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

* Michael Billington – Critic, author and radio presenter.

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.

Critic Michael Corcoran likened the band's musical style to " Bob Mould fronting Soul Asylum on a speeded-up version of a Gram Parsons song.

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.

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

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.

Critic Roger Ebert wrote of Keaton's " extraordinary period from 1920 to 1929, he worked without interruption on a series of films that make him, arguably, the greatest actor-director in the history of the movies.

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 Peter Craven writes that " Two Friends is arguably the most accomplished piece of screenwriting the country has seen and it is characterised by a total lack of condescension towards the teenage girls at its centre ".