While he recognized the advantages of modern societies he also criticized them for their cold and impersonal nature that caused alienation while praising the intimacy of traditional communities.

While praising its efficiency, Smith also expressed concern about the effects of industrial labor ( e. g. repetitive activity ) on workers.

" While praising the novel generally, he faulted Niven for relying on inconsistencies regarding evolution in his extrapolations to support his fictional premises.

" While praising the replay value afforded by the extra scenarios, the critic derided the random battles of Radical Dreamers, writing that " RPG-style random combat doesn't translate well to text-only medium.

While PC Zone gave the game 91 % and a " Classic " award, praising its inventive level design and engaging plot, most other publications did not have such a glowing view towards it.

" While praising Clarke's work as " Stapledonian its historic concepts and also for the quality of its prose and thinking ," they concluded that Childhood's End was " an awkward and imperfect book.

While praising the application of rules to classical Latin, most intensely in the Golden Age, he says " In gaining accuracy, however, classical Latin suffered a grievous loss.

While finding the series to be " surprisingly sad " and praising the well-defined characters, he felt the series was " neither particularly well drawn nor incredibly witty ".

" While praising Branagh's direction and performances by the cast, Berardinelli attributed most of his discontent to the film's screenplay, concluding, " This is Branagh's worst effort to date and shows, if nothing else, that no matter how talented the director and his cast, he still needs a decent screenplay.

While praising its " meticulous attention to authenticity ", critics panned Jesus for being " painfully monotonous " and " little more than an illustrated gospel, with nothing in the way of historical and social context.

While noting that Portnoy " rather sticks to ' plain ' drumming ," he commended the drummer's performance, praising his use of ethnic percussion to give the album " an original twist ".

While studying in Berlin and Jena in 1922, Codreanu took a critical attitude towards the Weimar Republic, and began praising the March on Rome and Italian fascism as major achievements ; he decided to cut his stay short, after he learned of the large student protests in December, prompted by the intention of the government to grant the complete emancipation of Jews ( see History of the Jews in Romania ).

While praising the film's set design, he criticized its " meandering storyline and lifeless protagonists ," saying that " Lost in Space features a few action sequences that generate adrenaline jolts, but this is not an edge-of-the-seat motion picture.

While praising the school for its high academic achievement, Lawrence-Lightfoot noted that ideas like ethics and character were not emphasized as a part of the day to day working of the school.

While praising Joad for a " frank and honest account of Joad's spiritual and intellectual odyssey ," Loomer was clearly less than enthralled with Joad's lack familiarity with " the best of modern religious thought ," undoubtedly a negative reference to Joad's dependence upon Edwin Bevan and C. S. Lewis.

While generally praising US performance it highlighted numerous incidents of friendly fire.

While yet bishop of London, in 1002 he received an anonymous letter in Latin praising his style and eloquence.

While many leftists have happily worked with Arab or Muslim groups in opposition to perceived U. S. or Israeli imperialism, alliances between leftists and Islamists are relatively unusual, and Taheri's sole example of a leftist actually praising Islamist terrorists is from Carlos the Jackal, a terrorist himself.

While at university Adam Marsh wrote to another scholar praising Giffard's scholarly skills.

While the other judges were praising other contestants to win, Ken predicted the unlikely victory of Hady Mirza.

While praising Beuerlein's play, Shanahan wanted a quarterback with more experience and felt Schroeder fit his system better.

While praising the acting and William Wyler's " close-to " direction, he also had high praise for the chariot race: " There has seldom been anything in movies to compare with this picture's chariot race.

While praising Schaeffer's message against legalized abortion, Schaeffer's comments in the film series / book about the Catholic Church drew a critical response.

While living in the Soviet Union she became more enthused with the Soviet government and wrote many books praising it.

While some critics dismissed Romero's film because of the graphic scenes, writer R. H. W. Dillard claimed that the " open-eyed detailing " of taboo heightened the film's success.

While filming Carmen Jones ( 1954 ), Preminger began an affair with the film's star, Dorothy Dandridge, which lasted four years.

While popular belief long held that Detour was shot for about $ 20, 000, Noah Isenberg, in doing research for his book on the film, discovered that the film's actual cost was upwards of $ 100, 000.

While the Internet Movie Database states that the film's original ending had been reinstated for a re-release in 1979, Steve Biodrowski of Cinefantastique magazine claims that the film is still being released with its additional footage, including a screening at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2005, honouring director Don Siegel.

While very different from the film's version, it provided a collection of background information of Indy's youth and Henry's life.

While the film's poster depicts a fierce character abducting a maiden, no such scene was actually in the film ; Robby only carried one person, crewman Dr. Ostro when he was mortally wounded by his own actions with the Krell's " plastic educator ".

While the song is only heard briefly in the film ( on a car radio ), it is available on the film's soundtrack.

While considering the film's special effects as " astonishing ", Ebert also contended " the movie is slow to get off the ground " and " sometimes the movie fails on the basic level of making itself clear.

While the film version of Valley of the Dolls was being made, actress Barbara Parkins suggested that Warwick be considered to sing the film's theme song, written by songwriting team Andre and Dory Previn.

While still only a partial-talkie ( sequences still featured intertitles ), 66 minutes of the film's 105 minute running time featured dialogue or songs, making it the longest talking motion picture yet.

While some critics criticized the film's depictions of violence and greed — such as death scenes, Kate's speech, and the gremlins ' gluttony — for lacking comic value, scholar Charlotte Miller instead interpreted these as a satire of " some characteristics of Western civilization ", suggesting that Westerners may take too much satisfaction from violence.

While the film's unprofessional acting is pointed out by nearly all critics, its overall naturalist technique was praised at the time.

While reviewers generally received the film negatively, criticizing the overacting and lack of character development, a smaller number of reviewers praised elements such as the film's stylish Gothic visuals, the " icy English composure " in Kate Beckinsale's performance, and the extensively worked-out vampire – werewolf mythology that serves as the film's backstory.

Robert Firsching of Allmovie made similar criticisms of the film's content, saying " While the film is undoubtedly gruesome enough to satisfy fans, its mixture of nauseating mondo animal slaughter, repulsive sexual violence, and pie-faced attempts at socially conscious moralizing make it rather distasteful morally as well ".

While it is rare, films which might have otherwise fared well, may fail due to issues unrelated to the film itself, with the timing of the film's release being perhaps the most common.

" While Anime News Network writer Carlo Santos praised the animation, calling it " outstanding ", he criticized the film's plot, arguing that people who had not played Final Fantasy VII would not understand the story.

While honing their pitch to Vestron, Gottlieb and Bergstein chose as the film's director Emile Ardolino, who had won the 1983 Academy Award for the documentary, He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin '.

While the film's music disappointed fans of the band's more traditional pop sound, it features what some critics considered to be some of the best recorded work by The Monkees, including songs contributed by Carole King and Harry Nilsson.

While he was visiting London for the film's British première, he met Alexander Korda who offered him a contract to work in England.

While Dick was created as the equivalent of Professor Fate from the 1960s movie The Great Race, Muttley mirrored the film's character of Max Meen.

While the movie in itself was a buddy cop film ( i. e. pairing a fictional cop with a real world boy ), the film's police department obligatorily assigned all cops a conflicting buddy to work with.