Some critics talked more positively of the film, with Variety calling it " an elegant looking, period romantic charade ".

On 23 October 2011, Variety reported that Elwes will make his directorial debut with an independent film, Elvis & Nixon.

Todd McCarthy of Variety gave the film a B + judging that " Coppola finds creative nirvana, he frequently has trouble delivering the full goods.

According to Moodysson, the problem with the original title started when the film was Sweden's candidate for the Academy Awards, though it was eventually not chosen as a nominee: the Hollywood industry magazine Variety refused to run an advertisement for a film with that title, and thus American distributor Strand Releasing asked for a new title to be chosen.

In 1950 Fellini co-produced and co-directed with Alberto Lattuada Variety Lights ( Luci del varietà ), his first feature film.

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.

Cruz's performance in the film was praised by film critics, with Jonathan Holloland of Variety magazine writing " if confirmation is still needed that Cruz is an actress first and a pretty face second, then here it is.

Variety reported that Cruz had originally auditioned for the role of the film within a film's star, Claudia, which eventually went to Nicole Kidman.

According to a Variety article by Peter Bart in the May 15, 2005, issue, Nichols had become obsessed with Simon and Garfunkel's music while shooting the film.

Response from Variety after the initial release reflects the outrage generated by Romero's film: " Until the Supreme Court establishes clear-cut guidelines for the pornography of violence, Night of the Living Dead will serve nicely as an outer-limit definition by example.

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 ".

When first released, the staff at Variety magazine gave the film a positive review, writing, " Crossfire is a frank spotlight on anti-Semitism.

In 1952, Variety wrote that the film " effectively serve the purpose of a framework for all the atmosphere and excitement of the circus on both sides of the big canvas.

On 12 August 2008, Variety reported that Universal Pictures had optioned the rights to produce feature film adaptations of The Wheel of Time books.

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.

In reviewing the film's sequel twenty-three years later, Variety noted that though the original film was " Intended as a cautionary tale on the pitfalls of unchecked ambition and greed, Stone's 1987 original instead had the effect of turning Douglas ' hugely charismatic ( and Oscar-winning ) villain into a household name and boardroom icon -- an inspiration to the very power players and Wall Street wannabes for whom he set such a terrible example.

Variety, too, very much liked Beery in the film, noting that he delivered a " studied, adult " performance.

Variety said the film " asks the spectator to believe in the improbable.

Noted reviewer Graham Greene was effusive that this was Capra's finest film to date, describing Capra's treatment as " a kinship with his audience, a sense of common life, a morality ..." Variety noted " a sometimes too thin structure the players and director Frank Capra have contrived to convert (...) into fairly sturdy substance.

According to a 1986 Variety interview with Frank Capra, Jr., his father had wanted to shoot the film in color, but because the only suitable stock footage he intended to incorporate into the film, such as scenes from a documentary about the Himalayas, was in black and white, he was forced to change his plans.

Reviewing the story, critic Zack Handlen wrote, "' Second Variety ' is grim, violent, and suspenseful.

Her performance was regarded as " memorably touching " by Variety magazine, and critic Roger Ebert commented, " Her first kiss is one of the most perfect little scenes I've ever seen in a movie.

Todd McCarthy, a film critic for the Variety magazine, wrote: " Clearly enamored of the culture it examines while resolutely remaining an outsider's romanticization of it, yarn is disappointingly content to recycle familiar attitudes about the nobility of ancient cultures, Western despoilment of them, liberal historical guilt, the unrestrainable greed of capitalists and the irreducible primacy of Hollywood movie stars.

In his review in Variety magazine, film critic Todd McCarthy wrote, " After making the grade internationally with the sleeper hit, Gregory's Girl, Scottish writer-director Bill Forsyth has broken the sophomore sesh jinx the only way he could, by making an even better film ...

Variety critic Derek Elley said the film " delivers very likable, if sometimes dramatically wobbly, results ...

The film critic for Variety magazine, Emanuel Levy, lauded the crime drama and liked the direction of the picture, the acting, and the screenplay, yet thought the film " lacks secondary characters and subplots.

Min hired some of the most recognized journalists in the entertainment industry, most notably scooping up veteran Variety film critic Todd McCarthy after his firing from Variety in March 2010.

Lael Loewenstein, film critic for Variety magazine, gave the film a mixed review and wrote, " The latest entry in the growing field of indie youth ensemble films, Bongwater is an uneven, intermittently likable movie about a group of Portland residents for whom getting high is a way of life.

Similarly, Todd McCarthy, former critic for Variety, said that Jones " manages to hold viewer interest throughout with a devilishly witty turn ... despite having desperately little to work with ".

Graeme Hill's Weekend Variety Wireless airs on weekend mid-mornings, and features contributions from author Shannon Lush, linguist Max Cryer, amateur astronomer Grant Christie, sceptic Vicky Hyde, correspondent Tim Wilson, commentator Tom Frewen and music critic Grant Smithies.

" Variety critic Brian Lowry considered the opening sequence to be the best part of the episode.

A Variety critic called Damien " the play's only fully developed character " and commended Nesbitt for giving " the one strong, telling performance the cast ".

After war service in the Pacific he attended the Dartmouth College and then was employed as a film critic by Variety for six years.

Jonathan Holland, film critic for Variety magazine and reporting from the San Sebastián International Film Festival, liked the film and wrote, " Argentine helmer Adolfo Aristarain turns a compassionate eye toward his own spiritual and political education in the rangy, quietly affecting and rewardingly intense Roma, his most achieved work to date.

She was praised by critic Alissa Simon of Variety, who wrote " as she proved in Goran Dukic's Wristcutters: A Love Story, statuesque star Bibb is a smart actress willing to give herself totally to a role.

Leonard Klady of Variety commended the animation's "... razzle-dazzle technique and unusual look.

In his analysis of the Eroica, released on a 1953 Book-Of-The Month Recording and published in his book The Infinite Variety of Music, Leonard Bernstein called the first two movements of the work " perhaps the greatest two movements in all symphonic music ".

While Variety called it " an extremely well made, if essentially unpleasant shocker ", Leonard Maltin rated it an outright " bomb ".

Variety wrote: " Although the setting has been changed from New York to San Francisco for no apparent reason, Leonard Gershe's screen adaptation of his successful Broadway play, is an excellent example of how to switch from one medium to another.

" Leonard Klady in Variety described it as " A Star Is Born meets The Way We Were, and while discerning audiences will turn their noses up, the hoi polloi are apt to embrace this unabashedly sentimental affair and send it soaring into the box office stratosphere.

Leonard Klady of Variety gave the film a mostly negative review.