" — Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune Film Critic ( June 18, 2001 )

* Michael Billington – Critic, author and radio presenter.

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

Critic Michael Billington recalled: " In Redgrave's Vanya you saw both a tremulous victim of a lifetime's emotional repression and the wasted potential of a Chekhovian might-have-been: as Redgrave and Olivier took their joint curtain call, linked hands held triumphantly aloft, we were not to know that this was to symbolise the end of their artistic amity.

Critic William Michael Rossetti considered Leaves of Grass a classic along the lines of the works of William Shakespeare and Dante Alighieri.

Critic Michael Billington believes this version is more suggestive of Middleton than Shakespeare.

In January, 2009, Irwin Cotler was named Special Counsel on Human Rights and International Justice for the Liberal Party, under Michael Ignatieff, and subsequently Critic for Human Rights.

Under Michael Ignatieff, Regan served as Liberal Critic for Natural Resources, and later, Public Works and Government Services.

' Wilder's bitter brew has been diluted ,' wrote AP Drama Critic Michael Kuchwara.

) 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 Michael Billington, for example, wrote, " the time for this kind of faux-naïf, sub Commedia dell ' Arte diversion has passed ".

Critic Michael Azerrad describes Cain's drumming as " a brutal but brainy style that was positively electrifying.

In 2009, Liberal Leader, Michael Ignatieff appointed Coady as the Liberal Critic for the Treasury Board.

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.

Critic Michael Billington, writing in The Guardian commented that the production " proves the prolific Morton is unjustly neglected ", praising Bell's productions.

Critic Grace Dent has likened Dot and Jim to Coronation Streets Hilda and Stan Ogden, comparing a scene in EastEnders where Dot nags Jim and he prays for a quiet life to a similar one from Coronation Street, that aired decades before.

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

Critic Alex Henderson describes the band's music as a " mildly avant-garde blend of jazz, rock and funk draws on a wide variety of influences ... Often quirky, eccentric and abstract, JFJO favors an inside / outside approach but is usually more inside than outside.

Critic Steve Huey of Allmusic writes that the album's influence " was felt more in spirit than in direct copycatting, as a catalyst rather than a literal musical starting point.

Critic Victor Carr Jr. characterizes Moravec's musical language as " generally tonal -- and although it's not consistently melodic, it's always accessible.

Critic Robert Palmer wrote about him in 1980, " Mr. DeVille is a magnetic performer, but his macho stage presence camouflages an acute musical intelligence ; his songs and arrangements are rich in ethnic rhythms and blues echoes, the most disparate stylistic references, yet they flow seamlessly and hang together solidly.

Critic Joel Silverstein in Reviewny. com suggested Gauguin's style influenced painters such as Julian Hatton, Joan Miró and Ludwig von Hofmann.

Critic Luis Leal attests that Carpentier was an originating pillar of the magical realist style by implicitly referring to the latter's critical works, writing that " The existence of the marvelous real is what started magical realist literature, which some critics claim is the truly American literature.

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

Critic James Dafforne, writing in 1871 in The Art Journal said of Leader's style:

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 Andrew Sarris, of The New York Observer, who did not enjoy the film's style in general, wrote " I wonder if even children will respond to the peculiarly humorless and charmless stylistic eccentricities of Mr. Burton and his star, Johnny Depp.

Gael Greene, writing under the rubric " The Insatiable Critic ," reviewed restaurants, cultivating a baroque writing style that leaned heavily on sexual metaphor.

Critic Janet Maslin was dismissive of the film, and wrote, " Today, in the dazzling, superficial style that Mr. Friedkin has so thoroughly mastered, it's the car chases and shootouts and eye-catching settings that are truly the heart of the matter ".

* 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 Sam Adams wrote about Fritz Lang directorial style, " Restraint was never Fritz Lang's problem.

Critic Pauline Kael's essay " Raising Kane ", published in The New Yorker, accused director Orson Welles of copying the visual style of Mad Love for Citizen Kane.

Critic Pamela Clemit resists a purely autobiographical reading and argues that Mathilda is an artfully crafted novel, deploying confessional and unreliable narrations in the style of her father, as well as the device of the pursuit used by Godwin in his Caleb Williams and by Mary Shelley in Frankenstein.

NDP Finance Critic Bob Rae attached a rider to a budget bill declaring that " this House has lost confidence in the government.

In May 2011, Cotler was named Justice and Human Rights Critic by interim Liberal leader Bob Rae.

He is currently acting as the Liberal Critic for Industry and Consumer Affairs under interim leader Bob Rae and serves as Vice-Chair of the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology.

Following LeBlanc's re-election in the 2011 federal election, interim Liberal leader Bob Rae appointed LeBlanc as the Liberal Party's Foreign Affairs Critic.

Interim leader Bob Rae named McGuinty as the Liberal Party's Critic for Natural Resources in June 2011.

Critic Charles Shaar Murray wrote, " Bob Dylan has never seemed more perfect and more impressive than on this album.

The NDP's internal divisions became public in 1993, when Ontario MP Steven Langdon was removed as Finance Critic after criticizing the economic policies of Ontario NDP Premier Bob Rae.

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

* You Be the Critic by Bob Habes

Critic and director Jean-Luc Godard regarded the film negatively in comparison to other French crime films of the era, noting in 1986 that " today it can't hold a candle to Touchez pas au grisbi which paved the way for it, let alone Bob le flambeur which it paved the way for.

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 ).

It was written by Steve Young, directed by Bob Anderson and features a cameo by Jon Lovitz as Jay Sherman from The Critic.