Stroman is the recipient of five Tony Awards, two Lawrence Olivier Awards, five Drama Desk Awards, eight Outer Critic Circle Awards, a record four Astaire Awards and the Lucille Lortel Award.

Critic Tony Rayns describes The Spirit of the Beehive as " a haunting mood piece that dispenses with plot and works its spells through intricate patterns of sound and image " and of El Sur it has been said that " Erice creates his film as a canvas, conjuring painterly images of slow dissolves and shafts of light that match Caravaggio in their power to animate a scene of stillness, or freeze one of mad movement.

Critic David Ansen gave the film a mixed review, writing, " Taylor Hackford's thriller Proof of Life leaves a lot to be desired, but it's got its hands on a fascinating subject ... To be fair, Tony Gilroy's screenplay keeps the romance on the back burner ... Thorne is the most compelling aspect of Proof of Life, thanks to Crowe's quiet, hard-bitten charisma.

Critic Stewart Mason wrote, " Over their brilliant first three albums, Wire expanded the sonic boundaries of not just punk, but rock music in general.

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.

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 Vincent Canby praised the film, calling the film " a devastating collage-film that examines official and unofficial United States attitudes toward the atomic age " and a film that " deserves national attention.

Critic James Agee praised her performance in The Nation:

Art Critic Guillaume Apollinaire praised those works of the exhibition and proclaimed Delaunay as “ an artist who has a monumental vision of the world .”

Critic John G. Palfrey also praised Holmes, referring to him as " a man of genius ... His manner is entirely his own, manly and unaffected ; generally easy and playful, and sinking at times into ' a most humorous sadness '".

" 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 Vincent Leo praised Penn's performance, noting, " While Oldman gets the accolades for his energetic performance, it is really Penn's inner demons that provides the film with the right amount of conflict, always letting us be aware that fine lines are the difference between life and death, as well as right and wrong, out in the streets of New York.

Critic Christopher Null of the AMC Network praised Dutronc's performance, commenting that:

Critic Mario Mesquita Borges praised it and stated that " he future of rock & roll is surely guaranteed with acts such as American Hi-Fi.

Critic Harold Bloom praised Blood Meridian as one of the best 20th century American novels, describing it as " worthy of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick ," but admitted that he found the book's pervasive violence so distasteful that he had several false starts before reading the book entirely.

" Critic Roger Ebert listed the film among his category of " Great Movies "; he praised the film's supporting actors.

Critic Taran Adarsh described the subject matter as a delicate one which could have easily been disastrous and praised the way in which director Karan's boldly constructed the film, citing it has his finest work to date.

Critic Ziya Us Salam praised Akhtar's direction and commented for The Hindu: " In his maiden venture, Javed Akhtar's son shows enough glimpses of his pedigree to indicate that promise will attain fulfilment sooner than later.

Critic John Metzger of The Music Box praised the album, saying that " the group's songs combine the melodic pop of The Beatles with the heavy-handed thunder of The Who and the tight-knit harmonic luster of The Byrds ".

The Critic was short-lived, broadcasting ten episodes on Fox before its cancellation.

He soon left Bell Labs to write for David Letterman and subsequently for various sitcoms, including several episodes of Wings, The Simpsons, Futurama, and The Critic, as well as the short-lived Fox claymation show The PJs.

For The Simpsons, Keeler has written such episodes as " A Star Is Burns " ( which Matt Groening refused to be credited for, as he was opposed to the idea of The Simpsons crossing over with The Critic ) and " The Principal and the Pauper " ( which many fans -- including series creator Matt Groening and voice actor Harry Shearer -- disliked due to the massive changes in Principal Skinner's backstory ).

Occasionally, the trend has been reversed: after being canceled from both ABC and Fox, Atom Films and Flinch Studio created net-only episodes of The Critic in 2000 – 2001.

" On Fox, The Critic was again short-lived, broadcasting ten episodes before its cancellation.

In addition to " A Star is Burns ", they produced "' Round Springfield " for season six ; both episodes were written with the aid of their fellow writers from The Critic.

" Shalit also voiced his own likeness in three episodes of the animated series The Critic.

Lovitz later worked with Al Jean and Mike Reiss in the short-lived animated sitcom The Critic, and returned to The Simpsons for the episodes " A Star Is Burns ", " Hurricane Neddy ", " Half-Decent Proposal ", " The Ziff Who Came to Dinner ", and " Homerazzi ".

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.

