Critics praised the game's Mode 7 graphics ; in 1992 Nintendo Magazine System described them as superb and the graphics have since been described as among the best ever seen on the SNES.

Although it remains a controversial film, it has been praised by various film historians and critics, and, while not typically considered a horror film, Salò was named the 65th scariest film ever made by the Chicago Film Critics Association in 2006 and is the subject of an article in The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural ( 1986 ).

Critics praised System Shock and hailed it as a major innovation in its genre.

Critics later frequently praised both the film's aesthetic quality and its power.

Critics praised Curry's performance as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, Roger Ebert called him " the best thing in the movie, maybe because he seems to be having the most fun.

Critics found the film ’ s plot and characterization unconvincing, but praised its action sequences.

Critics praised the films style and artistic camera movements.

Critics praised the film, which also proved to be a success with audiences.

Critics praised the suspenseful atmosphere in her next film, Escape ( 1940 ), where she played the lover of a Nazi general who helps an American free his mother from a concentration camp.

Critics praised the film's action scenes and stunt work, however they criticized the film's location errors, clichéd script, poor acting and dialogue.

Critics have found it unremarkable, but the Symphony in C of the same year has been warmly praised by later commentators who have made favourable comparisons with Mozart and Schubert.

Critics Bob Porfiero and Alain Silver, in a review and analysis of the film, praised Lupino's use of shooting locations.

Critics praised the film for its delicate handling of sensitive subject matter and attention to detail and dramatic qualities.

Critics praised the film and its " new " director, with The New York Times commenting that the film was " sharply directed by Allen Smithee who has an adroit facility for scanning faces and extracting sharp background detail ," and Roger Ebert commenting, " Director Allen Smithee, a name I'm not familiar with, allows his story to unfold naturally.

Critics praised The Secret of Monkey Island for its humor, audiovisuals, and gameplay.

Critics were at first irritated by the layer of mystification, but most praised the substance, structure, and orchestration of the work.

Critics praised the film not only for its satire of the rollercoaster lifestyles of rock stars but also for its take on the non-fiction film genre.

Critics have praised her meticulous research of settings and events presented in her fiction, as well as the characterizations.

Critics have praised the overall story in Fruits Basket as being intellectual, with even the relatively light-hearted first volume giving hints at something darker in the background that makes the reader " question everything that happens.

Critics generally praised the overall gameplay.

Critics have praised the band for their ability to write infectious hooks and the sincerity of their lyrics, often about growing up and relationships.

Critics mostly praised the film and Edward Norton was given an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.

Critics noted that Shorter seemed more suited to this album than he had to its predecessor, contributing more ; and the album was praised for its energetic compositions.

Critics worldwide have praised the film for its Expressionist style, complete with wild, distorted set design.

Critics have praised the film's witty dialogue, written by Tedd Pierce, such as Hazel's question to Bugs-in-costume: " Tell me, who undoes your hair?

" Critics believed that An American in Paris was better crafted than his lukewarm Concerto in F. Some did not think it belonged in a program with classical composers César Franck, Richard Wagner, or Guillaume Lekeu on its premiere.

Later, when The Village Voice conducted its Pazz & Jop Critics Poll for 2001, " Love and Theft " topped the list, the third Dylan album to accomplish this.

Critics, such as psychiatrist Niall McLaren, argue that the DSM lacks validity because it has no relation to an agreed scientific model of mental disorder and therefore the decisions taken about its categories ( or even the question of categories versus dimensions ) were not scientific ones ; and that it lacks reliability partly because different diagnoses share many criteria, and what appear to be different criteria are often just rewordings of the same idea, meaning that the decision to allocate one diagnosis or another to a patient is to some extent a matter of personal prejudice.

Critics maligned the tour as overproduced, saying it pandered to the current stadium rock trends in its special effects and dancing.

Critics alleged that Sarkozy proposed to nominate Strauss-Kahn as managing director of the IMF to deprive the Socialist Party of one of its more popular figures.

Critics of Marx have leveled the charge of historicism against his theory since its very genesis.

John Darling's 1994 book Child-Centered Education and its Critics argues that the history of modern educational theory is a series of footnotes to Rousseau, a development he regards as bad.

Critics have doubted that any of the annotations in the Bible can be reliably attributed to de Vere and not the book's other owners prior to its acquisition by the Folger Shakespeare Library in 1925, as well as challenging the strictness of Stritmatter's standards for a Biblical allusion in Shakespeare's works and arguing that there is no statistical significance to the overlap.

" Critics of modernism argued that the attributes of perfection and minimalism themselves were subjective, and pointed out anachronisms in modern thought and questioned the benefits of its philosophy.

Critics of the privilege claim its use has become a tool for the government to cover up illegal or embarrassing government actions.

Critics of this kind include anti-Stalinist communists such as Leon Trotsky, who pointed out that Lenin attempted to persuade the CPSU to remove Stalin from his post as its General Secretary.

The Great Divide: The Enlightenment and its Critics

Critics pointed out that the APA declined to advise its members not to participate in such interrogations.

Critics such as Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky argue that the United States has sought, or has found itself forced into, a quasi-imperialist role by its status as the world's sole superpower.

Critics, including most practitioners of medicine, dismiss iridology given that published studies have indicated a lack of success for its claims.

Critics who dislike the film particularly draw attention to its bleak nature from its opening: complaining that the world of the play does not deteriorate with Lear's suffering, but commences dark, colourless and wintry, leaving ( in Douglas Brode's words ) " Lear, the land, and us with nowhere to go ".

Critics of this change argue that most of the power of EOF was a side effect of its Objective-C roots, and that EOF lost the beauty or simplicity it once had.

" Critics have accused it of being an antisemitic " pseudo-scholarly body " with links to neo-Nazi organizations, and assert that its primary purpose is to disseminate views denying key facts of Nazism and the genocide of Jews and others.

Critics have accused the Institute of antisemitism and having links to neo-Nazi organizations, and assert that its primary focus is denying key facts of Nazism and the genocide of Jews and others.

Critics dispute the net economic and environmental benefits of recycling over its costs, and suggest that proponents of recycling often make matters worse and suffer from confirmation bias.