, which began organizing city firemen in 1959.

Virgilia Peterson, a critic by trade, has turned her critical eye pitilessly and honestly on herself in an autobiography more of the mind and heart than of specific events.

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz ( Hebrew: עדין שטיינזלץ ) or Adin Even Yisrael ( Hebrew: עדין אבן ישראל ) ( born 1937 ) is a teacher, philosopher, social critic, and spiritual mentor, who has been hailed by Time magazine as a " once-in-a-millennium scholar ".

The canonicity of these Greek additions has been a subject of scholarly disagreement practically since their first appearance in the Septuagint –- Martin Luther, being perhaps the most vocal Reformation-era critic of the work, considered even the original Hebrew version to be of very doubtful value.

Since then he has been a harsh critic of clumsy bank policies and argued that no one should be able to do what he did.

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

Influential French critic M. Henri Rochefort commented, " I am compelled to admit, not without some chagrin, that not one of our female artists … is strong enough to compete with the lady who has given us this year the portrait of Dr. Grier.

.” Journalist and art critic Octave Mirbeau on the other hand, writes, “ Camille Pissarro has been a revolutionary through the revitalized working methods with which he has endowed painting ”.

Fellow critic James Russell Lowell called him " the most discriminating, philosophical, and fearless critic upon imaginative works who has written in America ", suggesting – rhetorically – that he occasionally used prussic acid instead of ink.

More recently Alfie Kohn has been an outspoken critic of the No Child Left Behind Act and a passionate defender of the progressive tradition.

" In film as in society at large, America ’ s influence has now reached levels and depths previously unimaginable ," said critic Geoff Brown, referring to the Americanisation of British film culture in the 1990s.

Alain Silver, the most widely published American critic specializing in film noir studies, refers to film noir as a " cycle " and a " phenomenon ", even as he argues that it has — like certain genres — a consistent set of visual and thematic codes.

Ric Charlesworth, the current Australian coach, has been a strong critic of the unrestricted use of the reverse edge hit.

The Vampyre has been accounted by cultural critic Christopher Frayling as one of the most influential works of fiction ever written and spawned a craze for vampire fiction and theatre ( and latterly film ) which has not ceased to this day.

ANb's Frozen Corpse Stuffed with Dope has been described as " the Paul's Boutique of grindcore ", by Village Voice critic Phil Freeman, for its " hyper-referential, impossibly dense barrage of samples, blast beats, answering machine messages, and incomprehensibly bellowed rants.

The film starred Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn and has been called " the screwiest of the screwball comedies " by film critic Andrew Sarris.

Film critic Robin Wood has said if he " were asked to choose a film that would justify the existence of Hollywood ... it would be Rio Bravo.

Horace Oscar Axel Engdahl ( born December 30, 1948 ) is a Swedish literary historian and critic, and has been a member of the Swedish Academy since 1997.