To refute her critics, Gallup had assembled a team at Riverbank, with Fabyan’s backing. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Haynes was waxing rhetorical—the critics don’t want to jettison everything from the past. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Of course the critics are right in that concepts such as discovery are problematic: discoveries are rarely made by a single individual at a precise moment in time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There were only patrons, journalists, critics, and socialites. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“It is too much to say that Miss Anderson is as yet a great artist,” wrote one critic. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

To critics, these riots clearly resulted from the Black Power movement. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even a decade ago, critics of President Bill Clinton’s call for a national conversation on the subject didn’t think so. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were able, moreover, to use the presence of conventionally qualified nonwhite students like me to prove that they were meeting the goals of their critics. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reached to our table for my wine-bottle, but the critic took my arm. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Skepticism was forceful, even rancorous; arguments lasted for years, with critics charging that Dillehay’s evidence was too low- quality to accept. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And he answered his critics with such statements as that he would send “armed guerrillas” into Mississippi. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s no great surprise, therefore, that wherever Satan has appeared, audiences and critics have found it all too easy to take his side. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“My father, maybe. It’s a lame paper, but you ever read the Clarion? He’s the art critic.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

My best friend was a white guy about sixty years old named Ernie Santosuosso who was the Globe jazz critic then. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Truman tried to mollify his critics by instituting a new loyalty program for the federal government. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But he was a natural contrarian, a born critic, whose fullest energies manifested themselves in the act of doing intellectual isometric exercises against the fixed objects presented by someone else's ideas. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

His Federalist critics had always accused him of being a man of party rather than principle. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

"Have you seen the bulls for to-morrow?" the critic asked me. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Me in love would be like being a food critic with no taste buds. It would be like being a color-blind painter. It would be like—” “Like skinny-dipping by yourself.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

One critic praises not only the show but the entresol itself, admiring the lack of “high class decor,” no plush drapes or gilded cornices, as in the rest of the gallery. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Abigail responded harshly to Republican critics of Jay’s Treaty, calling them “mindless Jacobins and party creatures.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He knew nothing about my personal life as a father and husband and seemed utterly uninterested in my background as a former newspaper reporter and editor, TV producer, and professor turned media critic and author. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been one of her most outspoken critics during her stay in Rome. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

One might be forgiven for thinking that it is Temple and Swift, the critics of modern science, who live in a disenchanted world, not Wotton, its advocate. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He became the drama and art critic for a student newspaper and wrote a review of the first play he ever attended. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Hannah Arendt, the influential cultural critic who documented the perverse excesses of Nazism, would later write about the “banality of evil” that permeated German culture during the Nazi era. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“What Chartres was to the Gothic cathedral,” wrote Thomas Talmadge, a Chicago architect and critic, “the Montauk Block was to the high commercial building.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When sugar is in the headlines, critics speak about how much of it we eat, not who picked the crop. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“My wife was never great at keeping secrets. Bit of a hot-head, your father, if you don’t mind my saying. How is it for you, living with a critic?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Erwin’s beneficence, however, did not silence the rising critics of a system that traded informal “favors” for complete submission to the owner’s authority. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to be the most generous critic.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

So let me stress that my views on this question coincide with those of many of the sharpest critics of the idea of progress. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But that view was too simplistic, as some architecture historians and critics have more recently acknowledged. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A long time ago I was in the ancient city of Prague and at the same time Joseph Alsop, the justly famous critic of places and events, was there. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Historians who project large Indian populations, Low Counter critics say, are committing the intellectual sin of arguing from silence. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Shocked by the toll in human life, critics have been quick to suggest policies and procedures to ensure that the catastrophes of this season won’t be repeated. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

But he was, of course, most concerned about how critics and the reading public would react. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the Burr-Hamilton duel helped turn the tide against the practice of dueling by providing a focal point for its critics and serving as a dramatic object lesson of its self-destructive character. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

His critics, often motivated by anti-Semitism, branded him old-fashioned or lacking in originality - originality being the most overhyped quality in the history of music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A critic, Ignatius Pardies, called Newton’s paper ‘a most ingenious hypothesis’, ‘an extraordinary hypothesis’ which, if true, would overturn the foundations of optics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Start distributing the second-line antibiotics in settings like these and you’d breed resistant strains that no drugs could cure, critics said. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It was the final blow for critics of the Alvarez theory. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

To the authors’ critics, the lack of confirmation had an obvious cause: the whole three- migrations theory was wrong. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the Communists found themselves in the extraordinary— critics said absurd—position of having to govern a people and foment revolution simultaneously. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was lavish with praise when deserved, but was a severe critic of sloppiness and laziness. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the critics praised Marian’s voice, they found fault with her singing technique and suggested that she still had a lot to learn. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

He argued that this would drastically reduce cervical cancer deaths, but his critics called it extreme and unnecessary. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Smith took Pollard aside and assured him that his critics were wrong. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She led the singing, acted as a critic of literature, wrote the social notes that went weekly to the Salims Journal. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He also sent copies to their mother, and to Lies, and to another art critic he knows. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He had lifelong correspondents, he had fans, he had critics, he had people who wrote asking to meet him, to give him gifts, to take his photograph. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1940, Lysenko deposed his critics, assumed the directorship of the Institute of Genetics of the Soviet Union, and set up his own totalitarian fiefdom over Soviet biology. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Its members may be other artists as well as patrons, friends, critics, and interested beholders. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The disjunction between the prince’s all-too-human genetic inheritance and his all-too-exalted political inheritance must have seemed particularly evident to the critics of the monarchy. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Her voice quavering, she answered her critics "I have my reasons," she said, even though she knew she didn't. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

But it is the first time I have danced it in front of such a large audience of critics and other dancers. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The economist Paul Krugman, a New York Times columnist and devout critic of George W. Bush, bemoaned this fact as the President’s reelection campaign got under way in early 2004. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Its buffoonish hooey and end-of-the-pier music may have amused its creative team and some critics, but with the benefit of hindsight its timing seems tasteless and incomprehensible. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Hamilton did not design his system, as his critics frequently claimed, primarily to enrich the commercial elite. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It had been one of Mrs. Gandhi’s most vocal critics. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

How could the earth not He at the center of the universe, critics asked, if all heavy objects on our planet tend to fall toward its center? Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Others in the audience were knowledgeable music lovers and important Berlin critics. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I thought I was all about being a film critic, but I'm great at putting out fires and getting my director anything she needs to do her job. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

By the time he retired, he'd become the Court's most vocal critic of excessive punishment and mass incarceration. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Indenture was a step better than slavery, but masters did their best to intimidate workers to keep wages low and silence critics. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

They could only be called skin swellings, even by the kindest critic. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I met the friend, a Madrid bull-fight critic, a little man with a drawn face. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

George Orwell once wrote that whenever a critic uses the word human, he usually renders it meaningless. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Other art critics write, including Georges Charles Lecomte: “We have lost a very courageous artist.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

By resigning voluntarily, he was declaring that his deepest allegiances, like those of his critics, were thoroughly republican. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The detonating device was publication of a letter Jefferson had written in 1801 to Joseph Priestley, the English scientist and renowned critic of Christianity. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was this new sort of knowledge that Sprat had in mind when he defended the Royal Society from its critics, insisting that the starting point of the new knowledge, experimental evidence, was extremely reliable. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In fact, it would likely offend traditional artists and critics. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And I'm sure there are plenty of other Alaskans who had a lot in common with McCandless when they first got here, too, including many of his critics. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

To its critics, the World Health Organization was an entangled, muddled bureaucracy that had two mottoes: “Slow down” and “It’s not our fault.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

To the surprise of many of the department’s critics, Stone selected J. Edgar Hoover, the twenty-nine-year-old deputy director of the bureau, to serve as acting director while he searched for a permanent replacement. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And there is always the non-productive brotherhood of critics to disparage and to satirize, to view with horror and contempt. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She mesmerized lecture halls of students with her drama and passion, with ideas critics called daring and groundbreaking. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

When he said this he smiled, anxious that neither the bull-fight critic nor I would think he was boasting. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I moved away from the critic and found myself sitting beside a clairvoyant who loudly predicted the fates of the various characters seen moving their lips up on the screen. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Then again, my high-waters and medium-size suit jacket didn’t exactly qualify me as a fashion critic. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Whom are we to believe, the critics or the artist himself? History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left office in March of 1797 with the resounding cheers of his huge army of supporters and the howls of that much smaller pack of critics echoing in his ears. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

But it went off all right, and Pedro Romero shook hands with every one and he and the critic went out together. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

To that end, he became a constant and often vocal critic of the lead industry and its interests. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Russo was the more outspoken war critic, and it had gotten him fired. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

After my April performance, one critic wrote, “She was the sweetest seductress you ever saw...but she has yet to develop any ballerina mystique. She is only eighteen.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, as I had no theory of any kind, don’t believe in Spiritualism, and copied my characters from life, I don’t see how this critic can be right. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was brilliant, had been an avid reader her whole life, and she was a terrific literary critic, editor, and proofreader. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under these circumstances, the critic may well know the artist’s mind better than he does and explain his creation more clearly. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was also, at least implicitly, a justification for the strong executive leadership Washington had provided in the 1790s and that his critics had stigmatized as a monarchy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He was an astronomer, historian, geographer, philosopher, poet, theater critic and mathematician. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The board would fear a backlash should it grant the same sum for a project “which an unsympathetic and inaccurate critic might describe as a single instrument for one man.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The Anglicans, the most fearless and consistent critics of the new policy, had a divided policy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Wotton interpreted Swift, it was Swift, the critic of the moderns, who was the sceptical unbeliever, while Wotton presented himself as an orthodox Protestant. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He wrote a novel, and it was not really such a bad novel as the critics later called it, although it was a very poor novel. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

To Maddie, I said, “Film FANatic is the biggest film website out there. They usually only publish reviews from professional critics. There are rumors that Roger Ebert got his start there.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He took writing samples from some of his most artistically minded subjects and had literary critics compare them to the early writings of famous authors. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He had a bevy of female admirers — but also a coterie of critics, who considered him a dandy and a playboy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, this is merely our “personal” interpretation, so we turn to the critics for help. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I am anxious to see it," the critic said. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

His critics, it should also be noted, were a decided minority, vastly outnumbered by his countless legions of supporters. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

As a child I’d read those letters as an act of worship; now I read them with different eyes, not the eyes of a critic, but also not the eyes of a disciple. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But such ignoble enticements were less a factor than many critics might presume. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Jim was told that various eminent TB critics had written to Geneva that they couldn’t agree with adding second-line antibiotics to the essential drug list. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Since the federal budget that year was less than $7 million, the critics seem to be right when they conclude that the costs were not just daunting but also prohibitively expensive. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“The bulk of them,” one critic said disparagingly, “are scarcely known beyond the smoke of their own chimnies.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Prominent black journalist and activist Ida B. Wells was a vocal critic of the suffragist movement’s racism. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

They hope it will get them off the hook, or at least allow them to plead guilty to a lesser charge, should a critic ever try to prove them wrong. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Meggers’s “law of environmental limitation of culture,” her critics in essence say, is nothing but a green variant of Holmberg’s Mistake. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Rather, the KGB acted as the all-powerful police force for the Soviet Communist Party—imprisoning dissenters, intimidating critics, and silencing opponents. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“He gives me a critique. Now he’s a critic.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and one critic said, “To provide touches of color in rooms with all-white walls.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the time being, however, the critics won. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The reason for the soliloquy here is that Morgenstern's previous book had gotten bombed by the critics and also hadn’t sold beans. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

One critic praised “Miss Anderson’s power to move her listeners as can no other singer of her generation.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Finally, although he may be laughable—a blinkered pony—the boy will not let his critics forget their own change. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington, for his part, obliged his Virginia critics by urging his stepgrandson to attend Harvard in order to escape the provincial versions of learning currently ascendant in the Old Dominion. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Many critics of television, to this day, argue that what’s dangerous about TV is that it is addictive, that children and even adults watch it like zombies. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a small reminder that Indians were neither the peaceful, love-thy- neighbor types envisioned by some apologists or the brutal, ceaselessly aggressive warriors decried by some political critics. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The music critic Harold Schonberg goes further: Mozart, he argues, actually “developed late,” since he didn’t produce his greatest work until he had been composing for more than twenty years. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Psychologists, professors, journalists, and critics rediscovered Malcolm X for review and general analysis. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

This outwardly aloof but blatantly defensive tone seemed to acknowledge, in its backhanded way, that his critics had struck a nerve. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

This attitude was reinforced over the next few years, when a succession of critics, clearly Newton’s intellectual inferiors, raised a host of quibbles about his work, which showed their own ignorance more than anything else. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Many critics argued that such evidence would ultimately disempower poor victims, victims who were racial minorities, and family members who didn't have the resources to advocate for their deceased loved ones. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to give critics back home ammunition to attack me further. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A whale looks like a big fish; Obama has been the subject of rumors about his religion; Nabokov was denied the Nobel Prize in Literature that many critics thought he deserved. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Because science is based upon observation and experiment, some critics argue that string theory is not science but philosophy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The critic explained that he liked it very much, but that so far it had been incomplete. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Now the one time out of so many times that the critics appear to be right,” Howard said bitterly, “has to come just before a race like this.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clovis defenders remained as adamant as their critics. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“When Miss Anderson sang the simple spiritual ‘Hear de Lambs a-Cryin’ in her deep, hollow, subterranean register . . . you felt it up and down the spinal column,” wrote New York Herald-Tribune critic Alan Rich. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The critics were jealous, the articles said, and looking for ways to besmirch the respected surgeons involved in Garfield's care. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“My mother used to say you would become a leading literary critic.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And one of the critics wrote, “Her command of our language and our world of feeling was amazing,” adding that her “appearance in the Bachsaal caused a sensation.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The reviews were generally positive, and a theatre critic called one production “an exciting excursion into stagecraft.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Strauss’s allusion to a “humanitarian” H-bomb drew derision from critics of the arms race. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He by chance was given a room which had once been the home of George Jean Nathan, the critic and editor. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The critics of police conduct invariably focus on the intentions of individual officers. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s a post from the Times TV critic. ‘The two new dogs, the intrepid Fred as Duke and the beyond-cute puppy Tater, just stole this country’s heart. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

An avowed critic of his government’s policies of apartheid, especially in sports, he was typical of South African liberals, who from time to time found themselves torn between conscience and patriotism. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit’s eastern critics were, in the words of Jolly Roger, “numbed to quietude.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some continue to have roaring, stadium-sized collections of critics and naysayers who will shout I told you so at every little misstep or mistake. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Farmer was aware of what his critics would say: why blow $150,000 on antibiotics that, if you’d waited a while, would have cost you a fraction of that? Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The term conveyed the political fear, so potent among the Antifederalist critics of the constitutional settlement of 1788, that the states would be absorbed by the new federal government. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

We talked Spanish and the critic knew a little French. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Administrators met their angriest critics’ demands by promoting any plausible Hispanic on hand. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the 1940s, Dobzhansky would attack these questions directly: he would eventually become one of the most strident scientific critics of Nazi eugenics, Soviet collectivization, and European racism. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Such critics also pointed out that, thanks to the commercialization of Everest, the once hallowed peak has now even been dragged into the swamp of American jurisprudence. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The critics respond with a countertheory: perhaps the giants succumbed instead to a change in climate, such as a severe drought on the already chronically dry Australian continent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Several critics wrote dis- missively that these were just spoiled middle-class children whining about their privileged places in life. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were literary critics, and they thought Billy was one, too. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Remarkably, it is not uncommon today to hear media pundits, politicians, social critics, and celebrities—most notably Bill Cosby—complain that the biggest problem black men have today is that they “have no shame.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

For the first time in my life 1 have met the system face-to-face, fully determined to function within its context as an observer and critic in disguise, so to speak. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fact that the school was in a border area, with white neighborhoods just east of it, did not placate conservative critics. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had his detractors, to be sure, but Federalist critics tended to attack him in the public press, which he could and did dismiss as partisan propaganda. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Anne Frank’s book was a natural choice, but I was really excited to discover the book by the young Bosnian writer, who critics are hailing as a “modern-day Anne Frank.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The upstart popular musicians, invited to bow at the altar of High Art, were at first dismissed by critics despite having delighted the audience. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

One enterprising rock critic has tried to solve the problem simply by calling his music a cross between the British new wave music of the 1980s and hip-hop. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

His critics thought this estimate excessive and absurd. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It became de rigueur among architecture critics and historians to argue that Burnham in his insecurity and slavish devotion to the classical yearnings of the eastern architects had indeed killed American architecture. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

II When civil rights leaders first demanded the admission of minority students to higher education, academic officials could have challenged their critics to seek the more important reform of primary and secondary education. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You ladies need a critic with some taste and decency. Good heavens! Which one of you did this camellia? Speak up. The water in this bowl looks like motor oil.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

These critics charged that Garfield's physicians followed outdated Civil War era medical ideas. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

As the tall, forbidding food critic Anton Ego, O'Toole brought gravitas and dignity to the role, in which he delivers a wonderful monologue late in the movie. Favorite Pixar performances? 2011-06-24T18:19:11Z

This is despite the fact that Taylor’s performance received major kudos from critics, nabbing fifth place in this year’s prestigious Village Voice Film Poll on the Best Supporting Actress list. “The Danish Girl” hypocrisy: If you want a major award for playing a trans woman, better make sure you’re up for Best Actor 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

Clearly, the true growth in this situation would be Kevin’s critics growing beyond the need to require growth from him. The Oscars have got themselves into a right drama over Kevin Hart 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

How did a movie that almost every critic agreed was awful become the biggest moneymaker in comedic history? Summer sequels: Bad reviews, major moolah 2011-05-31T17:32:00Z

Classical music critics have treated Mr. McCartney with deference, but written less than glowing reviews. Paul McCartney Composes Work for City Ballet 2011-02-23T23:05:59Z

Being a film critic is about stirring up and enjoying intelligent discussion around an extremely rewarding artistic medium. Letters: Inspiring a New Generation 2010-04-11T04:28:00Z

Suffice to say "X Factor" has not impressed many British music critics. 'X Factor' TV show rivets Britain, heads to USA 2010-12-13T17:25:00Z

The movie was well received by critics if far from a passionate favorite. At Cannes Film Festival, ‘Dheepan’ Wins Palme d’Or 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z

Five years later, he ended a conversation with the critic Georges Sadoul by musing, “I wonder if my films are worth the effort they require.” Review: Bresson and the Elliptical Economies of a Master Filmmaker 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

But critics say that celebrating on plantation grounds where Black people were tortured, killed and, in many cases, buried, dishonors their history. Charleston Tourism Is Built on Southern Charm. Locals Say It’s Time to Change. 2020-08-12T04:00:00Z

The reviews would be honest, and Bitter Lemons would decide which critic to assign. That offer asking theaters to pony up $150 for pay-to-play reviews falls flat in L.A. 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

The visual arts are always prominent in The Culture Show, where two of the presenters are art critics, and feature in a stream of documentaries. Is the BBC ditching books coverage? 2013-03-05T10:45:56Z

Those, of course, were just two extremes among the thousands of movies he reviewed in 46 years as a professional critic. RIP Roger Ebert: Movie criticism’s Great Communicator 2013-04-05T01:10:00Z

Photograph: Andrew Cooper/AP There are hundreds of film critics in America – all of them equally furnished with coveted films. The Revenant and The Hateful Eight leaked – and awards season is to blame 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z

She said “yes” — but the critics say “no.” Man blasted for 'hijacking' girlfriend's graduation with marriage proposal 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

Also opening this week is the horror sequel "Piranha 3DD," which wasn't shown to critics before opening day. Movie Scores: How the critics rated the new movies 2012-06-01T19:35:09Z

Appraisals from critics and fans have been less enthusiastic. It's impossible to tell where in the multiverse "Loki" is going. Thank the gods 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z

What do its stars think of the idea, posited by critics and fans alike, that James and Alyssa’s might not be a healthy bond? The End of the F***ing World’s Alex Lawther: ‘He’s not a psychopath, he’s just very sad’ 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z

I would still keep making the work even if critics didn’t like it. Kristen Stewart on Trump and Her New Movie, ‘Personal Shopper’ 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

His difficult small-town boyhood in nearby Findlay, where he took nourishment from the tales that older relatives told, helped shape the sensibility that sent critics searching for a new label: Midwestern Gothic. James Purdy, a Fabulist Haunting the Fringes 2013-08-26T21:23:20Z

This is the first year for this award, whose nominees were chosen by Gramophone editors and critics. Seattle Symphony wins Orchestra of the Year award from Gramophone magazine 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

But what seems to be the case with Mother! is that it’s not really a matter of critics disagreeing among themselves but the critics disagreeing radically with the audiences. What the F? How Mother! joined the 'bad movie' club 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

Robinson, 44, is talking about “Art Desks,” a Daylight book featuring 57 photographs of the desks of collectors, gallery owners, curators and artists and an essay by art critic and curator Andy Grundberg. E. Brady Robinson’s ‘Art Desks’ takes viewers on intimate tour of art world

A panel of critics and performers will select one winner from each field. Performers Nominated for Clive Barnes Award 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z

I’ve asked the dance critics at The New York Times to join me in a conversation about this season, starting with Taylor. ArtsBeat: A Critics Conversation: Modern Dance Madness 2012-04-03T14:14:19Z

Among the film's sparse bright spots, according to multiple critics, is the inclusion of Rob Lowe as a seemingly conservative family man and CEO with a wild side. Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel's 'Sex Tape' doesn't arouse critics 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Literary critics can be either, but are they any longer central to the chances of a novelist's success? Amazon v newspaper: which is the more valuable review? 2012-05-22T11:05:28Z

“When she’s in the audience, I do more than my best,” he said, and likewise, Ms. Peck said she loves her husband to watch her dance, adding, “He’s my best critic.” For Robert Fairchild and Tiler Peck, a Partnership That Stays in Step 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

The television critics of The New York Times already made their choices. Here Is Your Emmy Awards Cheat Sheet 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

Its success and influence places Ross in a line of critic proselytisers that stretches back to Ken Tynan and George Bernard Shaw. In praise of … The Rest Is Noise 2012-11-28T22:36:47Z

Mr. Moix’s book, called “Orléans” — the town where he grew up and where, in his telling, he was physically and psychologically abused by his parents — was praised by critics when it was published in August. French Author Accused of Anti-Semitism Is Snubbed for a Top Literary Prize 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

He adds that while many critics might feel that they have the ability to make better records than professional producers, “Nat Hentoff proved that he could.” Nat Hentoff Is the Subject of David Lewis’s New Documentary 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

Other critics have accused Mr. Dawson of "tag loading," a promotional technique in which videomakers can boost their views by tagging material with popular search terms unrelated to their videos, like "xbox" or "twilight." Shane Dawson, YouTube?s Comic for the Under-30 Set 2010-04-02T21:21:00Z

After the 2015 deal, the set got a revamp--which critics derided as gentrification but Big Bird says he appreciated, as moving his nest into a tree made sense considering his natural habitat. As 'Sesame Street' Turns 50, Big Bird Is Still Making Friends Everywhere He Goes 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

But nothing else in the two episodes sent to critics has the same kinetic charge. Television Review: ‘Copper,’ a BBC America Series Set in Old New York 2012-08-16T21:49:11Z

This is a text that sings the writing life — of the existentialists, of their critics and of their biographers. The existentialists come alive (over cocktails) in Sarah Bakewell's 'At the Existentialist Cafe' 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

Sometimes, we critics are accused of being trapped in a festival bubble. When a Film Festival Goes Virtual, What Do We Lose? Or Gain? 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

“I was the first critic to review the Doors’ first album. Meet the critic who panned ‘Sgt. Pepper’ then discovered his speaker was busted. He’s still not sorry. 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

Audiences — and music critics — have enthusiastically embraced his programming. A polymath in D.C.: The long ascendancy of conductor-composer Julian Wachner

Rather, highly rehearsed and technically precise performances of the sort seen in “Fences” mesh with critics’ own familiar technique, the habit and ease of evaluating work in terms of definable standards. What “Fences” Misses About Adapting Plays for the Screen 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

But when it comes to the front-runners — which also happened to be the movies my fellow critics praised most lavishly last year — I’m either neutral, unenthusiastic or simply confounded. Sorry, best picture front-runners: She’s just not that into you. 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

To his critics, Mr. Ackman was a wealthy investor manipulating the market to his advantage. Review: ‘Betting on Zero’ Tracks a Crusade Against Herbalife 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

Overall it does, with a few missteps that only nitpicking restaurant critics might fault. Ray’s Boathouse still sails on service and fresh seafood 2013-05-30T19:49:42Z

Food critic Tom Sietsema regularly patrols the unruly world of eating in public, where people can be astonishingly thoughtless. How to act in public spaces in a digital age 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

But critics of the hashtag denounced the lack of inclusion of other minorities in the push for equality, calling it an example of racial selfishness. After Oscars, Hashtags Ask: Does One Minority Group Have to Fight for Another? 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

The journalists do their part because, especially after the critics’ groups and guilds have doled out their tchotchkes, there isn’t much left to say about movies they’ve already covered ad nauseam. Film: Best Movie Query? You Win 2011-02-23T17:20:40Z

Our critic Jennifer Senior calls the collection “challenging,” “moving” and “seductive.” 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

In the latter part of the 1970s, the films of Larry Cohen caught the attention of the critic Robin Wood, the author of classic studies of Howard Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock. Review: In ‘King Cohen,’ the Joy of a Low-Budget Auteur 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

Do The Right Thing,” critics said it was going to cause black folks to riot across the United States of America. Spike Lee says it’s time to stop taking violence lying down 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

The critic Robert Hughes astutely wrote that her images displayed “sympathy at the edge of its tether.” Review: Arthur Lubow’s Diane Arbus Biography Recalls an Underworld Voyager 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Pundits reviewed his performance sometimes as theatre critics, sometimes as pageant judges awarding ribbons for carriage and charm. In Search of a “Viral Moment” at the Robert Mueller Hearings 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z

