Commentator Ed Rooksby in The Guardian criticized the right's tendency to oversimplify, and suggested that serious left-leaning advocates would not construe equality to mean " absolute equality of everything ".

In a 2003 article for The Guardian, Brian Whitaker criticized Nafisi for working for the public relations firm Benador Associates which he argues promoted the neo-conservative ideas of " creative destruction " and " total war ".

He criticized the nature of the Guardian Council's supervision over the elections, saying in 2009 " I have opposed the notion of ' approbation supervision ' power since it was introduced 20 years ago … But, today the problem goes beyond ' approbation supervision '.

While welcoming the gender equality reforms, The Guardian also criticized the failure to remove the ban on Catholics sitting on the throne as " fanning a religious hostility the rest of Europe was already growing beyond.

The essay was also criticized by Rabbi Michael Lerner and in op-eds in The Guardian and The Boston Globe.

Alexander Pope had criticized Philips repeatedly ( in The Guardian and in his Peri Bathos, among other places ), and praising or condemning Philips was a political as much as poetic matter in the 1720s.

The Israeli historian and Nazi-hunter Efraim Zuroff, head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Israeli office in Jerusalem, criticized the party's " obsession to pay public homage to the Latvian-SS Legion in contradiction to all historical logic and sensitivity to Nazi crimes " in a column for The Guardian on 28 September 2009, while Vilnius University professor Dovid Katz, writing that the British Conservatives must not be let " get off the hook for their dalliances with some of the worst racists and Holocaust perverters in eastern Europe ," called for Pickles ' resignation as chairman in October 2009.

" Stuart Heritage from The Guardian criticized Kirkwood's axings saying, By rights, this should be a national day of mourning.

" And Suzanne Moore in The Guardian criticized the lethargic females whose lives Johnny routinely ruins: " What sort of realism is this?

Tom Service, also in the Guardian also criticized Higdon's Concerto For Orchestra.

Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian gave the film two out of five stars and criticized Damon's performance: " And why is Damon allowed to act in such a callow, boring way?

Life of Brian has regularly been cited as a serious contender for the title " greatest comedy film of all time ", and has been named as such in polls conducted by Total Film magazine in 2000, the British TV network Channel 4 in 2006 and The Guardian newspaper in 2007.

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian praised Cruz's performance in the film.

Tim Radford of The Guardian called the film " Allen's most closely focused and daring film to date ".

Another Guardian critic, Peter Bradshaw, named it the best comedy film of all time, commenting that " this wonderfully funny, unbearably sad film is a miracle of comic writing and inspired film-making ".

In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted The Ladykillers the 36th greatest comedy film of all time, and The Guardian labelled it the 5th greatest comedy of all time in 2010.

Beyond this, much of the critical estimation of the film continues to be low ; in 2008, film critic Joe Queenan of The Guardian named Heaven's Gate the worst film ever made.

" Margaret Booth: Tough, unsentimental film editor who began her career ' patching ' during the First World War ", The Guardian November 2, 2002.

It featured in a number of international film festivals, and received very favourable reviews worldwide, including making top ten of the year lists in Time, The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, and The New Zealand Herald.

In an interview with The Guardian, Hoskins spoke of his regret at appearing in the film Super Mario Bros .. On 8 August 2012, Hoskins announced his retirement from acting after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2011.

While the New Yorker and TimeOut Londons film critics found co-star Brendan Gleeson's performance to be the stronger of the two, Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian found his work playing hired hitman Ray " absolutely superb: moody and funny, lethally sexy, sometimes heartbreakingly sad and vulnerable like a little boy.

Bradshaw of the Guardian wrote that the film " uses up all its energy, wit and ideas in the first 20 or so minutes, before collapsing into a flurry of boring violence.

The Guardian reporter Alex Marshall compared this anthem favourably to other national anthems, suggesting that it was reminiscent of the music of the Disney film Mary Poppins.

In a 1999 obituary for Penelope Mortimer, The Guardian characterized Harold Pinter as someone who values what is " written between the lines ", making him " her ideal translator and interpreter " for the film adaptation of Mortimer's novel.

2046 was called the best film of 2005 by Michael Atkinson ( The Village Voice ), Daryl Chin ( Journal of Performance and Art ), Josef Brown ( Vue Weekly ), Sean Burns ( Philadelphia Weekly ), Will Sloan ( The Martingrove Beacon ), and Justine Elias ( The Guardian ), and was ranked among the top ten best films of the year by Manohla Dargis ( The New York Times ), Richard Corliss ( Time Magazine ), Same Adams ( Philadelphia City Paper ), Leslie Camhi ( The Village Voice ), Jason Anderson ( eye Weekly ), Gary Dretzka ( Movie City News ), Godfrey Cheshire ( The Independent Weekly ), Ty Burr ( The Boston Globe ), Liza Bear ( indieWIRE ), Edward Crouse ( The Village Voice ), Jeffrey M. Anderson ( The San Francisco Examiner ), John DeFore ( Austin American Statesman ), Brian Brooks ( indieWIRE ), Chris Barsanti ( Filmcritic. com ), F. X.

Carlton found itself at the centre of a major controversy about truthfulness in broadcast journalism in May 1998, when The Guardian carried a series of articles alleging the wholesale fabrication of a much-garlanded 1996 Carlton documentary, The Connection, which had purported to film the route by which heroin was smuggled into the United Kingdom from Colombia.

Blind Guardian have been working on and off for eight years on an orchestral project writing music about The Lord of the Rings ( negotiations failed to be included on the famous The Lord of the Rings film trilogy as the soundtrack, because the band wanted to concentrate on their next album ).

