As Critic Walter Kerr points out: `` Adaptations, so long as they are good, still qualify as creative ''.

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 Northrop Frye said that Menippean satire moves rapidly between styles and points of view.

Critic John Eyles writes, " Just as such labels as Blue Note, ECM, and Incus have captured and defined the zeitgeist at various points in the past, Erstwhile is now doing so.

Critic Jennifer M. Wood points to the Palace Theater in San Francisco's North Beach district where, in 1968, San Francisco Art Institute graduates Michael Wiese and Steven Arnold, after a sellout screening of their Dalí-esque thesis film Messages, Messages, were invited to program offbeat films at midnight.

* Jay Sherman, the main character in The Critic

Critic Fred Patten is one of the main supporters of the strip.

Critic Alfred Habegger has claimed that the main character of Portrait was inspired by Christie Archer, the protagonist from Anne Moncure Crane's novel, Reginald Archer ( 1871 ).

The sketch was parodied on the animated show The Critic when the main character watches " Yesterday Night Live " and the Australian host comes out and says, " She's a girl mate, I saw her backstage ," and pulls her wig off with her saying, " You ruined my career!

* 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 Ian Lace said of her theme: " One has to suppose that the main character of this new game, Manon, inspired by the exploits of Hélène Déschamps is French.

" Critic Paul Tatara noted that " It isn't really fair to suggest that the movie's main subject is dance, though.

Bart Simpson is watching the film The Flintstones Meet the Jetsons and after he criticizes the " cheap " crossover, Jay Sherman, the main character of the animated TV show The Critic, introduces himself to Bart.

Almost every episode title alliteratively alludes to how the victim is discovered in said episode, like " The Critic in the Cabernet " and " The Dwarf in the Dirt ", or to the main plot device of the episode, like " The Hero in the Hold " and " The Change in the Game ".

Cartwright has voiced dozens of animated characters, including Chuckie Finster in Rugrats and All Grown Up !, Rufus in Kim Possible, Mindy in Animaniacs, Margo Sherman in The Critic and Chip in The Kellys.

In addition to her work on The Simpsons, Cartwright has voiced many other characters on several animated series, including Chuckie Finster in Rugrats and All Grown Up !, Margo Sherman in The Critic, Mindy in Animaniacs and Rufus the naked mole rat in Kim Possible.

* Doris, various characters ( The Critic )

While working on The Critic, LaMarche once voiced 29 characters in one 30-minute episode.

" Critic Donald Bogle states in a New York Times interview that the film in some ways met the black audience's compensatory needs after years of asexual, Sidney Poitier-type characters and that they wanted a " viable, sexual, assertive, arrogant black male hero.

Critic Desson Howe liked the look of the film and wrote, " Cinematographer Haskell Wexler etches the characters in dark charcoal against a misty background.

Critic Janet Maslin of The New York Times commented: " The animation [...] has an unfortunate way of endowing the male characters with doggy-looking muzzles.

Critic Dennis Schwartz liked the look of the film and wrote, " Cinematographer Burnett Guffey is relentless in capturing the spiritual desolation of the characters with ominous shots of the myriad railroad tracks interweaving and separating in a train yard at night.

Critic Lawrence van Gelder, writing for The New York Times, did not like the film.

Critic Johnny Loftus writes, " Rock critics usually reserve a special place for Deftones above or at least away from the rest of the turn-of-the-century metal movement Deftones have always seemed more curious, more willing to incorporate traditionally revered sounds like D. C. hardcore and dream pop into their Northern California alt-metal.

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Critic Dave Marsh suggests it is this moment that gives the recording greatness: " went for it so avidly you'd have thought he'd spotted the jugular of a lifelong enemy, so crudely that, at that instant, Ely sounds like Donald Duck on helium.

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 Steve Huey of Allmusic later rated the album with four and a half stars out of five, stating that the " record sounds like a bridge between Mother Love Bone's theatrical ' 70s-rock updates and Pearl Jam's hard-rocking seriousness.

Critic Jack Sullivan has kinder words for Tiomkin's score for Strangers than does biographer Spoto: " o seamlessly and inevitably does it fit the picture's design that it seems like an element of Hitchcock's storyboards ", he writes It is a score that " goes largely uncelebrated.

The album was produced by Tito Larriva of The Plugz and The Flesh Eaters frontman Chris D. Critic Stevo Olende has written that the " album's lyrical imagery is plundered from voodoo, ' 50's EC comics and the blues ," while another notes that " Nobody has heard music like this before or since.

He went on to become the most significant London playwright of the late 18th century with plays like The School for Scandal and The Critic.

Nevertheless, in his essay, " The New Criticism ," Cleanth Brooks notes that " The New Critic, like the Snark, is a very elusive beast ," meaning that there was no clearly defined " New Critical " school or critical stance.

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 Luke Y. Thompson of The New Times stated that " defenders of the film have argued that it's actually pro-woman, due to the fact that the female lead wins in the end, which is sort of like saying that cockfights are pro-rooster because there's always one left standing ".

Critic Harry Sumrall of the San Jose Mercury News said that Rabbitt was " like a hot corn dog: nothing fancy, nothing frilly.

Critic Robert Christgau called the album " A satire on, celebration of, and lament for the upper-middle classmates an Orange County liberal knows like he knows his neighbor's backyard ..."

Screwattack named it the second worst Mario game of all time., while others were much more positive, like The Video Game Critic, who gave it an A rating, calling it " a satisfying mix of strategy and arcade action " and " a must have for Virtual Boy owners.

Yale ’ s The New Englander while complimenting Emerson's abilities, criticized the book as depicting “ a universe bereft of its God ” and described its author as writing “ with the air of a man who is accustomed to be looked up to with admiring and unquestioning deference .” Littell's Living Age found the book to contain the “ weakest kind of commonplace elaborately thrown into unintelligible shapes ” and claimed it to read in parts like an “ emasculate passage of Walt Whitman .” Others were no less critical, proclaiming that Emerson “ has come to the end of what he had to say, and is repeating himself ” ( Athenaeum ) or even calling him a “ phrasemonger ” and “ second-hand writer ” ( Critic ).

Critic Richard Eder did not like the film much.

VirtualTourist ( often written VT ) is one of a number of travel websites on the Web, which include websites like TripAdvisor ( VT's parent company ) and Cruise Critic ( a sister company to VT ).

Critic David Thomson in his April 2007 review of the film in the British Film Institute's Sight & Sound magazine draws attention ( in the Listen to Britain section of the article ) to the music that was used in the film, in particular " at the end of the film ... that mackerel sky and Sir Arthur Sullivan's ' The Long Day Closes ' itself " ( which was sung by Pro Cantione Antiqua ).