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 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.

Critic John Leonard called Northern Exposure " the best of the best television in the past 10 years.

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

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

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 Simon Reynolds described this movement as " a rash of blurry, neo-psychedelic bands ".

Critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine has described Francis's writing as containing " bizarre, fragmented lyrics about space, religion, sex, mutilation, and pop culture ".

Critic Stephen Farber has described the film as " One of the most skillful and entertaining summaries of Marilyn's endlessly fascinating rise and fall.

Critic Louis Vauxcelles described the work with the phrase " Donatello parmi les fauves!

Critic Henry Sheehan described the film as a retelling of Peter Pan from the perspective of a Lost Boy ( Elliott ): E. T.

Critic and artist Roger Fry did something to restore it in the 1930s, when he described Lawrence as having a " consummate mastery over the means of artistic expression " with an " unerring hand and eye ".

Critic Billy Stevenson described the film as Moore's " most astonishing ", arguing that it represents an effort to conflate film-making and labor, and that " it's this fusion of film-making and work that allows Moore to fully convey the desecration of Flint without ever transforming it into a sublime or melancholy poverty-spectacle, thereby distancing himself from the retouristing of the town-as-simulacrum that occupies the last and most intriguing part of the film.

" Critic Giovanni Grazzini, reviewing for the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, described Fellini as " an artist at his peak " and the film as the work of a mature, more refined director whose “ autobiographical content shows greater insight into historical fact and the reality of a generation.

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 Ned Chaillett has described Sink the Belgrano !, a critical take on the Falklands War, which premiered at the Half Moon Theatre, in Stepney, on 2 September 1986, as " a diatribe in punk-Shakespearean verse "; and Berkoff himself described it as " even by my modest standards ... one of the best things I have done ".

Critic and poet Kenneth Rexroth described Ciardi as ".

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

As Conservative Health Critic, Fletcher described himself as a supporter of the Canada Health Act but also indicated a willingness to permit greater private-sector involvement.

NDP Justice Critic Joe Comartin argued that this change addressed the legitimate concerns of Canadians, while removing what he described as " the radical, extreme over-reaction " of the Conservatives.

Film Critic David Robinson described Linder's screen persona as " no grotesque: he was young, handsome, debonair, immaculate ... in silk hat, jock coat, cravat, spats, patent shoes, and swagger cane.

Critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine described the hair metal – leaning album as " unbearable ".

Critic Nathan Morley described " Accidents " as the band's masterpiece.

Critic Tzvetan Todorov described Bénichou ’ s special interest as “ the thought of poets .” More generally, though, Paul Bénichou ’ s work contributed to the understanding of the creative writer's place in modernity, and illuminated the role of writers in legitimating the institutions and values of modern society.

Critic Marc Bernardin described the episode as Star Treks " smartest time-travel experiment " and a fan favorite.

" Critic Andre Meyer of CBS News thought the material on the album was " stronger " than on Charmbracelet, and described it as a move in Carey's long-term plan for pop domination, while giving off the " jittery R & B vibe that made Destiny's Child so potent.

Joe Bob Briggs, The Drive-In Movie Critic, described Wishman as, " The greatest female exploitation film director in history.