" Movie critic Roger Ebert compared the film with a later remake:

Movie critic Roger Ebert dubbed Soderbergh the " poster boy of the Sundance generation ".

He is also good friends with film historian and critic Leonard Maltin and considers the book Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide to be the standard of film guide books.

In his review of The Powerpuff Girls Movie, movie critic Bob Longino of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said that, " the intricate drawings emanate 1950s futuristic pizazz like a David Hockney scenescape ," and that the show is " one of the few American creations that is both gleeful pop culture and exquisite high art.

In one scene, Nielsen appeared almost fully nude, and one critic referred to the scene as putting " the ' scary ' in Scary Movie 4.

Movie critic Dana Stevens describes the film plot as " a collection of brief vignettes which are so loosely connected that it feels at times like you're watching a non-narrative film.

Movie critic Andrew O ' Hehir, noting the strong influences of Renoir, Rosselini and Satyajit Ray, said, " It's hard to overemphasize how strange and ambitious and completely out of context it was for a black urban filmmaker with no money and no reputation to make that kind of movie in 1977.

In Movie Encyclopedia, film critic Leonard Maltin describes Morley as " recognisable by his ungainly bulk, bushy eyebrows, thick lips, and double chin, [...] particularly effective when cast as a pompous windbag ".

Movie critic Roger Ebert praised Watts ' performance: " The character is played by Watts with courage, fearless observation, and a gift for timing that is so uncanny it can make points all by itself.

Movie critic Dana Stevens states " With the possible exception of the title character, the animated cast of Tintin narrowly escapes entrapment in the so-called ' uncanny valley.

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Currently, the film has a 3. 5 / 10 on the Internet Movie Database, with 380 ratings, 26 user reviews and 12 critic reviews.

The Fabulous Baker Boys currently holds a rating of 96 % on Rotten Tomatoes based on 23 reviews, and holds a 6. 7 rating on the Internet Movie Database based on 70 user and 27 critic reviews.

Film critic Leonard Maltin gave the film a good rating ( 3 stars out of a possible 4 ) and characterized the film this way in his Movie Guide annual: " About as subtle as The Three Stooges, but a classic compared to the sequels and countless rip-offs which followed.

In his Movie and Video Guide, film critic Leonard Maltin writes: " Seen today, its politics are highly questionable, and its ' message ' of peace looks ridiculous, considering the amount of violence in the film.

Movie critic George Peluranee notes that " Tokyo Godfathers is a film that shows

After visiting his parents in Santa Barbara, California, one last time in early July, as well as his friend, the literary critic Hugh Kenner, Kees returned to San Francisco and had dinner with various friends, including Pauline Kael, who appeared as a guest on Kees ’ s film review program on KPFA-FM, Behind the Movie Camera.

James King is a British movie critic who presents a weekly film review show The Movie Show on ITV2 ( previously known as ITV at the Movies ) and also appears regularly on ITV London Tonight on Friday evenings and on Sky News as the channel's movie critic.

Eight Singaporean feature films were made in 1999 alone, the most notable being Liang Po Po: The Movie ( starring Jack Neo in a reprisal of his television cross-gender role ), That One No Enough, the first directorial effect of Jack Neo, and Eating Air, made by film critic Kelvin Tong and film editor Jasmine Ng on a budget of S $ 800, 000.

" The Dad Who Knew Too Little " received a negative review from critic Colin Jacobson of DVD Movie Guide.

In his review of the film in his Movie and Video Guide, critic Leonard Maltin calls the casting of Coppola an " almost fatal flaw.

The term first appeared in film critic Roger Ebert's 1980 book " Little Movie Glossary ", and had been submitted by Jim Murphy of New York.

Movie critic Leonard Maltin christened this version Young Swords, as it reunited Sheen and Sutherland, both of Young Guns fame.

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* Maltin, Leonard, Selected Short Subjects ( first published as The Great Movie Shorts, 1972 ) Crown Books, ( revised 1983 ) Da Capo Press

* Maltin, Leonard, The Great Movie Comedians ( 1978 ) Crown Books

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Film scholar Leonard Maltin had this to say in his book The Great Movie Comedians:

In Leonard Maltin's annual publication " TV Movie Guide ," the film is given a " BOMB " rating.

With the release of The Transformers: The Movie animated film in 1986, he took on the role of the Autobot Wheelie and afterwards, took over the role of Galvatron ( which coincidentally was voiced by his Star Trek III castmate Leonard Nimoy ).

In Leonard Maltin's annual publication TV Movie Guide, the film receives a " BOMB " rating, stating " title tells all in hackneyed disaster epic ... Marjoe as a sex deviate and Gardner as Lorne Greene's daughter tie for film's top casting honors.

Leonard Maltin gave the film a rating of three stars out of four, and wrote in his Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide, " A broad-ranging jab at modern society and its ills, its tone arch, its technique one of non sequiturs, and its audience likely to be small.

Leonard Maltin, in his annual Movie and Video Guide, declared " If you can't catch this in color, skip it ".

In his annual film guide, Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide, Maltin rated the film 3 out of 4 stars.

Leonard Maltin describes it in his comprehensive Movie Guide as “ delightfully plotless ” and “ well worth seeing ,” giving the film 3 out of 4 stars, while Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 75 % rating.

The Movie also featured guest voices from Leonard Nimoy as Galvatron, Scatman Crothers as Jazz, Casey Kasem as Cliffjumper, Orson Welles as Unicron and Eric Idle as the leader of the Junkions ( Wreck-Gar, though unnamed in the movie ).

Sentinel Prime is voiced by Leonard Nimoy, who previously voiced the character Galvatron in The Transformers: The Movie.

Leonard Maltin also gave the film a favorable review: in Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide he gives the film three stars out of a possible four, saying it's " a very funny outing with Murray and Dreyfuss approaching the relationship of the road runner and the coyote.

Leonard Maltin's 2009 Movie Guide.

This was the first film Hopper directed since 1971's The Last Movie, stepping in at the last minute to replace the original director ( screenwriter Leonard Yakir ).

New York: New American Library, 2009 ( originally published as TV Movies, then Leonard Maltin ’ s Movie & Video Guide ), First edition 1969, published annually since 1988.

:* Young Sherlocks ( 1922 ), listed by the Internet Movie Data Base and by Maltin and Bann

" Leonard Maltin also gave the film two and a half stars, and wrote in his Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide " Likeable costars carry this comedy a long way ; there are some good laughs throughout, but it's never as satisfying as you'd like it to be.

New York: New American Library, 2009 ( originally published as TV Movies, then Leonard Maltin ’ s Movie & Video Guide ), First edition 1969, published annually since 1988.

Leonard Maltin, in most editions of his Movie Guide, says O ' Connor quit, quoting the actor, " When you've made six pictures and the mule still gets more fan mail than you do ...." Mickey Rooney, who according to his autobiography was originally considered for a United Artists " Francis " movie before Universal bought the rights, replaced O ' Connor as a new but similar character, David Prescott.

Information about Wheeler's last years of performing can be found in " Movie Comedy Teams " by Leonard Maltin.

Leonard Maltin, in his TV and Video Movie Guide, says that " you haven't lived until you've seen the Fire Maidens dance to ' Stranger in Paradise ' by Borodin.

Several critics ( Leonard Maltin amongst them ) have suggested that The Transformers: The Movie was made to " cash in " on the release of the film.

The film was met with universally negative reviews, and it has received a " BOMB " rating from critic Leonard Maltin, who comments in his Movie and Video Guide that the rating may be too high.