Still, for many Los Angeles artists and critics, this exhibition is a long-needed accounting of the emergence of the region as an art capital in the same league as New York, Berlin and London. Southern California Claims Its Place on the Art World Map 2011-10-12T13:27:24Z

The source of the buzz: An intimate, earnest and confessional writing style that has inspired as many fans as critics. Too Sincere for the Internet? How the Web Journal Thought Catalog Sparked an Online Firestorm 2012-07-05T14:00:18Z

The Village Voice critic Andrew Sarris, speaking at an awards ceremony that the United States government denied Alea a visa to attend, hailed the director as a courageous dissident. Outside Cuba’s Revolution, Looking In 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

Mr. Mead appears for only a few minutes in a scene with the artist and actor Bill Rice, but critics said it struck a poignant note. Taylor Mead, Bohemian and Actor, Dies at 88 2013-05-10T02:48:13Z

“In person, Hutcherson’s mallets slash through the air above his instrument like action painter Jackson Pollock’s hands dripping paint above a canvas,” music critic Dirk Sutro wrote in the Los Angeles Times in 1991. Bobby Hutcherson, jazz master of the vibraphone, dies at 75 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

As in, how much money did the movie that all the critics loved so much make? Is the age of the critic over? 2011-01-30T00:07:09Z

From the obscure perch of his own Raf Simons men’s wear label, he won over critics in Paris in the late 1990s and early aughts. Can Raf Simons Reinvent American Fashion? 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

The film’s ending disappointed some critics, yet over all the movie received positive reviews, mainly for Chastain’s performance. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘DC’s Legends of Tomorrow’ and ‘Vera’ 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

It seems obvious that in this new landscape critics have a role to play, even though it’s an evolving one. 8 Ways Restaurants Have Changed in the Past Decade 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

During Leonard's lifetime, these essays were published in The Nation, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Ms. and Playboy, and they combined to make him one of the country's pre-eminent critics. 'Reading for My Life': a critic's lifelong engagement with literature 2012-05-16T18:47:03Z

But despite being objectively terrible, it is one of those interesting cinematic phenomena where audience opinions differ greatly from those of critics. Last Christmas may be the worst film of the year – so why is it box-office gold? 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

One critic called the original film "mildly entertaining if you want to watch Bronson suggesting silent, brooding menace for the umpteenth time." 'The Mechanic': Jason Statham is no Charles Bronson in this remake 2011-01-27T22:39:06Z

In the three episodes made available to critics, the dominant figure is Doug Matthews, an F.B.I. agent whose enthusiasm for the investigation is both charming and unnerving. Review: HBO’s ‘McMillions’ Reminds Us That Every Era Has Its Scam 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z

It was, wrote Ada Louise Huxtable, then The Times’s architecture critic, “an object lesson in how to build intelligently, sensitively and well.” James Stewart Polshek, Quiet Giant of Modern Architecture, Dies at 92 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z

Still, critics say the ban is limited to depictions of real children. Japan exhibition puts child prostitution in the limelight 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

Although several London producers went to see the show, national critics turned their backs. Get out more 2010-05-26T15:56:00Z

Each critic was asked to name five favorite recordings of any works by Verdi, not just the operas. Critics Pick Recordings to Celebrate Verdi’s Bicentennial 2013-12-26T22:00:58Z

He went on to earn a bachelor’s degree from Hunter College, a master’s from Columbia and a Ph.D. from New York University, where he wrote his dissertation on the critic Edmund Wilson. Leonard Kriegel, 89, Dies; Wrote Unflinchingly About His Disability 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z

ET00:36 Ever his own harshest critic, he says out of the 6000 plus shows, a great number of those “sucked”. David Letterman live: the final Late Show - as it happened 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

No sooner had the “Nina” controversy erupted than the movie “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” screened for critics and preview audiences. ‘Whiskey Tango Foxtrot’ and Hollywood’s enduring problem with whitewashing 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

Both fans and critics of Shine see a symmetry between his old job and his new one. ‘Working for one guy’: Bill Shine’s journey from Ailes enforcer to Trump producer 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

Scott is one of the best and most respected critics in the press today, but it didn’t keep him from being attacked by Samuel L. Jackson after a tough review of “Avengers: Age of Ultron.” Critics are human, too: “But I don’t think you’re doing the artist or the audience or the art form itself any favor if you pat things on the head” 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z

During his stay, he was introduced to key artists and critics, but Magritte spoke no English and appeared uninterested in the people he met. Magritte, Surrealism and the Pipe That Is Not a Pipe 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

The older-skewing tale of the 1960s singing group the Four Seasons has drawn tepid reactions from critics, with a 55% on review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes. 'Think Like a Man Too' keeps 'Jersey Boys' at bay with $30 million 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

A range of mostly British film critics has been commissioned to write and narrate a series of brief video essays, four to six minutes in length, on film fixations and fetishes of their choosing. Streaming: film criticism you can watch 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z

So much "serious" stuff nowadays is just critic fodder. Golden Globe Awards Winners Include ‘Boyhood’ and ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

"Aladdin" opened in March to warm reviews from New York critics and earned five Tony nominations, including a nod for new musical. James Monroe Iglehart releases the genie inside 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z

And besides approving of his Dane, the critics are also in broadly positive agreement about Nicholas Hytner's Denmark. What to say about ? Hamlet with Rory Kinnear 2010-10-11T11:05:00Z

While some academics and critics who favored a thornier modernism found Floyd’s works simplistic, artists and audiences embraced his compelling characters and passionate music. Carlisle Floyd: Artists Share Memories of a Composer 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

The answers remain the same, namely, less access to capital and exclusion from a rarefied network of connections that includes collectors, dealers, curators, critics and auction houses. Black Gallerists Press Forward Despite a Market That Holds Them Back 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z

This music critic scored a humiliating 47 percent. Ticktock as Taskmaster: A Show About Metronomes and Musical Time 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

Some critics thought the scene where Gladys got stoned was gratuitous violence that wasn’t earned. Justin Theroux on the 'Spiritual' New Season of 'The Leftovers' 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

Despite Coco's Razzie nomination, one critic claimed the actor's performance was not that bad, saying it "did not need to be Oscar nominated but it certainly was not at all deserving of its Razzie nomination." Here are four actors who received both Razzie and Oscar nominations for the same performance 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

Q. What about documentaries that premiered last year such as "Senna" which went on to be popular with critics and audiences? A Minute With: Sundance Film Festival director John Cooper 2012-01-18T16:10:56Z

Playwrights say artistic directors are obsessed with selling tickets in spite of their nonprofit missions and with pleasing board members by favoring world premieres or playwrights who are already admired by critics. 2010-01-13T23:35:00Z

Scott Foundas, chief critic of Hollywood bible Variety, was fulsome in his praise, describing Interstellar as "an exhilarating slalom through the wormholes of Christopher Nolan's vast imagination". Nolan's Interstellar 'a flawed epic' 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

Rhodes and Trump respond similarly to such accusations: They attack their critics as bad people who are out to get them. The movie that foretold the rise of Donald Trump 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

And the pool of judges will be expanded beyond writers to include critics, booksellers and librarians. AP NewsBreak: Rewrite for National Book Awards 2013-01-15T14:49:12Z

But manufacturers, specialist retailers and critics argue that SoundScan’s figures represent only a fraction of actual sales, perhaps as little, Mr. Kassem and Mr. Astor said, as 10 to 15 percent. Vinyl Records Are Making a Comeback 2013-06-09T21:52:43Z

According to reports from people who were there—I wasn’t, as critics don’t generally attend red-carpet events—many in the audience gasped. Woody Allen Sidesteps a Rape Joke in Cannes 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

She wondered whether that placed a bigger target on his back, as his reputation for doggedness was perpetuated within the industry and reinforced by critics. Twenty years after ‘The Sixth Sense,’ M. Night Shyamalan hasn’t given up on twist endings 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

Some critics have dismissed the band as post-punk copyists, as solely of interest to musos with furrowed brows and no sense of humour. Savages: 'It's about trying not to treat the audience like idiots' 2013-05-03T06:00:00Z

A Novel Romance Amy Acker, Dylan Bruce star in this new romance about a novelist who moves to Portland to cure his writer's block and falls in love with his biggest critic. Saturday's TV Highlights and Weekend Talk: 'The Other Woman' 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

The Best Supporting Actress statuette was Leo's to lose — she'd taken the majority of critics' awards for her role as the spitfire mom of two boxers in — and some onlookers say she did just that. The 2011 Oscar Race: TIME Picks the Winners 2011-02-25T09:05:00Z

“This is Holm’s Lear,” the critic Sheridan Morley wrote in The International Herald Tribune, “and we are unlikely to leave this century with a better.” Ian Holm, Malleable Actor Who Played Lear and a Hobbit, Dies at 88 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

We both knew this day would finally come: Counting all the broadcast, cable and streaming outlets, there are too many new dramas and comedies in this fall TV season for one critic to digest. Review | Fall TV 2017: 10 new shows worth checking out (and 5 you can totally skip) 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

Trump has been a consistent critic of the media during his campaign; at one rally this summer, he pointed to the press pen and told supporters that the media was “the lowest form of humanity.” Trump lifts ban that excluded The Washington Post and other news media 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

They convey a “nightmarish quality,” as the critic Arthur C. Danto once described it, the sense of drowning in a late-capitalist tsunami of stuff. James Rosenquist and Erró Discuss a Long Friendship Forged in Pop Art 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

In her review of the collection last year, The Post’s poetry critic Elizabeth Lund said Gay’s “charming poems give readers permission to feel joyful.” Paul Beatty, Margo Jefferson win National Book Critics Awards 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Stanton and those early critics saw what TV audiences see decades later: These events are not debates at all. Think presidential debates are dull? Thank 1950s TV game shows 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

The author is a critic of what he calls Big Style: the kind of advice that fills most grammar books. Books of The Times: Wooing With Words in the Age of the Incredible Shrinking Message 2011-07-26T21:30:40Z

“Engaging isn’t working and neither is disengaging,” the Chicago musician and critic Doyle Armbrust writes, in an arrestingly unconventional program note for a recent Budapest Festival Orchestra performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Making Art in a Time of Rage 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

Keep up with the latest, most comprehensive guide to D.C. theater’s 2017-18 season here, already featuring lineups from Arena Stage, the Shakespeare Theatre Company and more, with notes from Post critics. DC Theater Friday: ‘Three Sisters’ 2.0, plus a ‘Nasty Women’ rep 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

She had been suspected in some circles of being the inside administration critic who authored the book “Anonymous” but had strenuously denied it and vindicated when a former Department of Homeland Security official admitted authorship. Falsely accused “Anonymous” re-emerges at VOA sister network 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

Our critic called it “exuberant” and “a delight.” The Best Movies on Amazon Prime Video Right Now 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

But what responsibility do we bear as spectators for patronizing institutions that display what critics say are stolen works? When a Visit to the Museum Becomes an Ethical Dilemma 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

There’s a certain school of TV fan and critic — call them the episodicists — who will hail these changes as proof that the old ways are the right ways. Streaming Changed TV. Is TV Changing Streaming Back? 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

He grumbles — well, it’s airier and more philosophical and much nicer than grumbling — that critics of his early work used to ding him as “too clever by half.” Tom Stoppard, Always Tackling ‘The Hard Problem’ 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

On Broadway, "Spider-Man" will continue to be fine-tuned in preview performances, where it has been able to lure fans despite being panned by some critics who wrote reviews before officially opened. Broadway's "Spider-Man" delayed, revamped again 2011-03-10T02:19:33Z

But critics say that little of the Corcoran has been sustained. Homeless art, lost jobs and low enrollment: Two years later, Corcoran’s breakup still stings 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

Eric Asimov, The New York Times wine critic, is discussing orange wines. The What and Why of Orange Wines 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z

There is a Stepford quality to the six completed buildings, which Washington Post critic Philip Kennicott has described as “immaculately designed glass boxes ... defined by the ostentatious blankness of its surfaces.” 10 buildings you must see around the new boom-time Washington 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

The London production stoked controversy, with The Independent approvingly describing a “disturbing, balefully hilarious new play,” while many other critics attacked its tone, pace and politics. Drama as Protest: ‘Our Complacency Is Dangerous’ 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

When Simon Stephens's The Trial of Ubu got its British premiere at Hampstead at the beginning of the year, several critics protested that Katie Mitchell's production deviated from the published text. Death of a Salesman v the death of directing 2012-10-29T17:43:33Z

The film was a smash, conquering the public and critics — in May 1977, Time crowned it the year’s best — and remained in theaters throughout 1977, reopening in ’78 and in successive years. ‘Star Wars’ Doesn’t Belong to George Lucas. It Belongs to the Fans. 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

“I show off but not up,” he once told critic Helen Vendler. Review | Poets respond to gun violence and other best collections of the month 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z

Scott had been one of the few prominent critics who defended Graham’s initial essay; he wrote on Twitter that “the problem is really the cultural devaluation of maturity.” Henry James and the Great Y.A. Debate 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

Stern sometimes sounds exasperated by his critics, but he has made a profession out of being fed up, and it’s hard to tell whether he really cares. Is Howard Stern going soft or just getting sharper? 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

Poe struck a chord with European writers, and as his international stature rose in the late 19th century, literary critics in the U.S. wrung their hands over his lack of appreciation "at home." How Edgar Allan Poe became the darling of the maligned and misunderstood 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z

Contrary to widely held public assumptions, no self-respecting film critic roots for a movie to fail. Perspective | I don’t root for movies to fail. But here’s why I’m making an exception for ‘Jurassic World.’ 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

Times art critic Christopher Knight has a powerful essay on the subject of removing these fraught civic monuments. Essential Arts & Culture: 'Hamilton' opens, the debate over Confederate monuments, Mozart reimagined 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

But, really, if you want a sense of what most critics think, those writing in the mainstream or not, you usually just need to read the first and sometimes the last paragraphs of their reviews. ArtsBeat: More 'Ask the Film Critics' 2011-04-22T17:56:02Z

Although the first lady’s trip is considered a gesture of goodwill, it also appears to some critics of the Trump administration to be out of step with her husband’s policies. Melania Trump begins tour of Africa in Ghana amid questions and criticism 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

As a critic who likes to see his personal prejudices validated by others, I can’t complain about this Gang of Eight: six of the movies made my lists of 10 best films or performances. Oscars 2015 Nominations Analysis: Who Will Take Home the Awards? 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Some critics in Britain wrote about the book in baffled tones, lobbing superlatives that were not always complimentary. Prince Harry’s Memoir Has Record Breaking Sales 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z

All suffered from misguided directing — “The Producers,” in particular, felt like a film of a stage show rather than something thought out for cameras — and failed badly with audiences and critics. Will ‘Les Misérables’ help movie musicals stage a comeback? 2012-12-21T19:41:09Z

The exhibition quickly ran afoul of many critics, and Congress, and about a month after it opened, the museum revised it. Critic’s Notebook: On Day Two, a new establishment museum begins its work 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

Dr. Everett’s critics fault him for failing to release his field data, even seven years after the controversy erupted. A New Book and Film About Rare Amazonian Language 2012-03-21T22:17:15Z

Queen & Slim has also had its share of critics. The Black Lives Matter effect: how cinema is tackling an epidemic of police shootings 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

While the warmly received, and commercially successful, RBG might have nabbed a best documentary nomination, its dramatised equivalent left Oscar voters cold, just weeks after it left US audiences and critics rather chilly. And the nominees aren't: the Oscarbait films that failed in 2019 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

At social events, “I’m a TV critic” is hard to beat in the small-talk department, especially in Washington, where everyone else is a lawyer, or married to one. Perspective | I’m signing off as TV critic, but here are six shows I’d happily watch again 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z

It has been five years since the feminist critic and blogger Anita Sarkeesian became the target for a staggeringly vicious online hate campaign after producing the online video series Tropes vs Women in Video Games. Anita Sarkeesian: ‘It’s frustrating to be known as the woman who survived #Gamergate’ 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

No one has been a more withering critic of their own genre, and the very rolling of her cosmetically enlarged eyes suggests that we’re all in this together. Review | Remember Elvira? The mistress of the dark is still here, and she has some bombshells to drop. 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

Several other critics were far more complimentary, and some even considered it among the best of the eight films in the “Star Wars” canon. ‘Rogue One’ Reviews: Here’s What the Critics Say 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

The play has been described as a farrago of undercooked ideas and clashing styles by some critics, lauded as a brilliantly unorthodox play of daring imaginative scope by others. Theatrical Stumbles of Historic Proportions 2010-12-10T16:02:00Z

But Mr. Feingold was not one of those critics who would just sit and snipe. Michael Feingold, Forceful Drama Critic, Dies at 77 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

Nixon critics tend to associate his name not just with lying and abuse of power, but also with maudlin sentimentalism and elaborate excuse-making. Perspective | Anger at Donald Trump may turn great artists into political cartoonists. It’s happened before. 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

While some critics faulted Mr. Rakoff’s writing as overly aphoristic, many praised his singular style, which combined an amiable dyspepsia with an almost palpable undercurrent of melancholy. David Rakoff, Award-Winning Humorist, Dies at 47 2012-08-10T15:50:38Z

He stopped himself two minutes into a rousing but banal 12-bar blues, exercising a right as the keenest critic of his own work. Music Review: Keith Jarrett in a Solo Concert at Carnegie Hall 2012-01-26T22:29:27Z

ABC anchor David Muir, who in May landed the first non-Fox interview with Trump since the pandemic started, was hammered by critics — including inside his own network — for failing to challenge Trump’s blatant misinformation. Chris Wallace is uniquely qualified to interview Trump — and uniquely independent at Fox News 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

It’s notable how little liberalism’s book-length defenders have to say about sexual and reproductive rights, while conservative critics have long been fixated on them. Where Have All the Liberals Gone? 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z

Some critics have called “Jesus’ Son” Mr. Johnson’s masterpiece. Denis Johnson, Who Wrote of the Failed and the Desperate, Dies at 67 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

Seized with manic exhilaration, my conscious thoughts fixed on the TV critic of USA Today as I shouted to myself, “He’ll be sorry!” A Portrait of My Ego as a Big Black Dog 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

He is usually placed by critics in either the science fiction or the horror genres, or both. Does H.P. Lovecraft belong in the canon? 2013-05-08T22:07:00Z

"The Social Network" dominated early awards, including prizes from key critics and the Golden Globes, where it won best drama and director for Fincher. Hooper earns top DGA prize for `King's Speech' 2011-01-30T11:48:09Z

The art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon is another fan, and rode to the top in his recent BBC series on Russian art. Lord Foster fires up campaign to save rusting Russian radio tower 2010-04-15T17:40:00Z

As Birmingham shows, Dostoyevsky wasn’t the schematic storyteller his critics make him out to be, mapping out some grand ideologies and then deducing the details. How a Murderous Poet Inspired One of Dostoevsky’s Masterworks 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

There is a lot of interest and support: from the public, from orchestras, from managers and from the critics. After 145 Years, Bayreuth Festival Has Its First Female Conductor 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

Danish provocateur Von Trier similarly polarized opinion among the notoriously picky critics at Cannes, though most agreed that Melancholia's scenes of a cosmic collision signaling the end of all life packed a powerful punch. Director's shame casts pall over classy Cannes 2011-05-20T14:14:15Z

But Aniston shrugs off the comments, labelling critics "inconsistent", before adding: "It really feels like it's personal digs as opposed to constructive critiques of performances." Dark side 2011-07-22T08:20:00Z

Whether I should be in conversation with a white critic or another Black critic. In ‘What to Send Up,’ I See You, Black American Theater 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

“Johnny was an instant success, but a lot of the critics thought, this is not culturally relevant,” said Jay Leno, the longtime “Tonight Show” host who handed off to Mr. Fallon. Jimmy Fallon Was on Top of the World. Then Came Trump. 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

"I think critics are just being submerged, and to a degree newspaper editors and other people in the media are saying they don't need to give that space to books pages because it's all online." Books bloggers are harming literature, warns Booker prize head judge 2012-09-25T16:10:23Z

“The memories of ‘women’s affairs,’ their work and their warm, gossipy sorority, have a special sheen,” our critic Parul Sehgal writes. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Mike Hale, one of the TV critics for The New York Times, shares his opinions on this year’s Emmy Awards, which will be hosted by Andy Samberg on Sept. 20 on Fox. Mike Hale on the Emmy Awards 2015: Predictions, Wishes and What-Ifs 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

On its release The Writing’s on the Wall met with a mixed reception from critics. Sam Smith wins the best song Oscar for his James Bond Spectre theme 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z

When the “Beavis & Butt-Head” creator Mike Judge landed a half-hour animated series on the Fox network, most viewers and critics were expecting more of the same. The Best Movies and Shows on Hulu Right Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

It includes interviews with several of Kelly’s accusers as well as commentary from his critics. What’s on Monday: ‘Surviving R. Kelly’ and ‘Dancing with the Stars’ 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

Made from detritus and old frocks, the pieces are haunting, resembling, as a critic noted, “mysterious, vacuum-packed matter from some other universe,” as so many things at art fairs seem to do. Leonardo DiCaprio Impersonators and a $40,000 Radio at Frieze 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

I point out that some of the same critics, including Windschuttle, are still working. What became of the Mistake Creek massacre? 2013-07-04T06:12:57Z

The bit also pushed past the overly self-referential response to critics that we saw last week. 'Girls' Recap: Hannah Horvath Insults the Rainbow 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

By the time I was two rooms in, I was what art critics call pooped. Matisse at the Moma, New York 2010-08-15T22:00:00Z

Sony has pulled it's North Korean comedy The Interview from cinemas - but not before critics got the chance to file their reviews. What is The Interview really like? 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

A masterpiece to some, a pretentious hodgepodge with Sean Penn meandering on escalators to others, the film is the Herman Cain of the Oscar race: ardently supported by its backers, snickered at by its critics. More surprises than snubs in open Oscar field 2012-01-24T17:28:15Z

That way with words, and of course the music and persona, made Mr. Brown a culture critics’ darling. Books of The Times: ?The One,? James Brown Biography by R J Smith 2012-03-08T00:53:14Z

In 2005, she was appointed Donna’s first female chef de cuisine at Galileo, prompting an item by Washington Post food critic Tom Sietsema that quoted Donna thus: “She’s the first woman to survive the grinder.” Amy Brandwein doesn’t answer to ‘Roberto Donna’s girl’ 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

What is particularly exciting about the blogosphere is the way it allows theatre critics and practitioners – people who work in that most localised of art forms – to connect globally. Noises off: Chris Wilkinson's final column 2011-08-11T16:04:33Z

Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne was there — and he reports that the event, like many things Obama, was carefully stage managed. Essential Arts & Culture: Rage and grief at the Taper, art of color and movement, Obama's library 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

A late bloomer — he didn't find his mature voice, or the style for which he was best known, until age 40 — he eventually received acclaim by some critics and composers. Award-winning U.S. composer Elliott Carter dies at 103 2012-11-06T00:53:04Z

Producers have defended the voting and Palin has hit back at critics, attributing her success to hard work. "Dancing With the Stars" readies for finale 2010-11-21T22:53:00Z

Even worse, her critics alleged, she had directed them to a law firm for advice that should have been freely available. Joanna Lumley: 'I'm a happy person. But injustice I loathe' 2010-04-02T23:12:00Z

But for a time the literary world was convinced, because critics and the general public so badly wanted the purported finds to be genuine. Mistaken identity 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z

The play follows a rocky period in the playwright-screenwriter-novelist’s late life, a time when he was struggling with drug addiction, critics and the pressures of living in his own, larger-than-life shadow. Al Pacino and the role that pulled him to the Pasadena Playhouse stage 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

The play, called Perfect Nonsense, by the brothers Robert and David Goodale, is largely based on Wodehouse's 1938 book The Code of the Woosters, described by some critics as his best work. Jeeves and Wooster to take to West End stage in Perfect Nonsense 2013-06-02T18:00:05Z

His fans will no doubt swoon over this tear-jerking finale, even while critics stare at the screen with jaws open in disbelief. Review: 'Safe Haven' is routine romantic thriller 2013-02-14T01:31:06Z

But her performance at Glastonbury a few days later was described by one critic as "dismal" and tabloid interest centred on an incident where she appeared to punch a fan. Obituary 2011-07-23T17:32:58Z

Over the years, he’d somehow worn his critics down with his earnestness and his dedication and his sincerity — the same things that caused the ridicule in the first place. Ethan Hawke Is Still Taking Ethan Hawke Extremely Seriously 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

A 2006 New York Times Book Review poll of 124 prominent authors, critics and editors named “Beloved” as the single best work of American fiction published in the previous 25 years. Toni Morrison, a Writer of Many Gifts Who Bent Language to Her Will 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

It's the DIY stars who really deserve the props – relished by veterans of the free festival scene, but never appearing in critics' reviews. Forget Florence ? meet the real stars of the festival scene 2010-06-18T11:20:00Z

The New York Times critic Maya Phillips praised “What to Send Up” as “a series of cathartic experiences” for audience members of color at BAM. New Playwrights Horizons Season Includes Will Arbery World Premiere 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z

Not at all, our critic says, and late-night TV deserves some of the credit. Hillary Clinton Returns, and Late Night Finds Her ‘Unpresidential’ 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

Audiences and critics were impressed by the low-budget but effective visual effects, and  stark black-and-white camerawork. SXSW 2015: Films That Were the Talk of the Festival 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

This is yet another reminder of punk and disco’s common roots in the social and geographic margins of downtown New York—though only one of these subcultures was praised by rock critics. Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” and the punk rock myth of “Death to Disco” 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z

On the one hand, it suggests that the standard for challenging a critic on grounds of defamation remains -- as it should -- high. The Zaha Hadid lawsuit and the critic's responsibility 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

Anne Midgette is the classical music critic for The Washington Post. The worst of Bach 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Durham, as described by critic Paul Chaat Smith in one of seven essays in the show’s hefty catalog, is “a stone-cold Cherokee Indian.” Jimmie Durham's art throws some well-aimed stones 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

His statement on that day generated shock in the media world and among his critics. A history of the Trump War on Media — the obsession not even coronavirus could stop 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z

