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 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 Mary Vermillion sees a connection between Maya's rape and Shakespeare's " The Rape of Lucrece ", which Maya memorizes and recites when she regains her speech.

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.

* Mary Banham, editor, A Critic Writes: Essays by Reyner Banham

Critic Pamela Clemit resists a purely autobiographical reading and argues that Mathilda is an artfully crafted novel, deploying confessional and unreliable narrations in the style of her father, as well as the device of the pursuit used by Godwin in his Caleb Williams and by Mary Shelley in Frankenstein.

Critic William Kuhn argued that much of his fiction can be read as " the memoirs he never wrote ", revealing the inner life of a politician for whom the norms of Victorian public life appeared to represent a social straitjacket – particularly with regard to his allegedly " ambiguous sexuality.

Critic Jon Savage would later say that their singer Ian Curtis wrote " the definitive Northern Gothic statement ".

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

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.

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 Billy Altman, whose work has appeared in many publications including Entertainment Weekly and The New York Times, wrote the following for Amazon. com: " One of rock's most overlooked masterpieces, this third album by the L. A. folk-rock outfit led by inscrutable singer-songwriter Arthur Lee sounds as fresh and innovative today as it did upon its original release in 1968.

Critic John Clute wrote of M. John Harrison's early writing that it "... reveals its New-Wave provenance in narrative discontinuities and subheads after the fashion of J. G. Ballard ".

Critic Rex Reed wrote, " If you want to see what turns a B movie into a classic [...] don't miss Night of the Living Dead.

Critic Stewart Mason wrote, " Over their brilliant first three albums, Wire expanded the sonic boundaries of not just punk, but rock music in general.

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 Henry Prunières wrote, “ From the opening measures, we are plunged into a world in which Ravel has but rarely introduced us .”

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 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 Edward Dannreuther, wrote, in the 1905 edition of The Oxford History of Music, " Mussorgsky, in his vocal efforts, appears wilfully eccentric.

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.

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 Dennis Schwartz wrote, " A remarkable indy classic, made on a shoestring budget by a group of still photographers.

Critic Pare Lorentz wrote, " The Warner brothers have declared war on Germany with this one.

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 Robert Cantwell wrote in his unpublished memoir Twigs of Folly:

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.

Critic Scott Yanow wrote, " Tatum's quick reflexes and boundless imagination kept his improvisations filled with fresh ( and sometimes futuristic ) ideas that put him way ahead of his contemporaries ... Art Tatum's recordings still have the ability to scare modern pianists.

Critic Jason Ankeny wrote, " With their politically charged raps, taut rhythms, and dedication to raising African-American consciousness, the Last Poets almost single-handedly laid the groundwork for the emergence of hip-hop.

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 '".

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Critic David Shipman thought Novak's performance " little more than competent ", while David Thomson described it as " one of the major female performances in the cinema ".

Critic R. L. Shurter has gone as far as to argue that " Looking Backward is actually a fictionalized version of The Co-operative Commonwealth and little more ".

Critic Richard Skorman wrote, " Forsyth does a good job of making light of the tender part in teenage psyche, and his friends and little sister in particular are quirky and lovable.

Critic Robert Weston also hailed the film and wrote, " Niagara is a good movie for noir fans who crave something a little different.

Critic Patrick Legare wrote of the film: " Originating during the science-fiction / Red-Scare boom of the ' 50s, Invaders From Mars is an entertaining little picture that holds up reasonably well.

) Critic and author Greg Kot wrote in Wilco: Learning How to Die that " Tweedy's voice and personality are as modest as the arrangements ; there's little sense of drama, and virtually no hint of risk.

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

In the episode of The Critic, Jay Sherman shows a clip of a movie entitled " Field Of Dreams 2 " where after Kevin Costner's character completes his new ball field, Martin emerges and punches Costner.

Critic Roger Ebert reviewed Deep Throat in an early 1973 column, giving it a no-stars rating and writing, " It is all very well and good for Linda Lovelace, the star of the movie, to advocate sexual freedom ; but the energy she brings to her role is less awesome than discouraging.

* The Critic – Jay answered a different phone call and was later shown reviewing a different movie parody clip in each episode.

Critic Joe Balthai wrote she was " the darling of the 1998 Sundance Film Festival " and Internet movie writer Harry Knowles said she was the " discovery of the fest ", but the film was not commercially released in the U. S. and went direct-to-video.

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 ).

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 Roger Ebert gave the film four stars, calling it " a very funny movie sometimes, and very touching at other times.

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.

* One episode of the short lived TV series, The Critic, features main character Jay Sherman reviewing a movie titled Dennis the Menace II Society, in which Dennis the Menace pulls out two machine guns and shoots up George Wilson's house.

" 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 Jeffrey M. Anderson, of Combustible Celluloid, wrote "... when the movie does actually reach the factory, and Gene Wilder takes the stage, the movie is saved.

In the animated prime time series, The Critic, Jay Sherman reviews a sub par movie titled " Dirty Harry K-9-Robo-Cop-and-a-half 2 " in which the title parodies numerous " buddy cop " films.

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.

* Jack appears in an episode of The Critic in a short parody called " The Nightmare before Chanukka ", done in the same puppet style as the original movie.

Critic Roger Ebert enjoyed the film, giving it 3 stars out of 4, saying: " Watching the movie is an entertaining exercise in forensic viewing, and the insidious thing is, even if it is a con, who is the conner and who is the connee?

" Critic Roger Ebert gave the film three stars, comparing the movie to a summertime version of A Christmas Story, based on the tone and narration of both films.

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.