It gained mostly positive reviews from film critics and a " two thumbs up " from Siskel and Ebert.

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In more recent times the term has gained a more positive reappraisal.

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While the album gained positive critical notices, sales were low in comparison with her previous releases.

World Machine gained positive reviews from critics, with Allmusic journalist William Cooper, in a retrospective review, describing it as " one of the finest pop albums of the mid -' 80s.

The album gained fairly positive reviews from most album critics, including Jim Malec of The 9513, which gave Keep on Loving You three and a half out of five stars.

The song gained many positive reviews.

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The film, aside from the feud with Roger Ebert, gained some positive reaction from American critics as well.

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The film was released in Germany in 1996 and gained positive reviews.

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The film gained a fairly positive critical reception but with a reported gross of $ 12 million, did not recoup its costs.

The film gained many positive reviews after its premiere and Morton's brilliant performance was critically acclaimed.

Edgar Jr. and his classmates created a documentary film of the school that spawned the Collegiate Film Festival, an event that gained positive press in The Los Angeles Times and The Village Voice.

The following year, in November 1963, the Plaza Theater in New York started a year-long series of Chaplin's films, including Monsieur Verdoux and Limelight, which now gained excellent reviews from American critics.

They soon gained a cult following despite lukewarm reviews back in their native United Kingdom.

Sampling influences from electronica, rap, R & B and new age, Robyn received rave reviews, and gained the singer three Swedish Grammy Awards in 2006 for " Årets Album " ( Best Album ), " Årets Kompositör " ( Best Writer, alongside Klas Åhlund ) and " Årets Pop Kvinnlig " ( Best Pop Female ).

The movie gained mixed reviews after its premiere. Filmcitic. com found Gellar's performance " memorable " along with cast's.

The group's performing skills improved rapidly and they soon gained a strong following in and around San Francisco, aided by reviews from veteran music journalist Ralph J. Gleason, the jazz critic of the San Francisco Chronicle who, after seeing them at the Matrix in late 1965, proclaimed them " one of the best bands ever.

Despite mixed reviews from the contemporary media, the book gained a following by word of mouth and became a bestseller.

The play premiered in 1891 in Germany to negative reviews, but has subsequently gained recognition as a classic of realism, nineteenth century theatre, and world drama.

The film has not been widely reviewed by English-language critics, though it has gained generally favorable reviews.

Despite receiving lukewarm reviews and not being as commercially successful as the Lemonheads ' previous two albums, It's a Shame About Ray and Come On Feel the Lemonheads, Car Button Cloth has gained a minor cult following in recent years.

Ultimately, Rothman's decision backfired, as the film gained mixed reviews ( with many commenting that the film seemed " incomplete ") and severely under-performed at the US box office.

Zvíkovský rarášek ( The Zvíkov Imp, 1915, a comedy based on Stroupežnický ) and Karlštejn ( Karlštejn castle, 1916, a more serious work based on Vrchlický ) both met with mixed reviews, although the latter gained an important place in the repertoire of Czech opera houses through mid-century.

The band's musical style was originally indebted to San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal bands such as Metallica and Megadeth, although the band found wider popularity over the following decade playing a mixture of modern rock, post-grunge and pop-rock that gained the band opening slots with professional US rock acts, as well as favourable reviews.

Sonic 3D has gained mixed to negative reviews.

The film gained mixed reviews about the storyline but the pair received generally good reviews for their acting abilities.

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The penal colony was eventually closed on August 15, 1947 when India gained its independence.

Carnegie later joked that he was " the first casualty of the war " when he gained a scar on his cheek from freeing a trapped telegraph wire.

The song quickly gained popularity and an amended version was sung by a choir of 10, 000 at the inauguration of the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901.

Of his late works for the stage only two works gained wide popular esteem during his life, Palmira, regina di Persia ( Palmira, Queen of Persia ) 1795 and Cesare in Farmacusa ( Caesar on Pharmacusa ), both drawing on the heroic and exotic success established with Axur.

With the information contained in Chanute's book, the personal assistance of Chanute himself, and research carried out in their own wind tunnel, the Wright brothers gained enough knowledge of aerodynamics to fly the first powered aircraft on December 17, 1903.

Two other uncommon sources were promoted by Alexander: Anselm of Canterbury, whose writings had been ignored for almost a century gained an important advocate in Alexander and he used Anselm's works extensively in his teaching on Christology and soteriology ; and, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, whom Alexander used in his examination of the theology of Orders and ecclesiastical structures.

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He gained nominations to contest progressively safer seats at two subsequent General Elections and was in both cases elected, for Shrewsbury in 1841 ( despite serious opposition, and financial difficulties which opponents seized on ), and then for Buckinghamshire county in 1847.

Disraeli's proposal to extend the tax to Ireland gained him further enemies, and he was also hampered by an unexpected increase in defence expenditure, which was forced on him by Derby and Sir John Pakington ( Secretary of State for War and the Colonies ) ( leading to his celebrated remark to John Bright about the " damned defences ").

The Anglo-Dutch forces gained minor compensation for the failed Moselle campaign with the success at Elixheim and the crossing of the Lines of Brabant in the Spanish Netherlands ( Huy was also retaken on 11 July ), but a chance to bring the French to a decisive engagement had eluded Marlborough.

Several Cyrillic alphabets with 28 to 44 letters were used in the beginning and the middle of the 19th century during the efforts on the codification of Modern Bulgarian until an alphabet with 32 letters, proposed by Marin Drinov, gained prominence in the 1870s.

Early Buddhism avoided speculative thought on metaphysics, phenomenology, ethics, and epistemology, but was based instead on empirical evidence gained by the sense organs ( ayatana ).

( 1937 ) relied heavily on other theorists such as Ludwig Ritter von Eimannsberger, whose major book, The Tank War ( Der Kampfwagenkrieg ) ( 1934 ) gained a wide audience in the German Army.