Influential film critic Andrew Sarris, in his 1968 ranking of directors, lists Whale as " lightly likable ".

In 2007, the Visual Effects Society named the film 22nd in its list of the " Top 50 Most Influential Visual Effects Films of All Time ".

Influential examples include director John Cassavetes, who broke ground with his film Faces.

Influential reviewers and columnists such as Dorothy Thompson and Bosley Crowther of the New York Times saw the film as denigrating the American and British characters while glorifying the German.

Influential French critic M. Henri Rochefort commented, " I am compelled to admit, not without some chagrin, that not one of our female artists … is strong enough to compete with the lady who has given us this year the portrait of Dr. Grier.

Influential Victorian critic, John Ruskin, described the Great Hall as " The most truly magnificent Gothic apartment in Europe.

Influential English critic Roger Fry credited the wider public's acceptance of the Impressionists, especially Claude Monet, to Bastien-Lepage.

Influential art critic of the day, Sheldon Chaney, allows it 5 pictures in his book References.

Influential to thinkers associated with Postmodernism are Heidegger's critique of the subject-object or sense-knowledge division implicit in Rationalism, Empiricism and Methodological Naturalism, his repudiation of the idea that facts exist outside or separately from the process of thinking and speaking them ( however, Heidegger is not specifically a Nominalist ), his related admission that the possibilities of philosophical and scientific discourse are wrapped up in the practices and expectations of a society and that concepts and fundamental constructs are the expression of a lived, historical exercise rather than simple derivations of external, apriori conditions independent from historical mind and changing experience ( see Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Heinrich von Kleist, Weltanschauung and Social Constructionism ), and his Instrumentalist and Negativist notion that Being ( and, by extension, reality ) is an action, method, tendency, possibility and question rather than a discreet, positive, identifiable state, answer or entity ( see also Process Philosophy, Dynamism, Instrumentalism, Pragmatism and Vitalism ).

* The Most Influential Paper Gerard Salton Never Wrote-This 2004 Library Trends paper by David Dubin serves as a historical review of the metamorphosis of the term discrimination value model ( TDV ) into the vector space model as an information retrieval model ( VSM as an IR model ).

The following year, the ACM ( Association for Computing Machinery ) PODC Influential Paper Award in distributed computing was renamed the Dijkstra Prize in his honour.

Influential early eco-anarchist workAnother important current, especially within French and Spanish individualist anarchist groups was naturism.

In 2010, as part of a series called The Britannica Guide to the World's Most Influential People, Torvalds was listed among The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time ( ISBN 9781615300037 ).

In 2007 and 2008, Allen was listed among the Time 100 Most Influential People in The World.

Influential friends interceded on his behalf, and he was transferred to the War Records Office and discharged from the military on 9 June 1916.

Influential as Stubbs was, it was long before this view was challenged.

Prince was also listed in TIME magazine's 2010 annual ranking of the " 100 Most Influential People in the World ".

" He was featured in Times The 100 Most Influential People in the World for 2010, and has been called " the most successful politician of his time.

Influential blues musician Alex " Rice " Miller, professionally known as Sonny Boy Williamson, was born on a plantation near Glendora.

He was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the world by Time magazine in 2012. He is a graduate of Theatre, with a BA in Dramatic Arts and MA in Stage Direction from University of Tehran and Tarbiat Modarres University, respectively.

In 2007, Blanchett was named as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People In The World and also one of the most successful actresses by Forbes magazine.

In 2012, she was listed in Watkins ' Mind Body Spirit magazine as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People.

* Marsilio Ficino ( 1433 – 1499 ) Influential Italian humanist philosopher who revived Neoplatonism and was a leader in the Renaissance ; translated all of Plato's and Plotinus ' works into Latin, as well as many Neoplatonic authors and the Corpus Hermeticum.

Influential guitar player Doc Watson was born in Deep Gap and lived there until his death May 29, 2012.

In 2012, Thorogood was named one of The 50 Most Influential Delawareans of the Past 50 Years.

In June 2012 Lee was placed at number 9 in the Top 100 Most Influential People In UK Comedy.

It was so well known and identified with Minnesota that the St. Paul Pioneer Press named the bear as a runner-up on its list of " 150 Influential Minnesotans of the Past 150 Years " in 2000.

In the Watkins ' Mind Body Spirit Magazine he was listed as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People of 2012.

Recently, Hamza Yusuf was ranked as " the Western world's most influential Islamic scholar " by The 500 Most Influential Muslims, edited by John Esposito and Ibrahim Kalin, ( 2009 ).

It was named one of the “ 100 Most Influential Canadian Books ” by the Literary Review of Canada ) and one of the “ 1, 000 Essential Plays in the English Language ” in the Oxford Dictionary of Theatre.

Influential editorial writers of Asahi such as Shintarō Ryū, Hiroo Sassa, and Hotsumi Ozaki ( an informant for the famous spy Richard Sorge ) were the center members of the Shōwa Kenkyūkai, which was a political think tank for Konoe.

Wired included the game in its list of " The 15 Most Influential Games of the Decade " at # 5, due to how it " bucked the dominant trends " and " ushered in the era of games that are ( supposedly ) good for you, like Wii Fit.

Influential figures of Soukous and its offshoots ( N ' dombolo, Rumba Rock ) are Franco Luambo, Tabu Ley, Simaro Lutumba, Papa Wemba, Koffi Olomide, Kanda Bongo, Ray Lema, Mpongo Love, Abeti Masikini, Reddy Amisi, Pepe Kalle, and Nyoka Longo.

Two of his albums, The Gambler and Kenny, are featured in the About. com poll of " The 200 Most Influential Country Albums Ever ".

Influential, oft-cited essays such as McClary 1989 and McClary 2006 are highly dismissive of modernist music.

Influential members of the artist community and architects are lobbying various government instances to persuade them to allow the old buildings to remain, as part of a cultural center which Beijing otherwise lacks and that can only grow organically.

Influential historians behind the eruption of the New Historicism are Fernand Braudel and the Annales School.

The Bangash () are One Of The Largest and Perhaps The Most Powerful and Influential Afghani / Pashtun tribe of the border area of eastern Afganistan and northern Pakistan, generally regarded as being Pashtun.

F. A. P Influential management and systems thinker pioneer Russel Ackoff suggested that the most important contribution of a first rate 21st century education is not content, but that we acquire the capability to learn and are motivated to do so throughout our lives.

Influential in their time and later, his historical works are wildly inaccurate and speculative by modern standards.

Influential monographs by Donald Richie, Paul Schrader, and David Bordwell have ensured a wide appreciation of Ozu's style, aesthetics and themes.

Influential innovations include the Dreadnought body style and scalloped bracing.

Influential to neo soul, UK act Sade achieved success in the 1980s with music that featured a sophisti-pop style, incorporating elements of soul, pop, smooth jazz, and quiet storm.