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Critic Robert Cantwell wrote in his unpublished memoir Twigs of Folly:

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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.

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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.

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" 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 ".

Critic Robert Christgau called " What a Girl Wants " " clever " adding " but in a far less ingratiating way ", comparing the track to a " two hour promotional video " of Aguilera.

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

" 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.

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.