Throughout his career, he seemed unconcerned by critics who called his artistic merit into question. Wolfgang Petersen, Director of ‘Das Boot,’ Is Dead at 81 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z

While a few critics have defended the scene, many more found it disheartening and disappointing. Here’s why people are so upset about the latest “Game of Thrones” rape: “So cheap, such an obvious choice, I felt offended as a fan” 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

But some critics wonder if it's time the dairy organization moved on to greener pastures. PMS-themed Calif. milk campaign sparks discussion 2011-07-23T16:16:13Z

“It turned out pretty badly,” said Bruce Bartlett, a former domestic policy adviser to Reagan and a Laffer critic. Tax-cut guru still says he’s right about Trump, Truss and trickle-down 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

Seattle Times music critic, Paul de Barros, wrote about 10 performances that stuck with him. From Spinal Tap to Mel Torme, readers recall favorite Bumbershoot performances 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

“It reimagines the buddy film with such freshness and vigor that the genre seems positively new,” our critic wrote at the time. The Best Movies on Amazon Prime Video Right Now 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

His ability to think on his feet, and to talk so fast that potential critics were never quite sure of what they heard, was vital. Sir Patrick Moore 2012-12-09T16:19:01Z

Poets and novelists have traditionally moonlighted as art critics. Henry James, a Poohbah Who Painted With Words 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

Ros-Lehtinen, long a fierce critic of the Cuban government, called it a racist dictatorship that "harasses, beats, and wantonly jails" its opponents. Beyonce, Jay-Z visited Cuba with US Treasury Dept OK-source 2013-04-08T21:45:12Z

The relationship between critic and reader is exactly that: a relationship, between two people. Yelp vs. Food Critics 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. Epstein’s friendship with the literary critic Edmund Wilson led to another publishing innovation. Jason Epstein, Editor and Publishing Innovator, Is Dead at 93 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

Audiences surveyed by the CinemaScore polling company awarded the film a straight A, reflecting the indulgent 86% approval grade on the critics’ aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes. Fans Devour The Hunger Games for a $155-Million Feast 2012-03-25T16:30:45Z

Silva succeeds in making Wollstonecraft — the critic, novelist, translator, trailblazing feminist and the mother of Mary Shelley, the author of “Frankenstein” — a vibrant and forceful personality, full of both love and fury. Review | It can’t match ‘Wolf Hall,’ but ‘Love and Fury’ captures an English figure with bravura 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

Whenever Wagner’s “Ring” cycle comes to town, music critics start hearing about how impossibly long it is. Looking for your next binge-watching marathon? Try 17 hours of opera. 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

Just a guess, but that 73 percent may come from critics saying, “sure, take the kids,” and not really caring whether any adults would be able to digest it. 26 films Rotten Tomatoes got 100% wrong 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Courtesy Anita Kermode died on Tuesday afternoon and, over the days since then, the term "greatest literary critic" has been much bandied around. Frank Kermode: a tribute by John Sutherland 2010-08-20T23:22:00Z

But then, I’m a television critic; don’t listen to me. Review: ‘Roadies,’ Building Each Night’s Stairway to Heaven 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

It made its debut in the United States at the New York Film Festival in 2010 and captivated critics with its scope and narrative complexity, full of deft twists and turns. Ra?l Ruiz, Prolific Director of Cryptic Films, Dies at 70 2011-08-20T00:24:58Z

Times critic Charles McNulty called the production “exploitative drivel,” and questions arose whether “God Looked Away” was a last-gasp effort to raise money. Can this man save the Pasadena Playhouse? 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

As climate change intensifies, critics say that rather than erasing carbon in the atmosphere, the practice preys on travelers’ guilt and offers an excuse to pollute without producing viable results. The No-Jet Set: They’ve Given Up Flying to Save the Planet 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z

I had to be a TV critic instead, he said. I'm in a Rock'n'Roll Band 2010-05-03T07:00:00Z

Do actors and people in the film world think that critics are so simple? Jesse Eisenberg is not funny: Please, New Yorker, stop publishing his ham-fisted attempts at humor 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

The show went on and as TV critic Mary McNamara wrote, it provided at least a temporary bridge back to sanity. Essential Arts & Culture: Monumental sculpture, 'Finding Dory's' fluid music and lessons from the Tonys 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Tommasini and Jon Pareles, the chief pop critic of The Times, who reviewed the album in Arts & Leisure, explore the venerable tradition of classical musicians and singers who dip into pop genres. Ren?e Fleming, Opera Star, Tries a Rock Album. 2010-05-31T21:58:00Z

Our critic Roberta Smith called the Met’s exhibition of George Stubbs paintings a “rare and thrilling treat.” What to Do This Weekend 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

A video version by the artists Walter Robinson and Paul Dougherty and the critic Edit deAk is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Alan Vega Ignored the Art World. It Won’t Return the Favor. 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

In it, she recalled how many of her vocal critics urged her to change her look, namely her voluminous hair and gaudy attire. "Behind the Seams": 6 major revelations about Dolly Parton's famed "town tramp" sense of style 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z

Several influential critics expressed concerns — which, in the cutthroat world of opera, where productions must be planned years in advance on the strength of a singer’s reputation, can take a toll. After a Soprano’s Crisis, a Brünnhilde Is Born 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

By then his career had already gone under the radar, much to the dismay of critics. The Sculptor Melvin Edwards Prepares for ‘Now Dig This!’ 2012-10-21T04:02:38Z

The great art critic — and Music Row songwriting veteran — Dave Hickey had a terrific understanding of what Rockwell was really about. Brad Paisley’s country continues to expand its borders

This advice has apparently led to an “outcry,” the only immediate evidence of which was two quotes from critics in the Daily Mail, an illustrious publication with a thing for pseudo-dramz. The fake war on grandma kisses 2014-01-12T00:00:00Z

With the Chicago run last fall roughed up by critics, will New York audiences be smiling at the reworked version? Spring and Summer Theater Listings 2010-02-21T00:33:00Z

“The most infamously obscene book in ancient or modern literature,” an Irish critic called it. Why We Are No Longer Shocked by “Ulysses” 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

When Gustav Mahler took the New York Philharmonic to Cleveland for a concert in December 1910, he drove the critic Miriam Russell, of The Plain Dealer, to paroxysms of prose: Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Manuscript Settles in Cleveland 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z

The first screenings of Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” have touched down at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and the reactions coming in from film critics and the press are mostly ecstatic. Tarantino's "Hollywood" rocks Cannes in first reactions: "Brilliant," "dazzling" and one "holy f**k" 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

While adults might believe what's on screen deserves their full attention, kids nowadays view the movie-going experience as interactive, said Bill Goodykoontz, film critic for The Arizona Republic and father of four. Silence less golden in movies with talking, texts 2011-06-20T20:08:09Z

She writes more like a tour guide than a historian or critic. “The Art of the English Murder” is a great read, but light on historical sources

“I think the White House Christmas displays look amazing and that history will look far more kindly on Melania Trump’s style choices than her many critics today,” Levine wrote. Melania Trump brushes off Christmas decoration critics: ‘I think they look fantastic’ 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

He wants you to know that he’s his own harshest critic, even if he can’t help saving a piece of justification for himself. New Music: New Albums by John Mayer, Haley Reinhart and Linda Oh 2012-05-21T22:24:29Z

Inside every movie buff lives a film critic. A Master of Mixing and Matching Movies Gets a Citywide Tribute 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

Across the rotunda from the celebrity front row, which included Madonna, a vocal critic of Trump, Tiffany Trump, the President’s twenty-three-year-old daughter, sat with two friends. Fashion Week Runway Politics 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

Most critics have enjoyed the film, including the Queen who reportedly had a private screening at Sandringham – with beer and pizza, one hopes – and expressed her approval. Baftas 2011: The King's Speech sweeps the board 2011-02-13T21:56:35Z

Are you able to see the movie on its own merits, without thinking about how it did at the box office, or how it was received by critics? ArtsBeat: ‘I Thought I Was Bulletproof’: William Friedkin Looks Back on the ’70s 2013-04-29T19:01:16Z

Telegraph critic Charles Spencer found it hard to warm to the show, with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints whose beliefs center on the Book of Mormon, an easy target. Musical "Book of Mormon" opens in London to mixed reviews 2013-03-22T15:22:47Z

Then in a Zoom meeting with critics, The Times’s executive editor, Dean Baquet, lingered over the question of whether arts reviewers should stay in their jobs indefinitely. Ben Brantley on Shutting the Stage Door Behind Him 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

When I was TV critic for the New Statesman I wrote an excoriating review of the BBC's State of Play's first episode, only to discover the rest of the nation loved it. Casting a critical eye over the TV critics 2011-07-20T13:55:00Z

The critics who finally did see the film largely hated it, but the real proof of "Pluto Nash"'s bomb status is in the box office. 15 summer "blockbusters" that completely tanked at the box office 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z

But Leto, who’s a sensitive charmer in Dallas Buyers Club, looks a lock for more critics’ awards and perhaps an Oscar. Critics Awards 2: Judgment Daze 2013-12-10T18:55:39Z

And even better, they got a raucous public forum in which to mock gallery owners, curators, collectors, critics, fellow artists and just about everyone in the art world, not excluding themselves. Art Handling Olympics on the Lower East Side 2010-03-22T22:28:00Z

By early February, most theater critics from Variety to the Los Angeles Times had had enough and decided to weigh in, a violation of the established agreement by critics to wait for opening night. Another injury rocks 'Spider-Man' Broadway musical 2011-03-22T22:38:23Z

Even at the time, Alger’s stories were controversial; they were mocked by social critics and parodied by satirists. REVIEW: Boardwalk Empire Watch: Golden Boy 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

In his capacity as a music critic, Schumann called the young, unknown Brahms a genius. 200 candles and lots of music for Robert Schumann 2010-10-14T20:50:00Z

Keys performed on albums the Stones put out during what many critics consider their peak in the late 1960s and early 1970s - "Let It Bleed," "Sticky Fingers" and "Exile on Main Street." Bobby Keys, longtime saxophonist for Rolling Stones, dies 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

And what does Jesus say to the critics? Vance McAllister’s Christian failure 2014-04-09T18:48:00Z

Casel — “a spectacular tap artist,” according to The New York Times dance critic Gia Kourlas — also draws from her African-American and Puerto Rican roots in her dancing. 11 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

Philip Gefter, a photography critic, wrote in an email that Mr. Uelsmann “artfully juxtaposed his very precise photographs of actual objects, creating unusual incongruities to surreal effects.” Jerry Uelsmann, Surreal Image-Maker, Dies at 87 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z

Reyes wrote about her harrowing early life in this series of letters to the Colombian historian and critic Germán Arciniegas, who urged her to put the riveting tales she would speak aloud down on paper. An Artist’s Childhood, Etched in Trauma and Abandonment 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

Much of the décor attests to the accomplishments of their high-achieving brood: a poster of “Judy Berlin” and another for "The Lost," the best-selling memoir by Eric’s older brother, Daniel, a critic. O Suburbia, With a Touch of the Cosmic 2011-03-05T05:23:05Z

Certain People,” in particular, met with hostile reviews as critics questioned Mr. Birmingham’s conclusions and the premise of a white man writing about the inner workings of black society. Stephen Birmingham, author of ‘Our Crowd,’ other bestsellers, dies at 86 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

Being a lover of all films, growing up and working in this great industry and not always being a fan of "critics," I found myself agreeing with Kenneth Turan's piece on "Boyhood." Readers respond after 'Boyhood' fails to impress critic Kenneth Turan 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

It’s a building that induces delighted befuddlement among architecture critics. As the Tonys Head Uptown, Step Inside the United Palace ‘Dream World’ 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

It’s equally, as described by IndieWire critic David Ehrlich, “a wonderful and demented Western about the perils of rampant modernization”. 'Bacurau' shines spotlight on a feverish Brazil at Cannes 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

Some argue it is rigid and overlooks some restaurants that critics and diners praise. New York's Jean-Georges restaurant loses 3-star Michelin status 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

So you can put money on some critics saying the first decade of the new millennium was the heyday of the novel in 90 years' time. In search of a good read | John Crace 2010-03-17T13:30:00Z

It received terrific reviews, ran for well over a year, spurred interest in black theater and, as The New York Times drama critic Frank Rich wrote on its 25th anniversary, “changed American theater forever.” Philip Rose, ?Raisin? and ?Purlie? Producer, Dies at 89 2011-06-02T04:54:29Z

Even before ground was broken, however, critics pointed out the folly of the riverfront location. Perspective | At 50, Kennedy Center can no longer be a cultural island 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

The musical wowed critics, and its admirers were rapturous. Tonys Magic Likely for Harry Potter and ‘Band’s Visit’ 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

What exactly, does a first-preview audience see that a critic doesn’t, a few performances later? Perspective | A critic goes to a Synetic preview and finds much to praise 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

I have a cherished recollection of meeting Briers when he played the second-string theatre critic, Moon, in Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound in 1968. Richard Briers was a potent presence on stage, as well as in The Good Life 2013-02-18T16:04:36Z

They include authors, some whom are previous National Book Award winners and finalists, and booksellers and critics. Dave Eggers, Valeria Luiselli and more will judge the 2018 National Book Awards 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

Seinfeld told me about the tour he just finished in Europe, where, he said, critics have a better sense of what he does up there. Jerry Seinfeld talks comedy, critics, cars 2011-09-29T20:04:06Z

Given all the good will toward the band, and Rami Malek, who plays Freddie Mercury, that might have been enough to make it a populist cause célèbre, despite middling reviews from critics. A Pocket Guide to the Oscars’ Beefiest Controversies 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

The French critic, journalist and poet Apollinaire was born in 1880. Hot Chip in Liverpool and Cindy Sherman in Brisbane: Global Arts Guide 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

Some critics have written about how “Mad Men” caters to a certain misplaced nostalgia for the Sixties. 'Mad Men' Recap: Misplaced Nostalgia 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

And, as Mr. Greilsammer explained in an interview on Sunday at a cafe near Carnegie Hall, he knows that some people, critics among them, will view such parings as gimmicky. At the Piano, and Under the Hood 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

As a TV critic, I had a policy to stay on top of it all, which was, “if I’m home, I’m watching something.” How a TV Critic Turned to Podcasts During a Pandemic 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

Judd Apatow partly built a career on a zaftig variation of what the literary critic Leslie A. Fiedler called the Good Bad Boy, those imps who eventually shed their mischievousness for domesticated normalcy. FILM: Babies to Heroes: A Field Guide to Big-Screen Men 2011-07-27T12:00:10Z

If Mr. Scott didn’t inspire a lot of respect from critics, he does have some dissident champions among serious cinephiles. An Appraisal: Tony Scott Made Movies as a Maximalist 2012-08-20T21:30:32Z

Once again, The Post’s TV critic thoughtlessly ruins the viewing experience. Style Invitational Week 1249: Ask Backwards 36 — we answer, you question 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

The Naked Nudeby Frances Borzello Buy it from the Guardian bookshop Search the Guardian bookshop Tell us what you think: Star-rate and review this book This is an issue art critics too have pondered. Naked or nude? Laying bare an artistic divide 2012-11-28T16:53:35Z

Poet and critic Paul Zweig was more reverential, saying that “Howl,” “almost singlehandedly dislocated the traditionalist poetry of the 1950s.” Drunk Poetry Fans and the First Reading of 'Howl' 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Warren, too, said he was most eager for reactions from secular critics and nonreligious friends, some of whom were “weirded out” by the project, which has received early raves in the Christian press. ‘Hillsong’ Casts a Secular Lens on an Evangelical Band 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

One critic called her "dangerous," and that is exactly what she is. All hail Melissa McCarthy, Hollywood's indestructible comic superwoman 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

The show drew record visitors to the museum, and while not everyone appreciated the radical new works with aggressively applied paint, everyone was talking about them: British critics responded in more than 30 reviews. Retelling the Story of Abstract Expressionism Through Women Artists 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

Egypt, a monumentally ambitious book that was pummeled by critics, though sometimes with grudging respect for Mailer’s attempt to haul the Book of the Dead into contemporary letters. Matthew Barney’s Most Punishing Tour: ‘River of Fundament’ 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

“After decades conjuring the Anglo-American aristocracy clinking cups in gardens and drawing rooms, Ivory, the survivor, is ready to spill the tea,” our critic Alexandra Jacobs writes. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

Now her compositions have reached the Monday Evening Concerts series, reports Times classical music critic Mark Swed — kicking off the season with “rapturous hymns and songs sung with blinding luminosity.” Essential Arts & Culture: Museums facing fires, Misty Copeland onstage, and Broadway's new 'Hamilton' 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

A 2015 Guggenheim Fellow, he is a former book editor and book critic of The Times. Annie Ernaux caps a remarkable stretch of unorthodox memoirs with 'The Years' 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

But at the height of the hippie era, they were ignored by many critics and the public, which was more interested in flower power than the Velvets’ brooding art rock. Who Was the Real Lou Reed? 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z

In this week’s video, Times critics share their thoughts on “Annie,” “Winter Sleep” and “Mr. Turner.” Video Reviews of 'Annie,' 'Winter Sleep' and 'Mr. Turner' 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

“Rather than working its way through a neatly predigested story line, it plunges the audience into a vast social fresco,” the British critic Tony Rayns, one of the movie’s first Western admirers, wrote in 1993. On DVD: Rock ’n’ Roll High Schools in Taiwan and America 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Ellmann was one of the great literary critics of the last century and his biography, though long, implies a great deal more than it says. James Joyce: A Biography by Gordon Bowker - review 2011-08-05T21:55:01Z

Deen issued videotaped apologies Friday afternoon seeking forgiveness from fans and critics. Paula Deen re-scheduled for 'Today' on Wednesday 2013-06-24T15:04:08Z

Others, such as artist and critic Coco Fusco, argued against it on the grounds that it constituted censorship. The year the art came down 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

On screen, his sarong kept falling off while climbing trees, prompting a critic to say that he really did not want to see any more two-hour films of Mr. Mead’s derrière. Taylor Mead, Bohemian and Actor, Dies at 88 2013-05-10T02:48:13Z

“As an exercise in the art of expression, ‘Five Finger Exercise’ is superb,” theater critic Brooks Atkinson wrote in the Times. Peter Shaffer, acclaimed British playwright of ‘Equus’ and ‘Amadeus,’ dies at 90 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z

And it's not, of course, the first fictional representation of critics. Critics on screen – a YouTube roundup 2013-01-23T09:42:13Z

And as directed by Mr. Gurney’s frequent collaborator, Jim Simpson, “What I Did Last Summer” turns out to have something more than what many critics first saw. Review: ‘What I Did Last Summer,’ a Letter of Apology From an Ex-Teenager 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z

The group of critics that choose the winner for the prize are usually pretty good at spotting talent when they see it. Sam Smith Leads Brits Nominations 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

The film grossed a lackluster $6.4 million, however, and faced complaints from critics like Rick Dack of Defending the Bible International, who cited “obvious scriptural, archaeological and chronological problems” with “The Young Messiah.” Scripture as a Springboard in Hollywood 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

As a rock musician you can live with your audience, no matter what the critics say. David Bowie on His Favorite Artists 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

As critics often remarked, this lent his art luminous beauty. Avigdor Arikha, Israeli Artist of the Everyday, Dies at 81 2010-05-01T04:48:00Z

Mine was close to literal: I was the restaurant critic here at The New York Times. Seize the Morning: The Case for Breakfast 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

Ms. Cahill’s program was called “A Sweeter Music,” and a critic had to fight off his baser instincts. Critic?s Notebook: A Mistress of Voltaire, Set to Video 2011-06-05T22:05:53Z

Some critics, however, have praised the sexual passages in "Infrared." Huston's "Infrared" wins Bad Sex fiction prize 2012-12-04T23:16:04Z

Published in September, Vanished Years was widely and lavishly praised in reviews, with the Guardian critic Talitha Stevenson describing it as "a tragical comical, ironical Broadway-hit-show of a life". Rupert Everett scoops Sheridan Morley prize for memoir Vanished Years 2013-02-27T12:07:41Z

“The movie applied a cinematic sheen to the scenes of this seedier New York,” the Times critic Maya Phillips wrote in a 2020 essay. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Fight the Power’ and ‘The Ark’ 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z

Though many critics rolled their eyes when this sequel to the decades-old ABC sitcom “Full House” debuted in 2016, the show has managed to last five seasons. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Fuller House’ and ‘Dirty John’ 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

What is stunningly apparent is just how much a woman's body matters onstage - way more, if these five critics are to be believed, than her voice, her technique, her musicality or any other quality. Furore over 'sexist' opera critics 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

As presented by Ms. Salamon, a former critic for The New York Times, she is both an unavoidable product of the family Wasserstein and of the theatrical family she chose for herself. The Wendy Chronicles 2011-08-17T16:52:55Z

“My Brilliant Career” is one of many firsts in the aptly named MoMI series, which was curated by the programmer and critic Michelle Carey. Rediscovering Australia’s Generation of Defiant Female Directors 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z

It won riotous acclaim from critics, and brought a terse “Good movie – Bill” from Clinton. DA Pennebaker obituary 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z

The Old Globe production garnered strong reviews, particularly from the critic Charles McNulty of The Los Angeles Times, who called it “an unqualified winner.” ‘Almost Famous,’ Now a Musical, Will Open on Broadway This Fall 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

In 2016, Scholastic pulled a picture book, “A Birthday Cake for George Washington,” from stores after critics said it glossed over the horrors of slavery. Dr. Seuss Books Are Pulled, and a ‘Cancel Culture’ Controversy Erupts 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

It averaged a 34% on Rotten Tomatoes "positive" rating, with critics divided between whether the film is a hit or a miss. 'Insurgent' could kick off with as much as $60 million 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Throughout his long, productive life, Pierre Boulez nurtured his inner critic and editor, and he incessantly revised and expanded early ideas. Sampling the Work of Pierre Boulez 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

She tells me how the famously difficult Finlay successfully sued the famously opinionated critic Brian Sewell, for writing that he was not a real artist because other people made his work. Victoria Miro 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z

Instead of the tense, structured yet restrained wines that Mr. Jensen preferred, critics lauded plush, powerfully fruity pinot noirs that were high in alcohol content. Josh Jensen, California Pinot Noir Pioneer, Is Dead at 78 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

Indeed, as the critic Frank Kermode wrote of the volume, “It is hard to avoid epithets like ‘voracious.’ Lewis M. Dabney, Scholar Who Made Edmund Wilson Focus of His Life’s Work, Dies at 83 2015-12-26T05:00:00Z

The exhibition, say its curators, will explode the myth that Lowry – who, in 1939, turned down an offer to become the Manchester Guardian's art critic – was a primitive, barely competent painter. Tate exhibition to pay homage to LS Lowry 2013-01-15T19:16:15Z

In effect, online viewing helps critics connect readers with movies—if the critics themselves pay attention to the right movies. Pay Attention to Movies Released on Streaming Platforms 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

“Unfortunately, ‘Camelot’ is weighed down by the burden of its book,” the New York Times critic Howard Taubman wrote of the opening. ‘Camelot,’ Beloved but Befuddling, Gets the Aaron Sorkin Treatment 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z

In this week’s video, Times critics share their thoughts on “Ted 2,” “The Princess of France” and “What Happened, Miss Simone?” Video Reviews of 'Ted 2,' 'The Princess of France' and 'What Happened, Miss Simone?' 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

It was, as countless critics noted, a mess. Perspective | Bernie and Biden have been courting voters virtually, and it’s not going well 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

Readers of her previous work will anticipate the engagingly idiosyncratic way in which she draws on all of her lives: as poet, theorist, critic, mother, spouse. Maggie Nelson Exposes Freedom’s Paradoxes 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z

As a critic, Mr. Goode said, Mr. Goldsmith “may have said harsh things, but there was total integrity. You felt that he was writing about something that was the center of his life.” Harris Goldsmith, Critic and Classical Pianist, Dies at 78 2014-04-21T03:11:20Z

He is a divisive figure in Italy, where, as the critic Mariarosa Mancuso put it, “We don’t have the concept of entertainment literature because there’s this idea that books shouldn’t entertain people.” His Books Inspired Lovestruck Teens to Put Locks on Bridges 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z

And at a critics' event in Los Angeles last week, Lewis responded to a question about this year's upcoming telethon with a terse "It is none of your business." What's Labor Day without Jerry Lewis? 2011-08-04T22:45:00Z

But despite its naughty potential, the new R-rated comedy — starring Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz as a couple whose plan to spice up their marriage goes badly awry — has movie critics feeling frigid. Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel's 'Sex Tape' doesn't arouse critics 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

The range of Ms. Traoré’s performance as Barbary — her rich and mesmerizing voice, regal bearing and fluid movement — has enchanted critics. Toni Morrison?s ?Desdemona? and Peter Sellars?s ?Othello? 2011-10-25T21:57:27Z

However, the matter of diversity in criticism is compounded by the fact that opportunities for all critics have been diminished. Art Critics: Next Endangered Species? 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z

Some critics and commentators lauded it as patriotic and unflinching; others dismissed it as reductionist and racist. What moviegoers in Baghdad think of “American Sniper” 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Not even its harshest critics dispute that Zero Dark Thirty is a beautifully made film, with clean, sharp lines, completely gripping, and light on any extraneous material. Kathryn Bigelow: under fire 2013-01-12T00:01:00Z

Also, its executives have eyes; they’ve seen the movie and released it to critics anyway. TV Weekend: Liz and Dick 2012-11-23T13:00:18Z

A Fox Searchlight spokesperson also said the studio is adding screenings in Boston and Chicago for critics, and will show it in New York and Los Angeles as requested. Director Kenneth Lonergan Emerges to Tell Us He?s on Team Margaret 2011-12-02T18:41:20Z

That series did not catch on, but the pilot was widely praised by critics as among the most entertaining, and visually arresting, in recent memory. ArtsBeat Blog: Return of 'The Munsters'? Maybe. 2011-11-17T17:38:41Z

I think that’s created confusion with the critics; they say it’s a problematic blend of styles. 'Evan Hansen,' 'Great Comet,' 'Come From Away': Tony contenders gather to hash it out 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

