When first released, the staff at Variety magazine gave the film a positive review, writing, " Crossfire is a frank spotlight on anti-Semitism.

In a Variety review " Wear " praised the film, singling out Hawks ' pacing and comedy direction, calling Hepburn's performance " one of her most invigorating screen characterizations " and stating that Grant " performs his role to the hilt.

When the film was released, the staff at Variety gave the film a mixed review:

The review in Variety noted that the film " has warmth, humor, a rich dose of romance and almost incredible pictorial appeal.

" — Excerpt from the Daily Variety review.

" A. D. Murphy of Variety gave a positive review but felt " Close Encounters lacks the warmth and humanity of George Lucas's Star Wars ".

A review in Variety magazine included: " Fritz Lang's production and direction ably project the sordid tale of the romance between a milquetoast character and a gold-digging blonde ... Edward G. Robinson is the mild cashier and amateur painter whose love for Joan Bennett leads him to embezzlement, murder and disgrace.

" — from the Variety review.

Laura Fries of Variety, the Hollywood trade paper, noted in her review of Jett Jackson: The Movie that " Young serves as an appealing role model, much like Sarah Michelle Gellar's Buffy the Vampire Slayer -- someone who can fulfill young, action craving audiences without the gratuitous violence.

The staff at Variety magazine gave the film a positive review, writing, " Sumptuous Technicolor mounting and a highly exploitable story lend considerable importance to Leave Her to Heaven that it might not have had otherwise ... Tierney and Wilde use their personalities in interpreting their dramatic assignments.

When the film was released, Variety gave the film a favorable review: " There is no attempt to gloss the character of Barbara Graham, only an effort to understand it through some fine irony and pathos.

The staff at Variety magazine gave the film a positive review and wrote, " Playing a discharged naval flier returning home from the Pacific first to find his wife unfaithful, then to find her murdered and himself in hiding as the suspect, Alan Ladd does a bangup job.

In his review for Variety, David Benedict wrote, " Mead delivers .... is contracted for at least a year.

Joe Leydon of Variety gave Shanghai Noon a favorable review, characterizing it as " Fast, furious and, quite often, very, very funny.

The review in Variety noted the performances of the lead actors: " Anouk Aimee has a mature beauty and an ability to project an inner quality that helps stave off the obvious banality of her character, and this goes too for the perceptive Jean-Louis Trintignant as the man.

In his review in Variety magazine, film critic Todd McCarthy wrote, " After making the grade internationally with the sleeper hit, Gregory's Girl, Scottish writer-director Bill Forsyth has broken the sophomore sesh jinx the only way he could, by making an even better film ...

In his review for Variety magazine, Todd McCarthy said, " Laura Palmer, after all the talk, is not a very interesting or compelling character and long before the climax has become a tiresome teenager ".

A review by Richard Kuipers in Variety praised it as " a pleasant gambol through the backwoods of Quebec ... Given plenty of room to work off each other, the members of this fine ensemble keep pic on track ... Big plus is the music and heartfelt songs by Philippe Katerine ".

Though the film was not released nationwide, Lisa's first endeavor as producer earned strong accolades and various awards, including, The Austin Film Festival Audience Award for Best Family Film, The Heartland Film Festival Family Movie Event Selection, The International Family Film Festival Best Film, The Parents Television Council Seal of Approval, The Dove Foundation Seal of Approval and a rave review from The Daily Variety.

Ken Roberts has won a CanPro award for television writing and co-wrote a comedic play for adults ( Suspect ) that received a very positive review in Variety and has played regularly, with performances on three continents.

A rare positive review came from Amy Dawes of Variety.

In fact, a review in Variety complained that the premiere episode was " a little too serious in content for a thriller " since it included " religious background, philosophical discussion and dream diagnosis ..."

Variety gave this first episode a rave review (" undoubtedly one of the best dramatic shows yet seen on a television screen "), but Lights Out did not become a regular NBC TV series until 1949.

