Critic Frank Murphy argues that many of the same characteristics that mark Beiderbecke on the cornet mark him on the keyboard: the uncharacteristic fingering, the emphasis on inventive harmonies, and the correlated choruses.

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

On the Board of NeWest Press ( Edmonton ) since 1981, she is the founder and editor of The Writer as Critic series, which includes, among others, Douglas Barbour's Lyric / Anti-lyric: Essays on Contemporary Poetry, Frank Davey's Canadian Literary Power, Daphne Marlatt's Readings from the Labyrinth, Fred Wah's Faking It: Poetics and Hybridity, Phyllis Webb's Nothing But Brush Strokes, and, most recently, Di Brandt's So This Is the World & Here I Am in It.

* Frank Zappa as The Critic

Critic and sf historian Thomas Clareson has commented that " Planet seemed to look backward towards the 1930s and earlier ", an impression that was strengthened by the extensive use of interior artwork by Frank Paul, who had been the cover artist for the early Gernsback magazines in the 1920s.

He endorsed Frank Klees's unsuccessful bid to lead the Progressive Conservative Party in 2004, and is currently the party's Deputy Whip, and Critic for Economic Development and Trade.

Critic Frank Rich wrote: "... this play can be taken as an indirect treatment of the same subject.

Critic Frank Rich called it " one of the best American plays of the last decade.

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.

Showing the growing influence of Frank Zappa on the Monkees ' circle ( Zappa even has a cameo role as " The Critic " in the film itself ), the soundtrack album intersperses the six proper songs (" Porpoise Song ", " Circle Sky ", " Can You Dig It?

Liner notes by Alan Rich, Music Critic, L. A. Daily News.

Critic Vincent Leo praised Penn's performance, noting, " While Oldman gets the accolades for his energetic performance, it is really Penn's inner demons that provides the film with the right amount of conflict, always letting us be aware that fine lines are the difference between life and death, as well as right and wrong, out in the streets of New York.

The Corporate Critic website provides access to ECRA's database, tracking over 30, 000 companies, providing information such as rating, ownership structure and turnover.

Critic John R. Elliott Jr. notes that this particular history play can be distinguished from the other history plays because it contains an ulterior political purpose.

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.

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.

Sheridan had a rivalry with his fellow playwright Richard Cumberland and included a parody of Cumberland in his play The Critic.

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.

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 Andrew Dickos wrote that " the touchstone of Preston Sturges ' screenwriting lies in the respect paid to the play and density of verbal language " and " establishes the standard of eloquence as one of poetry, of a cacophony of Euro-American vernacularisms and utterances, peculiarly -- and appropriately -- spoken with scandalous indifference.

Critic Zack Handlen remarked, " This is still early Dick, which means that while interesting concepts are introduced, and there ’ s some play with identity -- Jennings develops an overwhelming faith in the prescience of his past self, a faith which most people can ’ t ever have in their present versions, and by the end he ’ s even referring to that past guy as a separate person -- the primary focus is nabbing you and keeping you entertained.

Critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times remarked that " Here, using big movie stars and asking them to play each other, Woo and his writers find a terrific counterpoint to the action scenes: All through the movie, you find yourself reinterpreting every scene as you realize the ' other ' character is ' really ' playing it.

In fact, the trend toward absurdly lofty bombast and sentiment was so strong that Richard Brinsley Sheridan reworked The Rehearsal for his play, The Critic ( 1779 ), where the target was the inflated importance and prose of theater criticism.

On November 28, 1828 a contest was posted in the New York Critic by American actor, Edwin Forrest, offering a prize of 500 dollars for an original play which met such criteria as, “ a tragedy, in five acts, of which the hero, or principal character, shall be an aboriginal of this country .” Forrest, looking to produce a play suiting his strengths, created the contest as an opportunity to boost his acting career.

*" Dining Out: The Food Critic at Table " A review of food writing and writers by Adam Gopnick that examines the genre.

Critic Roger Ebert, in a review dated January 1, 1972, did not care for the film.

Critic and humorist Louis Leroy wrote a scathing review in the newspaper Le Charivari in which, making wordplay with the title of Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise ( Impression, soleil levant ), he gave the artists the name by which they became known.

The Nostalgia Critic, in his review of The Room, performed a more over-the-top parody of the sketch near the end of the video.

Critic Dennis Schwartz questioned the noir aspects of the film and discussed the cinematography in his review.

Critic Geoff Barton coins the term " New Wave of British Heavy Metal " in a review of the show for Sounds magazine.

During the broadcast run of The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., TV Guide featured a positive review of the show in its Couch Critic column and wrote, " It's as funny as it is exciting, which is not an easy combo to pull off ... it's fresh and funny and different, and that's why we like it.

Critic Roger Ebert wrote in his review, " The best shot in this film is the first one.

Critic Hollis Alpert wrote in his review:

Theatre review aggregator Curtain Critic gave the production a score of 63 out of 100 based on the opinions of 18 critics.

Critic Brooks Atkinson, in his review for The New York Times wrote of the original 1949 Broadway production that Maxwell Anderson and Mr. Weill had encountered " obvious difficulty " in transforming " so thoroughly a work of literary art " into theatre, and was sometimes " skimming and literal where the novel is rich and allusive.

Critic Roger Ebert's review was four out of four stars ; at the end of the year, he named it the best film of 1999.

The film was given a negative review in The Times newspaper in the United Kingdom, in a piece published on 21 July 1966 and credited only to " Our Film Critic ".

Critic Louis Leroy, inspired by the painting's name, titled his hostile review of the show in Le Charivari newspaper, " The Exhibition of the Impressionists ", thus inadvertently naming the new art movement.

Critic Stephanie Zacharek wrote in her review " Rising star Samantha Morton shines in this charming, finely crafted film from Woody Allen " and that " Her performance is like nothing I ’ ve seen in recent years.

Critic Ed Naha, writing in Crawdaddy !, gave the album a negative review, saying, " Much of the Wonderlandish magic found on Eno ’ s first LP is lost on this rocky terrain, being replaced by a dull,

He also had a brief cameo in the Nostalgia Critic's 200th episode where he starts off chatting idly with the Critic and then leaves the room, whereupon the Critic realizes Spencer put a grenade down the Critic's pants, due to his apparent anger at the Critic's choice of movie to review ( Ponyo ).

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Critic Roger Ebert lauded the film in his film review, writing, " The Official Story is part polemic, part thriller, part tragedy.

" Critic Peter Bradshaw's review of the film in The Guardian concludes that Meet the Parents " is somehow less than the sum of its parts.

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 Janet Maslin gave the film a positive review in The New York Times.

Critic Glenn Erickson recently echoed the New York Times review, writing, " Although biographies on both Ib Melchior and Sid Pink would have you believe that The Angry Red Planet is an outer-space classic, it simply isn't so.

Critic John Neal, who was a friend of Poe's cousin George Poe, responded to Poe's claim in his review of " Al Aaraaf " for the Yankee and Boston Literary Gazette.