"You could even say she is to acting what Gareth Bale is to football: hailed by peers, critics and millions of viewers." Olivia Colman: 'It's slightly scary … it could all go wrong' 2013-07-07T17:30:00Z

You assuage the critics, then delight the donors. Music Review: New York Philharmonic, With Itzhak Perlman 2012-09-28T21:31:09Z

Mr. Ricard wasn’t being disingenuous, really, though as a poet, an influential art critic and a painter in his own right, perhaps he was selling himself short. Rene Ricard, Art Arbiter With Wildean Wit, Dies at 67 2014-02-07T01:26:22Z

Despite receiving a spanking from several critics, the novel sold more than a million copies in four days, and it remains the top-selling book at Amazon. 'Fifty Shades' author E.L. James worth $58 million, despite being spanked by critics 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

Successful art is theory-free, artists who need critics don't have a good art gallery. | 'The Painted Word' 2012-11-07T20:00:17Z

The Times restaurant critic Pete Wells, our cooking columnist Melissa Clark and I lined up both kinds of new vegan burgers for a blind tasting of six national brands. How Do the New Plant-Based Burgers Stack Up? We Taste-Tested Them 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

Or you can splurge on $30 tickets to another critic’s pick: “Preludes,” a musical set in the mind of the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, is “sad and stirring and gloriously fun,” Mr. Brantley wrote. ‘Ada/Ava’ and ‘Preludes’ Are Shows to See in a Relatively Empty City 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

“French literature is very political this year, very open to the world, after being closed in on itself,” said Éric Naulleau, a cultural commentator and a book critic for Le Point, a Paris weekly. The French Literati and the Arab World Do a Complicated Dance 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

The lyrical First Violin Concerto dates from 1916-17, though at its Paris premiere in 1923 it was considered insufficiently avant-garde, while Soviet critics also subsequently deemed it insufficiently revolutionary. LSO/Zhang ? review 2011-04-06T18:00:29Z

The National Theatre Studio, which understands the importance of developing work in a supportive atmosphere, is completely off-limits for critics, but is also off-limits for paying audiences and therefore blogger too. In the age of blogging, can shows keep critics at bay? 2011-01-26T17:16:56Z

When the film finally opened that December, critics were far from kind. A second look at Steven Spielberg's '1941' 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

One of the most recent releases, “The Goldfinch,” is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Donna Tartt, though the film adaptation hasn’t fared as well with critics as the original. Read It Before You See It 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

After an uproar, during which critics claimed the series was normalizing racism, the show was canceled. Where did the radical right come from? Television tries to make sense of it. 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

Smelling fear as swiftly as a pack of wolves, the critics have pounced. Hollywood's terrible track record with historical dramas labours on 2013-07-08T12:31:18Z

They are a deliberate gap this critic left to mark the period of his mental breakdown — a nightmare. Exhibition Review: Diarists Share Tales ? True or Not ? of Lives Richly Lived 2011-01-21T19:10:36Z

But Hettche's novel suffered the same fate as Hegemann's book – only a few weeks after its publication, the critics began to find fault with it. What they're reading in Germany 2011-03-18T12:29:32Z

This was the beginning of a long career as an art critic and curator. Bill Berkson, Poet and Art Critic of ’60s Manhattan In-Crowd, Dies at 76 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

She describes Comiskey as Hollywood's version of what a critic looks like."He wears a lot of tweed blazers, he's vaguely middle-aged, nice looking," she said. "No one suspected me": Women food critics dish on dining out for a living 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z

Here, in 2014, it’s shocking to see how wrong the critics were. REVIEW: 45 Years Later, Led Zeppelin I Remains Transcendent 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

The cause was complications of Alzheimer’s disease, said his son Lev, a novelist and the book critic at Time magazine. Allen Grossman, a Poet’s Poet and Scholar, Dies at 82 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z

Ashley Clark, a critic and the author of Facing Blackness: Media and Minstrelsy in Spike Lee’s Bamboozled, said the inclusion of King’s film should be celebrated, cautiously. Regina King makes history at Venice film festival with One Night in Miami 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z

One critic described the whole thing as merely a "rowdy debate" between rival factions in the audience. The Rite of Spring: 'The work of a madman' 2013-02-12T19:59:01Z

“Tragedy” has now played throughout Hungary, where it has been praised by critics, as well as at festivals in Russia, Serbia and the Czech Republic. ‘The Tragedy of Man’ by Marcell Jankovics, Animator 2012-11-10T01:04:20Z

"That this is a gimmick goes without saying, and yet it is a gimmick that resonates," Los Angeles Times book critic David L. Ulin wrote in his review. Ali Smith wins Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

He is an excellent critic, always willing to analyze and generalize and just plain do historical work. Richard Pryor, Flame-Thrower 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

One of the delightful surprises arising from the spate of books celebrating Saul Bellow’s centenary is the discovery that, for a brief while, Bellow was a film critic. Saul Bellow, Film Critic 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

Ahead of traveling, as part of my homework, I tend to pair a major critic’s list of top spots with those of his or her competitors and see where they overlap. Review | Why do restaurants ask for a credit card to hold a reservation? A few bad apples. 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

Inspired by the work of the outsider artist Henry Darger, it got a rave review in The New York Times, with the critic Roberta Smith calling it “brilliantly imagined.” Air-Powered Art From a Newly Minted Winner of a ‘Genius Grant’ 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z

Televised political debates continue to disappoint viewers and critics. Think presidential debates are dull? Thank 1950s TV game shows 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

Tinie Tempah The critics say "Don't pigeonhole this young Londoner as just another grime rapper – he's one of the most exciting talents around." Leading the field 2010-05-21T23:02:00Z

Does this mean that critics are hopelessly out of touch, or that our judgments don’t matter? Unexpected Lessons From ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

The arrival of Forever Marilyn caused a stir among local critics, with some arguing that groups of onlookers taking pictures with her exposed legs was a throwback to sexist times. Time running out to visit Monroe statue 2012-05-01T02:46:00Z

Kraepelin was a staunch critic of psychoanalysis and passionate advocate for understanding mental phenomena in strictly biological terms — attitudes now also ascendant in psychiatric biomedicine. A Nobel Laureate Asks What Makes a ‘Disordered Mind’ 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

In fact, it has always puzzled me when white critics depict Lee as an anti-white bigot. “Chi-Raq”: Spike Lee’s blistering, outrageous satirical assault on a society consumed by violence 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

And some longtime observers of his career, like Tim Blanks, a critic for Style.com, found it possible to remark of his death, reportedly a suicide, that “I was thunderstruck by the news, and then not.” 2010-02-11T21:45:00Z

Some critics of True Grit have even complained the new film is not Coen-like enough. The Coen brothers: the cartographers of cinema 2011-01-27T18:29:31Z

On Tuesday night, the author, blogger and critic Dale Peck threw a mildly revolutionary literary event, outside the Barnes & Noble in Union Square. ArtsBeat: Anti-Corporate Agitation at Barnes & Noble 2010-12-08T03:04:00Z

Nicosia rejects the division some critics draw between the Lowell novels and the Beat ones. Visions of Jack Kerouac ... in an epic 13 volumes 2013-07-24T18:00:01Z

That was the TV critic of The New York Times, but not me. ‘Cops’ Is Off the Air. But Will We Ever Get It Out of Our Heads? 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

Mark Athitakis, is a critic in Phoenix and author of “The New Midwest.” Perspective | Why bother organizing your books? A messy personal library is proof of life. 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z

Scott -- and indeed, most other critics -- are less ambivalent. 'Selma' a vivid historical drama and a timely reminder, reviews say 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

Writing in The New York Times, the critic Alexis Soloski declared the City Center production “glorious,” and many other critics agreed. A Starry ‘Into the Woods’ Will Play Broadway This Summer 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

Writers, producers, actors and technicians all get decent work here, and everyone’s content, except maybe the TV critics; an occasional burst of a “Sharknado”-style event brings in a little extra whoop. Syfy’s ‘Ascension’: A great idea, lost in space 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z

I will defend the right of critics to have strong opinions and unpopular opinions and to offer blunt and unflattering descriptions of performers. Male critics on female bodies: Tara Erraught, Liza Minnelli and intelligent reviewing

As critics get older – and I concede this may be a fault – they also tend to become less recklessly violent in their judgements. How rude should theatre critics be? 2011-07-29T14:03:46Z

Mr. Kunkel, a wry and gifted critic and a founding editor of the serious-minded magazine n+1, joins the storied pantheon of good and great prose writers without much flair for drama. ‘Buzz,’ a New Play by Benjamin Kunkel 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

And the painter and critic Sidney Tillim pays tribute to his fellow art writer Clement Greenberg in his mysterious allegory “Who Among Us Really Knows? Or Greenberg’s Doubt,” from 1969. When Dealers, Too, Were Romantics 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

Yet great movies, such as “Moonlight,” start off a step ahead of the critics who write about them: they build their mode of criticism into their very substance. The Unbearable Intimacy of “Moonlight” 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

Veteran critic Frank Rich called it “a landmark in American press criticism.” A New Yorker staffer questions racial equality at the magazine — and becomes the talk of the town 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

In “Big Eyes,” the sincerity of the artist trumps the judgment of the critics, and her vision triumphs over fraudulent promotion. ‘Big Eyes’ Casts Another Side of Keane Art 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

Use the search: look at critics’ best-of lists and search for titles that strike your curiosity. What to Stream This Weekend: How to Find Good Movies on Netflix 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z

Art critics have pointed out that there is little indication Mr. Schlesinger represents that title role. David Hockney Painting Sells for $90 Million, Smashing Record for Living Artist 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

One of the bigger names in this camera market right now is Fujifilm, who has released a couple of retro-styled cameras that critics adore. The hand-held camera you have to have 2012-08-05T15:59:00Z

Considered one of the foremost music critics in the world, the Oxford-educated Mr. Porter was widely read on both sides of the Atlantic. Andrew Porter, New Yorker Classical Music Critic, Dies at 86 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Audiences and critics embraced its signature blend of modern dance and devotional gestures to convey the struggle between the sacred and profane. Thirsty for Wisdom of the Body, Finding It in Dance 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

Also a critic, social reformer and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Hammond contributed to the integration of Benny Goodman's band and lured Count Basie out of Kansas City. Music legend John Hammond gets film treatment 2010-04-20T06:54:00Z

The movie, despite being savaged by critics, was a hit, but not such an astounding hit as to necessarily be a herald of the end of days for good taste. The Image of Netflix as a Content Utopia 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

In a flap over 'Spider-Man,' previews, reviews and critics gone wild" »  THEATER REVIEW: "Let us think of these things always. 'Mary': Slave drama provokes without much truth 2011-02-15T03:12:57Z

Tokarczuk is an outspoken critic of Poland’s right-wing government and of its policy of supporting mainly those artists who follow its conservative outlook. Poland’s Nobel-winning writer to support art, civil rights 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

It has totaled $75.9 million in three weeks at movie theaters and earned Oscar buzz after stellar reviews from critics. "Wreck-It Ralph" hammers box office, sails over "Flight" 2012-11-04T20:50:30Z

“I saw your play, and I, for one, thought you were terrific. Some critics are just cruel.” Amanda Peet: The First Time I (Didn’t) Read a Scathing Review 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z

Local critic Elizabeth Maupin writes: "The concept is so startling that it actually works." Noises off: Theatre that makes us see differently 2012-05-25T08:35:20Z

Herbert Hoover was simply a "scapegoat" for the Great Depression who became "a powerful critic of the New Deal, warning against tendencies toward statism." Historians question White House presidential bios 2011-04-05T13:26:27Z

A programme at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art helped fund her tuition, and her first, poorly paid work was as a critic and editor. Rebecca Solnit: California dreaming 2013-06-29T07:00:45Z

Related: Melissa McCarthy fights off critics, Batman and Superman to top US box office What’s not to love about Melissa McCarthy? Melissa McCarthy: why Hollywood’s first lady of funny is hit and miss 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z

Anyone expecting critics to be rigid autocrats will be a bit thrown by the new book by New York Times writer A.O. Critics are human, too: “But I don’t think you’re doing the artist or the audience or the art form itself any favor if you pat things on the head” 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z

But as his critics consider his statements of the past several months, they are uncomfortably reminded of Mr. Baldwin’s long history of aggressive behavior. Alec Baldwin Skewers Trump. And Supports Allen and Toback. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

And it is to this place that he will whisk an invited audience of editors, critics, bloggers, photographers and influencers in an unlikely fashion week rally for a presentation and seated dinner on Sept. 12. Ralph Lauren Is Still Behind the Wheel 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z

Rex Reed, film and theater critic for the New York Observer, was a close friend of Bergen’s for over 50 years. Polly Bergen, dead at 84, was strong women's rights activist 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

The looks are eerily synonymous with the boyish uniform Cathy Horyn, the now former fashion critic of The New York Times, describes in her recent essay on the revenge of comfort over fashion. | Marc Jacobs’s Plans for the Future, The Duchess of Cambridge’s New Style and Zac Posen’s Bridal Designs 2014-02-07T22:15:38Z

Thomas Rogers, Salon editor: So there seems to be an audience backlash against "Drive," a movie that you and a lot of other critics have been very fond of. The "Drive" backlash: Too violent, too arty or both? 2011-09-23T14:01:00Z

As the critic Jason Farago wrote last month in The New York Times, the risks to Ukrainian culture “are more than mere collateral damage” in this battle. Review: A Ukrainian Orchestra Speaks With Quiet Intensity 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z

He wrote in “The Game Show King” that he told Lange newspaper critics were originally movie and theater critics, and “free TV is beneath them.” “Gonged at Last”: game show impressario and author Chuck Barris dead at 87 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

When he had his first, and only, commercial gallery solo in 1977, he priced everything insanely high and, as if to save critics the effort, called it “The Awful Art Show.” Stephen Varble: The Street Was His Stage, the Dress Was His Weapon 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

Since her season aired, Lindsay has been a vocal critic of the Bachelor shows. Perspective | The 20 defining moments of 20 years of ‘The Bachelor’ 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

In India, the furnishings and paintings reversed the patronizing colonial attitudes that Edward Said, the cultural critic, called “Orientalism.” What Josephine Baker and a Maharajah Teach Us About Design 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

Colleagues and critics praise her relaxed ease and lightness, her generosity of spirit onstage and off, her uncommonly subtle and individual musicality. A Ballerina Who Adds to the ‘Palette of What’s Possible’ 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

Most media critics also chastised Mr. Godfrey, whose avuncular image began to crumble. Julius La Rosa, Singer Who Was Fired on the Air by Arthur Godfrey, Dies at 86 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

The critics – initially lukewarm, perhaps – have come to regard them with fondness. Who will make the next Great British Rock Album? 2011-07-14T21:00:02Z

What did I do when I wasn't a critic? We're all going on a ... 2011-07-30T23:04:12Z

The German and Austrian critics have complained about his lack of a retrogressive style. 'Exterminating Angel,' the most anticipated opera of the year, proves it's here to stay 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

While critics discuss the acting merits of the stars, the Christmas Day premiere of Les Miserables is getting attention for another reason. Les Miserables: Will the Film's Groundbreaking Production Mean an Oscar Win? 2012-09-21T12:00:26Z

His career as an art critic largely ended with the notoriety of the Trial of the Thirty, after which he excelled as executive editor of the literary magazine La Revue blanche. Félix Fénéon, the Collector-Anarchist Who Was Seurat’s First Champion 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

Streaming access to a prerecorded conversation with Thiam, Johnson and The New Yorker’s food critic, Hannah Goldfield, is included with the purchase. Virtual New Yorker Festival Will Host Chris Rock and Elizabeth Warren 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

In 1986, he elected to direct Shanghai Surprise, starring Madonna and Sean Penn. Volcanoes of critical abuse erupted on both sides of the Atlantic: one critic dismissed it as "flop suey". Jim Goddard 2013-06-27T14:51:28Z

But for my money, us critics are only doing our job when we remember that we are there not solely as gatekeepers, but in order to hold the gate open. Critics on screen – a YouTube roundup 2013-01-23T09:42:13Z

Panel moderator and NPR music critic Ann Powers asked Combs about those images during a Q&A for the Country Radio Seminar, an annual country radio broadcasters conference, that was held online this year. Luke Combs apologizes for Confederate flag imagery 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z

The columnist Molly Ivins, an acerbic critic of her native Texas until her death in 2007, once described politics in the Lone Star State as the “finest form of free entertainment ever invented.” Two Books on the Bizarreness of Texas 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z

But I take issue with people who ought to know better, those who confuse the differences between bad and good wines, and critics and industry promoters. Let’s Be Clear: Bad Wines Are Bad Wines, Period 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

One critic has speculated that the guidebook’s description of the renunciation, withdrawal and nothingness at the heart of Asian religious thought might have influenced our premier mystical poet. How Asian art came to America: ‘The China Collectors’ 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

Salon’s film critic, Andrew O’Hehir, who has not read the book, hated the movie, but even he concedes that its best bits were Hazel’s voice-overs, all taken directly from the novel. “The Fault in Our Stars” has been unfairly bashed by critics who don’t understand it 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

Next week, Holland Cotter will write about what set him on the path toward becoming an art critic for The Times. ArtsBeat: What Inspired You to Work in the Visual Arts? 2013-08-09T17:40:45Z

The main treat here is the title characters: “The dogs provide the emotion in this movie,” the film critic Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Isle of Dogs’ and ‘Remember the Night’ 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z

She was also fond of bashing the viewpoints of other critics in print, bad behavior The New Yorker’s gentlemanly editor William Shawn eventually put a stop to. The Perils of Reading About Pauline Kael 2011-11-02T09:00:57Z

Mr. Villella — who has a pugnacious streak — may have stoked resentment by turning his back on his board critics, not even greeting several of them at a gala in Miami last March. Edward Villella and the Miami City Ballet Board 2011-11-13T23:07:55Z

Lemire, the film critic for the Associated Press, described the film as "an epic letdown", adding that "the feeling of frustration and disappointment is unshakable". Rotten Tomatoes squashes abuse from Dark Knight Rises fans 2012-07-18T15:49:36Z

Through interviews with her parents, art critics and historians, Ms. Skyler offers a personal, and laughable, take on a global phenomenon. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Vera’ and ‘The Bachelorette’ 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

Our critic praised it as a “glowingly dark, profoundly moving new play.” 5 Shows to See in New York When You Only Have an Hour 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

"I feel like my critics are probably saying, 'Oh, good, he's leaving.'" Kevin Smith: I "feel good" about semi-retirement 2011-03-07T02:07:48Z

The debt of fiction to film and TV narrative has not been fully measured by critics, though readers now take it for granted. Twelve of the best new novelists 2011-02-25T13:05:56Z

Below, eight New York Times critics and reporters choose what they believe to be her definitive album so far, the one that reveals the most truth about the scope and shape of her career. What’s Beyoncé’s Definitive Album? 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z

Now, Patterson is facing backlash from critics and writers who say the author has blatantly ignored recent data showing how the publishing industry has been and remains “a business that is owned by white men.” James Patterson claims White male writers face ‘another form of racism’ 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z

Thirty years ago, the majority of us thought that movie critics would soon be following saddlers and harness-makers into oblivion. Philip French OBE, Observer writer of 50 years and film critic extraordinaire 2012-12-29T18:54:00Z

The influential French critic André Bazin called this film one in which “the notion of the ‘shot’ is finally disposed of.” Review: ‘Les Parents Terribles,’ From Jean Cocteau, in a New Restoration 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

It has been around for more than 15 years, and has been praised by critics and popular with audiences. David Byrne’s ‘Here Lies Love’ Reaches Deal With Broadway Musicians 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

Trump has belittled Fonda’s cause at recent campaign rallies, reminding his supporters that she was arrested decades ago during the time she was an outspoken critic of the Vietnam war. Jane Fonda on joining the climate fight: 'It's back to the barricades' 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

The Hollywood press must churn out Lohan articles, you must call up your friends for viewing parties, and critics must dutifully warn you of what you are about to enjoy / suffer through/ live-tweet. TV Weekend: Liz and Dick 2012-11-23T13:00:18Z

An equal number of men and women watched , while , shockingly, brought in more women than men despite being — or perhaps because it was — panned by critics. Dear Guys, It’s O.K. to Watch New Girl 2013-10-01T14:00:21Z

Paradoxically, one of the rewards for not being a television critic is that you get to watch more television: Now I can stream “Deadwood” whenever I want, however I want. Revisiting ‘Deadwood,’ a Lawless Prelude to TV’s New Golden Age 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

The critic and composer Virgil Thomson, interviewed by Mr. Dickinson in 1981, couldn’t stay off the topic of the Adagio. An Adagio for Strings, and for the Ages 2010-03-05T19:18:00Z

The list of our critics' picks of the 25 best comedy movies has been released. The action and war 25: do you agree with our rankings? 2010-10-19T11:00:00Z

The blog quickly gained a cult following and was acclaimed by critics, leading to the publication of a book, The C-Word, in 2010. Smith to play cancer blogger Lynch 2014-02-28T00:58:33Z

Quinn is a film critic turned novelist, and a cinematic luster silvers his fiction, which is briskly plotted, fluent in visual and verbal cliché and highly, guiltily satisfying. ‘I Am the Kind of Woman I Would Run From’ 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

And for a critic on the prowl for an authentic taste of the city in full springtime bloom, surprises abounded. Critic?s Notebook: Seeking Tastes of the ?Real? New Orleans 2010-04-28T04:17:00Z

The audience may have enjoyed the opera; what is certain is that some critics did not. Marvin David Levy, Opera Composer Who Became a Felon, Is Dead at 82 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z

The review by The Post’s fresh young movie critic, Paul Attanasio — now a prominent Hollywood screenwriter and producer — was headlined “Dune — Lost in the Dust.” Perspective | ‘Dune’ has long divided the science fiction world. The new film won’t change that. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

In an interview aboard the Governors Island ferry, the critics — Hudson, 5, and Jacqueline, 3 — proffered a slippery set of criteria, verging on the tautological. Testing New York City’s Longest Slide, on Governors Island 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Kathryn Robinson, who worked as a restaurant critic for Seattle Weekly and Seattle Met for over 30 years, posits that men are naturally seen as having more authority, whether or not they deserve it. "No one suspected me": Women food critics dish on dining out for a living 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z

In a cunning pre-emptive strike, he also makes passing reference to the "caprice" of "literary critics". Et cetera: non-fiction roundup ? reviews 2012-05-18T21:54:01Z

Never more than now, with accusations of fake news flying, have these questions bedeviled writers — whether journalists or essayists or critics. Review: A Three-Way Smackdown Over ‘The Lifespan of a Fact’ 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

His wife, the film critic Molly Haskell, said the cause was complications from a fall. Andrew Sarris, Film Critic, Dies at 83 2012-06-20T17:00:26Z

While sold-out audiences across Europe find something sublime in his searching style, some classical critics disagree — like Ben Beaumont-Thomas of The Guardian, who says it’s nothing more than the “dashed-off poignancy of an Instagrammed sunset.” Ludovico Einaudi: A Classical Artist for the YouTube Age 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

It was at the point that its dance critic, Arlene Croce, who was then among Bob’s most valued friends, began to fulminate in print against what she saw as Martins’s inadequacies as Balanchine’s successor. Robert Gottlieb Didn’t Just Shape Manuscripts. He Shaped Dance, Too. 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

As a critic, my work has always doubled as an escape from work. Perspective | You call it a root canal. I call it a bittersweet symphony. 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

As a critic, I aim to be — in Henry James’s phrase — “someone on whom nothing is lost” and yet I never end any review without wondering if I might be wrong. Review | What ‘Henry Huggins’ and ‘Lolita’ can teach us about extremism — and civil discourse 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z

In 2006, after polling hundreds of writers, editors and critics, The Book Review named the novel the best American work of fiction of the previous quarter-century. Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

The US critics lauding Zero Dark Thirty need to admit that they're admiring a morally indefensible movie. Bret Easton Ellis apologises to Kathryn Bigelow for 'hot woman' tweet 2012-12-19T16:43:21Z

I suspect there might be more engagement with the way things are in books written for younger readers, which have traditionally been ignored by distinguished grown-up critics. ‘Britain Is No Home to Me’: Five Artists Respond to ‘Brexit’ 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

The prize is named for Mead, the anthropologist, author and social critic, who was curator emeritus in the museum’s anthropology department at her death, in 1978. ‘H20 MX’ Wins Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z

Frank Bruni, a former restaurant critic for The Times, said the Four Seasons possessed “a stubborn magic” in his 2007 review, and on Saturday it stuck like glitter to skin. The Last Dinner at the Four Seasons 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z

“You must clutch your pearls over rap music,” he told one critic, urging him to listen to a 1949 classic version on YouTube. How ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’ Went From Parlor Act to Problematic 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Do you actually have any skills as a movie critic to share? Our ‘Ghostbusters’ Review: Girls Rule. Women Are Funny. Get Over It. 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

One phrase you seem to get a lot is “perennial critics’ favorite.” Lydia Millet: “If men’s cruel tyranny over women is the matter at hand, there’s a bored disinterest of the liberal literary establishment” 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

In 1960, the literary critic Leslie Fiedler delivered a eulogy for the ghost story in his classic study “Love and Death in the American Novel.” The Ghost Story Persists in American Literature. Why? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

But her real education began when she and her partner, Simon Mallender, combined their families and began traveling with five of the most severe critics: their children. Q&A: Deborah Dickson-Smith?s Tips for Family Travel 2012-04-06T18:36:54Z

It was said of the film critic Pauline Kael, when she arrived at The New Yorker, that the magazine gave her class and she gave it sex. In Lorrie Moore’s Nonfiction, the Sounds of an Intellectual Having a Good Time 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

When he held his first solo exhibition, at Wellington's Architectural Centre in 1954, his paintings were dismissed by the critic of the Wellington Evening Post, who denounced abstract art as "an obscure cult". Don Peebles obituary 2010-05-02T17:23:00Z

As always, leave it to Community to be its own best critic. Review: Community Comes to Yahoo, the Same But Different 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

But what happens on stage, and the level of enthusiasm it generates among audiences and critics, is in the end what matters most. Intiman’s second festival has more to prove in 2013 2013-07-05T16:46:38Z

