Originally rated PG by the MPAA, the film reconstruction by Brian Jamieson and Richard Schickel was re-rated R for " war violence and some language ".

Schickel felt that Wood was " hopelessly miscast ", and that the energies of Lemmon and Curtis did not quite make the slapstick work.

According to Schickel: What Strasberg ... took away from the Actor's Lab was a belief that just as an actor could be prepared physically for his work with dance, movement and fencing classes, he could be mentally prepared by resort to analogous mental exercises.

Richard Schickel of Time magazine felt that " Eddie Murphy exuded the kind of cheeky, cocky charm that has been missing from the screen since Cagney was a pup, snarling his way out of the ghetto ".

" CNN's Paul Clinton proclaimed " Meet the Parents is one of the best comedies of this-or any other-year ", calling it " wonderfully funny " and expressing his hope that " the Academy will also recognize this wonderful movie, something it rarely does when it comes to comedies " Time magazine's film critic Richard Schickel stated that the film was " divinely invented and perfectly orchestrated ".

" Richard Schickel, film critic for TIME, felt Michael was " irrational " and " really angry about something ", having what Schickel referred to as " a kind of primitive, obsessed intelligence ".

The career of Robert E. Sherwood as a critic in the 1920s is discussed in For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism by Time critic Richard Schickel who also tells how Sherwood was the first New York critic invited to Hollywood by cross-country train to meet the stars and directors.

In 1976, Richard Schickel cited his performance in Pitfall ( 1948 ) as a prototype of film noir in contrast with the appealing television characters for which Burr later became famous.

In 2005, Richard Schickel included the film on Time. com's ALL-TIME 100 best films, saying " It had wonderful songs a sweetly unneurotic performance by Judy Garland .... Despite its nostalgic charm, Minnelli infused the piece with a dreamy, occasionally surreal, darkness and it remains, for some of us, the greatest of American movie musicals.

Time magazine's Richard Schickel criticized the film's love triangle: " It requires a lot of patience for an audience to sit through the dithering.

In his review for TIME, Richard Schickel praised the three lead actors: " Of the ghost wranglers, the pair played by Writers Aykroyd and Ramis are sweetly earnest about their calling, and gracious about giving the picture to their co-star Bill Murray.

Film critic Richard Schickel wrote that, though the film " bumps along very pleasantly for the most part ", Edwards failed at his attempt to recreate the slapstick atmosphere of a Laurel and Hardy comedy.

Time magazine's Richard Schickel praised the film for being a " a smart, no-nonsense movie that may actually teach its prime audience a valuable lesson: the best retort to an intolerable situation is not necessarily a food fight.

Richard Schickel, in his review for Time, wrote, " What makes this movie work is the kind of cool that made Get Shorty go so nicely: an understanding that life's little adventures rarely come in neat three-act packages, the way most movies now do, and the unruffled presentation of outrageously twisted dialogue, characters and situations as if they were the most natural things in the world ".

Richard Schickel of Time, however, criticized the film for being unrealistic.

Richard Schickel of Time magazine praised the film for its exaggerated kitsch style.

" But Time spokeswoman Dawn Bridges says Schickel didn't start reviewing movies for Time until 1973, and the quote does not appear in the magazine at all.

Richard Schickel of Time magazine lauded the film, writing, " this is a Cuisinart of a movie, mixing familiar yet disparate ingredients, making something odd, possibly distasteful, undeniably arresting out of them ".

Eastwood has cited Bronco Billy as being one of the most relaxed shoots of his career and biographer Richard Schickel has argued that Bronco Billy is Eastwood's most self-referential character.

Time magazine's Richard Schickel wrote, " there is an unpretentious realism in Towne's script, and director Ashby handles his camera with a simplicity reminiscent of the way American directors treated lower-depths material in the ' 30s ".

" Fifteen years later, Time critic Richard Schickel listed it as one of his " Guilty Pleasures "; while acknowledging " there are people who think this film ... may be the worst big budget film of modern times ", Schickel disagreed, saying " if you set aside the routine comic expectations its marketing encouraged, you may find yourself entranced by a movie that is utterly sui generis.

Time magazine's Richard Schickel wrote, " The result is a hard-striving, convoluted movie, which never quite becomes the smoothly reciprocating engine Anderson ( who did Boogie Nights ) would like it to be ".

Richard Schickel of Time wrote that the film's " desperate sobriety ... robs it of energy and passion "; Allen's " style is Bergmanesque, but his material is Mankiewiczian, and the discontinuity is fatal.

The commentator on the 2008 DVD is Clint Eastwood biographer Richard Schickel.

Time magazine's Richard Schickel wrote, " when action is never shown to have deadly or pitiable consequences, it tends toward abstraction.

" According to Richard Schickel, the film is " an odyssey of simple problems, simple emotional discoveries, a relationship full of knots that Salles permits to unwind in an unforced, unsentimental fashion.

" TIME's Richard Schickel praised the film, saying " The Scout is the best comedy-fantasy about baseball ever made, which goes to show that if Hollywood keeps trying, eventually someone will get it right.

Time magazine's Richard Schickel wrote, " Nighthawks is so moronically written and directed, so entirely without wit or novelty, that there is plenty of time to wonder about its many missing explanations ".

Time magazine's Richard Schickel wrote, " The movie has two virtues essential to good pop thrillers.

Richard Schickel called it " quite a good movie — a character-driven ( as opposed to whammy-driven ) suspense drama — dark, fatalistic and, within its melodramatically stretched terms, emotionally plausible "; he said Pakula " develops his story patiently, without letting its tensions unravel.

Schickel considered this the " definition of a good monster ", by making the character appear " less than human ", but having enough intelligence " to be dangerous ".

Both Richard Schickel and Andrew Sarris have also written that many of the gags in his silent films needed the " intimacy of the camera " to work and could not have been performed on the stage to the same effect.

" Film scholar Richard Schickel, while examining his charismatic screen presence and acting ability, argued: " As a movie actor he has no peer in this generation.

* Schickel, Richard, and Dee, Ivan R. ( 1967, 1985, 1997 ).

However, in order to get quality acting from Andy Griffith, in his first screen appearance, and achieve what Schickel calls " an astonishing movie debut ," Kazan would often take surprising measures.

Richard Schickel of TIME called his performance " charming ," and most critics agreed that Hanks ' portrayal ensured him a place among the premier romantic-comedy stars of his generation.

* Schickel, Richard and George Perry.

Film critic Pauline Kael adopts a more neutral stance, while Time magazine film critic Richard Schickel writes " The nostalgia surrounding Rogers-Astaire tends to bleach out other partners.

Richard Schickel wrote in Life that " Jan Troell has made the masterpiece about the dream that shaped America-a dream, and an America, fast disappearing from our views.

Special features include an audio commentary by Clint Eastwood biographer Richard Schickel, four documentaries that include " All on Accounta Pullin ' a Trigger ", " Eastwood & Co .: Making Unforgiven ", " Eastwood ... A Star " and " Eastwood on Eastwood ", and more.

In his review, Time magazine's Richard Schickel wrote, " Absence of Malice does not invalidate All the President's Men.

* Richard Schickel, The World of Carnegie Hall, 1960.

Time magazine listed Notorious as one of the All-Time 100 best films as chosen by Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel.

In her as-told-to autobiography Lena by Richard Schickel, Horne recounts the enormous pressures she and her husband faced as an interracial couple.