Summing up Barrymore's appeal, Roger Ebert, in his review of 50 First Dates, described Barrymore as having a " smiling, coy sincerity ," describing the film as " ingratiating and lovable.

One review described the Godzilla costume as appearing to be " crossed with Kermit the Frog " and another sneeringly compared it to Godzilla vs. Gigan, stating that it did " everything wrong that Gigan did, and then some.

In his review for Artforum, critic Richard Hennessy described a " shocking fun-house atmosphere " and " aura of ancient Roman patronage ".

Jarmusch is also featured on the album Wu-Tang Meets the Indie Culture ( 2005 ) in two interludes described by Sean Fennessy in a Pitchfork Media review of the album as both " bizarrely pretentious " and " reason alone to give it a listen ".

Author Ross Douthat, in a review of 2009 film Avatar, described pantheism as " Hollywood ’ s religion of choice for a generation now "..

A GameSpot review by Jeff Gerstmann described the game as outstanding.

A Eurogamer review described the game as " polished " and " stunning " and thought that it " was extremely well balanced and plays very well ".

In his generally positive review of the opening show of the tour, The Wall Street Journal critic Jim Fusilli described Waits ' music thus:

In a review by Sounds magazine the same year, the Undertones were described as: Possibly the best pop group in the English speaking world.

One retrospective review described the singles as “ not only riveting examples of high-energy punk, but contained provocative, thoughtful lyrics berating the urban synthetic fashions of the 70s and urging individual expression ”.

In a concert review, Bernard Holland described parts of the first movements of Bruckner's sixth and seventh symphonies as follows: " There is the same slow, broad introduction, the drawn-out climaxes that grow, pull back and then grow some more – a sort of musical coitus interruptus.

President Barack Obama has described the failure to ratify the Convention as ' embarrassing ' and had promised to review this.

Continuation Bond author Raymond Benson described Boucher's critique as " true to form " and " a tirade " as Boucher concluded his review by saying: " it is 80, 000 words long, with enough plot for 8, 000 and enough originality for 800.

An affectionate obituary tribute in The Guardian commented, " He loved cricket ... and played it ardently and very badly ", while in a review of Cricket Country, George Orwell described him as " the true cricketer ":

The Boston Globe review described The Elements of Style Illustrated ( 2005 ), by Maira Kalman, as an " aging zombie of a book.

In a review of Rendez-Vous in Film Comment, Armond White described it as " Juliette Binoche's career defining performance ".

As an experiment it has been described but there are no peer reviewed series available in the current hand surgical literature that review or comment upon the procedure.

The report, co-authored with Alex Hope of visual effects firm Double Negative, was released in 2011 ; Livingstone described it as a " complete bottom up review of the whole education system relating to games.

In his review in the New York Times, Frank S. Nugent described the film as " a bulky, rambling and indecisive photoplay which has not merely taken liberties with the letter of the original but with its spirit.

Stewart Mason in his Allmusic review of the album described it as a " terrific album " and a " fascinating, underrated release ", " every bit the equal of Safe as Milk and Trout Mask Replica ".

A review described this incarnation of the Magic Band as the " Tragic Band ", a term that has stuck over the years.

" He described the game as having an " extremely high " random factor and concluded his review stating " I'm fairly certain there's a damned good game in this box somewhere, it's just not the one described in the rulebook.

A 2005 systematic review of 28 studies described a total of 183 failures or recanalizations from approximately 43, 642 vasectomy patients ( 0. 4 %), and 20 studies in the same review described 60 pregnancies after 92, 184 vasectomies ( 0. 07 %).

Algis Budrys gave Creatures an uneasily positive review, praising its " rich, satisfactory detail and really moving human interplay ," but warning that its unusual narrative technique " will probably baffle and infuriate " many readers.

William A. Henry III wrote an exceptionally sympathetic review in Time: " Clear narrative drive, Nunn's cinematic staging, three superb leading performances by actors willing to be complex and unlikeable and one of the best rock scores ever produced in the theater.

" In his review of five new BC books, Brown concludes that, comparatively, “ Lent has probably come closest of all these authors to what Charles Lillard [...] called ‘ a coming-to-terms with the landscape ’— of B. C., or anywhere else .” Dallas Harrison ’ s observations are similar, though high praise of Lent ’ s descriptive power is forthcoming in Harrison ’ s summary of Jane ’ s narrative as “ a crisis of selfhood in London worthy of Antoine Roquentin in Jean-Paul Sartre ’ s Nausea ” ( 113 ).

In his review for The New York Times, Vincent Canby wrote, " Slacker is a 14-course meal composed entirely of desserts or, more accurately, a conventional film whose narrative has been thrown out and replaced by enough bits of local color to stock five years ' worth of ordinary movies ".

Andrew Sarris, in his review for The New York Observer, wrote, " For once in a mainstream production, the narrative machinery works on all cylinders without any wasted motion or fatuous rhetoric.

Preston's novel The Cobra Event ( 1998 ), about the terroristic release of a fictional virus combining various qualities of different diseases upon New York City, alarmed even then-President Bill Clinton who, shortly after reading it, instigated a review of bio-terror threats to the U. S. The book strove to tell a fast-paced thriller narrative within the bounds of well-researched bio-terroristic possibility, and was reportedly pressed upon Clinton by a molecular biologist when he was attending a Renaissance Weekend event.

Although the prior comments seem to paint the game as visually crude and dull, Tyler Minarik of PlayStation Lifestyle has a differing opinion stating in his review " Despite Sands of Time having some of the best narrative and plot points in the series, the next entry, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within makes large improvements in just about every other facet of the game.

This narrative consists of three sections: an evaluation of the initialization of the NAM and GFS, a review of model trends and biases, and a description of model differences and preferences.

The film received a positive but guarded review in The New York Times, which praised Philippe Torreton's performance but thought the narrative too complex for an audience not initiated in Napoleon's history.

This mutation supplied the starting-point of my narrative, and thereafter, in Enoch Powell's words in his review, was my ‘ guiding and interpretative thread through the events of the twenty inter-war years ’.

Reviewing the Dreamcast port of Soul Reaver, IGN's editor described Raziel's narrative as one of the most convincing he had ever heard, echoed later in the site's review for Legacy of Kain: Defiance which described the series ' cast as " just damn good at talking like vampires, tortured souls and gods.

Author and Booker Prize winner A. S. Byatt stated in a review for The Guardian that the novel gives, " a complete narrative pleasure that is rare ".

In a review for Allmusic, Mark Deming said that the single " was a far cry from anything the Bangles had recorded before "; while Matthew Greenwald, also from the website, said " It's a clever and deceptively simple pop narrative, an infectious pop confection ...

A more recent Time Out Film Guide review states that Welles simply didn't care enough to make the narrative seamless: " the principal pleasure of The Lady from Shanghai is its tongue-in-cheek approach to story-telling.

In his review for the Chicago Reader, Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote, " The movie starts off as a narrative, but gradually grows into something much more abstract — it's unsettling, but also beautiful ".

Roger Ebert remarked in his review that, although the narrative was obviously modeled after Stand by Me, " hat distinguished Stand by Me was the psychological soundness of the story: We could believe it and care about it.

Film maker Erik Kristopher Myers ( Roulette ), who was the first to ever review the film in 2005, wrote, " The curious thing about the Exorcist franchise is that you have three films following the same narrative thread, but none of the chapters feel as though they belong to a greater whole.

" A review in Library Journal noted, " His real strength is in blending pungent social commentary with the personal narrative.