Less successful efforts included The Critic, which starred Jon Lovitz from Saturday Night Live ( originally airing on ABC then moved to Fox before being canceled ), and The PJs, ( which was later broadcast on The WB ).

Critic Henry Prunières wrote, “ From the opening measures, we are plunged into a world in which Ravel has but rarely introduced us .”

Critic Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, liked the screenplay, the message of the film, and John Ford's direction, and wrote, " John Ford has truly fashioned a modern Odyssey — a stark and tough-fibered motion picture which tells with lean economy the never-ending story of man's wanderings over the waters of the world in search of peace for his soul ... it is harsh and relentless and only briefly compassionate in its revelation of man's pathetic shortcomings.

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 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.

It was followed by The Critic ( 1779 ), an updating of the satirical Restoration play The Rehearsal, which received a memorable revival ( performed with Oedipus Rex in a single evening ) starring Laurence Olivier as Mr Puff, opening at the New Theatre on 18 October 1945 as part of an Old Vic Theatre Company season.

Kardec's own introductory book on Spiritism, What is Spiritism ?, published only two years after The Spirits Book, includes a long dialogue between his persona and three idealized critics, " The Critic ", " The Skeptic ", and " The Priest ", which as a whole summed up most of the criticism Spiritism has received since then: of being charlatanism, pseudoscience, heresy, anti-Catholic, witchcraft, and / or a form of Satanism.

He was the author of The Rehearsal, an amusing and clever satire on the heroic drama and especially on Dryden's The Conquest of Granada ( first performed on 7 December 1671, at the Theatre Royal, and first published in 1672 ), a deservedly popular play which was imitated by Henry Fielding in Tom Thumb the Great, and by Sheridan in The Critic.

During the broadcast run of The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., TV Guide featured a positive review of the show in its Couch Critic column and wrote, " It's as funny as it is exciting, which is not an easy combo to pull off ... it's fresh and funny and different, and that's why we like it.

Critic Carmen Birkle wrote: " Her multicultural self is thus reflected in a multicultural text, in multi-genres, in which the individual cultures are no longer separate and autonomous entities but melt into a larger whole without losing their individual importance ".

In 1839 Ward became editor of the British Critic, the organ of the Tractarian party, and he excited suspicion among the adherents of the party by his violent denunciations of the Church to which he still belonged.

On the Board of NeWest Press ( Edmonton ) since 1981, she is the founder and editor of The Writer as Critic series, which includes, among others, Douglas Barbour's Lyric / Anti-lyric: Essays on Contemporary Poetry, Frank Davey's Canadian Literary Power, Daphne Marlatt's Readings from the Labyrinth, Fred Wah's Faking It: Poetics and Hybridity, Phyllis Webb's Nothing But Brush Strokes, and, most recently, Di Brandt's So This Is the World & Here I Am in It.

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 ".

However, they both " could not resist " appearing on an episode of the animated television series The Critic, the title character of which was a television film critic.

Critic Zack Handlen remarked, " This is still early Dick, which means that while interesting concepts are introduced, and there ’ s some play with identity -- Jennings develops an overwhelming faith in the prescience of his past self, a faith which most people can ’ t ever have in their present versions, and by the end he ’ s even referring to that past guy as a separate person -- the primary focus is nabbing you and keeping you entertained.

Groening felt that the episode was a thirty-minute advertisement for Brooks ' show The Critic, ( which had moved to Fox from ABC for its second season ) and was created by former The Simpsons show runners Al Jean and Mike Reiss, and whose lead character Jay Sherman appears in the episode.

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.

He has made several appearances on The Simpsons, including as Marge's prom date Artie Ziff in " The Way We Was ", the art teacher in " Brush with Greatness ", theater director Llewellyn Sinclair and his sister who owned a daycare center in " A Streetcar Named Marge ", Andre in " Homer's Triple Bypass ", and numerous other appearances ( including the character of Jay Sherman in the episode A Star Is Burns, which was a crossover with The Critic ).

Critic Bosley Crowther liked the acting in the picture, and wrote, " As gangster pictures go, this one has everything — speed, excitement, suspense and that ennobling suggestion of futility which makes for irony and pity.

A notable example of this is The Simpsons episode A Star Is Burns, in which the character of Jay Sherman ( from The Critic ) appeared.

Critic Nick Schager wrote, " It would be no surprise to learn that Richard Widmark was a big ' Batman ' fan, as his star-making screen debut in Kiss of Death as grinning, cackling psychopath Tommy Udo ( for which he received an Academy Award nomination ) seems heavily indebted to the Caped Crusader's arch-nemesis The Joker.