Critic and musicologist Robert Palmer said their endurance and relevance stems from being " rooted in traditional verities, in rhythm-and-blues and soul music " while " more ephemeral pop fashions have come and gone ".

Critic Robert Christgau gave the album a B +, saying that " I find it impossible to give this record an A because it is just too weird.

Critic Robert Trussell noted, " Little effort was made to hide the ( California ) mountains in the background.

Critic Robert Cantwell wrote in his unpublished memoir Twigs of Folly:

Letters to Robert Ross, Art Critic and Writer, together with extracts from his published articles.

Critic Robert Christgau was the " originator of the ' consumer guide ' approach to pop music reviews ", an approach to writing pop recording reviews that was designed to help consumers to decide whether to buy a new album.

" Critic Robert Christgau commented that " Anybody who thinks rock and roll is alive and well in the infinite variety of its garage-boy permutations had better figure out how these Hitler Youth rejects could crush the competition and quit simultaneously.

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Critic Robert Richardson suggests that the originality of La dolce vita lies in a new form of film narrative that mines " an aesthetic of disparity.

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 ".

" Critic Robert Christgau said that Young " was born to lumber, and Pearl Jam wasn't.

Critic Robert Christgau called the album " A satire on, celebration of, and lament for the upper-middle classmates an Orange County liberal knows like he knows his neighbor's backyard ..."

Critic Robert Christgau also commented in a similar vein: " The difference is that Browne shouldn't be doing this ... he's a pop star who's stretching his audience and endangering his market share merely by making such a statement in 1986.

" Critic Robert Christgau commented that the best songs were the ones Browne did not write.

Critic Dennis Schwartz liked the film and acting in the drama and wrote, " A schematic film noir by Nicholas Ray ( They Live by Night ) that overcomes its artificial contrivances to become a touching psychological drama about despair and loneliness -- one of the best of this sort in the history of film noir ... Robert Ryan's fierce performance is superb, as he's able to convincingly assure us he has a real spiritual awakening ; while Lupino's gentle character acts to humanize the crime fighter, who has walked on the " dangerous ground " of the city and has never realized before that there could be any other kind of turf until meeting someone as profound and tolerant as Mary.

Critic Robert Shelton was under the impression that Self Portrait was intended as a serious release.

Critic Robert Koehler, writing in Variety magazine, also gave the gave the film a mixed review, writing, " The latest fashion, The Salton Sea strains past the breaking point to provide the old genre with new couture.

* Robert Holub ’ s Jurgen Habermas: Critic in the Public Sphere ( Tehran: Nay Press, 1996 ).

" 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.

Critic Robert Weston also hailed the film and wrote, " Niagara is a good movie for noir fans who crave something a little different.

Critic Robert Christgau said of the record: " Beefheart's famous five-octave range and covert totalitarian structures have taken on a playful undertone, repulsive and engrossing and slapstick funny.

" Critic Robert Christgau graded the album as a B + though he felt that Beefheart's " much-bruited commercial bid turns out to have all the mass appeal of King of the Delta Blues Singers ".

As Critic Walter Kerr points out: `` Adaptations, so long as they are good, still qualify as creative ''.

The point is already made by Hume, but see Mary Mothersill, " Beauty and the Critic ’ s Judgment ", in The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics, 2004.

Critic Rex Reed noted that " The score of ' Night Music ' ... contains patter songs, contrapuntal duets and trios, a quartet, and even a dramatic double quintet to puzzle through.

Critic William Kuhn argued that much of his fiction can be read as " the memoirs he never wrote ", revealing the inner life of a politician for whom the norms of Victorian public life appeared to represent a social straitjacket – particularly with regard to his allegedly " ambiguous sexuality.

DirkJan was first published in Critic, the magazine for the local union of psychology students.

Critic Roger Ebert was and remains today a champion of the film, including it on his all-time top ten best films list.

The Athenaeum reviewer praised Ellis Bell's work for its music and power, and the Critic reviewer recognized " the presence of more genius than it was supposed this utilitarian age had devoted to the loftier exercises of the intellect.

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.

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

Critic Alistair Cooke observed that Capra was " starting to make movies about themes instead of people.

*" Dining Out: The Food Critic at Table " A review of food writing and writers by Adam Gopnick that examines the genre.

* How to Become a Musical Critic.

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 Roger Ebert, in a review dated January 1, 1972, did not care for the film.

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

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 and humorist Louis Leroy wrote a scathing review in the newspaper Le Charivari in which, making wordplay with the title of Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise ( Impression, soleil levant ), he gave the artists the name by which they became known.

Critic Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that the film was the greatest adaptation of the novel and remarked on Dunst's performance, " The perfect contrast to take-charge Jo comes from Kirsten Dunst's scene-stealing Amy, whose vanity and twinkling mischief make so much more sense coming from an 11-year-old vixen than they did from grown-up Joan Bennett in 1933.

Critic Billy Altman, whose work has appeared in many publications including Entertainment Weekly and The New York Times, wrote the following for Amazon. com: " One of rock's most overlooked masterpieces, this third album by the L. A. folk-rock outfit led by inscrutable singer-songwriter Arthur Lee sounds as fresh and innovative today as it did upon its original release in 1968.

The Nostalgia Critic, in his review of The Room, performed a more over-the-top parody of the sketch near the end of the video.

Critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine declared that PE " brought in elements of free jazz, hard funk, even musique concrète, via producing team the Bomb Squad, creating a dense, ferocious sound unlike anything that came before.

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