While some critics lauded the casting of Bill Murray as the voice of the title character, Garfield: The Movie met with mostly negative reviews: Manohla Dargis of the Los Angeles Times called it " soulless excuse for entertainment ", while Desson Thomson of The Washington Post said of the film " There's nothing to recommend about this film except its sheer innocuousness ".

Desson Thomson, writing in The Washington Post, explained " Rob Reiner's similar fairytale adventure The Princess Bride ( which Willow cinematographer Adrian Biddle also shot ) managed to evoke volumes more without razzle-dazzle.

The film opened to mixed or average reviews the Chicago Sun-Times, Variety, and Desson Howe / Thomson of the Washington Post praised the film.

Desson Thomson of The Washington Post found contemporary homages to The Elephant Man, Brothers Grimm stories and The Ugly Duckling.

Desson Thomson of the Washington Post described the film as " so single-minded in its reach for fantasy, it becomes the genre's evil opposite: banality.

" Desson Thomson says " there is more to Fahrenheit 9 / 11 than partisan ridicule.

" In addition, Desson Thomson, writing in The Washington Post, called the film a " satisfying commercial breakthrough for Coppola ," and praised the cinematography of Vittorio Storaro, as well as the ubiquitous approach for Dean Stockwell's cameo appearance as Howard Hughes.

Critics such as Desson Thomson of the Washington Post, Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle, and James Berardinelli of ReelViews gave negative reviews, with Berardinelli in particular, calling the movie ' an atmosphere study, lacking characters ', and Thompson calling it ' inscrutable '.

" In a 2004 article on the film, Desson Thomson of The Washington Post comments on the inclusion of Coker in the film, noting that " When he does use people from the pro-war side, Davis chooses carefully.

" Desson Thomson of The Washington Post described it as " one of the best documentaries ever made, a superb film about the thoughts and feelings of the era, the whole festering, spirited animus of it.

Desson Thomson from The Washington Post fell in between, saying in a review headlined " Honey, You Could Ask For More " ( a reference to the theme song of the radio show and film ) that while the movie had its strengths, it was weaker than it should have been.

Desson Howe, in this review for the Washington Post praised the film's style: " Bill Pope's cinematography is gymnastic and appropriately frenetic.

" Desson Thompson of the Washington Post was more critical ; his comment about the character's " pronounced limp " was that " Cruz ( hardly the world's greatest actress ) can't even perform without looking fake.

In his review for the Washington Post, Desson Howe praised the Coens and " their inspired, absurdist taste for weird, peculiar Americana – but a sort of neo-Americana that is entirely invented – the Coens have defined and mastered their own bizarre subgenre.

In the Washington Post, Desson Howe praised Natalie Portman's performance: " As a self-described ' old soul ' who connects spiritually with Hutton ( they're both existential searchers ), she's the movie's most poignant and witty presence ".

Marjorie Baumgarten of The Austin Chronicle gave the film three stars, stating " These actors all create riveting snapshots of oddballs in action ," but also noting the film has a " rambling storyline ". 1 These same characteristics that were praised in positive reviews were the same ones panned in negative ones, such as Desson Howe of The Washington Post who states: " After the characters have taken up most of the movie airing their idiosyncrasies, they undergo melodramatic fates that reveal little more than Antin's recession of an imagination.

In his review for the Washington Post, Desson Howe wrote, " although this Walt Disney movie is based, inspired and even partially informed by a real event referred to as Pearl Harbor, the movie is actually based on the movies Top Gun, Titanic and Saving Private Ryan.

Washington Post critic Desson Howe gave a generally negative review of the movie, writing that it " gets bogged down in sentimentality, while its wheels spin futilely in life-solving overdrive.

Desson Howe, writing for The Washington Posts Weekend section, said that " the Klingons ' spilled blood floats in the air in eerily beautiful purplish globules ; it's space-age Sam Peckinpah.

In his review for the Washington Post Desson Howe wrote, " it's a triumph of technology over storytelling and the actors ' craft.

Desson Howe of The Washington Post praised the film's avoidance of cliches, noting that it is " refreshingly free of manipulative scenes involving running bath water, jagged-edge cutlery and bunnies in the saucepan ".

In his review for the Washington Post, Desson Howe wrote, " By aiming specifically – and accurately – at characters in their twenties, debuting screenwriter Helen Childress and first-time director Stiller achieve something even greater: they encapsulate an era ".

Fellow Washington Post reviewer Desson Howe queered the " perplexing fusion of cartoon and docudrama ..." In his review for Newsweek, David Ansen wrote, " His scenes have no shape, his characters are stick figures, the wit is undergraduate and his soggy set pieces of slow-motion carnage are third-rate Peckinpah imitations.

However, in his review for the Washington Post, Desson Howe wrote, " The movie, which treats you with contempt for even watching it, is a monument to its own lack of imagination.

" In his review for the Washington Post, Desson Howe wrote, " Hot Spot will never go down as timeless, neoclassic noir.

