Critic Dave Marsh categorizes Orbison's ballads into themes reflecting pain and loss, and dreaming.

Critic Dave Marsh called it " one of the best live albums ever made.

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

Critic Dave Marsh would call it one of the " two best records Dylan has made since John Wesley Harding " and gave it a four-star review in the 1979 Rolling Stone Record Guide.

Critic Dave Kehr wrote of the film, " Gloria Grahame, at her brassiest, pleads with Glenn Ford to do away with her slob of a husband, Broderick Crawford ... A gripping melodrama, marred only by Ford's inability to register an appropriate sense of doom.

Critic Dave Thompson wrote, " Few records are this perfect.

Critic Steve Turner suggests that Plant's early and continued experiences in Wales served as the foundation for his broader interest in the mythologies he revisits in his lyrics ( including those myth systems of Tolkien and the Norse ).

Critic Gill Gregory suggests that Procter may have been a lesbian and in love with Matilda Hays, a fellow member of the Society for the Promotion of the Employment of Women ; other critics have called Procter's relationship with Hays " emotionally intense.

Critic Roger Kimball suggests that Opium is " a seminal book of the twentieth century.

Critic Mike Beek suggests these time constraints enabled Williams " to create themes based on ideas and suggestions, rather than a locked down print.

Critic Ion Simuţ suggests that Iorga is at his best in travel writing, combining historical fresco and picturesque detail.

Critic Robert Richardson suggests that the originality of La dolce vita lies in a new form of film narrative that mines " an aesthetic of disparity.

Critic Roger Ebert comments that the character of Maria Gonzalez " suggests ethnic distinctions have been lost in generations of government-supervised DNA matchups ".

The point is already made by Hume, but see Mary Mothersill, " Beauty and the Critic ’ s Judgment ", in The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics, 2004.

Critic Leonard Maltin labeled Hawks " the greatest American director who is not a household name ," noting that, while his work may not be as well known as Ford, Welles, or DeMille, he is no less a talented filmmaker.

Critic Alexander Woollcott wrote of Bogart's early work that he " is what is usually and mercifully described as inadequate.

Critic Robin Roberts opines that this character " is shaped more by her femininity than by her medical, scientific training.

Critic Roger Ebert stated that Gellar and co-star Ryan Phillippe " develop a convincing emotional charge " and that Gellar is " effective as a bright girl who knows exactly how to use her act as a tramp ".

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 David Hurwitz offers an alternative explanation for the piece's structure: that " Jupiter " is the centrepoint of the suite and that the movements on either side are in mirror images.

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 .”

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.

Critic Robert Christgau gave the album a B +, saying that " I find it impossible to give this record an A because it is just too weird.

Critic Lloyd Goodrich praised the work as “ one of the most poignant and desolating pieces of realism .” The work is the first of a series of stark rural and urban scenes that uses sharp lines and large shapes, played upon by unusual lighting to capture the lonely mood of his subjects.

Critic J. Dover Wilson notes that Richard's double nature as man and martyr is the dilemma that runs through the play eventually leading to Richard's death.

Critic and author Eddie Muller wrote, " Joseph H. Lewis's direction is propulsive, possessed of a confident, vigorous simplicity that all the frantic editing and visual pyrotechnics of the filmmaking progeny never quite surpassed.

* 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.

* The Pre-Raphaelite Critic is a collection of full-text and excerpted 19th century reviews of the movement and its individual members.

" Others criticised him, including Kushell, who clashed with Mirkin over the episode " A Star is Burns ", a crossover with the The Critic.

Critic Jim Harrington commented that Hansen's absence is noticeable on live performances of Stereolab's older tracks, and that their newer songs could have benefited from her backing vocals.

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.

" ( This is followed by Frank Zappa's cameo as " The Critic ," who dismisses the 1920s-style tune as " pretty white.

Critic Jerry Renshaw wrote, " A Double Life is an unusually intelligent, literate noir that is a classy departure from the pulpy " B " atmospherics often associated with the genre.

British Art Critic Adrian Searle wrote that “ Downtown 81 captures that New York moment when punk, emerging rap, art school cool and the East Village art and music scenes were at their creative best .”

Critic Kenneth Lincoln identified the Pulitzer for House Made of Dawn as the moment that sparked the Native American Renaissance.

*" 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.

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.

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

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

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.

Critic Taran Adarsh wrote, " Shahid gives his all to this role, submitting himself to his director-father to mould him the way he chooses to.