According to a 2007 story in Forbes magazine's list of " America's Wildest Weather Cities " and the Weather Variety Index, Springfield is the city with the most varied weather in the United States.

In 2007 the festival was named one of Variety magazine's " Top Ten Festivals We Love.

Variety magazine's Phil Gallo wrote, " Director Steven Soderbergh uses a guerilla style of filmmaking to capture behind-the-scenes players with a fervent urgency ; if K Street holds its course, it could serve as a primer in understanding modern-day politics ".

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.

The film was critically well-received ; the Variety reviewer wrote " Hawke ... gives a haunting performance.

The Variety reviewer wrote: " While Ethan Hawke uses the space confidently, he allows his talented cast to push mannered material further into self-consciousness.

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Another reviewer in Variety noted of a 1995 production starring Tony Randall as Sir Peter Teazle that Sheridan's play was " such a superbly crafted laugh machine, and so timeless in delivering delectable comeuppance to a viper's nest of idle-rich gossipmongers, that you'd practically have to club it to death to stifle its amazing pleasures "-before claiming that this is precisely what the production being reviewed had done.

" Variety reviewer Brian Lowry compared the film to an extended music video, praising the soundtrack and visuals, but panning the story.

" Variety Magazine reviewer Jeremy Gerard compared the show to Twin Peaks and was overall positive to the series, but said " I just wish it were a little more fun, that I didn't have this nagging feeling that it wants to hurt me the next time I come around.

Variety. com reviewer David Rooney writes that the film " provides stimulating evidence of how thoroughly news can be skewed, political agendas served and a climate of fear created by a news net selling itself as an objective information service.

The Variety reviewer noted :" His debut foray into his own spotlight comes with ' Songs for a New World ,' a musical revue that shows Brown to be a capable songwriter of the Alan Menken school: commercial show-tune pop with palatable sentiment and easy-to-take melody .... ' Songs for a New World ' seems to contain more cabaret convention and pianobar posing than any one revue should have to withstand.

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.

Variety reviewer Tony Scott criticized that " superficial characters wander through their roles without stirring a modicum of conviction ".

The staff reviewer for the entertainment magazine Variety highlighted – as other reviewers did as well – the cinematography of Bruno Nuytten ( an effort that won Nuytten a BAFTA award and a César nomination ).

and the reviewer in Variety writing: The film has plenty of corn, is sometimes too slow, repetitious and badly edited ... Yet has immense charm, and the photography and superb scenery make it a good travelog ad for the Great Barrier Reef.

The Variety reviewer wrote: " ' Skyscraper ' at first appears to be a zany romantic comedy but soon head down a dark avenue of memory and fantasy.

Variety reviewer Scott Foundas described the film as " goofy fantasy hokum " with a message, one scene as " subpar ", and some monologues as " distinctly uncinematic ", but other scenes as " surprisingly enjoyable.

Variety reviewer Todd Everett wrote " the hyperdrive visual sense for which Bakshi's animated features have been noted.

Steven Suskin, reviewing the new Broadway cast for Variety, wrote " What a difference a diva makes.

David Rooney of Variety wrote that Cruz " adds a serviceably malevolent edge to Chole's apparent madness.

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.

Todd McCarthy in Variety magazine wrote, " One of the film's indisputable triumphs is its soundtrack, which mixes Carter Burwell's original score with classic pop tunes and some fabulous covers.

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.

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.

The staff at Variety magazine wrote, " Combining dramatic content of four Eugene O ' Neill one-act plays, John Ford pilots adventures of a tramp steamer from the West Indies to an American port, and then across the Atlantic with cargo of high explosives.

" Variety wrote that the film was the most unsatisfying of the original three films and that " The acting here is generally unimpressive and in the case of Sarah's romantic partner, Miguel ( Antone DiLeo Jr ), unintentionally risible.

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

The staff at Variety magazine wrote of the film, " Trademark of John Ford's direction is clearly stamped on the film with its shadowy lights, softly contrasted moods and measured pace, but a tendency is discernible towards stylization for stylization's sake.

" The film industry trade paper Variety magazine wrote, " The film is unmatched in the scenes featuring Mostel and Wilder alone together, and several episodes with other actors are truly rare.

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.

" Todd McCarthy of Variety wrote " An exceptionally tasty contempo comedic romance, ' Jerry Maguire ' runs an unusual pattern on its way to scoring an unexpected number of emotional, social and entertaining points.

Emanuel Levy of Variety wrote: " Teaming for the first time Kevin Spacey and Samuel L. Jackson, arguably the two best actors of their generation, in perfectly fitting roles is a shrewd move and the best element of this fact-inspired but overwrought thriller.

The film received a mixed reception, Variety wrote, " as a lighthearted satire on British army life during the last war, Private's Progress has moments of sheer joy based on real authenticity.

Variety wrote that Hawke's part " shows signs of coming to new life as a screen actor after somnolent turns in the likes of Snow Falling on Cedars.

Charles Isherwood of The New York Times called it " dismal " and Steven Suskin of Variety wrote that it had " a tunestack only one quarter as imperishable " as Jersey Boys.

In Variety magazine, Todd McCarthy wrote, " The director's visual and aural dapplings are strikingly effective at their best, but over the long haul don't represent a satisfactory alternative to in-depth dramatic scenes ; one longs, for example, for even one sequence in which Ali and Dundee discuss boxing strategy or assess an opponent ", but he did have praise for the performances: " The cast is outstanding, from Smith, who carries the picture with consummate skill, and Voight, who is unrecognizable under all the makeup but nails Cosell's distinctive vocal cadences ".

" Variety wrote: " Undone by its best intentions, I Am Sam is an especially insipid example of the Hollywood message movie.

Variety wrote, " Laird's dialog is adult, intelligent and has a rhythmic beat.

The staff at Variety magazine gave the film a positive review and wrote, " Playing a discharged naval flier returning home from the Pacific first to find his wife unfaithful, then to find her murdered and himself in hiding as the suspect, Alan Ladd does a bangup job.

" Variety wrote " script vividly brings to life the principal characters in this story of a shattered marriage, though Pinter's resort to flashback technique is confusing in the early stages.