It was described by Bosley Crowther as, " whoop-de-doo ... one of the finest ever put on the screen.

The film was a success, and The New York Times Bosley Crowther singled its star out for praise: " It is Mr. Cagney's performance, controlled to the last detail, that gives life and strong, heroic stature to the principal figure in the film.

Influential reviewer Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote that " Nancy Davis delightful as gentle, plain, and understanding wife.

The New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther, while dismissing the movie as " an average gangster film ", singled out Falk's " amusingly vicious performance.

** Bosley Crowther, American film critic ( b. 1905 )

New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther lauded the acting in the drama, and wrote, " Mr. Dmytryk has handled most excellently a superlative cast which plays the drama.

In 1952, Bosley Crowther called The Greatest Show on Earth a " lusty triumph of circus showmanship and movie skill " and a " piece of entertainment that will delight movie audiences for years ":

Shortly after its premiere at the Astor Theater, New York, Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, hailed the film as a masterpiece.

Time magazine drew attention to the film's wooden acting, especially on the part of Eastwood, though a few critics such as Vincent Canby and Bosley Crowther of The New York Times praised Eastwood's coolness in playing the tall, lone stranger.

Bosley Crowther wrote in The New York Times, " all a fairly respectful admirer of movies can do is laugh at it and turn away ".

Film critic Bosley Crowther wrote, " Mr. Tracy and Miss Hepburn are the stellar performers in this show and their perfect compatibility in comic capers is delightful to see.

" Bosley Crowther called the film " wonderful ", and declared, " As a father, torn by jealousy, devotion, pride and righteous wrath, Mr. Tracy is tops.

New York Times ’ Bosley Crowther, mentioned above, made a similar assumption, writing that the movie was a " travesty on the antebellum South.

" On the other hand, Bosley Crowther of the New York Times declared that Forever and a Day boasted " superb performances ".

Critic Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, liked the screenplay, the message of the film, and John Ford's direction, and wrote, " John Ford has truly fashioned a modern Odyssey — a stark and tough-fibered motion picture which tells with lean economy the never-ending story of man's wanderings over the waters of the world in search of peace for his soul ... it is harsh and relentless and only briefly compassionate in its revelation of man's pathetic shortcomings.

The film received poor reviews and was described by Bosley Crowther as " a distressingly empty piece "; but, with a profit of $ 2. 5 million, it was one of her biggest box-office successes.

The film was later described by Bosley Crowther as " interminable "; and he noted that " of all the miserable dilemmas in which Miss Davis has been involved ... this one is probably the worst ".

Bosley Crowther generally panned the film and commented in the New York Times of February 29, 1956: " The script was obviously written to bring and Mr. Hudson, who made a popular twosome in the Magnificent Obsession, together again.

Bosley Crowther of The New York Times was so appalled that he began to campaign against the increasing brutality of American films.

This 2009 documentary film chronicles what occurred as a result: the New York Times fired Bosley Crowther because his negative review seemed so out of touch with the public, and Pauline Kael, who wrote a lengthy freelance essay in The New Yorker in praise of the film, became the magazine's new staff critic.

* Bosley Crowther ’ s original review, the New York Times, 14 April 1967, and his follow-up of 3 September 1967.

* Review by Bosley Crowther in New York Times ( 1942 )

" Bosley Crowther of The New York Times called it " tepid entertainment.

Among those at the film's premiere was film critic Bosley Crowther of The New York Times, who noted that " motion history was made last night ... Fantasia dumps conventional formulas overboard and reveals the scope of films for imaginative excursion ... Fantasia ... is simply terrific.

Bosley Crowther, the film critic for The New York Times, liked the film: " But for all its unpleasant nature, it must be said that this film is a dynamic crime-and-punishment drama, brilliantly and broadly realized.

The Living Desert received some criticism for bringing unsubtle humor to its scenes of desert life – Bosley Crowther of The New York Times called Disney to task for adding jokey musical effects to several of the film ’ s scenes, including hoedown music for a sequence involving a scorpion battle.

Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times said, " After watching an endless succession of courtroom melodramas that have more or less transgressed the bounds of human reason and the rules of advocacy, it is cheering and fascinating to see one that hews magnificently to a line of dramatic but reasonable behavior and proper procedure in a court.

While scenes for Murder, She Wrote were being filmed in Mendocino, residents say that it was not uncommon to see Angela Lansbury, who played Jessica Fletcher, stop to speak with a toddler, or for Tom Bosley to sign his autograph on a Glad Bag box presented by a shopper stepping out of the local grocery store.

" Bosley Crowther, in a somewhat ambivalent review, concludes " some very credible acting on the part of Mr. Grant and Miss Dunne is responsible in the main for the infectious quality of the film.

Bosley Crowther, The New York Times critic, gave the film a mixed review, He wrote, " But for those who are looking for drama of a firm and incisive sort, Scarlet Street is not likely to furnish a particularly rare experience.

Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, also liked it, writing, " Slowly, through a process of guarded discourse, which director John Sturges has built up by patient, methodical pacing of his almost completely male cast, an eerie light begins to glimmer ... Quite as interesting as the drama, which smacks of being contrived, are the types of masculine creatures paraded in this film.

New York Times critic Bosley Crowther praised the film's conception, acting and color scheme, noting the design team " consciously made the flow of color and the interplay of compositions and hues the most forceful devices for conveying a motion picture comprehension of van Gogh.

In his review in the New York Times, Bosley Crowther observed, " The ultimate credit for as taut and insinuating a melodrama as has come along this year — a film which extenuates tension like a grim inquisitor's rack — must be given to Mr. Wyler.

Most episodes followed a regular structure whereby a crime is committed, the Angels are given the case details by Charlie and Bosley at the Townsend office and the trio go undercover ( usually involving something skimpy to wear for Kelly and Jill ( later Kris )).

Bosley Crowther had only positive things to say in his 1958 review for The New York Times, and praised how the themes were elevated by the cinematography and acting: " the profundities of the ideas are lightened and made flexible by glowing pictorial presentation of action that is interesting and strong.

When the film was released, Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, lauded the film and the casting, writing, " Sidney Kingsley's play, Detective Story, has been made into a brisk, absorbing film by Producer-Director William Wyler, with the help of a fine, responsive cast.

Bosley Crowther, reviewing the movie at its opening, had nothing but praise for the movie, rejoicing that " at last Leslie Caron's simplicity and freshness ... have been captured again in the film.

Bob Carroll may not bear quite as close a physical resemblance to LaGuardia as Tom Bosley does, but I was amazed at the way he became more and more Fiorello as the evening progressed, until one had to catch one's self up and remember that this wasn't really LaGuardia come back among us again.

Bosley Crowther, film critic for the New York Times, observed, " As honest and humble as is the effort to make the viewer sense a woman's baffled love for a shifty and mixed-up fellow in Baby, the Rain Must Fall, there is a major and totally neglected weakness in this film from a Horton Foote play that troubles one's mind throughout the picture and leaves one sadly let-down at the end.

Critic Bosley Crowther liked the acting in the picture, and wrote, " As gangster pictures go, this one has everything — speed, excitement, suspense and that ennobling suggestion of futility which makes for irony and pity.

Typical of the reviews was one by Bosley Crowther of The New York Times, who noted how the film adaptation was true to the original story and was " vividly and movingly developed in this punctilious film.

When the film was released, New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther, liked the direction of the film and the acting, writing, " Yet such is the role that Mr. Sinatra plays in Suddenly !, a taut little melodrama that ... shapes up as one of the slickest recent items in the minor movie league ... we have several people to thank-particularly Richard Sale for a good script, which tells a straight story credibly, Mr. Allen for direction that makes both excitement and sense, Mr. Bassler for a production that gets the feel of a small town and the cast which includes Sterling Hayden, James Gleason and Nancy Gates.

Bosley Crowther, the film critic for The New York Times, also liked the film, yet with a few caveats, writing, " This film, derived by Ben Maddow and John Huston from Mr. Burnett's book and directed by Mr. Huston in brilliantly naturalistic style, gives such an electrifying picture of the whole vicious circle of a crime ... that one finds it hard to tag the item of repulsive exhibition in itself.

Bosley Crowther's review of the film in the New York Times cited William R. Ebersol in the role of Governor John Merwin as one of those who " stand out in a cast that is notable for its authenticity.

Bosley Crowther of the Times described Glenn Ford " as its taut, relentless star " and praises Lang for bringing " forth a hot one with a sting.

When it appeared that Harecastle Tunnel, on the Trent and Mersey Canal, might have to close permanently because of mining subsidence, one of the solutions mooted was to make a connection between the Leek Branch of the Caldon canal and the Macclesfield canal at Bosley, via Leek and possibly Rudyard Lake ; however Harecastle Tunnel remains open to navigation.

Upon its original release, A Face in the Crowd earned somewhat mixed reviews, one of them from Bosley Crowther of The New York Times.

When the film was released, The New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther, panned the film, " But this, of course, is a movie — and a pretty low-grade one, at that — in which sensations of fright and excitement are more diligently pursued than common sense ... Except for the usual moral — to wit, that crime does not pay — the only thing proved by this picture is that you shouldn't switch sweethearts in mid-lam.

When the film was first released, Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, lambasted the drama, writing, " All the other ingredients, including Miss Russell's famed physique, are pretty much the same as have been tumbled into previous cheesecakes with Jane and Bob ... Macao is a flimflam and no more — a flimflam designed for but one purpose and that is to mesh the two stars.

The film was released several weeks after Hellinger's death, and in his review for the New York Times, Bosley Crowther called it " a virtual Hellinger column on film " and " his appropriate valedictory " and observed, " The late Mark Hellinger's personal romance with the City of New York was one of the most ecstatic love affairs of the modern day — at least, to his host of friends and readers who are skeptics regarding l ' amour.