Ai, for decades a critic of the Chinese government's record on free speech and human rights, created the pieces without ever having visited Alcatraz. Dissident artist Ai Weiwei brings exhibit to Alcatraz 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

She writes that she did not, as some critics of her prewar reporting supposed, sit in her office and wait for the phone to ring. Review: Judith Miller’s ‘The Story: A Reporter’s Journey’ 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

It was voted best French film of the century in a poll of 600 critics and film professionals in the 1990s. French films glow with confidence and culture. Ours should do the same 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z

The New York Times’ critic described it as a movie he feels possessive about, confessing that he wanted to “keep it a secret because it feels like a private discovery”. Joanna Hogg and Honor Swinton Byrne: ‘We should tell whatever stories we like’ 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z

Last year, the critics named "American Hustle" best film of 2013; "12 Years a Slave" won the best picture Oscar. 'Boyhood' wins best film of 2014 honor from N.Y. Film Critics Circle 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z

She also takes the conventional view somewhat more than is optimal in a critic, rarely arriving at surprising or contrarian positions. From Don DeLillo to Marilyn Monroe: Lorrie Moore’s First Essay Collection 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

With wins in fully half of the critics’ groups, Boyhood is also the leader in the Oscars’ Best Picture race. If Critics Chose the Oscars: 2015 Edition 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

In the first edition of The Lives of the Artists, published in Florence in 1550, the artist and critic Giorgio Vasari claimed that Leonardo da Vinci was a "heretic" who did not believe in God. Leonardo Da Vinci's Virgin of the Rocks ? more to Mary than meets the eye? 2010-07-14T13:24:00Z

The juried awards are chosen by small panels of filmmakers and critics. ‘Minari,’ ‘Boys State’ win top honors at Sundance 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z

Marx has never gotten respect from critics, which is understandably galling for any artist. Richard Marx hates my guts 2013-01-19T00:30:00Z

Naval War College and a conservative critic of Trump, said later. Experts agree: Trump has made Washington hostile to experts 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

Still, Los Angeles Times fashion critic Booth Moore was not impressed, though she did applaud Dunham's feminine choice. Lena Dunham's Emmys dress: Where cake and sweatpants meet 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

She came to relish the dismissals from the blockheaded critics who said, as she puts it, that her “talent resided in my knickers.” Books of The Times: Edna O’Brien’s Memoir, ‘Country Girl’ 2013-04-29T19:31:34Z

The New York Times television critics James Poniewozik and Mike Hale, using torn stationery and letters pulled from beneath their fingernails, discussed the show’s far-reaching legacy. Was ‘Twin Peaks’ Ahead of Its Time? Let’s Look Back and See 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

Theatre critics also risk their reputations every day. Sons and lovers 2010-05-31T14:38:00Z

Many critics argue that people’s personalities exist on a spectrum — people possess varying degrees of both introversion and extroversion, logic and sentimentality — and therefore the Myers-Briggs test is an oversimplification. Analysis | Four letters can say a lot: Why people put their Myers-Briggs personality types in their Tinder profiles 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

But he denied that Danny Rand is a “white savior,” and said the series will reveal itself to aptly handle many of critics’ concerns. ‘Iron Fist’ Actor, at Center of Whitewashing Debate, Asks Fans to Wait and See 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

While booksellers failed to order the book in any quantity, up stepped the network of really superb critics who commune about contemporary lit on Twitter to rally round. The publishing year 2012 2012-12-21T22:55:02Z

At Carnegie Hall or Lincoln Center, critics are just like everyone else in the audience: empowered by anonymity, as harsh light shines on the vulnerable artist. When a Critic Hosts the Premiere 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

It must be awful being a theatre critic. Noises off: The fringe finds its Banksy, and where all the money really goes 2012-08-16T10:45:22Z

As critics debate the "Entourage" movie's merits — or lack thereof — and audiences vote with their wallets, here's a look at what the guys have been up to in the meantime. 'Entourage': What else have Grenier and the gang been working on? 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

To find out, we take a look at Trump threatening to take away security clearances from his critics. Stephen Colbert: Donald Trump “is a racist, horny old burger goblin who literally steals childr... 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

The Times film critic A. O. Scott mounted a vibrant defense of this sour science in his recent book “Better Living Through Criticism.” The Fate of the Critic in the Clickbait Age 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

“I considered him to be the most interesting political critic of the time,” he once said, according to Deutsche Welle World. Karlheinz Böhm, actor and aid worker, dies at 86

Unsurprisingly, his relationship with drama critics was wary. Review | ‘Noël Coward On (and In) Theatre’ reveals the playwright’s nimble way with words 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

Related: Church of Scientology targets film critics over Going Clear documentary Did you think long and hard about doing the film? Alex Gibney interview: journey into the seductive world of Scientology 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

“I would be surprised,” he said, “if any serious and informed Indiana critic or writer would accept these works, in my opinion.” How Robert Indiana’s Caretaker Came to Control His Artistic Legacy 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

The critic must know more than either writer or academic. Interview: Gore Vidal 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

In an Internet era, when self-appointed critics could heap scorn on a star, “stylists began getting extraordinarily powerful,” said Melissa Rivers, executive producer of “Fashion Police.” Hollywood?s Power Stylists 2012-01-13T22:05:14Z

He openly admits that his position as a critic bolstered his career as a composer. ‘Virgil Thomson: The State of Music & Other Writings’ Paints a Troubling Portrait 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

Happily, the lessons young Paul Westerberg learned from all those critics freed him to explore new sounds. Why Rock Criticism Was Essential to the Replacements 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

Here, critics from The New York Times discuss how the album comes across a generation later. ‘Buena Vista Social Club’ at 25: Memories of Memories 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

Each critic gathered acolytes among the young, a kind of salon of kindred souls. Remembering Andrew Sarris: A Great American Film Critic 2012-06-21T12:39:03Z

She’s Sarah, a playwright whose latest work has been savaged by the London critics, and he learns that suicide is indeed her intent. Irvine Welsh is back with another brazen novel: ‘A Decent Ride’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

But fans and critics carped that the picture quality for some 3D movies did not justify the premium pricing, while parents faced an even steeper tab for a family outing. "Little Fockers" leads soft new year box office 2011-01-03T00:07:34Z

Withheld from critics on its UK cinema release, the second feature from former Radio 1 DJ Mark Tonderai has none of the stylish cutting edge of his calling-card debut, Hush. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-01-27T00:06:05Z

French critics faulted the casting of a Russian-born Jew in the role of France’s heroine even though Honegger and Claudel wrote the work with Rubinstein in mind. ‘Joan of Arc at the Stake,’ Distilled to Her Essence at the New York Philharmonic 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

For many critics, Exhibit A is childhood ADD. My mentally ill sister 2012-06-02T00:00:00Z

She outlasted her critics, and this incisive account of her character and life explains many of the reasons why. Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck's Life in China by Hilary Spurling 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z

As it happened, I arrived from London at that point as The New Yorker’s guest dance critic for six months. Robert Gottlieb Didn’t Just Shape Manuscripts. He Shaped Dance, Too. 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

It is, so far, untainted by reviews, as it did not screen in advance for critics, which is rarely a sign of confidence in its merits. From Clueless to Tarantino: why the 90s was Hollywood’s fairytale decade 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

Howard Goodall's latest musical, Love Story, may have divided the critics, but if you want a two-hankie experience, look to this tale of working-class rural life, composed when he was just 26. The Hired Man 2010-06-14T21:01:00Z

Seattle Times music blogger Andrew Matson and Seattle Times jazz critic Paul de Barros survey a few that might make good gifts. 7 box sets of music to tuck under the tree 2011-12-12T23:11:04Z

She then shared some choice words for the critics: "If u have anything negative to say to me, please #EatShitAndDie," she wrote. Nicki Minaj set to become American Idol judge 2012-08-21T09:57:32Z

Published: July 10, 2012 The TV Watch Abroad Alessandra Stanley, the chief television critic of The New York Times, is going abroad to watch foreign television this year. The TV Watch: Haiti 2012-07-25T16:19:46Z

On the website Rotten Tomatoes, which aggregates reviews from film critics, 54 percent of 35 reviewers rated the movie a positive "fresh." Patriotism mixed with jokes as fans stream 'The Interview' 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

His most essential quality, the literary critic Alfred Kazin is quoted as saying, was “that of the man who is always making and remaking himself.” Books of The Times: ‘JFK’s Last Hundred Days,’ by Thurston Clarke 2013-08-12T21:23:16Z

Also on Monday, the Broadway musical “The Book of Mormon” won a decisive first-round victory in the critics’ balloting. ArtsBeat: Deliberative Theater Critics Honor 'Good People' 2011-05-10T21:00:56Z

In other words, films that female critics prefer might be unfairly ignored by audiences. Men vastly outnumber women in film criticism. Here are the movies affected most. 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

How critics and audiences will react to the new takes on the war remains to be seen. Hollywood takes on the Civil War 2011-05-04T20:19:19Z

The critic in me generally favors examining the merits of a work of art as it is instead of wishing it were something entirely different. The question isn't why cast a Black Cleopatra but rather why not profile another African queen? 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

The musical, which opened under Armstrong's direction, received mostly mixed and negative reviews from Seattle critics, but praise for its star, Carolee Carmello. Kathie Lee Gifford musical produced at 5th Avenue going to Broadway 2012-07-19T18:31:04Z

A critic at large for The New York Times Magazine, he goes on to describe Oklahoma City, which he first visited in 2012 to report on its N.B.A. franchise, as “unlikely, unreasonable, arbitrary.” Oklahoma City, the Ultimate ‘Boom Town,’ Rendered Vivid and Surreal 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z

He was widely seen as the front-runner this year for the best actor Oscar, with several critics saying Bridges elevated an otherwise dull movie through his performance. Jeff Bridges wins best actor Oscar in "Crazy Heart" 2010-03-08T05:15:00Z

He said he is “working tirelessly” on the book with his brother, whom he described as “a good critic, not a yes-man.” Prince Will Publish a Memoir in 2017 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z

Next season, members of Mr. Feldman’s drama critics’ group will be allowed to vote — as many as 25 people, he expected. Time Is Short to See Some Tony Winners 2010-06-14T22:05:00Z

June 14 Dancing the Night Away With Microsoft’s Kinect Even an uncoordinated, goofy geek like our video game critic found himself gyrating and grinning as he played a game for a new Wii competitor. Bonnaroo: Stray Moments 2010-06-14T18:30:00Z

"Sleeping Sickness," about a European family doing humanitarian work in Africa, also impressed some critics. Iran vs Hungary in race for top Berlin film prize 2011-02-17T11:38:40Z

If there are two things the Internet doesn’t lack for, they’d be amateur critics and people who don’t like being told what to do. How not to avoid a bad online review 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z

Nelson’s brainy, affecting, genre-crossing books have earned her a deserved reputation as a sui generis amalgam of poet, memoirist, theorist and critic. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

TV critics quickly turned “peak TV” into a hashtag and a sort of shibboleth, as well as a valid excuse for their inability to write about it all. Too many shows? FX’s John Landgraf still thinks ‘peak TV’ is headed for a correction 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z

His portrayal of the coward was described by several critics as “a revelation,” and it earned him Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. Casey Affleck Is Making Another Splash, Reluctantly 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

In broad terms, TV is still embracing what critic Jenny Jaffe dubbed the “sadcom” – a show with an ostensibly comic outlook that trades in for pathos - but something special is happening in animation. In the golden age of TV the existential-animation is king 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

Mr. Miyazaki created “Totoro” with kids in mind — he said he hoped it would make them want to pick acorns — and many critics have seen it as an ode to childhood innocence. Our Favorite Magical Creatures Live at Ghibli Park, So We Had to Go 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z

Our critics joined in to offer perspectives on what they’re anticipating. Classical Music This Week: The New Season, Scelsi and Anna Netrebko’s Birthday 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

His film critic is a dumb loser – but the author draws a distinction between losers like this and the winners who write for the New York Times and the mainstream press. Ouch, Jesse Eisenberg! What did we film critics ever do to you … ? 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

"Realism" is in the eye of the beholder Part 1 of critic/filmmaker Jim Emerson's film editing series "In the Cut" dissected the jail transfer sequence from Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight." "Realism" is in the eye of the beholder 2011-09-13T14:01:00Z

On the subject of musical stars, Salamishah Tillet, an author, professor and contributing critic at large for the New York Times, astutely drew a connection between Gorman and another Black female icon. Amanda Gorman clearly has talent. But there’s more to her meteoric rise. 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z

But his next two films, “Memoirs of a Geisha” and “Nine,” were kicked in the teeth by critics and sputtered at the multiplex. Arts & Leisure: New Captain for a Series Becalmed 2011-05-11T16:45:46Z

Across town, critic Kevin Sampson will launch the annual DC Black Film Festival, an idea he began germinating three years ago to gain visibility and commercial traction for “quality films by people of African descent.” Perspective | Festivals celebrating black films provide cinematic safe space when it’s sorely needed 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

The show also got panned by many theater critics who grew tired of the delays and reviewed the show during previews. 'Spider-Man' performance stops with stuck Goblin 2011-03-10T02:50:08Z

The Scream were the perfect warm-up for the Stones – our critic deemed their thrilling live show to be a five-star performance. Glastonbury festival 2013: watch the best live video clips 2013-07-01T12:20:28Z

This is a plump and welcome volume from a seminal American critic. The Top Books of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

And her Brits performance of Someone Like You was deemed to be the highlight of the night by most critics who watched the ceremony. How Adele conquered the world 2011-04-05T23:05:05Z

The reasons are left unspecified, in the three episodes released to critics at least, but it’s possible to hazard a guess as to why it matters to her. The return of The L Word: the groundbreaking lesbian show is back 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

In a letter in April to one of his critics, Orban acknowledged Hungarian collaboration with the Nazis without attempts at resistance, but rejected overall blame. Anti-Semitism taboo under threat in Hungary 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

From this, I removed 2,828 films without a user or critic rating. What are the movies that audiences loved but the critics hated? 2013-07-12T04:17:00Z

Below, Times writers and critics look at the cultural background and implications from a variety of angles. Satire, art and culture 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

And while he made films occasionally, Mr. Klein largely returned to his roots in photography, which critics called his strongest art form. William Klein, Who Photographed the Energy of City Life, Dies at 96 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z

The New York Times critic Vincent Canby gave a more cautious appraisal: The movie is “seldom convincing as melodrama,” but “the rage it projects is real.” The Spy Movie That Upset the American Dream 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z

Below, selections by The New York Times’s daily book critics of their favorite titles from the past 12 months. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2021 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

Plus: Art critics from around the country respond to the controversy. Essential Arts & Culture: Ojai's new musical direction, a bangin' Bartók, an innovative arts patron gets her due 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z

Fourteen years later, I was with my kids at a beachfront amusement park when my friend Laura Miller, Salon’s book critic, called to tell me that David Foster Wallace was dead. Smells like doomed genius: “Montage of Heck” captures the contradictions of Kurt Cobain — and the America that shaped him 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

“We think we are well positioned as we go from Season 1 to Season 2 for the audiences and the critics to align,” Erlicht said. ‘Marriage Story’ and ‘The Irishman’ Propel Netflix to Most Golden Globe Nominations 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

And to be fair to the British critics, it’s an acute example — the show it most resembles in tone and style is probably “Law & Order,” but it out-“Law & Order”’s its predecessor. Review: ‘Suspects,’ Britain’s Unscripted Relative of ‘Law & Order’ 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

To many observers, the fact that “Unplanned” didn’t receive a review from a staff critic was an outright snub, another example of a liberally inclined media overlooking or marginalizing views they don’t agree with. Perspective | Was ‘Unplanned’ a victim of media bias or an example of grievance-as-marketing? 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

It was first installed in Chicago, where it was widely panned by art critics, with Abraham Ritchie calling it “creepy schlock by a fifth-rate sculptor.” Iconic or Sexist? Palm Springs Mulls a Marilyn Monroe Statue 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

During my misspent youth in London writing a novel that was later hailed by critics as “unreadable,” I lived near Robert Louis Stevenson’s house. Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘lost novel’ is a fantastic voyage 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

Some critics suggested it was maybe even kind of racist. The next “Serial” could be way less white: A new wave of multicultural podcasts amplifies a tide of break-out voices 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z

When the film was released, some critics objected to what was seen as its softer, mushier side, which feels like critic-speak for the fact that it features a woman. Remembering James Caan and His Potent Mix of Swagger and Delicacy 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z

Bryan Cranston stars in a stage adaptation by Lee Hall that wowed critics in London and is now headed to Broadway. 72 Plays and Musicals to See This Fall and Beyond 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

In September, when the tweets first went viral, Barnett responded with a tweet condemning her critics. Racist “Twilight” fans won’t stop harassing Robert Pattinson’s girlfriend 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

Moreover, while Apple paid U2 for the album, critics of the deal suggest this point may have been lost on iTunes customers who got it for free. U2 and Apple Are Working On A New Digital Music Format 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

I’m sure I wasn’t the only critic to note the opening date in January on his calendar. Review | Urbano 116 looks like the real deal, but its food is a faint echo of Mexico 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

Dudley’s piece was quite good, and hit its mark: My 5-year-old junior critic, at least, stopped wiggling and completely focused on the gentle animation and pretty sounds on stage. Washington’s week with Joshua Bell revealed little that we didn’t already know 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z

I was so interested in all my own miniature critics that I didn’t notice the crisp, full-size reflection right in front of me until just before I stepped out. Kusama Takes On the Infinite With a Sly Wink 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

One critic suggested that it was one of the defining works of the 21st century. Opera’s Perfectionist Tries to Follow His Masterpiece 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

Sorkin was an architect but was better known for his writings in books and as a critic for publications including the Village Voice and the Nation. Luminaries Lost: A look at some of the artists lost to virus 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

I cling to the belief that my below-the-line critics on this column would be less scabrous to my face. Life Zucks 2010-10-18T10:21:00Z

It’s also developed into an audience favorite: it may have a score of ’52′ from critics on Rotten Tomato, but audiences have given the 2004 romantic drama an ’85.’ 9 Reasons The Notebook Still Sucks 10 Years Later 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

Ms. Portman said she was also surprised that critics saw “A Tale of Love and Darkness” as a celebration of Israel. Natalie Portman on Israel and Her Directing Debut 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z

For many critics of “The Tree of Life,” their presence is an emblem of the film’s cardinal sin of grandiose self-indulgence. Arts & Leisure: Debated Movies: ?The Tree of Life,? ?The Future,? ?The Help? 2011-08-25T15:03:08Z

Despite some critics' fears of a pot-driven crime explosion, Denver police say burglaries and robberies were down by between 4 and 5 percent in the first four months of the year. Pot shops buzz, crime eases as Colorado law marks 6 months 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

But being a consumer and film critic has led me to understand that there are two different moviegoing, TV-watching worlds, and what might leave one unaffected can deeply disturb the other. Films Like ‘The Boss Baby’ Can Be Painful for Adoptees and Foster Kids 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

The veteran critic, once deemed "the most powerful pundit in America", was necessary. Film critic Ebert fractures hip 2012-12-07T11:02:38Z

The show was popular with audiences, running for three-and-a-half years, but critics largely dismissed it; the show received four Tony nominations, including for best musical, but not for Mr. Wildhorn’s score. Frank Wildhorn, Composer of ?Bonnie & Clyde? 2011-11-23T23:12:07Z

James Poniewozik, the chief television critic for The Times, wrote at the time. Busy Philipps’s Week: Coffee, ‘Little Women’ and Keeping It Together 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

Cattrall remains defiant: "Look – it was never meant to be a critics' movie," she says. Kim Cattrall: absolutely fabulous 2010-09-28T20:30:00Z

Writer, reporter, and cultural critic Joan Didion has died, according to her publisher Knopf and others. Joan Didion, acclaimed author and iconic literary journalist, has died 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

We can’t figure out how it got made, its intent, the way that the media and critics responded to it, and how audience have found it and reclaimed it for themselves. Was "Showgirls" actually a failure? "You Don't Nomi" revisits the craptastic cult film we can't quit 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z

His Italian improved, though his acting continued to draw sporadic barbs from critics. Cornell MacNeil, Verdi Baritone at the Met, Dies at 88 2011-07-18T03:30:33Z

Felix Sanchez, chairman and co-founder of the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, was a vocal critic of the Kennedy Center’s track record for including Latin artists. George Lucas and Carole King selected for Kennedy Center Honors 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

In 2019, the Times’s book critics included “Experience” among the 50 best memoirs of the past 50 years. A Brief Guide to Martin Amis’s Books 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z

The best stories in Alexie’s collection of new and selected works are moving and funny, bringing together the embittered critic and the yearning dreamer. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z

"You don't really know what to say when you see three little shrimps still alive," says food critic Bent Christensen. How the Dogme manifesto reinvented Denmark 2012-11-25T19:00:01Z

Most critics agree that "Exodus" is visually impressive but also uneven and overlong. 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' hit by plague of ho-hum reviews 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

To this new project, she brings equally honed skills as a historian, literary critic and biographer. Review: ‘Looking for “The Stranger,”’ the Making of an Existential Masterpiece 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

“I saw the hip-hop show twice,” the art critic Holland Cotter wrote in The New York Times last year, referring to the “Hip-Hop Nation” show in 2000. Populism Hasn?t Boosted Brooklyn Museum?s Attendance 2010-06-14T22:35:00Z

Tumbleweeds have been drifting in the classical music section of The New York Times newsroom, as our critics have spread far and wide to bring you reports from the broad world beyond the city. Classical Music This Week: The Festival Circuit, Blackness at the Met and Reynaldo Hahn 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z

And he was, in the first phase of his career, a novelist, a critic and a scholar. 2010-01-12T23:36:00Z

Her novels don't easily fit even the loose categories of contemporary British fiction, and critics call them strange, wild, different. A life in writing: Nicola Barker 2010-04-30T23:13:00Z

What say the New York Times chief film critics, who don't vote in those polls? The Carpetbagger: 'Amour' on Top, Sort of 2012-12-17T15:30:37Z

I’m also a book critic, and I’ve spotted a trend in the galleys that land on my porch. Perspective | For today’s feminist writers, sex makes a comeback 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

When Oliver died, the first thing that I felt, after sadness, was a kind of roiling anger at her critics, who dogged her throughout her lifetime. Mary Oliver Helped Us Stay Amazed 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z

Aside from the well-equipped, Broadway-size theaters available there, Mr. Sanders said, “what you value most are smart, sophisticated audiences — and critics.” Why ‘Tootsie,’ ‘Beetlejuice’ and the Temptations Hit the Road 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

European critics have belittled Bringuier for not being his own man, for still needing the support of his mentors. L.A. Phil alum Lionel Bringuier wows in Zurich 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

The effect will be greatest among the young, well-educated and affluent viewers who see Stewart as a house critic of the Beltway and media elites. Stewart's exit is no joke at Comedy Central 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

I liked the show more than the critic did, but still would rate it as just a B--usually British shows feature much better acting than this did. ‘The Night Manager’ Finale: Did These Characters Make Sense? 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

But his edge was decidedly less sharp this year, and for the most part, critics noticed. Golden Globes viewership off slightly from 2011 2012-01-16T20:51:22Z

The critics are various, and mostly quite flexible. AS Byatt tells Edinburgh audience why she loves reading Terry Pratchett 2011-08-28T18:34:10Z

Vanessa Friedman is The Times's fashion director and chief fashion critic. Mourning Alaïa: The Designer’s Friends and Collaborators React 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z

This allows creators, critics and players to wonder if any new gaming development or tired cliché is actually a useful part of the form's evolution or a Neanderthalic dead end. ArtsBeat: Game Theory: Caring About Make-Believe Body Counts 2012-12-24T19:26:02Z

That is not a view shared by British music critic Norman Lebrecht, who says Wagner, in his writings and pronouncements, created cultural anti-Semitism in Germany before the term had been coined. 'Autobahn to Bayreuth' - English soprano sings for Wagner's 200th 2013-07-21T15:31:14Z

When his “Agrippina” premiered in 2000 in Brussels, its first critics wrote that its power-suited cast called to mind politicians like Margaret Thatcher and Bill and Hillary Clinton, and television shows like “Dynasty.” In the Met Opera’s ‘Agrippina,’ the Roman Empire Never Ended 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

Charles Finch is a literary critic and novelist whose next book, “The Vanishing Man,” will be published on Feb. 19. Murderous Husbands, Flapper-Era Gun Molls and Korean Assassins: The Best Winter Thrillers 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

Ms. Hardy’s voice, lyrics and silhouette enthralled both public and critics. Françoise Hardy, a French National Treasure, Is Back from the Brink 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

A meteorologist and an art critic go to the gallery. Perspective | Interlochen has been building an arts-education hub for almost a century. Now it’s all about building artists. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

And we critics sometimes run across shows that want to delay openings past what seems reasonable — and that need some coaxing to stand up to the light of day. Critics gone wild over 'Spider-Man' previews, reviews 2011-02-10T19:14:49Z

“We don’t want muscle wines,” Vallejo told me, referring to the overtly fruity, high-alcohol style that became popular with international wine critics over the past two decades. As South American wines aim higher, the French connection goes both ways 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

He could have been a terrific novelist, poet, journalist and critic. Lionel Asbo by Martin Amis – review 2012-06-08T21:55:05Z

The niche nihilism was also off-putting to critics, with none of the sequels beating the first film’s middling 48% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Saw too much: why the horror genre doesn't need a torture porn comeback 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z

Ms. Bakewell’s approach is enticing and unusual: She is not an omniscient author acting as critic, biographer or tour guide. Review: In Sarah Bakewell’s ‘At the Existentialist Café,’ Nothingness Has a Certain Something 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

It was the only show to survive last season’s romantic comedy logjam, and it landed on many critics’ year-end top 10 lists. Stephen Falk on 'You're the Worst' and Why He Believes in Romantic Comedies 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

“I’ve seen many, many people that go in critics of Trump and come out sycophants,” he says. Anti-Trump Republican Adam Kinzinger accepts his fate, whatever it is 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