Many critics expressed concern with what they saw as bigotry, with Newsweek describing the film as " a right-wing fantasy ", Variety as " a specious, phony glorification of the police and police brutality with a superhero whose antics become almost satire " and a raging review by Pauline Kael of The New Yorker who accused Eastwood of a " single-minded attack against liberal values ".

In 1959 he contributed to the British arts review X magazine ( other contributors included Bacon, Freud, Auerbach and Kokoschka ) with an article, The Dream, the Sphinx, and the Death of T, and drawings.

The term was reportedly coined in 1971 by rock critic Dave Marsh in a review of their show for Creem magazine.

Time magazine writer Richard Corliss was less scathing, but agreed that it was forgettable, saying that people would " forget all about movie by the time they leave the multiplex ," even joking at the end of his review that he had forgotten the film's name.

It did not review as well as its companion volume, being given 6 out of 10 in White Dwarf magazine.

Time magazine headlined its review of Pei's design for the East Building " Masterpiece on the Mall ".

*" Art: Pure, Uncluttered Hedonism ", a 2 May 1977 review of Kenneth Noland's work by Robert Hughes of Time magazine

A review in Rolling Stone magazine referred to Physical Graffiti as Led Zeppelin's " bid for artistic respectability ", adding that the only bands Led Zeppelin had to compete with for the title " The World's Best Rock Band " were The Rolling Stones and The Who.

Also, when The Beatles ' Let It Be was released in 1970, the magazine originally gave the album a poor review, yet in 2003, Rolling Stone ranked it number 86 in the magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

David Hartwell commenting on Algis J. Budrys writing in the review column of Galaxy magazine notes the " ringing scorn and righteous indignation " with which Budry's discussion vibrates in " one of the classic diatribes against Ballard and the new mode of SF then emergent ":

The success of these pavilions further influenced the 1967 Universal exhibition in Montreal, commonly referred to as Expo 67, where multi-screen highlights included In the Labyrinth, hailed by Time magazine as a " stunning visual display ," their review concluding: " such visual delights as Labyrinth ... suggest that cinema — the most typical of 20th century arts — has just begun to explore its boundaries and possibilities ," as well as A Place to Stand, which displayed Christopher Chapman's pioneering " multi-dynamic image technique " of shifting multiple images.

In fact, the Maxinquaye album review by the Rolling Stone magazine read, " Tricky devoured everything from American hip-hop and soul to reggae and the more melancholic strains of 80s British rock.

" in a review of the TV series Rock Follies in Time Out magazine.

In a review by Sounds magazine the same year, the Undertones were described as: Possibly the best pop group in the English speaking world.

They also released a demo cassette, which earned them a review in People magazine.

During this period the magazine included lots of features such as the satirical comic strip Thrud the Barbarian and Dave Langford's " Critical Mass " book review column, as well as a comical advertising series " The Androx Diaries ", and always had cameos and full scenarios for a broad selection of the most popular games of the time, as well as a more rough and informal editorial style.

* June 24 – First published review of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, in a British magazine ; the book's first edition had appeared earlier in June in England.

In 1853 Charles Dickens wrote a scathingly sarcastic review in his weekly magazine Household Words of painter George Catlin's show of American Indians when it visited England.

During this time, Hickman released a first solo recording, " Palmhenge ", which received " Voices Choice " accolades in The Village Voice by the rock critic Robert Christgau and a positive review in Blender magazine.

Roy Herbert's review of the paperback version written for the New Scientist magazine commented that " it is an amazing assembly, elegantly written and level-headed, with a wry remark here and there ", and that " this superb work is likely to be used so often that it is a pity it is a softback book.

In a review published in Mojo magazine following the film's 2007 reissue, James McNair gave the film four out of five stars and wrote:

* Bookmarks ( magazine ), literary and book review magazine

* Legal Affairs magazine – a review of the criticisms of the broken windows theory.