The reviewers at the Washington Post were unimpressed: Rita Kempley called the film " dumber-than-a-bowling-ball " and questioned its mass appeal ; Desson Howe noted that distributor Warner Bros. had made it a " pre-processed legend " regardless of merit.

Desson Howe, in his review for The Washington Post, wrote, " Dazed succeeds on its own terms and reflects American culture so well, it becomes part of it ".

" Washington Post columnist Desson Howe offered similar praise, writing, " It's testament to Jarecki's superbly wrought film that everyone seems to be, simultaneously, morally suspect and strikingly innocent as they relate their stories and assertions ... This is a film about the quagmire of mystery in every human soul.

" Washington Posts Desson Howe thought the film was an earnest but highly predictable effort.

Desson Howe in the Washington Post wrote: " The movie-a reunion of Carnal Knowledge alums Nicholson, director Mike Nichols and cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno-works beautifully when it's rooted in reality, when the Werewolf Thing functions as a multiple metaphor for unleashed-id sexuality and the law of the corporate jungle.

However, in his review for The Washington Post, Desson Howe wrote, " With Boyz n the Hood, Fishburne broke through to the big time.

" Desson Howe in the Washington Post wrote that " the man who, among many films, shot Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Marriage of Maria Braun, Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ, James L. Brooks's Broadcast News and Mike Nichols's Working Girl, gives human skin a peachy glow, frames a seduction scene ( involving back-caressing and parted lips ) that's the next best thing to being there and, in what amounts to the visual zenith of the movie, paints a champagne-drinking balcony scene with appropriately moonlit intoxication.

Desson Howe in the Washington Post was extremely negative about the film: " Up Close and Personal, which was " suggested " by the Jessica Savitch biography, Golden Girl: The Story of Jessica Savitch, starts out with relative promise ... but then, the loooove comes through like a bad-news feed, and our marquee lovers undergo one of those unbearable montages.

Notable acts as president included George Washington resigning his commission and the signing of the ratification of the Treaty of Paris on January 14, 1784 ( Ratification Day ) along with Charles Thomson, who served as Secretary.

* July 23: Charles Thomson transmitted to President Washington his resignation of the office of Secretary of Congress.

It was first used by Thomson on September 16, 1782, to verify signatures on a document which authorized George Washington to negotiate an exchange of prisoners.

On July 24, 1789, President Washington asked Thomson to deliver the seal to the Department of Foreign Affairs in the person of Roger Alden, who kept it until the Department of State was created.

The university's rank of research impact in Biology & Biochemistry placed 5th in the US by Thomson Reuters, surpassing Washington University, Stanford, Duke, and UCSF.

Virgil Thomson's personal papers are in a repository at the Archival Papers in the Music Library of Yale University and also additional effects regarding Thomson are included in the Ian Hornak repository at the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art in Washington D. C.

Thomson attended Mercer University, Washington and Jefferson College, and the University of Georgia School of Law and was admitted to the practice of law in Florida in 1936.

Her Royal Court includes Tatyane Anaid Berrios, Sarah Christine Fredrickson, Jessica Michelle Montoya, Tenaya Miyoko Senzaki, Kathryn Morris Thomson, and Michelle Kaye Washington.

Congressional leaders asked Thomson to travel from the nation's temporary New York City capital to Virginia to " notify " George Washington of his election and accompany the president-elect back to New York.

Nathan Means ( bass, keyboard, vocoder, vocals ), Philip Manley ( lead guitar, bass, keyboard, vocals ) and Sebastian Thomson ( drums, bass, keyboard, guitar, vocals ) formed Trans Am in 1990 near Washington, D. C ..

Following the 1980 closure of the Georgia Pacific pulp and paper mill in Thomson, New York, the D & H planned to abandon the G & J along with the adjoining Washington Branch, which ran from Eagle Bridge, New York to Castleton, Vermont.

Noteworthy Canadian celebrities and personalities of Swedish origin include Pamela Wallin, Judge Tom Berger who headed the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline inquiry, architect Arthur Erickson who designed Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto and the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D. C., singer-songwriter and recording artist Michael Saxell, Harry Strom who was the former premier of Alberta ( 1968 – 1971 ), naturalist Louise de Kiriline Lawrence who was the most prolific contributor to the Audubon, and Ralph Gustafson who won the Governor General's Award for poetry in 1974.

Dr. John Bannon AO ; educationist Neile Osman ; Rhodes Scholar Herbert W. Piper ; Rhodes Scholar Professor John Finnis ; Jeff Scott ; Dr. Andrew Gleeson ; Rhodes Scholar Professor Leslie Finlay Crisp ; Adjunct Professor Richard Broinowski ; Professor Pat Thomson PSM ( at the time known as Lewicki ); Paul Washington ; Rhodes Scholar Professor Julian Disney AO, Clinical Associate Professor Jonathan Gillis ; Dr Daniele Viliunas ; Professor Peter Otto ; and Research Fellow Dr Jacqui Dibden.