The pointed narrative preaches to the converted, writes critic F. Kathleen Foley, but a committed cast and able direction make for “subtle and gripping entertainment.” Essential Arts & Culture: The loss of an L.A. patron, the future of freeways, art in the time of unrest 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z

As a writer, critic and journalist he was known for his acerbic wit and love of his hometown. House of writer H.L. Mencken remains in disrepair 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

Newly restrictive language has likewise served to temporarily muzzle music critics. The New Celebrity Power Move: Keeping Secrets 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z

Considered by many horror filmmakers and critics to be Fulci’s finest film — his “Suspiria” — “The Beyond” is a journey into surrealism, one that takes a tour of the American South by way of nightmare logic. ‘Suspiria’: Stream the Original and 8 Other Italian Horror Classics 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

But they do provide more of an ending than the novel, which, more than one critic has noted, doesn’t so much conclude as simply stop. ‘2666,’ a Most Difficult Novel, Takes the Stage 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

As the critic Tom Shone put it in his book “Blockbuster,” “That’s what America did in the summer of 1975: It watched ‘Jaws.’ ” Audiences Are Finding Diversity at Summer Movies 2012-08-08T12:06:02Z

“We have so many great barbecue restaurants that they have to distinguish themselves,” says Eater critic Robert Sietsema. Immigrants bring new touches to American barbecue. Just like they always have. 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

And as with , working out 's denouement remains a job for a proctologist, not a critic. Money; Lost; Damages 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

Every week there is a new uproar, from spats with critics to the relocation of his studio. Hedi Slimane’s First Year at Saint Laurent 2013-04-17T22:56:30Z

Despite mixed reviews from critics in October, “Lombardi” survived through the relatively fallow winter months on Broadway as the only brand-new drama of the fall 2010 season to keep running. ArtsBeat: Winning Isn't Everything: 'Lombardi' to Close on Broadway 2011-05-04T13:40:58Z

I was a consultant for the cockfighting syndicate, an utterly corrupt high-end restaurant critic, a yachting photographer and a routine victim of police brutality. Johnny Depp in The Rum Diary: Yo Ho Huh? 2011-10-27T02:55:09Z

Seeing the critic’s closed-mindedness and pretentious posturing, I wondered: Have I done that? How Jonathan Larson Taught Me to Become a Better Critic 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

The nation's most influential movie critic was always willing to experiment and adapt. Ebert showed willingness to adapt to new media 2013-04-05T20:15:05Z

Bailey's book, which was released in April, had largely been met with favorable reviews by critics and had landed on the New York Times bestseller list earlier this week. Publisher pauses new Philip Roth biography as author, Blake Bailey, is accused of rape and grooming 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

The bittersweet film, which received a euphoric response from critics at the Cannes Film Festival, could also become an Oscar force, and not just in the animation category. ‘Inside Out,’ Pixar’s New Movie From Pete Docter, Goes Inside the Mind 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

The Times' theater critic, Charles McNulty, singled out Bergen as the musical's "breakout star. His charisma feeds off the spotlight." 'Madam Secretary' actor Erich Bergen moonlights in cabaret 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

"I think we're lacking people who know how to play to the media, how to play it up and how to charm on the red carpet and in interviews," said Variety critic Jay Weissberg. Cannes film festival hits halfway short on buzz 2010-05-17T09:37:00Z

Eric Asimov, The New York Times wine critic, is discussing red wine from Corsica. Corsican Reds: Unusual Wines From an Uncommon Place 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

They play was written as a response to his critics, and is difficult to render today, with its parody of a rival company’s actors, which presumably had greater resonance in the 17th century. Molière, Turning 400, Can Still Surprise 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

On one level — let’s call it the journalistic level of seeing his photographs reproduced on the page — Wall seems to be a passionate social critic. Review | In Jeff Wall’s photographs, it’s all about the details. But are they important? 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

All he had were enemies: the reactionaries, the middle classes, the fascists, the Stalinists, and, above all, the rancid old critics who never forgave him!’ Who killed Roland Barthes? Maybe Umberto Eco has a clue. 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

The good news is that Sanneh, a former pop music critic at The New York Times, has a subtle and flexible style, and great powers of distillation. ‘Major Labels’ Wraps Popular Music — All of It — in a Warm Embrace 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

“It delivers on its promise, giving the city the uplifting gateway it deserves,” Michael Kimmelman, The Times’s architecture critic, wrote. Moynihan Train Hall Becomes a Destination: ‘This Gives Us Hope’ 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

This is David Cote, theater editor and chief drama critic for Time Out New York. Tony Awards 2012 – live coverage 2012-06-10T23:19:54Z

The London critics pronounced themselves not so much charmed by the Astaires' performance as winded by it. The Astaires: Fred & Adele by Kathleen Riley – review 2012-07-04T07:00:03Z

The critic Terry Teachout, writing in The Wall Street Journal, called it “that rarity of rarities, an opinionated but not eccentric scholarly history by a veteran museum curator whose every page crackles with original thinking.” William Agee, Leading Art Curator and Teacher, Dies at 86 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z

Our critic Dwight Garner praises the book’s “jangling energy” and the way it “brings so much news from a distinct corner of American life.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

Honestly, for a critic of a certain age, it became difficult not to scan the crowd scenes in search of Red Buttons or Mr. Fred Astaire. Fox's new miniseries 'Wayward Pines' is good, creepy fun 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

The series with Mr. Gopnik, the New Yorker writer and critic, begins Feb. 16 with a multimedia look into Leonard Bernstein’s debut with the New York Philharmonic, and subsequent tenure as its director. More Programs Set for Rubenstein Atrium 1459-09-26T05:00:00Z

But critics say that the board’s efforts to manage its financial crisis may have put the school’s future in jeopardy. Chairwoman of San Francisco Art School Facing Budget Issues Resigns 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z

In The New York Times, the critic Ben Brantley called that production a “determinedly inspirational show.” A Young Actor Steps Out of School and Into the High Heels of ‘Jamie’ 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

But critics say the project is a waste of money in a region that doesn't often use public transit. Amtrak attempting to revive Gulf Coast line more than a decade after Katrina 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z

Some insiders suspect that the humor in , which scored an ecstatic 97% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, might be too hip for the yokels. What If They Gave a New Year's Eve Party and Nobody Came? 2011-12-11T20:41:14Z

But the second season saw a backlash against what many critics viewed as improbable plot twists around Carrie and Brody, the rescued POW turned al Qaeda agent played by British actor Damian Lewis. After Emmys slip, 'Homeland' turns to new season to regain footing 2013-09-23T21:31:02Z

To critics, claims of a New India are contradicted by the persistence of poverty, entrenched structural inequalities, discrimination against minorities, and the repression of free speech. A Graphic Novelist Captures the Paradoxes of Living in the “New India” 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z

Having spent the spring selecting the 25 best films of the 21st century, my fellow critic Manohla Dargis and I spent the first part of the summer in another round of list-making. The City So Nice They Can’t Stop Making Movies About It 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

Over the next few pages, stars and critics select some of their highlights of the event. In Pictures: London 2012 Festival 2012-04-26T09:00:18Z

The canon is undergoing a correction to admit diverse, once-suppressed voices; critics and readers are rejecting notions of a single spokesperson or dominant culture. Review | Jonathan Franzen has some baggage. Does his latest essay collection rise above it? 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

The question of who wrote what has surfaced periodically over the years, but it lives on mainly because of the New Yorker critic Pauline Kael. Who Wrote ‘Citizen Kane’? It’s No Mystery 2020-12-06T05:00:00Z

Midway through its run, our critic wrote, “Consistently tight writing and good acting have made this situation comedy the best of its kind in the history of American television.” The Best Movies and Shows on Hulu Right Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

But despite the project’s attractiveness to officials, it’s generating heated opposition from a growing number of critics who question its viability and criticize what they say would be its harm to society. EuroVegas, baby 2012-08-06T16:13:00Z

Here, from the jazz and pop critics at The New York Times, are hundreds of 2015 concert experiences boiled down to 40. All the Best Shows, of What the Critics Have Seen 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

Wall is a seasoned rock critic who has written books on Led Zeppelin and Metallica. ‘Love Becomes a Funeral Pyre’ review: The rise and fall of the Doors 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

This includes an avid crew of competing music critics, some highly respectable, others with a more tabloid sensibility. The L.A. Phil's mesmerizing Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla leaps to the Birmingham orchestra 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z

Still, the more sincere Thought Catalog has skewed, the more exasperated its critics have become. Too Sincere for the Internet? How the Web Journal Thought Catalog Sparked an Online Firestorm 2012-07-05T14:00:18Z

The 2016 Oscar nominations were announced Thursday morning, with critics and moviegoers alike ready to pick apart the Academy’s voting like a bear hungry for Leonardo DiCaprio’s flesh. The Oscar Nominations Prove the Academy Still Doesn't Get It 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

While this exchange seems built for a cathartic strike back, the young critic repeated the same harsh sentiment. Critic’s Notebook: The Rise of the Anti-Talk Show 2012-06-07T21:51:11Z

But there’s something “slightly derivative” about the work, reports Times theater critic Charles McNulty. Essential Arts & Culture: NEA threats, the Lucas museum vision, minimalist music and the return of Zubin Mehta 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z

In the old days, buying a book involved going to the store, reading the critics' comments on the back and flicking through the first chapter. Online book reviews are fantastic ? trust me 2011-03-07T11:00:01Z

In the New Yorker, film critic Pauline Kael extolled Mr. Hurt’s power and control in roles that could have gone off the rails in dramatic excess. John Hurt, British actor who played desperate, eccentric characters, dies at 77 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

Stephen Holden, the New York Times critic, described “Highway Patrolman” in his review as “a series of rude awakenings.” ‘Highway Patrolman’ Bends the Thin Blue Line 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

But critics have given a positive response to his performance. Moffat plays down Who ratings slip 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

The PGA, which presents an award in this category, chose as finalists , and three films — The Island President, A People Uncounted and The Other Dream Team — that won no critics prizes. Film Critics Awards: Early Clues to the Oscars 2013-01-09T16:32:50Z

Among German critics, Lösch is celebrated for his will to bring politics back into the theatre. Is Volker L?sch Germany's most controversial director? 2011-03-18T15:50:37Z

That reputation dogged the composer, conductor, critic and impresario Reynaldo Hahn for decades after his death. Classical Music Recordings 2013-05-03T19:32:33Z

Not that the initiative is without its critics. Book lovers flock to hear Trafalgar Square readings 2011-03-05T00:21:25Z

Perhaps that’s why he takes a personal intermission to sketch his own path from theater critic to producer for Jujamcyn Theaters. ‘The Secret Life of the American Musical’ — from ‘Gypsy’ to ‘Hamilton’ 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

Expecting little, our TV critic found 25 shows worth watching this fall. Perspective | The hunt for fall TV brings a last gasp of new shows and — perhaps at long last — a shift in old habits 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

Perhaps I am not earning my keep as a critic. Rachel Cusk’s Essays, as Sharp and Glittering as Her Fiction 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

He became the art critic for New York magazine, and later moved to Newsweek. John Ashbery, Prize-Winning Poet, Is Dead at 90 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

He could also hold venerable grudges against critics who occasionally lapsed in their support for him. Home Movies: Robert Altman, Hollywood Renegade 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

I worry about the way the trial has, as culture critic Ella Dawson wrote on Twitter, “taken over the internet and warped our understanding of abuse in ways that hurt victims right now.” Perspective | The trial of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard was too much and not enough 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

Which has earned him no shortage of critics. The Shaman of Instagram 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

"It's a combination of looking for books that are interesting and of high quality, and for something that, once reviewed by a critic, will appeal to the Guardian readership," he said. Amazon reviews as reliable as critics 2012-05-16T17:03:20Z

It fared signficantly worse with film critics, generating more mixed or negative reviews than positive. Will 'Suicide Squad' break August box office record? 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z

In 2017, Bruni, a longtime editor, critic and columnist at this newspaper, had a stroke while sleeping and woke up to find he could not see well out of one eye. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

DuJan defends a tactic that has gotten some critics angry: The use of fake e-mail addresses and multiple phone numbers to let people exceed their vote limit. Palin's success raises tempers, boosts ratings 2010-11-19T16:04:00Z

At rottentomatoes.com, which compiles reviews, the first “Sex and the City” movie earned a 53 percent approval rating from top critics, while the sequel received — eek — just 9 percent. Film: Un-Innocents Abroad: The Drubbing 2010-06-02T22:04:00Z

Once there, one of the more resonant readings, as the critic Andrea Long Chu has explained, is that “The Matrix” has been embraced by trans women as an allegory for gender transition. ‘The Matrix Resurrections’ Review: Slipping Through Dreamland (Again) 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

And children can be surprisingly quick — and fickle — critics. Test Driving Disney’s New Cars Land 2012-07-19T19:44:12Z

Cultural critics and political rivals railed against Mr. Erdogan, accusing him of cultural authoritarianism and censorship. ArtsBeat: Steamy Turkish TV Drama Draws Fire From Prime Minister 2012-11-30T16:48:42Z

A few critics have objected that LaVette's ragged-voiced intensity and scorching search for the emotional essence of a song don't always fit these ditties well. Bettye LaVette, Karrin Allyson coming to Jazz Alley 2010-07-09T21:54:00Z

“Maigret Sets a Trap,” most likely the movie that introduced American audiences to Georges Simenon’s best-known character, was hailed as an event by the New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther. In ‘Maigret Sets a Trap,’ Pack Your Pipe and Track a Killer 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

Could this be a “Citizen Kane”-inspired in joke for critics of the Hearst family legacy of yellow journalism? At Gabriela Hearst, Cashmere and the Carlyle Are Close at Hand 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

James Poniewozik and Margaret Lyons, two television critics for The New York Times, conducted a brief conversation about this year’s snubs, surprises and most deserving nominees. What Our Critics Think of the 2019 Emmy Nominations 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

This week playwright Sarah Ruhl, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, explains why critics are not being invited to review her "Melancholy Play." ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: A Time and a Place to Experiment 2012-07-20T17:41:10Z

The critic and curator Hilton Als put Crosby in his series at the Huntington, which runs through June 12, and her work is currently featured at the Sydney Modern Project in Australia. Njideka Akunyili Crosby Wants to Take it Slow, Despite Her Rapid Rise 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z

As a critic, Arlen could be quite unforgiving when the basics of concerts were not thought through. 'The Poet in Exile' at the Wallis lacks full picture of Walter Arlen 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

While not all were winners with critics, they’ve grabbed plenty of cash at the box office — more than $1.4 billion worldwide. ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’; A heavyweight bout with a light touch 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

“The ascendancy of the Los Angeles Philharmonic is the salient event in American orchestral life of the past 25 years,” Alex Ross, the music critic for The New Yorker, wrote in 2017. In L.A., Dudamel’s Influence Extends Beyond the Concert Hall 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z

“I don’t think there’s anything wrong with clapping back at one’s critics,” said White, who praised the account for prompting “tremendous” engagement. Behind the ‘Lightning Thief’ Twitter Curtain: A Tony Winner 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

Some critics couldn't wait to sink their teeth into the fresh Broadway offering. Broadway's 'Spider-Man' to open; Taymor to there 2011-06-14T18:48:08Z

Like all great critics, Barry was writing about the future of the art. Iris Barry at MOMA: A Secret Heroine of the Cinema 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

While there was broad agreement that the electro-pop, ballad-light record would be a dance floor hit, critics felt Spears was in danger of disappearing as a voice and personality. Britney is back, but can she compete with Gaga? 2011-03-27T17:40:53Z

The Alinea Group, however, called the online response, both from critics and supporters, "troubling." Restaurant group responds after employee is accused of spitting on Eric Trump, says she's been 'placed on leave' 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

The New York Times called it “a pedestrian and listless adventure,” bemoaning the lack of scandal promised in the title; The New York Herald-Tribune’s critic found a lamentable absence of “finesse.” ‘Lured’ and ‘A Scandal in Paris’: Douglas Sirk’s Costume Capers 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

In “The Storyteller,” an essay from 1936, the German-Jewish philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin describes what he sees as the beginning of the end of the oral tradition in the West. How “Peanuts” Created a Space for Thinking 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

The film is earning decidedly mixed reviews, with many critics finding director David Dobkin guilty of sentimentality and an overstuffed plot. 'The Judge': Well-acted but guilty of sentimentality, reviews say 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

Ben Affleck's depiction of Boston in The Town has prompted critics to take aim. Were Boston critics right to go to town on Ben Affleck's cop thriller? 2010-09-24T11:10:00Z

The harmonies of the opening measures of the first movement, startling to 18th-century ears, offended some listeners and critics. Music Review: All Mozart, by Emerson Quartet in Mostly Mozart 2010-08-18T22:35:00Z

At some early point in his long career, more than three decades of it spent at TIME, Robert Hughes became the most famous art critic in the English-speaking world. The Art of Being Critical: Robert Hughes (1938-2012) 2012-08-07T22:19:53Z

This debut novel relates the story of a homicidal food critic with an insatiable appetite for men. New in Paperback: ‘Mantel Pieces’ and ‘Borges and Me’ 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

HBO’s The Wire—rated by many critics among the top television series of all time, if not the best—never won a single Emmy. Why 'Game of Thrones' Won Over 'Mad Men' at the Emmys 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

Follow-up The Edge of Reason maintained its predecessor's box office clout with $262m in 2004 but was roundly condemned by critics. Ren?e Zellweger weighs up lean Bridget Jones 2011-03-01T10:49:23Z

The film is currently rated 0% fresh at Rotten Tomatoes, with 16 UK critics surveyed. Taken 2 takes UK box office by storm – and surprise 2012-10-09T13:52:27Z

And because Loach is an accomplished filmmaker, his account is especially persuasive – particularly to those critics of neoliberalism who desperately want it to be true. Ken Loach's Spirit of '45 is a fantasy 2013-03-08T07:00:32Z

Noah Baumbach is a product of New York's intense literary world, his father a novelist, his mother a critic. Greenberg 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z

She and other critics also noted that Ansari’s list of key feminist issues were “very particular, and very safe.” Aziz Ansari & the perils of celebrity feminism: Why coming out for equality can’t be enough 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z

What about those critics who claim that by labelling drug addiction as an illness, users are shirking individual responsibility? Russell Brand: methadone is a bad way to treat heroin addicts 2012-08-11T23:06:16Z

Chatrian, a veteran critic, mourns mingling with audiences and hearing the buzz in lobbies, but he’s pragmatic about the changes afoot. Red Carpet or Not, Film Festivals Roll On 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

BlacKkKlansman, which received its premiere at the festival on Monday, has been received positively by critics, and currently holds a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. 'A blemish on America': Spike Lee denounces Trump for Charlottesville response 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z

He has long been a critic of tabloid excesses in Latin America, particularly so when the tabloids are manipulated by authoritarian political leaders in order to silence their critics. A Pulpy New Novel and Juiceless Old Essays From Mario Vargas Llosa 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

When you work with a film critic long enough, you learn a lot about what he loves. Corliss Unbound: A Collection of Quirky Pieces by TIME’s Inimitable Critic 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

Most of the critics, scholars and fellow artists go bye-bye, which means so long to the bulk of its Black participants. ‘The Melt Goes On Forever’ Review: David Hammons Makes, and They Take 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z

Snakes on the brain The patently ludicrous Snakes On A Plane is the beneficiary of a highly successful viral campaign, thus bypassing the critics entirely. The Guide's 1,000th issue: 2004-2007 2013-01-05T00:04:00Z

By 2014, when Times critic Charles Isherwood revisited, the show had won over its many of its skeptics. ‘Phantom of the Opera,’ Broadway’s Longest-Running Show, to Close 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z

As sex bloggers and critics have noted, it looks deceptively like an old-school, battery-operated “bullet” model, but apparently it produces an enviably powerful rumble. ‘Environmentalists are horny right now’: how to make your sex life more eco-friendly 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

I find it amusing that this genre is still denigrated by some critics as being a lesser form of the novel. Daniel Mendelsohn: By the Book 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

In a phone conversation, the veteran Financial Times critic Clement Crisp described him as “a man of refined tastes and extreme knowledge.” Mikhailovsky Ballet to Make U.S. Debut at Lincoln Center 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

And, when I dip into the critics of the past, it is less fortheir views on the event than for their style. Theatre critics still pack a punch 2010-05-07T11:44:00Z

In Britain, conceptual art took the form of a revolt against the dominance of modernist painting and sculpture in the school curriculum — and against its champion, the American critic Clement Greenberg. Conceptual Art’s Long Shadow 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

“He built programs and seasons around themes that connected 18th and 19th century music with the 20th,” Los Angeles Times music critic Mark Swed wrote in 2010. Pierre Boulez, conductor of bracing clarity, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

That movie was dismissed by critics as a colourful failure, but that didn’t prevent it from becoming an all-out global phenomenon. Is Tom Hardy's Venom the new Greatest Showman? 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

All the while, he's fighting his inner ego, a badgering critic who takes the tangible form of the costumed Birdman comic-book character. Oscars 2015: Alejandro G. Inarritu wins for director 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

Showtime President David Nevins discussed the return of “Twin Peaks” with television critics last week and made it clear that Lynch and co-creator Mark Frost had full control of the project. What about TV is now attracting top directors? 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

Younger critics drew from both Sarris and Kael but now give their top accolades to directors with the most distinctive, assertive, self-conscious styles. Cooperation and creative versatility distinguish winning directors 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

Mr. Kuh, the critic, said places like Kali captured what has entranced him about restaurants since he first began reviewing them 16 years ago. Los Angeles Restaurant Scene Is on the Move and Mixing It Up 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

“Pictures” was the title of a 1977 exhibition at Artists Space in New York, organized by the critic and curator Douglas Crimp. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

When Henry has a breakdown, he asks his mother “to sing him a protest hymn by James Russell Lowell, the 19th-century New England poet, critic and anti-slavery advocate.” Books of The Times: Phantoms of the Mind, No Longer Shocking But No Less Haunting 2011-02-01T21:45:58Z

Their job is not to review movies, as the members of the 30 or so U.S. critics groups do, but to snag interviews with the stars. Golden Globe Nominations: Rite of Too Many Stars 2012-12-13T19:29:14Z

But then a serial killer, having finished off a literary critic in a janitor's closet at Newark airport, flies to Sweden using his victim's plane ticket. Thrillers roundup – reviews 2013-07-04T09:00:00Z

Former fans of the star and critics expressed their disappointment on Twitter. Chrissie Hynde Under Fire for Saying Rape Victims Can Be at Fault 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

The shared artistic vision of the director and his cast will require it, or it will not, critics such as Richard Brody have argued. Cinema trains lens on role of nude scene: artistic, erotic or gratuitous? 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z

Though the policy allows for discretion and does not automatically block those with criminal records, critics say it sets the stage for a discriminatory industry that is unwelcoming to former street dealers. The activists helping illegal pot dealers turn into legit marijuana businessmen 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Yet he couldn’t conjure up enough magic to secure a Tony nomination on Tuesday for a performance that excited many theatergoers and critics, making him one of the most glaring snubs of the morning. ArtsBeat: The Tony Nominations: Who Got Snubbed This Year? 2011-05-03T13:24:48Z

In January, Wild issued a rare statement attacking his critics. Bacon-cancer link: head of UN agency at heart of furore defends its work 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z

A few critics sure are kicking Ozzie's behind over his demands for more money. Ozzie's leaving with a hole in his heart 2011-09-27T15:18:00Z

T-Swift joins a long line of artists to directly address their critics in songs. Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off' and 7 Other Songs About Haters 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

Given the imagination and content of the programs, the concerts should attract audiences and critics alike. A Bracing Breath of Spring Air From All Directions 2011-04-29T16:17:11Z

Getaway, which many rock critics hail as one of the great, lost 1970s rock albums. Flying Burrito Brothers member Ethridge dies at 65 2012-04-24T21:45:15Z

Call me crazy — certainly I'm in a minority when it comes to my fellow critics — but I liked "Venom." Tom Hardy singlehandedly saves “Venom” from the trash pile of bad standalone superhero movies 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

Of critics, he said, “If they don’t get the irony of it, sorry.” The Oscar Hunt: For DiCaprio, ‘Wolf’ Is ‘Reflection of the Truth’ 2014-02-13T22:40:31Z

She had gotten her start as a rock critic, a woman in a male-dominated field, ever aware of the possibilities and limitations afforded by the mainstream culture. Where Have All the Liberals Gone? 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z

Pundits are not critics, of course, and insta-reviews from trade publications were mixed. Harvey Weinstein Gets Oscar Boost After ‘Lion’ Screening 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

And critics will begin to question if the beloved space opera really has foundations strong enough to support oodles of spin-off movies alongside the main saga. Has JJ Abrams ruined plans to expand the Star Wars universe? 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

Times critics and writers highlight some of the arts events that look promising and have piqued their curiosity. 5 picks: What's on our radar for art, theater, music and more 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

It remains to be seen whether most readers and critics will agree that Mr. Winters has pulled it off. In His New Novel, Ben Winters Dares to Mix Slavery and Sci-Fi 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z

A Separation, which the New York and Toronto critics’ groups and the National Board of Review have chosen as the year’s best foreign film, is indeed Iran’s official selection for the Foreign-Language Film Academy Award. A Separation: How about an Oscar for This Fascinating Iranian Drama? 2011-12-30T17:42:11Z

Audiences, critics and the members of the company are warming to the leadership of its new music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who is now in his second year. The Met Opera’s Credit Outlook Darkens After Modest Deficits 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

This, critics assert, is partly why the mistakes of the mid-19th century were repeated at the close of the 20th, and indeed at the dawn of the 21st. 2009-12-29T13:04:00Z

Not that it deterred Grant from acting: When critics of “Withnail” used the same pejoratives to describe him, “I thought, ‘Well, at least I got the part,’” Grant said. Who’s Better Suited for Award Season Than Richard E. Grant? 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

While some critics felt the show was slow to start, the series’ pace has picked up. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger’ and ‘The Four: Battle for Stardom’ 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

