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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.
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Critic and Bosley
Critic Bosley Crowther noted that its " striking and authentic documentary quality has been imported to the whole film in every detail, attitude and word.
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.
Critic Bosley Crowther was not impressed with the atmospherics of the film and panned the film due to its screenplay, writing, " We wish we could recommend it as a perfect combination of the styles of the eminent Mr. Hitchcock and the old German psychological films, for that is plainly and precisely what it tries very hard to be.
Frank Beaver wrote in Bosley Crowther: Social Critic of the Film, 1940-1967 that Crowther opposed displays of patriotism in films and believed that a movie producer " should balance his political attitudes even in the uncertain times of the 1940s and 1950s, during the House Un-American Activities Committee.
* Bosley Crowther: Social Critic of the Film, 1940-1967 by Frank Eugene Beaver, Ayer Publishing, 1974.
Critic Bosley Crowther gave the drama a mixed review, and wrote, " Therefore, The Sniper develops, as it casually gets along, into nothing more forceful or impressive than a moderately fascinating " chase.
Critic and film
Critic Roger Ebert was and remains today a champion of the film, including it on his all-time top ten best films list.
Critic Roger Ebert, in a review dated January 1, 1972, did not care for the film.
Critic Lynn Hirschberg declared Stranger than Paradise in a 2005 profile of the director for The New York Times to have " permanently upended the idea of independent film as an intrinsically inaccessible avant-garde form ".
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 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 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 Roger Ebert has included the film in his series of " Great Movies " reviews.
Critic Dennis Schwartz questioned the noir aspects of the film and discussed the cinematography in his review.
Critic Stephen Farber has described the film as " One of the most skillful and entertaining summaries of Marilyn's endlessly fascinating rise and fall.
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 Lawrence van Gelder, writing for The New York Times, did not like the film.
Critic Henry Sheehan described the film as a retelling of Peter Pan from the perspective of a Lost Boy ( Elliott ): E. T.
Critic John Krewson lauded the work of Ida Lupino, and wrote, " As a screenwriter and director, Lupino had an eye for the emotional truth hidden within the taboo or mundane, making a series of B-styled pictures which featured sympathetic, honest portrayals of such controversial subjects as unmarried mothers, bigamy, and rape ... in The Hitch-Hiker, arguably Lupino's best film and the only true noir directed by a woman, two utterly average middle-class American men are held at gunpoint and slowly psychologically broken by a serial killer.
Critic James Agee noted that " the Hays office must have been raped in its sleep " to allow the film to be released.
Critic Roger Ebert wrote an article entitled, " Attacks on ' Roger & Me ' completely miss point of film " that defends Moore's manipulation of his film's timeline as an artistic and stylistic choice that has less to do with his credibility as a filmmaker and more to do with the flexibility of film as a medium to express a viewpoint using the same methods that satirists have used.
Critic Billy Stevenson described the film as Moore's " most astonishing ", arguing that it represents an effort to conflate film-making and labor, and that " it's this fusion of film-making and work that allows Moore to fully convey the desecration of Flint without ever transforming it into a sublime or melancholy poverty-spectacle, thereby distancing himself from the retouristing of the town-as-simulacrum that occupies the last and most intriguing part of the film.
Critic Vincent Canby praised the film, calling the film " a devastating collage-film that examines official and unofficial United States attitudes toward the atomic age " and a film that " deserves national attention.
Critic James Steffen appreciated the direction of the film and the cinematography of Lee Garmes, writing " While Detective Story remains essentially a filmed play, Wyler manages to use the inherent constraints of such an approach as an artistic advantage.
Critic and critic
* The Critic and the Heart ( 1957 )-Bolt's first professionally produced work, it involves Winifred Blazer, a middle-aged spinster whose life is ruined by the arrival of a mean-spirited art critic.
*" Critic At Large ", where Gilbert Smythe Bite-Me ( Abbott ), an entertainment critic, gives negative reviews, and takes regular potshots at the Women's Television Network, describing them as ' a bunch of scrotally-deprived, estrogen-sodden non-males ', and ' not just because three of ( his ) ex-wives work there.
He retained his position as House Leader and Intergovernment Affairs Critic, and gained additional duties as critic for Parliamentary Reform, Justice and the Solicitor-General.
* The Nostalgia Critic, a critic of movies and shows, mostly of the 80's and 90's
However, they both " could not resist " appearing on an episode of the animated television series The Critic, the title character of which was a television film critic.
He was immediately appointed to the Saskatchewan Party's front bench as Justice Critic, and later became critic for the Crown Investments Corporation as well.
He was removed as the Liberal Party's immigration Critic in January 1992, and reassigned as critic for the Solicitor-General.
During this time she acted as the Official Opposition's Critic for National Revenue and as critic for the Canada Revenue Agency.
He was appointed as his party's critic for Intergovernmental Affairs, and was later promoted to Finance Critic.
Julian previously served as the NDP critic for International Trade, Transportation, Persons with Disabilities, Treasury Board, Western Fisheries Critic, Industry, and the 2010 Vancouver-Whistler Olympics.
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.
** Jay Sherman, the New York film critic from the season six crossover episode " A Star is Burns " and the ABC / FOX animated sitcom The Critic.
* In an episode of The Critic, a trained bear plays the song for Jay Sherman, the critic, trying to stay a part of his show.
* There is also some programming seen on all Newfoundland systems, such as One Chef One Critic ( produced in St. John's ), hosted by Central Dairies chef Steve Watson and The Telegram food critic ( and former CBNT weather personality ) Karl Wells.
Baker also guest starred in an episode of Monk, playing a theater critic in " Mr. Monk and the Critic ".
Critic Kyle Smith has argued that White " simply has a different aesthetic from that of the herd ", while critic David Chen suggested that he "( perhaps too ) vehemently believes in the integrity of his art and longs for the golden era when the mainstream still cared what film critics thought ".
Critic Glenn Kenny has called White " a bully and a hypocrite " and written that " the sub-theme of every White review [...] is that every other critic is a moral degenerate and an aesthetic cretin ".
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