Critic Leonard Maltin observed that Disney Studios made several attempts to recreate the appeal and success of Mary Poppins ( 1964 ), and that this was one of their least successful endeavors.

Critic Frye observed,

DirkJan was first published in Critic, the magazine for the local union of psychology students.

Critic Roger Ebert was and remains today a champion of the film, including it on his all-time top ten best films list.

The Athenaeum reviewer praised Ellis Bell's work for its music and power, and the Critic reviewer recognized " the presence of more genius than it was supposed this utilitarian age had devoted to the loftier exercises of the intellect.

The visitor was supposed to help them converse by typing in to ' Artist ' what ' Critic ' said, and vice versa.

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 Richard Lehan says that " Balzac was the bridge between the comic realism of Dickens and the naturalism of Zola.

Critic William Baer notes that throughout his career " he constantly rose to the challenge of his own aspirations ", adding that " he was a pioneer and visionary who greatly affected the history of both stage and cinema ".

Less successful efforts included The Critic, which starred Jon Lovitz from Saturday Night Live ( originally airing on ABC then moved to Fox before being canceled ), and The PJs, ( which was later broadcast on The WB ).

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 Steve Huey of Allmusic writes that the album's influence " was felt more in spirit than in direct copycatting, as a catalyst rather than a literal musical starting point.

Critic Roberta Reeder notes that the early poems always attracted large numbers of admirers: " For Akhmatova was

Critic Joe S. Harrington suggested that the latter two " paraded as Hardcore until it was deemed permissible to do otherwise.

Critic Robert Trussell noted, " Little effort was made to hide the ( California ) mountains in the background.

Critic Luis Leal attests that Carpentier was an originating pillar of the magical realist style by implicitly referring to the latter's critical works, writing that " The existence of the marvelous real is what started magical realist literature, which some critics claim is the truly American literature.

Critic Michael Billington recalled: " In Redgrave's Vanya you saw both a tremulous victim of a lifetime's emotional repression and the wasted potential of a Chekhovian might-have-been: as Redgrave and Olivier took their joint curtain call, linked hands held triumphantly aloft, we were not to know that this was to symbolise the end of their artistic amity.

It was followed by The Critic ( 1779 ), an updating of the satirical Restoration play The Rehearsal, which received a memorable revival ( performed with Oedipus Rex in a single evening ) starring Laurence Olivier as Mr Puff, opening at the New Theatre on 18 October 1945 as part of an Old Vic Theatre Company season.

Pattison was at this time a Puseyite, and greatly under the influence of John Henry Newman, for whom he worked, helping in the translation of Thomas Aquinas's Catena Aurea, and writing in the British Critic and Christian Remembrancer.

He has also written for The Independent, and was Restaurant Critic for Harpers & Queen magazine from 1995 to 1998.

He was also Restaurant Critic for The Guardian between 2004 and 2005.

The Black Knight's voice was featured in an episode of the Nostalgia Critic where he reviewed the movie Child's Play.

He was the author of The Rehearsal, an amusing and clever satire on the heroic drama and especially on Dryden's The Conquest of Granada ( first performed on 7 December 1671, at the Theatre Royal, and first published in 1672 ), a deservedly popular play which was imitated by Henry Fielding in Tom Thumb the Great, and by Sheridan in The Critic.

Critic, Stephen Erlewine of AllMusic wrote that Dion's vocals " are back at top of their game " and that she was " getting back to pop basics and performing at a level unheard in a while.

Critic Roger Ebert wrote of Keaton's " extraordinary period from 1920 to 1929, he worked without interruption on a series of films that make him, arguably, the greatest actor-director in the history of the movies.

Critic Adam Roberts said of the novel: “ It is really quite hard to respond to this masterful book, except by engaging with its political content ; and yet we need to make the effort to see past the ideological to the formal and thematic if we are fully to appreciate the splendour of Heinlein's achievement here .”

Loewen was subsequently demoted from his position as Finance Critic by Stuart Murray, and was required to make a formal apology to the legislature in April 2002.

* The Nostalgia Critic, a critic of movies and shows, mostly of the 80's and 90's

Critic Eleanor Ringel Gillespie of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution concluded that " There are more challenging movies around.

" Top Critic Roger Ebert went further, saying of the film " In a genre where a lot of movies are retreads of the predictable, ' Deep Blue Sea ' keeps you guessing.

Critic Richard Hennessy complained in Artforum about the East Building's " shocking fun-house atmosphere ".

Critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine has described Francis's writing as containing " bizarre, fragmented lyrics about space, religion, sex, mutilation, and pop culture ".

Critic Christopher Sharrett argues that since Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho ( 1960 ) and The Birds ( 1963 ), the American horror film has been defined by the questions it poses " about the fundamental validity of the American civilizing process ", concerns amplified during the 1970s by the " delegitimation of authority in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate ".

Critic Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat wrote, " Here's a nice little movie about the baby boom generation ... Novelist John Sayles wrote, directed, and edited this movie.

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 Vincent Canby wrote, " Ms. Tomei gives every indication of being a fine comedian, whether towering over Mr. Pesci and trying to look small, or arguing about a leaky faucet in terms that demonstrate her knowledge of plumbing.

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He was also named as the NDP's National Defence Critic, and was front and centre in pushing the Liberals to not participate in the Iraq War, in opposing Canadian participation in ballistic missile defence, and in asking questions about the rules of engagement and changing role of Canadian troops in Afghanistan.

Critic William Burrill dismissed the game's visuals as " Dim Boy graphics are nothing to write home about ".

When he voiced his concerns about how to draw The Critic into the Simpsons ' universe he was right and we agreed to his changes.

Critic Amelia Jones argued that the body poster was a statement about hyper-masculinity and the stereotypical idea that masculinity equated to homophobia.

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.

" Critic Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal stated that the film " does almost everything right with a story about everything going wrong " and that it " works up a major comic delirium on the theme of Murphy's Law ", concluding that " Meet the Parents is the funniest movie of the year.

Critic Alexei Korotyukov remarked: " Paradjanov made films not about how things are, but how they would have been had he been God.

Critic Opal Moore says about Caged Bird: "...

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 Dennis Schwartz liked the film and acting in the drama and wrote, " A schematic film noir by Nicholas Ray ( They Live by Night ) that overcomes its artificial contrivances to become a touching psychological drama about despair and loneliness -- one of the best of this sort in the history of film noir ... Robert Ryan's fierce performance is superb, as he's able to convincingly assure us he has a real spiritual awakening ; while Lupino's gentle character acts to humanize the crime fighter, who has walked on the " dangerous ground " of the city and has never realized before that there could be any other kind of turf until meeting someone as profound and tolerant as Mary.

* Maneker, Marion, " The King James Version: Critic James Wolcott, the reigning monarch of the literary put-down, is about to publish his first novel, and legions of his victims are already sharpening their knives ", New York magazine, June 11, 2001

They left after season four to create The Critic, an animated show about film critic Jay Sherman ( voiced by Jon Lovitz ); the show was executive produced by The Simpsons co-developer James L. Brooks.

The Futon Critic named it the 4th best episode of 2004, saying " The series finale was filled with tons of great " holy shit " moments-Illyria's reaction to Wesley's death alone should be required watching for everyone-but the closing moments cut right to the heart of what the show has always been about: the good fight ( and the quest for redemption itself ) is always a constant struggle.

Critic John Simon, in NY Magazine, wrote: " Anyone who cares about the rather uncertain future of this truly American genre should — must — see the show, think and worry about it, and reach his or her own conclusions.

Critic Sam Adams wrote about Fritz Lang directorial style, " Restraint was never Fritz Lang's problem.