A critic with the IQ of a squirrel once wrote of me: "He's exposed for the rock charlatan that he really is." Portrait of the artist: Meat Loaf, singer 2010-06-21T21:30:00Z

In his essay “The Little Church of Perry Mason,” the cultural critic Dave Hickey rightly compares this structure to Catholic liturgy — comforting in its familiar arc. Perry Mason Is Coming to HBO. Here’s What to Know About His History. 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

Some critics saw the film as a thwarted mess. Kenneth Lonergan’s Thwarted Masterpiece 2012-06-19T19:43:37Z

Vincent Canby, the New York Times critic, wrote that “there are some funny, intelligent sequences along the way, but by the end it has melted into a blob of clichés.” What’s on TV This Week: The Emmys and Monday Night Football 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

Given the news, I thought it’d be instructive to revisit Times art critic Christopher Knight’s 1992 review of an art exhibition at the Long Beach Museum of Art that was inspired by the internment experience. Essential Arts & Culture: An immigration musical, self portraits fusing black and white, getting gender-bendy 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

Zoglin, a Time magazine writer and critic, had long wanted to do a biography on Hope. Bob Hope gets little thanks for all the memories 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z

The episode “excites because it’s not just one voice, letting a breath of fresh air into quarantine-tight quarters,” the critic Alison Herman wrote in The Ringer. They Are Fans of ‘Euphoria,’ but Not of Its Creator, Sam Levinson 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z

To a TV critic — that is, someone who believes that television is the nervous system through which our culture sends signals to itself — this is all exciting and unnerving. The Great Streaming Space-Time Warp Is Coming 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

"True Grit," a Western remake about a young girl's brave quest to track down her father's killer, received 10 nominations despite performing poorly in key critics awards. "King's Speech'"gets royal treatment at Oscars 2011-01-26T01:58:48Z

“It’s a tough road for a movie to get a 100% with critics, fraught with peril,” a page on the site devoted to the paragons of perfect percentage says. ‘Citizen Kane’ Is No ‘Paddington 2,’ Says Rotten Tomatoes 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

Which helps explain why, Mr. Hartman said, so many people hold heated opinions about the film — and its critics — even if they haven’t seen it. ‘American Sniper’ Fuels a War on the Home Front 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

The Guardian art critic Adrian Searle declared the show “mad, and madly ambitious” noting “its variety and ramshackle complexity.” Phyllida Barlow, British Sculptor of Playful, Scale-Defying Works, Dies at 78 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z

So I deliberately did not look at the reviews for “Blue Velvet” in the newspapers on that Friday morning, nor did I check to see if my favorite critic, Pauline Kael, had weighed in. A Searing First Encounter With David Lynch’s ‘Blue Velvet’ 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

In 1972 he directed “Tough to Get Help,” a comedy by Steve Gordon about a black couple working in an ostensibly liberal white household, which was savaged by the critics and closed after one performance. Carl Reiner, Multifaceted Master of Comedy, Is Dead at 98 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

The critics are being paid to promote movies from rival studio Marvel, he cries. Could Margot Robbie's all-female superhero movie be DC's trump card? 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

Oh, pity the poor movie critic forced to watch a new Martin Scorsese movie, a new David Fincher and two from Steven Spielberg in short succession! Arts & Leisure: Film Favorites of A. O. Scott and Manohla Dargis in 2011 2011-12-14T13:13:18Z

At the start of his career, critics attempted to link him to both the Beats and Britain’s Angry Young Men of the 1950s. A Toast for J. P. Donleavy 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

Rowling had to destroy them all just to shut critics up. 9 Other Things J.K. Rowling Got Wrong 2014-02-03T21:09:53Z

Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne takes a gander at the architectural renovation of the old Scottish Rite Temple by Kulapat Yantrasast. Essential Arts & Culture: The new Marciano museum, the Center Theatre Group at 50, LACMA's museum-rethink 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

But art critics, scholars and gallery owners ask: Is it possible to become a force within the art world without commercial representation? Just Like Taco Trucks, Art Takes to the Road 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

For 25 years, Wells was the global restaurant critic for The International Herald Tribune. Lemon White Pizza, Smothered Pork Chops, Pea Guacamole: 10 Takes on What to Cook This Summer 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

He could be a curmudgeon and critic in his many sessions with reporters, gleefully marinating in his own outrage. John McCain knew how to make journalists love him 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

Advertisement Advertisement Manuel Brug, the music critic for the German newspaper Die Welt, said in an interview on Monday that Mr. Bondy was a great director who made the most of great collaborators. Luc Bondy, Swiss-Born Theater and Opera Director, Dies at 67 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

The critics hissed or shrugged, and the public did not turn out in sufficient numbers to put a dent in the nine-figure production and marketing budgets such projects now routinely command. Cross-Cuts: Reconsidering Box Office Bombs Years After the Fact 2013-08-23T12:44:45Z

"An art manifesto would be recognised as an artwork in itself anyway, critiqued by art critics not political journalists." We mean it, maaan!: the lost art of the pop manifesto 2010-04-29T20:30:00Z

“This is a classic war story told simply and well, its meanings not forced but allowed to bubble up on their own,” our critic Dwight Garner writes. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

I know theatre critics who hate the Christmas round, but I love it. Lyn Gardner on panto season 2012-12-09T19:15:01Z

Compared favourably by critics to The Sopranos, Underbelly is thrilling television; the carnival of grotesques that was Australian criminal royalty at the time is never less than compelling. Imported gems 2010-04-20T12:59:00Z

The original “Cars” was not greeted with exceptional warmth by top film critics — the Nascar culture could be one reason — but the sequel generated Pixar’s first truly negative response. John Lasseter of Pixar Defends ?Cars 2? 2011-10-17T22:17:20Z

This is no job for a music critic. A diplomatic China Philharmonic plays Disney Hall 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

He could have behaved graciously toward the woman whose novel provided the characters, story, and premise that audiences and critics alike couldn’t resist. The Secrets of Vera Caspary, the Woman Who Wrote "Laura" 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

The story in which he appears “will abruptly break your heart,” our critic Jennifer Senior wrote. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

The most famous Chinese artist around the world is Ai Weiwei, who is an outspoken critic of the Chinese government and is banned from travelling abroad. China warns against 'immoral' art 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

The New York Times critic John Leonard described his style as “confrontation criticism.” Her Father Was a Drama Critic, Her Mother a Superstar Agent 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z

Putting “independent filmmakers” in the place of “Democrats,” and “critics” in the place of “media,” clarifies the way that the current audiovisual content-sphere is approaching the cinemascape at large. The Best Movies of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

With a spaghetti diner it was tolerable, alone it was what one wine critic labelled "magenta fluid". Your Next Lesson: California Grenache 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

Funding for projects outside London is up but critics say it is not enough. ENO funding cut in arts shake-up 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

The following two years, Moran topped the DownBeat critics polls for rising star pianist, rising star composer and rising star jazz artist. This Kennedy Center director is making performance art out of jazz. Can he bring fans along? 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

Sometimes critics who are adored will hate what you do and say you wasted 10 hours of their time. Cheo Hodari Coker on “Marvel’s Luke Cage” Season 2: “We’re trying to make ‘Bitches Br... 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z

Gilman, the Tribune critic, once accused the symphony of “weeping maudlin chromatic tears like an impotent Tristan.” What Happened to One of Classical Music’s Most Popular Pieces? 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

“People hit pause to catch their breath,” said the film critic B. Ruby Rich, who moderated and helped organize the panel, which ran for almost two and a half hours. The Day New Queer Cinema Said: Let’s Do This 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

We’ve seen this with other secrecy and leaking cases—Julian Assange, Bradley Manning—as critics of the leak begin attacking the messenger and defenders elevate said messenger as a way of counter-attacking. Hero or Bad Boyfriend? Edward Snowden and the Personalization of Public Debate 2013-06-11T14:41:58Z

“That’s what this film is about and I know in my heart, I don’t care what the critics say or anybody else, we are on the right side of history with this film.” Spike Lee says his KKK movie is a wake-up call for Trump's America 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z

But more often than not, the decisions seem arbitrary, amounting to dissidence on the consumer level — something that Susan Sontag and other cultural critics complained about in the 1990s. Critic?s Notebook: Pushing Fashion Boundaries in an Era Without Any 2011-01-12T22:45:41Z

Both the Boston and Washington critics groups anointed the prickly Brit their supporting actor of the year and he goes up against Rush for the Globe and the SAG award. Sibling rivalry: Paramount bets on True Grit but The Fighter is winning 2010-12-20T14:19:09Z

But my favourite rock critic of all, the great Jon Savage, almost never writes jokes, despite being one of the funniest men I've ever met. How to write the perfect album review 2011-08-02T18:04:09Z

A member of one of America’s most distinguished acting families, Fonda has captivated and inspired fans along with critics in such films as “Klute” and “Coming Home.” Jane Fonda to receive Golden Globes’ Cecil B. DeMille Award 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

But the point of the rolling experiment that is our annual critics’ poll has never been crowning victors or turning music into competition. The best Seattle albums of 2020: Critics choose the top releases of the year 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z

The consensus among whiskey critics is that the Pappy expressions are outstanding. Pappy Van Winkle on special at Smith: Start lining up now 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Our critic Jennifer Senior writes that McKibben is a proposing a thought experiment, “daring the reader to ponder the virtues of smallness in an age of military and corporate gigantism.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

When Anna Netrebko first took on Verdi’s murderously ambitious Lady Macbeth a few years ago, critics declared it one of her greatest roles. The Met Opera’s New Season: What Our Critics Want to See 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

They often feel pressure, from critics and producers, to depict globally and endorse unequivocally their diverse communities — which is bad for them and worse for their stories. Review: In ‘God Said This,’ a Hot Mess of a Daughter Heads Home 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

Although I think the show knows exactly what it’s doing in depicting white men’s feelings of disempowerment, other critics have questioned why the story is worth giving any oxygen at all. Danny McBride: Vice Principals Isn't A Story About Race 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

In this week’s video, Times critics share their thoughts on the films “Whiplash,” “Kill the Messenger” and “St. Vincent.” Video Reviews of 'Whiplash,' 'Kill the Messenger' and 'St. Vincent' 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

It is Dan Crenshaw, the Republican congressman who was a Trump ally until, after the Capitol siege, he became a fierce Trump critic. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: I come bearing good news, QAnon. Meet WAnon, the new Mr. Right. 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z

Historian, social critic and novelist Morris Berman would argue that “hustling” is not a mere element of American culture. Donald Trump’s winner-takes-all wasteland: America will never be “great” if we continue to worship the hustle 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z

Mumblecore was nothing but bad takes to its critics, but they weren't just goofing around. Greenberg star Greta Gerwig steps from the shadows of mumblecore 2010-06-04T23:08:00Z

Unveiling the House of Music, he attacked critics of the park’s transformation as leftists who opposed beauty. A Music Museum Opens in the Heart of Hungary’s Culture Wars 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z

Some critics saw it as a withering and ultimately arid satire on affluent American aridness, an overextended variation on shorter, more surreal works like “The American Dream” and “The Sandbox.” | 'A Delicate Balance': Voices Pitched to a Fine-Tuned Hollow Sound 2010-08-24T22:05:00Z

In addition to writing “The Hue and Cry,” an essay published in Partisan Review skewering Arendt’s critics, McCarthy rallies Arendt’s morale and coaches her in the martial arts of defense and counterattack. Movie Review: ‘Hannah Arendt,’ With Barbara Sukowa and Janet McTeer 2013-05-28T21:31:05Z

Here, Thoma tells Tom Service about her vision for the piece – a vision that hasn't found much favour with the critics. Ariadne auf Naxos: watch the opera live 2013-06-04T09:31:25Z

Mr. Johns was not talking about the nearly eight-hour series, which critics and fans have embraced as a watershed television event, but of the Austin Powers-esque outfits his 26-year-old self wears throughout it. Glyn Johns Doesn’t Get Why People Like His Look in ‘Get Back’ 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z

She dedicated it to another great artist who found her voice in the ’60s: the critic Jill Johnston, who died Sept. Vibrant Scene?s 20th-Century Base 2010-12-17T14:43:11Z

British comedian and general rabble-rouser Russell Brand, who is a known vocal critic of the current political system, on Saturday called upon thousands of protesters to bring “peaceful, effortless, joyful revolution.” Russell Brand calls upon thousands for “peaceful, effortless, joyful revolution” 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

The usual caveats apply here, starting with the admission that no single critic can watch or review every show that's on, including a few great ones. The best TV shows of 2020 that made staying at home bearable 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z

At least one critic told me he no longer considers Etete a proper Ethiopian restaurant. Review | The 10 best Ethiopian restaurants in the Washington area 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

"I never would presume to say what critics should or shouldn't do," Adams noted when asked if film critics should put politics aside when reviewing films. Amy Adams reacts to negative "Hillbilly Elegy" reviews by saying the film "transcends politics" 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

Altynbayeva, who captioned the video “Happy Son,” slammed online critics of the video and defended her decision to let her young son drive on the road. 'Proud' mom lets son, 6, drive car at 80 mph: 'I regret nothing' 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

Former New Yorker critic Arlene Croce dubbed this a "tradition of morbidity", and certain motifs crop up over and over again. Before Black Swan: ballet and the movies 2011-01-07T12:38:10Z

His last film, The Edge of Tomorrow was well reviewed by critics, but performed poorly at the box office. Robert Downey Jr tops list of highest paid actors for second year running 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

Just ask the well-known critic who sat next to me at the screening I attended. "Knives Out" isn't as sharp as it thinks it is 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

In the wake of playwright Edward Albee’s passing, Times theater critic Charles McNulty pays tribute to what made him a standout on the American stage. Essential Arts & Culture: Photos that capture L.A., Dudamel's White House show, Trump's 'Les Miserables' moment 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

It seems clear that Day expected Tingle's nomination to outrage his critics, but it doesn't appear to have worked —Tingle is a popular figure among a wide range of readers, not just Puppy-affiliated ones: How did 'Space Raptor Butt Invasion' by Chuck Tingle become a Hugo finalist? 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

In a 2009 interview with Offbeat, a local music magazine, Mayfield shrugged off critics, saying, “I challenge people to stop questioning why I’m doing things and start questioning what they’re doing to improve the city.” In New Orleans, scandal tarnishes a jazz star and the libraries he was asked to help 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

So film reviewers must juggle the same ethical dilemma that faced book critics: whether or not to reveal the story’s shocking middle. Gone Girl Plays a Fatal Game of Love and Marriage 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

Last year he won the rising star tenor saxophonist award in DownBeat magazine’s critics poll, putting an exclamation mark on his ascent. James Brandon Lewis, a Saxophonist Who Embodies and Transcends Tradition 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

Tillman, a New York critic borne of the downtown scene, is known for her prickly integrity and charm. The best in criticism: National Book Critics Circle Award finalists 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

“Fourth of July — Jay, New York,” 1954, is one of the pictures that led his critics to criticize “The Americans” as anti-American. Robert Frank Revealed the Truth of Postwar America 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

Talking heads include noted jazz critics such as Gary Giddins, and even Ross herself. TV highlights – 10/05/2013 2013-05-10T05:59:01Z

The actor garnered rave reviews from critics for his performance in All the Way, with the New York Times hailing Cranston's "terrific portrayal". Breaking Bad star returning to TV 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

In a room full of TV critics and reporters a few weeks ago, Jarecki all but promised that “The Jinx” would reach a satisfying conclusion in episode 6. ‘The Jinx’: Served just how we like it these days — in pieces 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

Two days later, on April 3, the artist Ai Weiwei, a relentless critic of China's one-party state, was taken into police custody, the latest name on a growing list of disappearances and arrests of dissidents. Art: 'The Age of Enlightenment' Sweeps Into China 2011-04-18T13:57:28Z

Moss “writes beautifully about English middle-class life, about souls in tumult, about people whose lives have not turned out the way they’d hoped,” our critic Dwight Garner writes. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

"Honestly, at a certain point it became her fault for not double checking her resume each time she submitted it," one critic said. Man spots terrible mistake on girlfriend's resume, explaining why she hasn't found a job 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z

Although much of the opposition is founded on animal rights issues, critics also argue that culls are an ineffective way to control bTB. Slash joins pro-badger supergroup 2013-06-04T09:58:42Z

The Times critic Bosley Crowther wrote that the movie offers audiences “the gaudiest layout of gadgets this side of a Florida hotel.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Big Leap’ and ‘The Wonder Years’ 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

Some critics said the opera took away some of the play’s political content. Don’t Talk Too Much: Tony Kushner on an Operatic ‘Angels in America’ 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

It is not the first biography of Kahn, but our critic Dwight Garner said it is “notable for its warm, engaged, literate tone and its psychological acuity.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

Widely praised at its premiere in 1962, the piece prompted one critic to write, “Every performance it is given ought to be a momentous occasion.” SSO offers rare chance to hear Britten’s War Requiem 2013-06-06T20:38:17Z

See “Brooklyn,” which our critic A. O. Scott says is “both sharply observed and gently nostalgic.” What to Do This Weekend 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

Leftist activists, Muslim converts and a former U.S. senator were interviewed by a stream of Iranian state television camera crews, which introduced them as Western “professors, researchers and critics.” ‘Argo’ just another insult by Hollywood, Iranians say 2013-02-19T06:28:19Z

For the first time Labour critics are uttering a thought they assumed would never enter their minds. Why Ed Miliband is experiencing his West Wing moment 2011-07-12T22:38:00Z

But critics say these samples aren’t detailed enough for travelers to judge how explicit they are, especially if a screener zooms in on a specific area. Practical Traveler: Are Scanners Worth the Risk? 2010-09-07T21:50:00Z

The film, about a farmer and his daughter who live on a secluded island, divided critics, but Dano said it reignited his love for acting. Paul Dano: a resolutely hexagonal peg in the square hole of showbusiness 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z

“After I failed chemistry,” he told The Washington Post, “I realized that there was no movie critic on the Florida Alligator, the college newspaper there, so to feed my moviegoing habit I offered my services.” Jonathan Demme, who directed ‘Silence of the Lambs,’ ‘Philadelphia,’ dies at 73 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

Of course judges don't necessarily listen to critics, but her long-awaited The Lacuna was received with respectful disappointment by the majority of its reviewers and quite a few of its readers. Expert view: Critics greet Lacuna's win with respectful disappointment 2010-06-09T19:45:00Z

No award was given, and the two jurors — respected drama critics and theater historians — resigned in protest. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

Not that the critics were always kind to Mr. De Palma. Review: Brian De Palma Says He Is Hitchcock’s True Heir 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

It was around this time that the cultural critic James G. Huneker would write: “All Coney Island reminded me of a disturbed ant-heap, the human ants ferocious in their efforts.” Coney Island: The Cyclone! The Hot Dogs! The Art! 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

The line was actually concocted by critics to poke fun at the actor's broad Bronx accent. Tony Curtis: a life in clips 2010-09-30T11:57:00Z

"Theresa and I were guided by our disbelief that the 8,000 people killed nationwide by then didn't count," added Medina, one of Mexico's top art curators and critics. Mexican artists confront violence with song, brush 2011-07-01T17:51:09Z

Disgruntled fans would write letters asking just what the heck the network thought it was doing — critics and reporters wondered whether execs at Syfy knew what they were doing. How Social Media Gave Sharknado Teeth 2013-07-12T21:50:49Z

Born in Belgrade, Mr. Roscic, 52, began his career as a newspaper pop critic, and worked at the Austrian radio station Ö3 before joining the record industry. Sony Executive to Lead Vienna Opera 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

The location provoked a few raised eyebrows from fans of Mr. Lee’s ambitious cooking but got a warm welcome from local critics. Edward Lee Takes His Show to Washington 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

But most critics, regardless of how they felt about the appropriateness of the collection, deemed it beautiful. What the Redskins and fashion world share: Borrowing, sometimes badly, from cultures

In the five episodes provided to critics, the series develops several domestic and romantic subplots among the Shibden staff and farm tenants. Review: ‘Gentleman Jack’ Finds a Swaggering Woman in Want of a Wife 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z

But Krtek never caught on in the United States, which troubled the film critic Michael Medved, who tried for years to stoke a following for the cartoon in this country. Zdenek Miler, Creator of Krtek the Mole, Dies at 90 2011-12-03T06:25:24Z

Is there any other critic who would do today what I did, in “Matters of Fact and of Fiction,” for Italo Calvino? Interview: Gore Vidal 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

For an architecture critic, somebody who thinks about built space for a living, it’s almost impossible to think of an opening question more fraught. Architecture catches the acting bug 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

Yet Scott acknowledges the debates over who gets to play cultural gatekeeper, not shying away from addressing canonical blindspots and the prejudices of critics. Criticism -- what is it good for? 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

Some critics have dissed the show for focusing on the roadies and stage crew so much that we never see the group they labor for. Cameron Crowe’s “Roadies”: A rock ‘n’ roll labor of love that dares to be sentimental 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

The prize created hoopla, especially when broadcast on national TV with a panel of critics, commentators and artists in violent disagreement. Does the Turner prize matter? 2010-05-08T23:07:00Z

This turned out, nevertheless, to be the warmest reaction Vargas Lhosa has elicited so far, as other critics administered the kind of beatings recent Nobel winners traditionally receive. Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2012-06-01T21:55:12Z

By 1967, the author was an open critic, portraying the Kennedys as cold and manipulative in the essay "The Holy Family." Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z

New York Times critic Holland Cotter describes it as having "the bulk of an oil tanker’s hull." Mostly thumbs up: What the critics say about the new Whitney Museum 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

The animated adventure took a lot of heat from critics -- reaction ranged from meh to horrible, earning its current Rotten Tomatoes score of 8%. 'Dunkirk' beats out 'Emoji Movie,' 'Atomic Blonde' to repeat no. 1 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z

I wasn’t the only critic to react that way. Philip Johnson's AT&T Building has always been vain, idiosyncratic and flawed. Let's keep it that way 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

In a fairer, more just world — and with more female directors, more female critics, more female festival programmers and more female award givers — auteurism might finally be liberated from its sexist taint. Dystopia, Apocalypse, Culture War: 2018 or 1968? 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

Clark endured accusations that he was in with the squares, with critic Lester Bangs defining Bandstand as "a leggily acceptable euphemism of the teenage experience." 'American Bandstand' host Dick Clark has died 2012-04-18T20:02:17Z

The Victorian critic believed art was a human necessity, not a luxury. Labour championing Banksy? It's a betrayal of party values 2013-02-27T15:26:06Z

But it was a spectacular disappointment, blending stereotypes about multiple Asian cultures, recalled Jeff Yang, one of the TV critics whose reviews contributed to its quick demise. ‘Mulan’ 1998: A Moment of Joy and Anxiety for Asian-American Viewers 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

As a critic, it's hard to ignore key pieces of Steve Jobs' story left out of the new opera from Mason Bates and Mark Campbell. ‘The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs’ is a user-friendly opera that plays better with audiences than critics. Does it matter? 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

“I think it’s one of the things that critics do find hard to deal with, because they often want artists to be all of a kind,” Wilson told TIME. Sylvia Plath’s Daughter on a Remarkable Trove of Her Mother’s Drawings 2013-07-01T11:00:17Z

I certainly do, but this was my last Oscars as a film critic for the Times. This Year, a Plain Old Ordinary Oscars Was Something to Savor 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

Not many people can say this about Seattle Times arts critic Moira Macdonald: She helped me learn how to tap dance. Behind the Byline: Meet arts critic Moira Macdonald 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

She was a recipient of a MacArthur fellowship, colloquially known as a “genius grant,” in 1991 and was widely hailed by fellow dancers and dance critics as a visionary. Trisha Brown, choreographer who revolutionized dance in the 20th century, dies at 80 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

I'd like to believe that you've reached out to your critics because you have a genuine curiosity to understand why your remarks were so offensive to so many, Scott. Scott Adams takes on Salon 2011-06-23T14:52:00Z

As a critic, I feel a duty to point out that that’s an unusual move. Obama Understood the Power of Art. And He Wanted You to Get It, Too. 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

Perry is a man who takes clothing seriously; he’s a fashion critic in disguise. Grayson Perry’s ‘The Descent of Man’: Deconstructing the Masculine Mystique 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

The critic Eric Bentley, writing in the New Republic, thought Williams ducked the issue by not exploring further Brick's real nature. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Tennessee Williams's southern discomfort 2012-09-30T19:00:11Z

Fleming did better with his revival of A Satire of the Three Estates, which won the critics' award at a festival in Warsaw. Tom Fleming obituary 2010-04-20T18:08:00Z

He’s also been called worse—an apologist for the narcos, then a critic of them, in both cases for his El Chapo work—and he’s been threatened, too. The Man Behind the Trump Piñata 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

To be fair to the 1958 Guardian critic, he found a lot to like in Vertigo and praised the director's mastery of suspense. Vertigo tops greatest film poll, ending reign of Citizen Kane 2012-08-01T17:32:00Z

She declined to be interviewed but she addressed questions in writing, taking issue with critics who describe the program as biased. Has a U.S. College Given Russia Too Friendly a Platform? 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

Morgan is a veteran music critic and scholar, who coined the term “hip-hop feminism” in her classic book “When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost.” What We Still Need from Lauryn Hill and Her "Miseducation" 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

We allowed each critic to choose up to five CDs, DVDs or downloads and made a conscious attempt to spread the wealth, sorting out duplications. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2012 2012-12-20T17:59:14Z

Baz Bamigboye, a critic from The Daily Mail, meanwhile, confessed that he blushed like he had never blushed before, calling the sex scenes exceptionally beautiful. Julie Maroh, Author of ‘Blue’ Novel, Criticizes Film 2013-06-05T22:38:32Z

Some critics dismiss the culture war idea as absurd given that Trump, a Manhattan tycoon-turned reality TV star, is a product of Hollywood. Trump v Hollywood? Don't expect to see the culture war play out on screen 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

To some critics the show, with its generous focus on celebrities and displays devoted to Dior fragrances, seemed excessively promotional, conceived, as Mr. Woolfe suggested, to “burnish the brand and move merchandise.” The Fine Art of Staging a Blockbuster 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