* " Filming and f *** ing ", John McKay's account of how the film was made, in " The Guardian ", 24 / 5 / 2002

Francis Iles ( Anthony Berkeley Cox ) was somewhat muted in his praise in his review in The Guardian of 7 December 1962 when he said, " she has of course thought up one more brilliant little peg on which to hang her plot, but the chief interest to me of The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side was the shrewd exposition of what makes a female film star tick the way she does tick.

Speaking to the Guardian following the release of the Borat film in the UK, Tatchell criticised Sacha Baron Cohen for his double standards and ‘ self-censorship ', saying " he regards Christians and Jews as fair game, he never gives Muslims the same doing over ".

* The Guardian ( 1984 film ), starring Martin Sheen, Louis Gossett Jr., and Arthur Hill

Lester Bangs cited Beefheart as " one of the four or five unqualified geniuses to rise from the hothouses of American music in the Sixties ", while John Harris of The Guardian praised the music's " pulses with energy and ideas, the strange way the spluttering instruments meld together ".

Journalist Steven Poole wrote in The Guardian that " Neuromancer and the two novels which followed, Count Zero ( 1986 ) and the gorgeously titled Mona Lisa Overdrive ( 1988 ), made up a fertile holy trinity, a sort of Chrome Koran ( the name of one of Gibson's future rock bands ) of ideas inviting endless reworkings.

In 2005, Ben Hammersley interviewed David Allen for The Guardian, with an article called " Meet the man who can bring order to your universe ", saying " For me, as with the hundreds of thousands around the world who press the book into their friends ' hands with fire in their eyes, Allen's ideas are nothing short of life-changing ".

The Manchester Guardian concurred: " Mr. Gilbert's tendency to over-elaboration has nowhere shown itself so obtrusively .... Mr. Gilbert has introduced too many whimsical ideas which practically bear no relation to the story proper ".

* The powerful coalition that wants to engineer the world's climate: Businessmen, scientists and right-wing thinktanks are joining forces to promote ' geo-engineering ' ideas to cool the planet's climate Clive Hamilton The Guardian, September 13, 2010

The media ( particularly The Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell ) used the allegation by Alastair Campbell that he had observed Major tucking his shirt into his underpants to caricature him wearing his pants outside his trousers, as a pale grey echo of both Superman and Supermac, a parody of Harold Macmillan.

When Remey died his followers split into rival factions with each believing in a different Guardian.

Sarah Churchwell in the Guardian says, " Ultimately Faludi is guilty of her own exaggerations and mythmaking, strong-arming her argument into submission.

This was followed by Scottish raids into northern England and the appointment of Wallace as Guardian of Scotland in March 1298.

Its most famous editor, Charles Prestwich Scott, made the Manchester Guardian into a world-famous newspaper in the 1890s.

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Clarke's idea for the book began with his short story " Guardian Angel " ( 1946 ), which he expanded into a novel in 1952, incorporating it as the first part of the book, " Earth and the Overlords ".

The mini-series leads directly into the formation of a brand new JLA roster with Green Lantern Hal Jordan, Donna Troy, Dick Grayson as Batman, Doctor Light ( Kimiyo Hoshi ), Mon-El, Cyborg, Starfire, Congorilla, Guardian, and Mikaal Tomas.

A rogue Guardian of the Universe turned into Parallax.

Anthony Tucker of The Guardian remarked that Gold's discovery paved the way for Stephen Hawking's groundbreaking research into black holes.

Anthony Tucker of The Guardian said, " Throughout his life he would dive into new territory to open up problems unseen by others – in biophysics, astrophysics, space engineering, or geophysics.

In The Manchester Guardian, Alistair Cooke wrote, " Stanley Holloway distils into the body of Doolittle the taste and smell of every pub in England.

On 31 August 2007, the Guardian published a secret report that laid bare a web of shell companies, secret trusts and frontmen that his entourage used to funnel hundreds of millions of pounds into nearly 30 countries.

* Davies, Nick Guardian newspaper “ Inquiry fails to find single trafficker who forced anybody into prostitution ” 20 October 2009

* In a July 2002 article penned for The Guardian, Morley wrote " I loved the name Art of Noise so much that I forced my way into the group.

The Guardian reported in July 2001 that, after initial outrage by Belgian historians following the publications of Hochschild's book, the state-funded Museum of the Belgian Congo would finance an investigation into Hochschild's allegations.

The government divided the Kalmyks into three administrative units attached, according to their respective locations, to the district governments of Astrakhan, Stavropol and the Don and appointed a special Russian official bearing the title of " Guardian of the Kalmyk People " for purposes of administration.

He had no children ; after his death the Evening News passed into the hands of his nephews in the Allen family, while the Guardian was sold to its editor, his cousin C. P. Scott.

Pharaoh-like in appearance in that the design of his head resembles the headdresses worn by the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt, this nearly indestructible humanoid robot is being built by captive scientist Dr. Lucius Guardian, who decides to give the two escapees its control device, a miniature transmitter built into a wristwatch.

Bullock's Guardian obituary commented that " Bullock's famous maxim ' Hitler was jobbed into power by backstairs intrigue ' has stood the test of time.

The Pall Mall Gazette argued that Salisbury had sailed into " the turbid waters of State Socialism "; the Manchester Guardian said his article was " State socialism pure and simple " and The Times claimed Salisbury was " in favour of state socialism ".

The season started with Enzo, freshly upgraded into a Guardian candidate by Bob during the Web incursion, defending Mainframe from Megabyte and Hexadecimal, with Dot and AndrAIa at his side.