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 John Sutherland ( 1989 ) described the work as " the most sensationally successful of all the sensation novels.

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 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 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 Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat wrote, " Here's a nice little movie about the baby boom generation ... Novelist John Sayles wrote, directed, and edited this movie.

Pattison was at this time a Puseyite, and greatly under the influence of John Henry Newman, for whom he worked, helping in the translation of Thomas Aquinas's Catena Aurea, and writing in the British Critic and Christian Remembrancer.

131 and a Lost Lactantius of John of Salisbury: Evidence in Search of a French Critic of Thomas Becket.

Critic John Simon remarked that it " must have arrived in garbage rather than in film cans ".

Critic John Litweiler has written that " In New York Loft Jazz meant Free Jazz in the Seventies " and Studio Rivbea was " the most famous of the lofts ".

Critic John G. Palfrey also praised Holmes, referring to him as " a man of genius ... His manner is entirely his own, manly and unaffected ; generally easy and playful, and sinking at times into ' a most humorous sadness '".

) Critic and author John Clute writes that "… his early stories and novels display considerable intellectual complexity, and do not shirk the downbeat implications of their anthropological treatment of aliens and alienating milieux …" In his major essay on these early novels, author Ian Watson writes " Michael Bishop is both an exoticist and a moralist.

Critic Joachim Berendt wrote that " Since Ponty, the jazz violin has been a different instrument ", of his " style of phrasing that corresponds to early and middle John Coltrane " and his " brilliance and fire ".

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 and scholar John Sutherland says that of all the books Gardner published, " it's the one that most deserves to survive.

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.

In August 2005, PC leader John Tory appointed Hudak to the lead role of Official Opposition Finance Critic.

Critic John Heilpern wrote that Look Back in Anger expressed such " immensity of feeling and class hatred " that it altered the course of English theater.

Critic John Simon revealed on the air to the home audience that during the most recent commercial break, fellow guest Mort Sahl had threatened to punch him in the mouth.

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.

The book is Praise, Vilification & Sexual Innuendo, or How to Be a Critic: The Selected Writings of John L. Wasserman, 1964-1979.

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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 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 Leonard Maltin gave the film three and a half stars out of four and compared it to Dr. Mabuse The Gambler stating that it is " less stylized but no less entertaining ".

Critic Leonard Feather once said, " It is almost indisputable that Dr. Billy Taylor is the world's foremost spokesman for jazz.

Critic Leonard Feather wrote " Alemán has more swing than any other guitarist on the continent ", and " His tone, phrasing, swing, and attack are so grand that if anyone ever mentions Django Reinhardt to me again, I shall stare coldly.

In 1988 the British artist and friend of Weizenbaum Brian Reffin Smith created and showed at the exhibition ' Salamandre ', in the Musée du Berry, Bourges, France, two art-oriented ELIZA-style programs written in BASIC, one called ' Critic ' and the other ' Artist ', running on two separate Amiga 1000 computers.

Critic F. O. Matthiessen called this " trilogy " James's major phase, and these novels have certainly received intense critical study.

Critic Michael Heiser called Sitchin " arguably the most important proponent of the ancient astronaut hypothesis over the last several decades ".

" Critic Hal Hinson commented that Meyer " capable of sending up his material without cheapening it or disrupting our belief in the reality of his yarn ," and called the one-liners an organic part of the film's " jocular, tongue-in-cheek spirit ".

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 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 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 ).

Critic Javier Maqua in Cinco Dias called Marina ’ s request evidence of " the greatest intensity of love ".

Critic Adam Begley of the Chicago Tribune called the novel: " A bitter and loving and damning tribute to the American family ....

Critic Thomas Ward called this recording " one of the most astonishing accomplishments in all of twentieth century music.

Critic Steve Huey called their album Morbid Florist " barely listenable ".

Critic Roger Ebert called it " one of the great films.

Critic Roger Ebert called it " one of the best horror films ever made ".

Critic Janet Maslin remarked that the director " uses his gift for eloquent abstraction to create sobering, obscenely beautiful images of a natural world that has run amok "; her colleague J. Hoberman called it " the culmination of Mr. Herzog's romantic doomsday worldview ".

" Critic Roger Ebert praised the film as " an original, intelligent thriller, well-directed by Joel Schumacher ," and called the cast " talented young actors, inhabit the shadows with the right mixture of intensity, fear and cockiness.

Critic Robert van Gelder called it " perhaps the most sentimental story that ever has achieved the dignity of a Borzoi imprint of publisher Knopf imprint.

Critic Robert Christgau of The Village Voice called her contribution " one of the most gorgeous ballads you've ever heard ".

As Justice Critic, Goertzen has called for increased police resources, stronger laws against organized crime, electronic monitoring of sex offenders and a drug treatment court to assist individuals addicted to drugs and alcohol.

Critic Silvio Sirias believes that Dominicans value a talent for story-telling ; Alvarez developed this talent early and was " often called upon to entertain guests ".

* 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 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 Jim Derogatis called it " a stone cold gas of a party disc.

The Nostalgia Critic also called her a " Female Magneto " and one of the great cartoon villains.