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.

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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 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.

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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 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.

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Critic Adam Roberts said of the novel: “ It is really quite hard to respond to this masterful book, except by engaging with its political content ; and yet we need to make the effort to see past the ideological to the formal and thematic if we are fully to appreciate the splendour of Heinlein's achievement here .”

Critic Joshua Klein said that " the emphasis this time sounds less on unfocused experimentation and more on melody ... a breezy and welcome return to form for the British band.

Critic Mike Gee of iZINE said of this time, " The Verve, as he ( Richard Ashcroft ) promised, had become the greatest band in the world.

Critic Roger Ebert said of the film that it " somehow does succeed in treating the awesome and scary subject of sexual initiation with some of the dignity it deserves.

" Critic Howard Halle said of it that " Using distance and attendant shifts of scale within the very fabric of the city, Horizon creates a metaphor for urban life and all the contradictory associations – alienation, ambition, anonymity, fame – it entails.

Critic Dale Krueger said that the system is difficult to implement, and that companies often wind up overemphasizing control, as opposed to fostering creativity, to meet their goals.

Critic William Winter said, “ He was followed as a marvel.

Critic David Shipman said his personal notices for his performance in The Secretary Bird ( 1968 ) " must be among the best accorded any light comedian during this century ".

Critic Northrop Frye said that Menippean satire moves rapidly between styles and points of view.

Critic Joe Balthai wrote she was " the darling of the 1998 Sundance Film Festival " and Internet movie writer Harry Knowles said she was the " discovery of the fest ", but the film was not commercially released in the U. S. and went direct-to-video.

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

" Critic Ian Lace said of her theme: " One has to suppose that the main character of this new game, Manon, inspired by the exploits of Hélène Déschamps is French.

Critic, Taran Adarsh said, " Raveena Tandon lends credibility to the role of a battered wife and walks away with the honours.

Critic Harry Sumrall of the San Jose Mercury News said that Rabbitt was " like a hot corn dog: nothing fancy, nothing frilly.

Critic Roger Ebert said that " Pedro Almodóvar's films are an acquired taste, and with High Heels I am at last beginning to acquire it.

Critic Roger Ebert said of his performance that he " seems to have become the latter-day version of Christopher Walken – not all the time, but when you need him, he's your go-to guy for weirdness.

Critic Leonard Feather once said, " It is almost indisputable that Dr. Billy Taylor is the world's foremost spokesman for jazz.

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.

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In one of its highest scoring reviews, The Video Game Critic gave the game an A-and said it's " hard to put down.

Critic Josip Novakovich, who compared One of the Guys to A Confederacy of Dunces, has said, " If you read the book in public, you will laugh so much and go through so many facial expressions that you'll run the risk of having the police called to check you out.