Hal Hinson of The Washington Post wrote a particularly scathing review, stating that " It's impossible to know what Francis Coppola's Life Without Zoe is.

The Washington Post staff writer Hal Hinson would disparagingly comment in an aside during a review of Jarmusch's Mystery Train ( 1989 ) that in the director's debut, " the only talent he demonstrated was for collecting egregiously untalented actors ".

Her performance won her widespread acclaim ; Hal Hinson of the Washington Post saw Pfeiffer's role as " the least obvious and the most difficult.

However, Hal Hinson of the Washington Post criticized it as “ woefully short on originality .”

" Hal Hinson in the Washington Post wrote that the film's " wit and immediacy is extraordinarily rare in a period film.

Hal Hinson, in his review for The Washington Post, praised Sandra Bullock's performance: " The only performer to stand out is Sandra Bullock as Annie ...

Hal Hinson, in his review for The Washington Post, wrote, " Brooks is excellent at taking us inside the world of television, but not terribly good at analyzing it.

" 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 ".

In his review for the Washington Post, Hal Hinson had a mixed reaction to Myers ' performance: " Everything he does is charmingly lightweight and disposable and reasonably impossible to resist.

Commenting on his work with regard to Ishtar, Hal Hinson in the Washington Post observed: " Grodin has a one-of-a-kind quality on the screen, a sort of inspired spinelessness.

In his review for the Washington Post, Hal Hinson wrote, " As its stars, Miller and Jolie seem just as one-dimensional — except that, in their case, the effect is intentional ".

Hal Hinson, writing for the Washington Post, noted " Dugan has a brisk, imaginative comic style ; he sets up his gags well, so that there's still some surprise in the punch lines when they come.

Hal Hinson writing in The Washington Post gave the film a lukewarm review and said " The punk jaggedness they bring to their derivations is the only hint of originality, but this, too, seems a little staid.

" In his review for The Washington Post, Hal Hinson wrote " A lot of what Bigelow puts up on the screen bypasses the brain altogether, plugging directly into our viscera, our gut.

In his review for the Washington Post, Hal Hinson wrote, " This is a work of scatterbrained originality, funny, unexpected and ceaselessly engaging ".

" Hal Hinson, in his review for the Washington Post, wrote, " The action is so gratuitous, and so indifferently presented, that it's impossible to think that Cox ever truly intended it to be seen by anyone outside of the cast and crew and their immediate families.

The Washington Post reviewer Hal Hinson wondered " whether Kim Basinger is more obnoxious as a cartoon or as a real person ," and felt that the combination of animation and live action was unconvincing.

Hal Hinson in the Washington Post wrote: " In its own delightfully peculiar way, the film is the only one of its kind ever made-a horror film about office politics ...

In his review in The Washington Post, Hal Hinson called the film " a mesmerizing poetic work composed in an eerie minor key.

In his review in the Washington Post, Hal Hinson called the film a " beautiful balance of elements ... mellow, harmonious and poignantly funny.

Desson Thompson and Hal Hinson, both writers from the Washington Post, agreed that the film was " a one-joke film.

Hal Hinson of The Washington Post wrote that Coppola's segment was " by far the director's worst work yet.

Hal Hinson of The Washington Post was less forgiving: he called the ideas presented by the film " warmed-over D. H. Lawrence " and the film, a " peculiar, not entirely undesirable sort of art-house hybrid, like a marriage between Masterpiece Theatre and Baywatch ", citing " scenes, like the one in which Estella is brought to orgasm by the tender, knowing hands of a blind laborer, are almost laughable.

Hal Hinson wrote in The Washington Post that " the film comes with a built-in problem.

While The Washington Post writer Hal Hinson characterized it as " a carefully crafted, unapologetically literary accomplishment ", he suggested that Sayles ' " directing style hasn't grown much beyond that of a first-year film student ", declaring that the director was " stagnant ".

Capra later became a gag writer for Hal Roach's Our Gang series and then writer for slapstick comedy director, Mack Sennett, where he began writing scripts for comedian Harry Langdon.

The staff responsible for preparing Late Night consisted of Letterman's girlfriend Merrill Markoe in the head writing role, in addition to seasoned TV veteran Hal Gurnee directing the show, Robert Morton and Barry Sand as executive producers, and a group of young writers – most of them in their early twenties.

While she was performing background on The Drifters's recording of " Mexican Divorce ," Warwick's voice and star presence were noticed by the song's composer, Burt Bacharach, a Brill Building songwriter who was writing songs with many other songwriters, including lyricist Hal David.

" Roger Ebert gave a positive response of three-out-of-four stars, writing, " Shallow Hal is often very funny, but it is also surprisingly moving at times.

After a few years as a band leader and arranger for artist Mindy Carson, Edwards started writing pop songs at the famous Brill Building with writers including Hal David, Burt Bacharach, Sid Wayne, Earl Shuman and others.

The Senator, which lasted for only eight episodes, earned nine Emmy nominations in 1971, winning five, including best drama, best " continued performance " by an actor ( Hal Holbrook ), and three additional separate awards for outstanding achievement in writing, direction, and film editing, respectively.

In contrast Hal Hinson, writing for the Washington Post wrote, " The pace is quick and efficient but never frantic ... almost everything in the picture is just right, including the two-bit crooks who abduct the superhero toddler and end up bruised and begging hilariously for mercy.

Hal Hinson, The Washington Post film critic panned the film, writing, " The ostensible subject here is the big business of college athletics, and, just as The Program tried to do with college football, the film's purpose is to expose the corruption behind the scenes of so-called amateur athletics that have transformed the sport into a desperate money grab.

Film critic Hal Erikson believes Dark Passage does a better job at using this point-of-view technique, writing, " The first hour or so of Dark Passage does the same thing — and the results are far more successful than anything seen in Montgomery's film.

Hal Hinson writing in The Washington Post gave it a lukewarm review, writing " The punk jaggedness they bring to their derivations is the only hint of originality, but this, too, seems a little staid.

Hal Erickson writing for Allmovie calls the film " tautly directed by Don Siegel, who manages to pack plenty of twists and turns into the film's crowded 71 minutes.

Runner and writer Hal Higdon had been writing for the magazine since the beginning ( 2nd edition ).

Scripts were written for the shorts by the Hal Roach comedy writing staff, which included at various times Leo McCarey, Frank Capra, Walter Lantz and Frank Tashlin, among others.

Producer Hal Roach hired D. W. Griffith to produce this film and Of Mice and Men, writing to him, " I need help from the production side to select the proper writers, cast, etc.

" Hal Erickson writing for Allmovie writes the film " benefits from a powerhouse supporting cast and the effectively moody cinematography of Glenn MacWilliams.

The American Trotskyist Hal Draper used " neo-Stalinism " in 1948 to refer to a new political ideologynew development in Soviet policy, which he defined as a reactionary trend whose beginning was associated with the Popular Front period of the mid-1930s, writing that " The ideologists of neo-Stalinism are merely the tendrils shot ahead by the phenomena – fascism and Stalinism – which outline the social and political form of a neo-barbarism ”