Critic Mark Demming writes " Quine's eclectic style embraced influences from jazz, rock, and blues players of all stripes, and his thoughtful technique and uncompromising approach led to rewarding collaborations with a number of visionary musicians.

Critic Mark Holborn has written that butoh is defined by its very evasion of definition.

Critic Mark Deming describes Santiago as an ideal guitar foil for Albini ; " his muscular guitar sound was the ideal match of Albini's jagged, metallic tone.

First, The Audio Critic chose a Mark Levinson ML-2 which Bob acoustically copied ( transfer function duplication ) and sold as his M1. 5t amplifier ( the “ t ” stood for transfer function modified ).

* Mark Twain: Social Critic.

Critic Steve Huey calls it " perhaps Tom Waits's most cohesive album ... a morbid, sinister nightmare, one that applied the quirks of his experimental ' 80s classics to stunningly evocative — and often harrowing — effect ... Waits ' most affecting and powerful recording, even if it isn't his most accessible.

" Critic Stuart Byron calls his early Pink Panther films " two of the best comedies an American has ever made.

Critic W. H. Helm calls one " the French Dickens " and the other " the English Balzac ".

There were some calls for him to resign as Justice Critic, but nothing came of this.

Critic Gary Giddins, who wrote the book's introduction, calls Raise Up Off Me " a major contribution to the literature of jazz.

The visitor was supposed to help them converse by typing in to ' Artist ' what ' Critic ' said, and vice versa.

*" Critic At Large ", where Gilbert Smythe Bite-Me ( Abbott ), an entertainment critic, gives negative reviews, and takes regular potshots at the Women's Television Network, describing them as ' a bunch of scrotally-deprived, estrogen-sodden non-males ', and ' not just because three of ( his ) ex-wives work there.

Critic Eduardo Rivadavia describes them as " perhaps the ultimate stoner rock band "

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.

" Critic Richard Delap writes " There is an abundance of exploitable elements in Bishop's story, so it is astonishing to see how the author keeps them under strict rein, always with a highly keyed visual sense but also with a literary flair that says more by implication than by direct description.

" Critic Robert Towers described McEwan's England in The New York Review of Books as a " flat, rubble-strewn wasteland, populated by freaks and monsters, most of them articulate enough to tell their own stories with mesmerizing narrative power and an unfaltering instinct for the perfect, sickening detail "; Towers called the collection " possibly the most brilliantly perverse and sinister batch of short stories to come out of England since Angus Wilson's The Wrong Set.

The Critic is their shot and he should be giving them his support.

Critic Fernando F. Croce wrote of the film, " Fallen Angel, the director's follow-up to his 1944 classic, is often predictably looked down as a lesser genre venture, yet its subtle analysis of shadowy tropes proves both a continuation and a deepening of Preminger's use of moral ambiguity as a tool of human insight ... Preminger's refusal to draw easy conclusions — his pragmatic curiosity for people — is reflected in his remarkable visual fluidity, the surveying camera constantly moving, shifting dueling points-of-view in order to give them equal weight.

Critic Adam Roberts said of the novel: “ It is really quite hard to respond to this masterful book, except by engaging with its political content ; and yet we need to make the effort to see past the ideological to the formal and thematic if we are fully to appreciate the splendour of Heinlein's achievement here .”

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 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.

Critic Groff Conklin reviewed the collection for Galaxy Science Fiction in 1954 ; although generally favorable, the review claimed that Sheckley was " still trying to discover his own particular bent " and that he " hasn't quite found his footing.

Critic Roger Ebert said, on At the Movies, that Pauly Shore was the " cinematic equivalent of long fingernails, drawn very slowly and quite loudly over a gigantic blackboard " and noted that although his co-host, Gene Siskel, extremely disliked Chris Farley, he would " rather attend a dusk-to-dawn Chris Farley film festival than sit through any 5 minutes of Jury Duty.

Critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic speculated that the alternate persona and elaborate marketing scheme backfired, writing, " When Brooks ' new persona and his album were revealed to the public, they were unforgiving-they didn't think he was playing a role, they simply thought he'd lost his mind.

Critic Glenn Erickson recently echoed the New York Times review, writing, " Although biographies on both Ib Melchior and Sid Pink would have you believe that The Angry Red Planet is an outer-space classic, it simply isn't so.

Critic Kyle Smith has argued that White " simply has a different aesthetic from that of the herd ", while critic David Chen suggested that he "( perhaps too ) vehemently believes in the integrity of his art and longs for the golden era when the mainstream still cared what film critics thought ".

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 Georg Lukács points to middling main characters like Ivanhoe in Sir Walter Scott's other novels as one of the primary reasons Scott's historical novels depart from previous historical works and better explore social and cultural history.

" Critic Robin Wood found it one of the few horror films to possess " the authentic quality of nightmare ".

Critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine describes Talking Heads as being " one of the most critically acclaimed bands of the ' 80s, while managing to earn several pop hits.

* Holt, Jim, Say Anything, one of his Critic At Large essays from The New Yorker, ( August 22, 2005 )

Critic Lloyd Goodrich praised the work as “ one of the most poignant and desolating pieces of realism .” The work is the first of a series of stark rural and urban scenes that uses sharp lines and large shapes, played upon by unusual lighting to capture the lonely mood of his subjects.

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

Critic Gunther Schuller declared, " On one point there is universal agreement: Tatum's awesome technique.

Critic Emerson Dameron writes that the song is " one of the most terrifying, riveting, absurd things I ’ ve ever heard.

He gave assistance to William Beloe in one or two articles in the British Critic, and probably wrote also in the Analytical Review and the Critical Review.

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 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 Roger Ebert wrote in his review, " The best shot in this film is the first one.

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 ".

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 ).

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 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.

Critic Christopher Null wrote of the film, " One of the ' 70s juiciest entries into the horror genre, The Abominable Dr. Phibes is Vincent Price at his campy best, a former doctor and concert organist ( go figure that one out yourself ) who is exacting revenge on the nine doctors he blames for botching his wife's surgery, which ended with her death.

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

Critic Peter Marrow wrote: " As it stands, the story's ending makes no sense – forcing one to try to look for something left unsaid.

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