Critic Dennis Schwartz called the film, " A fresh smelling film noir directed with great skill by George Marshall from the screenplay of Raymond Chandler ( the only one he ever wrote for the screen, his other films were adapted from novels of others and, ironically, film adaptations of his novels were all written by other screenwriters ).

* 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.

" George Gilfillan remarked in the London Critic:

In his capacity as Native Affairs Critic, Phillips helped lead the fight for a public inquiry into the 1995 shooting death of protester Dudley George by members of the Ontario Provincial Police.

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.

Returning to England in 1911, Tempest joined a star-studded cast for Herbert Beerbohm Tree's production of The Critic by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, also starring Arthur Bourchier, C. Hayden Coffin, Lily Elsie, George Grossmith, Jr., Charles Hawtrey, Cyril Maude, Gerald Du Maurier, Gertie Millar, Edmund Payne, Courtice Pounds, Violet Vanbrugh and Arthur Williams, among others.

The song is parodied in the show The Critic referring to Duke Phillips and sung by parodies of U. S. Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. W.

In 1989, while in Opposition, he became the Liberal Party's Critic for Arms Control and Disarmament.

Critic Roger Ebert had read the novel and believed the film is true to its themes.

As NDP Transport Critic, Julian lead the successful fight in the House of Commons to stop the SMS transport safety bill, which he believed to be an attempt to turn safety over to air transport companies themselves, something Julian termed " self-serve safety ".

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.

Critic William Lawrence Schroeder described Holmes's prose style as " attractive " in that it " made no great demand on the attention of the reader.

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.

He continued to write poetry, however, and made appearances as a voice-over actor in The Little Mermaid and the TV series The Critic.

From 1958 to 1971 he was United States poetry editor for Transatlantic Review and, from 1965 to 1971 co-editor of Hollins Critic.

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 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 Lev Grossman described it as " a deeply unsettling existential horror story, a nightmare you'll never be sure you've woken up from.

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 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 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 Irving Ribner notes that a manifestation of Machiavellian philosophy may be seen in Bolingbroke.

Critic James Agee noted that " the Hays office must have been raped in its sleep " to allow the film to be released.

Critic Chris Anderson claims that the genre can be understood best by splitting it into two subcategories — the personal essay and the journalistic essay — but the genre is currently defined by its lack of established conventions.

The principles of what would be known as the Aesthetic Movement were partly traceable to him, and his effect was particularly felt on one of the movement's leading proponents, Oscar Wilde, who paid tribute to him in The Critic as Artist ( 1891 ).

The IMU is alleged by the magazine Eurasia Critic to be involved in organized criminal activies such as controlling and facilitating drug smuggling.

Critic David Shipman said his personal notices for his performance in The Secretary Bird ( 1968 ) " must be among the best accorded any light comedian during this century ".

Anthony Violanti, “ Journalists Like to be Spoon-fed, Critic Says ,” Buffalo News, 26 March.

Critic Nick Schager wrote, " It would be no surprise to learn that Richard Widmark was a big ' Batman ' fan, as his star-making screen debut in Kiss of Death as grinning, cackling psychopath Tommy Udo ( for which he received an Academy Award nomination ) seems heavily indebted to the Caped Crusader's arch-nemesis The Joker.

" Opposition parliamentarians dismissed the report as a scare tactic, while Liberal Environment Critic David McGuinty argued that the study was misleading, saying that it did not properly examine international emission trading and ignored jobs to be created through the " green economy ".

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.

Critic Tom Shales, reviewing the show for the Washington Post, opined that " kids may be impressed " by the heroics and special effects, but the show lacked " adult appeal " and that the plot lines would " soon wear thinner than water ".

Critic Steve Blance, in his Top Ten Worst Movies Review, called the film " the worst I have ever witnessed " and also noted that he would " rather be tortured for twenty-years with searing iron than have to sit through even a minute of this again.

Critic Harold Hobson deemed it to be one of the best first plays of its generation.

Critic Robert Christgau also commented in a similar vein: " The difference is that Browne shouldn't be doing this ... he's a pop star who's stretching his audience and endangering his market share merely by making such a statement in 1986.

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.

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.

Critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times called the film "... quite an improvement on Cooper's all but unreadable book, and a worthy successor to the Randolph Scott version ," going on to say that " The Last of the Mohicans is not as authentic and uncompromised as it claims to be — more of a matinee fantasy than it wants to admit — but it is probably more entertaining as a result.

For The Simpsons, Keeler has written such episodes as " A Star Is Burns " ( which Matt Groening refused to be credited for, as he was opposed to the idea of The Simpsons crossing over with The Critic ) and " The Principal and the Pauper " ( which many fans -- including series creator Matt Groening and voice actor Harry Shearer -- disliked due to the massive changes in Principal Skinner's backstory ).

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 Brian Olewnick describes him as " one of the most fascinating collaborators in contemporary improvised music [...] tending to create subtly modulated sounds of an almost palliative nature ; often with an elastically liquid rhythmic sense.