Derek Elley of Variety described the film as " playful and sporty ," saying that this was Dunst's best performance to date: " Believable as both a spoiled ingenue and a lover to two very different men, Dunst endows a potentially lightweight character with considerable depth and sympathy.

It was described as " a blend of Sex and the City and The Devil Wears Prada " and a " pseudo-sophisticated romantic comedy " according to Variety. com.

Creator Charles Randolph told Variety that he wrote the part with Gellar in mind, and described Gellar's character as having " a kind of zealous immaturity – like a drug addict with a to-do list.

On 16 December 2010, Variety reported that Gilliam is to " godfather " a film called 1884 which is described as an animated steampunk parody of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, with several former Pythons lending their voice talents to the project whereas Gilliam will be credited as " creative adviser ".

Todd McCarthy of Variety described it as " emotionally powerful and stylistically sure-handed " and that the film ’ s characters and social commentary were brought into the story with an " almost breathtaking deliberation ".

The film met with generally positive reviews ; Roger Ebert gave it three and a half stars and described it as a " very good film ... with moments evoking great emotion ", while Variety Todd McCarthy wrote, " Inspirational on the face of it, Clint Eastwood's film has a predictable trajectory, but every scene brims with surprising details that accumulate into a rich fabric of history, cultural impressions and emotion.

Starring opposite Tracy was Fredric March, a pairing Variety described as " a stroke of casting genius ...

The New York Times described it as " fantastic fun " and Variety called it " brilliantly caustic ", but the Los Angeles Times called it " snail-slow, shrill and gesticulating " and Newsweek said it was a " sledgehammer satire ".

" Leslie Felperin of Variety described it " like a fancy, retro-styled pocket watch that someone accidentally broke and tried to reassemble with only a vague idea of clockwork.

" Todd McCarthy of Variety described the film as " a preposterously pulpy but quite entertaining suspense meller " that is " spiked by some spectacularly staged and genuinely tense action sequences.

Reviewer Greg Evans, described the sold-out show in Variety magazine: " With a likable, self-effacing demeanor that rarely comes across in his TV specials, Copperfield leads the audience through nearly two hours of truly mind-boggling illusions.

Joe Leydon in Variety described Santa with Muscles as a " weakling of a comedy " and thought that Hogan's performance was lacking the charisma of his previous work such as Suburban Commando.

Variety magazine described the film as excellent and that it " combines solid entertainment, chilling topicality, and superbly intelligent serio-comic story values ".

" Variety meanwhile thought that the film relied on the performance of Yahoo Serious, who they described " exhibits a brash and confident sense of humor, endearing personality, and a fondness for sight gags.

Variety described the film as " full of terribly inside showbiz jokes and populated by what could be called Burt and Hal's Rat Pack, film takes place in that redneck never-never land where most of the guys are beer-guzzling good ole boys and all the gals are fabulously built tootsies.

Variety described the premise: " Lobo is a seven-foot tall, blue-skinned, indestructible and heavily muscled anti-hero who drives a pimped out motorcycle, and lands on Earth in search of four fugitives who are bent on wreaking havoc.

Todd McCarthy, of Variety, described Whitaker's performance as " big-hearted ," " hugely emotional ," and " simply terrific.

The Telegraph felt she was " never better " but Variety described her character's storyline as " a brief narrative digression in which Malick seems at least as interested in the horses on Jane's ranch as he is in the woman herself ".

" Variety described it as a " chiller resolutely without chills, in which even the pool water always seems heated.

Variety described it as " A shake -' n '- bake slasher movie that shows just how difficult it is to do effective, modestly budgeted horror ".

Variety film reviewer Robert Koehler described the film as " a broadside ," but noted that " it's vastly superior in content and style to most of the recent anti-Moore docus.

One of radio's most popular programs, The March of Time was described by Variety as " the apex of radio showmanship.

Entertainment Weekly described the film as " a fluid cinematic essay, rooted in painstakingly assembled evidence, that heightens and cleanses your perceptions " while Variety called it " a superb, eye-opening and often absurdly funny deconstruction of the myths and realities of global terrorism ".

In Variety, Todd McCarthy described the film as " a zippy, frothy confection that emerges as agreeable middle-range Woody.

Variety Magazine wrote that "' Mobsters ' resembles a cart-before-the-horse case of putting marketing ahead of filmmaking, as the seemingly can't-miss premise of teen-heartthrob gangsters gets lost in self-important direction, a shoddy script and muddled storytelling ".

Variety called it " wonderfully crafted " and " absolutely charming " and added, " Director Frank Oz clearly has fun with his subjects, helped out in good part by clever cutting and a great, imitative ' 30s jazzy score by Miles Goodman.

Variety wrote: " Based on the novel by Arthur Hailey, over-produced by Ross Hunter with a cast of stars as long as a jet runway, and adapted and directed by George Seaton in a glossy, slick style, Airport is a handsome, often dramatically involving $ 10 million epitaph to a bygone brand of filmmaking " but added that the film " does not create suspense because the audience knows how it's going to end.

Commenting on her performance, Variety noted, " Zeta-Jones is bewitchingly lovely as the center of everyone's attention, and she throws herself into the often physical demands of her role with impressive grace.

Joe Leydon of Variety gave Shanghai Noon a favorable review, characterizing it as " Fast, furious and, quite often, very, very funny.

Variety wrote that " While Arizona is filled with many splendid touches and plenty of yocks, it often doesn't hold together as a coherent story.

In Variety, David Rooney stated, " Original in every sense, this often difficult film about family, relationships, sexual politics, spiritual questing, faith and obsession further explores the director's abiding fascinations in excitingly unconventional terms.

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Pauline Kael in The New Yorker, Richard Schickel in Time, Charles Champlin in the Los Angeles Times, Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times, and ' Murf ' in Variety, among others, responded favorably to the film's pathos and ( often campy ) sense of humor.

Derek Elley of Variety said that it " is a highly enjoyable, often dazzlingly staged vehicle dragged down by a sluggish final half-hour ".

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" Many negative reviews came from Dennis Harvey of Variety, who called it " a comedy that doesn't build, lacks structural integrity, and often falls flat.

Lisa Nesselson of Variety claimed that the movie " too often feels like a gussied-up ' 50s-style treatise about the dangers of nice girls flirting with social rebels ," and suggested that the film be re-titled " Slumming for Dummies.

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In his review for Variety magazine, Todd McCarthy said, " Laura Palmer, after all the talk, is not a very interesting or compelling character and long before the climax has become a tiresome teenager ".

Variety Magazine reviewed the film positively stating, " but by the time the initial 45 or 50 minutes are out of the way, the impending disaster begins to take a firm grip on the imagination and builds a compelling expectancy.

In Variety, Todd McCarthy said the film " is well observed in many particulars but is too familiar in its basic trajectory to be fresh or compelling.

Reviewed under the English title Big Mama Variety judged, " hough smoothly done, ' Big Mama ' never provides any compelling reason why its formula serio-comedy occupies the big-screen rather than the small -- or better yet, a legit stage matinee.