After the war, the critically acclaimed Drunken Angel ( 1948 ), in which Kurosawa cast then-unknown actor Toshiro Mifune in a starring role, cemented the director's reputation as one of the most important young filmmakers in Japan.

" Aside from Roger Ackroyd, the most critically acclaimed Poirot novels appeared from 1932 to 1942, including such acknowledged classics as Murder on the Orient Express, The ABC Murders ( 1935 ), Cards on the Table ( 1936 ), and Death on the Nile ( 1937 ).

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He has said that the decision to direct it was influenced by his having had to defer some of his salary on the low-budgeted Spider, but it is one of his most critically acclaimed films to date, along with Eastern Promises ( 2007 ) a film about the struggle of one man to gain power in the Russian Mafia.

Some of the most critically acclaimed drama films in Asian cinema were produced during the 1950s, including Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ), Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu ( 1954 ), Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ), Guru Dutt's Pyaasa ( 1957 ), and the Akira Kurosawa films Rashomon ( 1950 ), Ikiru ( 1952 ) and Seven Samurai ( 1954 ).

To this day, The Thin Blue Line is one of the most critically acclaimed documentaries ever made.

Many of the most critically acclaimed Asian films of all time were produced during this decade, including Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ), Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) and The Music Room ( 1958 ), Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu ( 1954 ) and Sansho the Bailiff ( 1954 ), Raj Kapoor's Awaara ( 1951 ), Mikio Naruse's Floating Clouds ( 1955 ), Guru Dutt's Pyaasa ( 1957 ) and Kaagaz Ke Phool ( 1959 ), and the Akira Kurosawa films Rashomon ( 1950 ), Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Throne of Blood ( 1957 ).

One of the most famous was The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) from critically acclaimed Bengali film director Satyajit Ray, whose films had a profound influence on world cinema, with directors such as Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, James Ivory, Abbas Kiarostami, Elia Kazan, François Truffaut, Steven Spielberg ,< ref name = unmaderay >

The British directors Alfred Hitchcock and David Lean are among the most critically acclaimed of all-time, with other important directors including Charlie Chaplin, Michael Powell, Carol Reed and Ridley Scott.

It was one of the most successful spin-off series in television history, as well as one of the most critically acclaimed comedy series.

German film director F. W. Murnau had recently made The Last Laugh and Sunrise and was the most critically acclaimed director in Hollywood, and Hawks's attempted to imitate Murnau's style with this film.

It was critically panned by most, but was a success in its theatrical run, spurring its own sequel.

Yogi B is now the most critically acclaimed Kollywood ( the Tamil Movie Industry ) rapper because of his work on the 2007 movie Pollathavan.

By combining New Wave and electronic music, New Order became one of the most critically acclaimed and influential bands of the 1980s.

As with most cryptography applications, the protocols used to establish and verify this binding are critically important.

In Christianity, resurrection most critically concerns the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, but also includes the resurrection of Judgment Day known as the Resurrection of the Dead by those Christians who subscribe to the Nicene Creed ( which is the majority or Mainstream Christianity ), as well as the resurrection miracles done by Jesus and the prophets of the Old Testament.

It became one of the most critically praised science fiction films of the 1950s.

Critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine describes Talking Heads as being " one of the most critically acclaimed bands of the ' 80s, while managing to earn several pop hits.

Hootenanny was played on over two hundred radio stations across the country, with critics acclaiming the album ; The Village Voice < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Robert Christgau deemed it " the most critically independent album of 1983 ".

With the exception of its well-received High Heat Baseball franchise and BattleTanx games, most of the company's games were critically panned.

The tale of a young lady who inherits her father's miserliness, it also became the most critically acclaimed book of his career.

His most critically acclaimed film is The Last Picture Show ( 1971 ).

Pat and Mike became one of the duo's most popular and critically acclaimed films.

However, the most divisive issue in Bhutan in the 1980s and early 1990s was the accommodation of the Nepalese Hindu minority.

Callaghan was the favourite to win the leadership, although he was the oldest candidate ; he was also the most experienced and least divisive.

In the economic argument of exchange rate regimes ( one of the most divisive issues among economists ), the Journal has a tendency to support fixed exchange rates over floating exchange rates in spite of its support for the free market in other respects.

However, it fell to Home to maintain Commonwealth unity during the Suez Crisis in 1956, described by Dutton as " the most divisive in its history to date ".

The speech caused a political storm, making Powell one of the most talked about, though divisive, politicians in the country, and leading to his dismissal from the Shadow Cabinet by Conservative party leader Edward Heath.

The most divisive political issue of the day was the use of hard money, or specie, versus the use of paper money, and Hopkins sided with the latter group.

The genetic modification of food has led to one of the most persistent and divisive debates about the mandatory labelling.

It generated speculation that the presence of a young member of India's most famous political family would reinvigorate the Congress party's political fortunes among India's youthful population In his first interview with foreign media, Gandhi portrayed himself as a uniter of the country and condemned " divisive " politics in India, saying that he would try to reduce caste and religious tensions.

While initially popular, this attempt at revising Canada's constitution proved extremely divisive in most of English-speaking Canada.

Brownlow's uncompromising and radical viewpoints and his relentless invectives against his opponents made him one of the most divisive figures in Tennessee political history and one of the most controversial politicians of the Reconstruction-era South.

Sub-Saharan African music and most European ( Western ) music is divisive, while Indian and other Asian musics may be considered as primarily additive.

Kelly hardly ever rebelled ( voted ) against the position of her Party and in the most divisive votes over Labour's term Kelly followed the Party line.

He has, however, expressed reservations about affirmative action in the past, most notably in a 1992 speech in which he reportedly called the practice " inherently limited and divisive ," explaining that it " has kept America thinking in racial terms.

In January 1988, Ghiz declared that Islanders would vote in a plebiscite on the question of a " fixed link " to mainland Canada — probably the single most divisive topic in Prince Edward Island during the latter part of the 20th century.

Religion, as countless acts of violence in the name of God have underscored, remains the most divisive and volatile of social forces ... Apatheism, therefore, should not be assumed to represent a lazy recumbency ... Just the opposite: it is the product of a determined cultural effort to discipline the religious mindset, and often of an equally determined personal effort to master the spiritual passions.

The election campaign was the most divisive in Jennings ’ career ; Taylor derided Jennings as a " pitiful coward " and not doing enough to protect the territory.

On the one hand the charter had apparently managed to placate the wary authorities ; on the other the vague wording had the effect of hiding away some of the divisive ideological differences among the most powerful players.

Though Origin did not explicitly deal with human evolution, the jump was one both supporters and opponents of the theory immediately made, and the idea that man was simply an animal ( common descent ) who had evolved a particular set of characteristics — rather than a spiritual being created by God — continued to be one of the most divisive notions of the 19th century.

Anarchist librarian and activist Chuck Munson, for example, who first hosted the book on his infoshop web site, denies that lifestylism exists, and has decried the concept as " one of the most divisive and destructive things inflicted on the anarchist movement in recent years.

Controversial archbishop Rembert Weakland of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee called Mother Angelica's comments "... one of the most disgraceful, un-Christian, offensive, and divisive diatribes I have ever heard ".

The ecumenical movement, which hopes to reunify all of Christianity, has found that this is one of the most divisive of issues between churches.

The episode, dealing with " one of the most divisive issues in American society " according the The New York Times, became a subject of controversy after its broadcast.

From 1888 to 1903, the paper tended to be less radical, although, in terms of South African events, the period was anything but calm – especially as it ended with the South African War, unquestionably the most protracted, expensive and divisive war fought on South African soil.