Indie Cindy, the Pixies’ first album in 23 years, didn’t win over any critics or fans, but there’s little denying the Bostonites’ iconic back catalogue. The Complete Glastonbury Festival Post Mortem: 30 Top Moments 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

Take a culinary tour through Los Angeles’s rich food scene with a Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic in “City of Gold.” What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘Black Mirror’ and ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

By 1953 my pictures appeared to have reached a stage of total abstraction and I was one of that very small band of British abstract artists much ridiculed by our critics ... William Scott, the painter who made the everyday into a masterpiece 2013-03-02T08:00:10Z

And while I agree with the critics who have rejected the idea that we must separate the art from the artist, I have a high tolerance for enjoying art from morally suspect places. Louis C.K. Doubles Down on the Value of Saying the Wrong Thing 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

The London Review of Books, for which the critic and scholar wrote more than 200 pieces, announced his death this morning. Celebrated critic Frank Kermode dies aged 90 2010-08-18T11:22:00Z

One critic wondered whether Fox was concerned that the median age of "Idol" viewers is now in the mid-40s. 'American Idol' heads into season 10 with new judges, same old ideas 2011-01-12T22:47:04Z

While reporters and critics tried to focus on the fall season, news of more possible reboots kept breaking: a resurrected “ALF,” a revived “Frasier” and a new “Facts of Life.” Perspective | At the TV press tour, the buzziest drama is all about corporate intrigue 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z

Yet critics still say the fashion industry contributes to eating disorders in young women. Plus-size models get "Bare" at NY's Fashion Week 2012-02-12T18:23:26Z

As your friendly neighborhood Salon music critic, I enjoy the opportunity to share my takes on the cultural achievements of our time. In Olivia Harrison's elegant "Came the Lightening," poems on her life, and husband George Harrison 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

Most of the critics mentioned a favorite number or two but assayed the full song list as forgettable and failing to enrich the story or characters. ArtsBeat: 'Spider-Man' Turns Off the Critics 2011-02-08T13:42:42Z

“Almost every critic has his own definition of film noir,” he wrote, “and a personal list of film titles and dates to back it up.” Want to Be an Instant Expert on Film Noir? Watch This Drama 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

Given the role in which Simon himself has lately been cast by critics and viewers, expectations for Treme couldn't be higher. Katrina and all that jazz 2010-05-01T23:07:00Z

To his surprise, it was run by one of the Iraq war’s fiercest critics, Jon Stewart, the longtime host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.” Jon Stewart, Iraq War Critic, Runs a Program That Helps Veterans Enter TV 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z

Over the past two weeks Guardian critics have been setting out the case for their favourite decades in film-making, discussing the iconic movies that made them and outlining the cultural – and personal – impact they had. 'The 1960s changed Hollywood forever': readers on their favourite film decades 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

And there's little to applaud in the actions of some of his fans – "Team Breezy" – whose unwavering support for him and attacks on even his mildest critics gloss over some appalling truths. Is Chris Brown's rehabilitation now complete? 2012-07-14T23:06:20Z

One of Lincoln's most notable critics was Horatio Seymour, the governor of New York. 7 misconceptions about the Civil War 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z

In the New York Times, critic AO Scott described her style as a method without method. Greta Gerwig: 'I'm at peak shock and happiness' 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z

Once something catches on with both the critics and word of mouth, it starts to morph. Weinsteins' Oscar mastery resurfaces post-'Avatar' 2011-02-28T18:52:18Z

He’s facing a similar battle in Chicago — art and architecture critics have sniffed at the design and the location on the city’s cherished lakefront. George Lucas: To feel the true force of ‘Star Wars,’ he had to learn to let it go 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

The New York reviewers are among the influential critics groups that suggest potential favorites ahead of the Feb. 27 Academy Awards. New York Film Critics pick `Social Network' 2010-12-13T22:31:05Z

Advertisement The décor is like a Hollywood set designer’s vision of an art critic’s apartment — yes, Mr. O’Brien was a longtime columnist and critic for Artforum. Glenn O’Brien Reinvents Himself (Yet Again) 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

The critic Terry Teachout is “the latest white male writer lecturing Duke Ellington on what to play.” Touring American Pop Music by Way of the Writers Who Have Addressed It 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z

My problem with some current critics of Islam is that their criticism is neither accurate, fair, nor well-informed. The Blame Game: Karen Armstrong Talks About 'Fields of Blood' 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

When Pitchfork announced the event a week ago — making no mention of CMJ — some critics took it as a rude gesture toward their rival, a deliberate theft of thunder. ArtsBeat: Incursions Into CMJ Territory? 2010-10-22T02:46:00Z

For a drama critic attending a lackluster production of Shakespeare’s greatest comedy, these words are a reminder that there are lessons to be learned from even a limply staged masterwork. In Antaeus Theatre Company's 'As You Like It,' missed connections foil romantic comedy 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

Mike Nichols, one of America’s most celebrated directors, whose long, protean resume of critic- and crowd-pleasing work earned him adulation both on Broadway and in Hollywood, died Wednesday. Mike Nichols, Celebrated Director, Dies at 83 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

The 25 films selected this year include "The Empire Strikes Back," the 1980 sequel to "Star Wars" that many critics and fans consider the best of George Lucas' six "Star Wars" films. 'Empire Strikes Back' among 25 film registry picks 2010-12-28T11:31:04Z

Her steely work has drawn praise from critics, and her new coif has earned rave reviews at home. Standouts on ‘Grimm,’ ‘Legit,’ ‘Blue Bloods’ and Other Shows 2014-03-21T20:16:42Z

Over the past decade, dozens of arts critics have lost their jobs or been demoted to freelance status. The Fate of the Critic in the Clickbait Age 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

Accordingly, Ms. Kushner doesn’t see her role as that of a traditionally objective critic: If she trades her writing for artwork, it’s because the artist is someone she admires, or already a friend. Debts of Gratitude Paid in Paintings, Silkscreens and Collages 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

A complicated and lovely courtship later — we got engaged, and suddenly, the critic was becoming the establishment, the iconoclast was becoming a “rebbetzin.” Confessions of a rabbi’s wife: “I wanted to hide behind a husband and a wig” 2015-12-26T05:00:00Z

Like many of my fellow critics, I had put “Moonlight” at the top of my list of best films of 2016. Amid the confusion of ‘Moonlight’s’ big win is a monumental moment for the Oscars 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

The critics haven’t been packing, thankfully; we can scarcely smuggle a croissant past the headquarters guards, who check our bags and wand us electronically. At Cannes Film Festival, Good Sometimes Isn’t Enough 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

Some of these corrections and clarifications have been seized upon by critics as evidence of a major misfire by the mainstream media. The media called the ‘lab leak’ story a ‘conspiracy theory.’ Now it’s prompted corrections — and serious new reporting. 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

In the same vein, Polonius might describe Dromgoole as foodie, travel writer, gossipy theatrical memoirist, literary critic, political commentator and, compounded with all these, comedian — usually, like the best comedians, laughing at himself. For this globe-trotting Hamlet, all the world’s a stage 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

It also upset Degas, who felt the critics and the public were focusing too much on one pastel drawing at the expense of his other paintings. Gems of Paris' Mus?e d'Orsay in Vancouver, B.C. 2010-07-28T21:54:00Z

The critic Christopher Knight of The Los Angeles Times called her a “standout” of that show for making “inventive use of traditional materials.” An Artist at Home on the Fault Lines 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

Some critics have joked that if Morgan were serious about accuracy, he would not have cast a handsome actor, like West, in the role of Charles. ‘The Crown’ Could Have Damaged Charles. Becoming King Has Helped. 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

It happens to all critics, especially when we forget the essential ideal of our role, which is to ask: Is this show good at what it’s trying to be? Perspective | I’m signing off as TV critic, but here are six shows I’d happily watch again 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z

All week long, we’d like to hear from you in addition to our critics. What Do You Remember From the First Time You Saw 'Phantom of the Opera?' 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z

Few people sought refunds, it turned out, but some critics and others were offended by the very idea of the refund option. Summer Stages: Theater 2010-05-09T03:12:00Z

A year later, Hunt won best supporting actress from critics’ associations in New York and Los Angeles. Oscars Rewind: When a Woman Won for Playing a Male Character 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

He became a music critic in 1979 for The International Herald Tribune in Paris. Obituary: Mike Zwerin, Jazz Critic and Author, Is Dead at 79 2010-04-05T18:47:00Z

The work I encountered there in the 1990s — plays like Paula Vogel’s “The Baltimore Waltz” and, years before its New York premiere, her “Hot ‘n’ Throbbing” — helped to form me as a critic. In Defense of Candid Reviews, Minus the Nastiness 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

I’ve been tracking new kitchens, revisiting old ones, staying up late studying menus and looking forward to getting back to work as a critic in a newly rebuilt restaurant industry. I’m Not Ready to Go Back to Restaurants. Is Anyone? 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

“Marian Horosko was compellingly sensible and humane in her writing on dance, glamorous yet pragmatic, with an encyclopedic passion for the art,” Jennifer Dunning, a former dance critic for The Times, wrote in an email. Marian Horosko, Dancer and Advocate for the Art, Dies at 92 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

The performance ensured that the group's detractors and critics will still have plenty to write about, but the music was almost beside the point. Wolf gang grins, but doesn't flinch 2011-07-17T23:23:00Z

For too long, scholars and critics tended to focus on the aesthetic and narrative aspects of Griffith’s work while ignoring or eliding its racism. The Academy Museum Finds Good Intentions in Messy Film History 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

“If I were hearing ‘Another Hundred People’ for the first time,” the music critic Will Friedwald said in an interview for this article, “I would have guessed it was Bacharach and not Sondheim.” For Burt Bacharach, ‘Promises, Promises’ Was One Broadway Hit Too Many 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z

Instead, she's quietly been establishing herself as one of the most penetrating literary critics of our time. 2009-12-10T17:55:00Z

But even in America, it retains its allure, including among audiences “who know better,” as the New York Times critic Vincent Canby put it in a mostly rapturous 1998 reassessment of the movie. The Long Battle Over ‘Gone With the Wind’ 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

I always thought that the critic was immortal. Alex Ross: Clash of the critics 2010-12-12T00:01:00Z

The striking, fair-haired, six-foot-two dancer gracefully debuted in Sleeping Beauty, winning praise from critics eager to forgive the Bolshoi its opening opera flop. Russia's shiny new Bolshoi grappling with gripes 2012-02-01T15:46:09Z

The Films of Alfred Hitchcock," to proclaim it nothing short of a miracle: "This is one of the most significant developments in memory for scholars, critics and admirers of Hitchcock's extraordinary body of work. When discovery is the only thrill 2011-08-05T20:30:00Z

As he watches “Be More Chill” through the preview process, he is obviously nervous, aware that critics still may not embrace his work. The Guy Behind ‘Be More Chill’ Is Keeping It in the Family 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

The pianist has impressed critics with his handling of Liszt's Transcendental Étude No. 11, and audiences will hear the piece for themselves when Sudbin visits this week. Your best arts and entertainment bets for the week ahead 2011-04-13T23:42:04Z

In the New York Times, theater critic Brooks Atkinson called it “a delightful burlesque.” Sandy Wilson, composer of ‘The Boy Friend,’ dies at 90

What keeps Van Hove going back to the US, he says, is the fact that he's never sure how audiences and critics will react. Antonioni Project: the great big movie mash-up 2011-01-09T22:00:00Z

Not everyone was a critic of the mom’s seemingly vulnerable post. Fitness influencer reveals 'loose skin' on Instagram, gets called out by fans: 'Where?' 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

I sat through Jean-Luc Godard’s remarkable 3-D film “Goodbye to Language” directly in front of a New York daily newspaper critic who was nearly driven crazy by exasperation. “Goodbye to Language”: Jean-Luc Godard’s dazzling, provocative 3-D mind trip 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

NBC’s short-lived sitcom Outsourced got nuked by critics for its reliance on cliched characterizations of Indian people working in a call center. Bloodthirsty terrorists and duplicitous spies: does TV have a Muslim problem? 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

We critics can praise them to the high heavens, but it doesn't change where they end up in a bookshop. Is this the end of fiction's genre wars? 2013-05-17T07:00:00Z

A popular theory among critics is that Mr. McNally’s restaurants, with their amber glow, bistro fare and cast of recognizable characters, are really a frustrated director’s unrealized stage sets. Keith McNally Stirs the Pot 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z

"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" was a runaway commercial success but was drubbed by critics. LaBeouf promises better 'Transformers' next time 2010-05-13T19:28:00Z

That a columnist should enjoy novels in her purview is not particularly noteworthy — but to read three excellent books in sequence, all for the same column, is unusual, a critic’s jackpot. Ordinary People, Extraordinary Circumstances 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z

Or, at best, who only get a quick look at the sights of a port — one critic calls it “drive-by tourism” — before climbing back onboard. ‘Overbooked’: the impact of exploding tourism on cultures and environments 2013-03-13T21:39:31Z

The play, running at Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater through Jan. 1, has been well received by critics. Lloyd Suh’s Plays About the Past Speak Directly to Our Present 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

At the very end of his book, James argues that more critics “should write to say, not ‘look how much I’ve read,’ but ‘look at this, it’s wonderful.’ Clive James’s ‘Last Readings’ review: A critic’s final homage to literature, life 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

Poet and critic Matthew Zapruder, author of the book “Why Poetry,” doesn’t criticize the delivery system, but says Kaur’s work rejects traditional poetic qualities. Instapoet Rupi Kaur may be controversial, but fans and book sales are on her side 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

Because she has spent more than four decades broadcasting her belief that such brutal subjects lie at the heart of the human experience, critics have often cast her as a nihilist. Lydia Lunch’s Infinite Rebellion 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z

"War Dogs," the first movie after "The Hangover" trilogy for director Todd Phillips, was lambasted by critics but sold a decent $14.3 million in ticket sales. 'Ben-Hur' crashes, 'Suicide Squad' stays on top for 3rd week 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z

These awards are always an interesting foreshadowing of the Oscar acting nominations -- far more so than, say, Golden Globe or critics' groups votes -- because there's a lot of overlap in SAG and Academy memberships. SAG nominations announced; some Oscar hints? 2012-12-12T20:31:06Z

But critics continued to ask why the guest list had room for despots while former British Prime Ministers Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, both from the Labour Party, were left out. Britain revokes wedding invite for Syria envoy 2011-04-28T12:27:19Z

He is also a critic of the Chinese Communist Party and its iron-fisted rule. Chinese liberal artist detained by security officials in Beijing 2011-04-08T03:38:02Z

In the eyes of his critics in the British film industry, Davis's oppressive personality helped strangle the industry at a time when it could have done with powerful friends. Dinah Sheridan 2012-11-25T19:52:38Z

His depiction of the sex researcher as one of TV's least sympathetic anti-heroes has been revered by critics — many took issue with his omission from this year's Emmy race. 'Masters of Sex' artfully exposes a myth of masculinity 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

That result counts as a single vote among the more than 1,000 submitted by a voting body consisting of critics and historians, industry figures and previous inductees. Janet Jackson and Radiohead Lead Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2019 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

While the special received mixed reviews from critics, in his dedicated fans' eyes, Rock can do no wrong. "This was real and raw": Fans weigh in on Chris Rock's special, from trans jokes to Slap clapback 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

Theatre critic Henry Hitchings from London's Evening Standard newspaper said some theatergoers were bound to find the show puerile or offensive. Musical "Book of Mormon" opens in London to mixed reviews 2013-03-22T15:22:47Z

That is exactly what the folks at Sony are saying about the New Yorker film critic. The Carpetbagger: The Film With the Broken Embargo 2011-12-05T16:13:08Z

Additionally, critics of the health-care system say it is bogged down in waste.” Why Patients in Greek State-Owned Hospitals Can't Obtain Cancer Treatments 2011-09-17T14:38:45Z

That’s another reason that critics, should he win, will be quick to call it meaningless, as Iowa allows any resident to register as a Republican on the spot and participate in the caucuses. Ron Paul: If I'm leading polls, I'm electable 2012-01-01T22:30:00Z

A modern-day social critic with nary a concern for modern-day standards of political correctness. David Sedaris discusses prison pen pals, pandemic sensitivities and that apology he’s never going to give 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

As he accepted the prize for best director, he began speaking of a critic, and an obscure one at that, in the late George Morris, whom few in the room were familiar with. NYFCC: Five things we learned about awards contenders at this year's show 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

By then some critics had begun to find Mr. Prince’s directorial strokes overblown, his productions heavy-handed in theme and design. Hal Prince, Giant of Broadway and Reaper of Tonys, Dies at 91 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

The New Yorker film critic from the 1970s and 80s, right? Ridley Scott: ‘I wanted to scare the shit out of people. That’s the job’ 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z

There’s the sly riff on critics and their spouses, quoted above. Review: ‘Let Me Tell You’ Collects Early Works by Shirley Jackson 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

In fact, critics from all these publications, with the exception of Slate, placed Kushner’s second novel among their notable books of the year. The Most Popular Book Among Critics in 2013 Was… 2013-12-13T14:00:01Z

Some critics took Ms. Macdonald to task for what they regarded as her flippant tone in dealing with human suffering. Cynthia Macdonald, Poet Known for Humor and Ability to Shock, Dies at 87 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

I wasn’t a critic when I saw “The Thin Blue Line,” at the time of its release, but, even so, I didn’t like his reënactments—not on principle but as they appeared in the film. “The Jinx” and the Blight of Documentary Reënactments 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

“Dawn of Justice,” embraced by comic book fans but eviscerated by most critics, faced a similar collapse overseas, where second-weekend ticket sales totaled about $85.1 million. ‘Batman v Superman’ Stumbles, but Stays at No. 1 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

Of the film's critics, Rush added,: "It's just one of those things that happens at this stage of an awards campaign." Geoffrey Rush against re-editing "King's Speech" 2011-01-31T21:37:00Z

I remember at the time, this film critic, Alexander Walker, he said, 'This is a film that will be talked about in years to come.' Bronco Bullfrog: the film the UK forgot 2010-06-03T22:10:00Z

Her evocative writing makes her by far the best food critic I've read on this side of the Atlantic. In Queens, Star Treatment for Seafood 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z

Hitchcock was not the only young British director turning the critics' heads in the 1920s. Five more British silent films Unesco should register 2013-07-12T12:36:01Z

I can't think of another art form where the "practitioner" and the critic overlap like this. How writers review their critics 2010-09-22T09:47:00Z

German critics were equally enchanted, christening her “the Black Venus.” Grace Bumbry, Barrier-Shattering Opera Diva, Is Dead at 86 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

These critics are living in a time warp. Dear Movie Industry, We Have Thoughts 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

He first made his mark as a music journalist and critic, covering everything from opera to rap. Jonathan Gold did more than critique the Los Angeles food scene. He defined it. 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z

And though some critics continued to snipe, his work, admirers said, unmistakably reflected his passion, his fealty to Mahler’s intentions and, quite possibly, the idea that a man’s grasp might sometimes equal his reach. Gilbert E. Kaplan, Publisher and Improbable Conductor, Dies at 74 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

According to critics who first saw Gosling’s film, “Lost River,” at Cannes last May, his movie is definitely bizarre. SXSW 2015: Gosling, del Toro share affinity for 'esoteric' films -- and Disneyland 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

In a recent essay for the Times, the critic James Poniewozik observes that individual episodes of many so-called prestige television shows are getting longer. “Lonely and Horny” and Little Comedy 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

He has been an ardent critic of Mr. Trump, saying last year that the president was going “straight to hell.” Kennedy Center 2018 Honorees Include Cher and ‘Hamilton.’ Will President Trump Attend? 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately for Emsley, who is unlikely to produce another work that generates this degree of interest anytime soon, most art critics begged to differ. Duchess’ royal portrait criticized nationwide 2013-01-12T22:05:45Z

Mr. de la Renta's business is privately owned and his reputation, despite the occasional picking of a fight with a first lady or a fashion critic, is that of a gentleman. On the Runway Blog: John Galliano Begins His Fashion Recovery 2013-01-18T16:43:11Z

The movie version starring Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds was less than a smash with critics, including King, who thought Hollywood had ruined the story and turned it into a sex romp. Author, 'Whorehouse' playwright Larry L. King dies 2012-12-21T19:00:14Z

Likened by some critics to the works of Mark Twain, Henry James, Elizabeth Bowen and Truman Capote, Mr. Buechner’s novels were admired by loyal readers for their elegance, wit, depth and force. Frederick Buechner, Novelist With a Religious Slant, Dies at 96 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z

The tears of critics are tiny, but moviegoing is who I am. Best Movies of 2020 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

Beach House The critics say "A secret worth knowing about." Leading the field 2010-05-21T23:02:00Z

In creative circles, I gravitated to luminary mentors and critics, listening to my therapist's warning: "Love doesn't make you happy. Make yourself happy." A spy in the house of my first love 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z

New York Times critic Jason Zinoman cites her “generally sunny” outlook on pop culture, in contrast not only to past E! hosts Handler and Rivers, but to most of the Internet, too. YouTube star Grace Helbig moves to late-night TV: Will a new audience get the joke? 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

This, he says, would naturally widen the critic’s scope. Is the era of the white male food critic coming to an end? 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

Not everything has worked: Cooke's attempt in 2008 to bring a musical, Wig Out!, to SW1 was condemned by one critic as "strained and anorexic". Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre 2011-01-31T00:05:02Z

Some critics adored Ms. Guillem’s interpretations of the great classical roles and the passion of her acting in the 20th-century repertory; some criticized her liberties with choreography and style. Sylvie Guillem Prepares to End Her Ballet Career 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

The singer is in Cannes to attend the grand unveiling of , a film that erupts in the main competition like some gaudy firework display, spooking the dignitaries and splitting the critics. Kylie Minogue: I want to stop people thinking, 'What's she doing in a film?' 2012-06-07T14:10:19Z

Too preachy, yes, US critics have already said that; schmaltzy, even. Rewind TV: The Newsroom; Twenty Twelve; Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies; Volcano Live – review 2012-07-14T23:06:06Z

The critics loved him, his album Stadtaffe sold a million copies, and school kids and Berlin hipsters sung along to his songs. What us Germans think of your taste in our music 2011-03-18T15:01:54Z

Although critics deride the annual swimsuit issue, claiming it objectifies women and presents unrealistic images, Teigen believes the magazine is inclusive. For Sports Illustrated models, cover makes anything possible 2014-02-19T01:02:17Z

Look, I'm not a jazz critic and jazz fans have chided me in the past for overstepping my "pop music critic" title. Kamasi Washington and band prove 'The Epic' hype, thrill a sold-out Regent 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

But her critics claimed the records she made with it erred on the safe side, tending towards pop rather than soul, the middle of the road rather than the cutting edge. Whitney Houston: squandered talent of a singer who had it all 2012-02-12T17:13:58Z

I was then a young pop music critic at The Washington Post, so it fell to me to write a profile of the notoriously hard-drinking singer. ArtsBeat: An Appraisal: George Jones in Real Life and Real Time 2013-04-26T20:47:51Z

The LA critics also voiced its strong support for the film naming Lupita Nyong'o best supporting actress, and giving a "special citation" to the film's creative team. 'Gravity,' 'Her' tie for LA Film Critics top honor 2013-12-09T13:59:13Z

But in this space, Davis proceeded to organize a series of exhibitions that caught the eye of both critics and museum curators with their sophistication and their sweeping view of history. An unassuming storefront. A major museum. A collaboration that takes museum art to the people of L.A. 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

This was immediately pounced on by critics who noted the broodmare implications. Perspective | A lot of powerful people seem to have no clue what motherhood means 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

So here is a tip sheet, with critics and writers for The New York Times highlighting some of the concerts that intrigue them next season. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: Here’s What Our Critics Want to Hear 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

Ms. Bruguera rejected suggestions by some Cuban artists and critics that her political work in Cuba was a way of furthering her career. Artist Asks Cubans to Imagine They Are Running for President 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Los Angeles Times critic Art Seidenbaum praised it as “a wild sort of obituary — death in the form of future fantasy.” Historian Curt Gentry, known for Hoover biography and ‘Helter Skelter,’ dies at 83

Russian critics loved it when it was performed in Helsinki; a Finnish newspaper savaged it. Baryshnikov in the Tragic Love Story ?In Paris? 2011-09-14T13:58:08Z

The dance critic David Vaughan wrote in the 1970s that “Ashton, Balanchine, Cunningham are the ABC of contemporary classicism.” Critic?s Notebook: Line in Dance? Let?s Go Back to the Drawing Board 2011-01-31T23:58:51Z

Isherwood, a theater critic for The Times, on the poor ticket sales this season for plays with historical themes, like “The Scottsboro Boys” and “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson.” ArtsBeat: Arts & Leisure Preview: 'True Grit,' Michael Jackson, Nicole Kidman and More 2010-12-10T21:16:00Z

But then you would not be contributing to the music publishing enterprise that keeps jukebox musicals coming no matter how hard they get stomped on by critics. Review: Hot Stuff Turns Cold in ‘Summer: The Donna Summer Musical’ 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

There might be little left to say about Robert Bly, the poet, critic, translator and nonagenarian whose astonishing “Collected Poems” is now available. He’s a Legend of Contemporary Poetry. There’s Finally a Volume of His Collected Work. 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

Another centenary tribute will arrive next month in the form of a collection of interviews of Barber’s friends, critics and colleagues. An Adagio for Strings, and for the Ages 2010-03-05T19:18:00Z

The unions countered by pointing to the increase in new productions during Gelb’s tenure, many of which flopped with critics and at the box office. Metropolitan Opera, with new contract, gears up for season that nearly wasn’t

If you are not familiar with the writings of film critic David Thomson, the subtitle of his new book might mislead you. Review | ‘A Light in the Dark’ is a love letter to directors, personal flaws and all 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z

Put another way: It’s sculpture densely packed with references, which is why the critic Hal Foster called him “catnip for art historians.” Charles Ray, Walking a Fine Line With a Hungry Lion 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z

New York music critics hailed “Become Ocean” as a major new composition and also, generally, praised the orchestra’s performance. What the critics said about Seattle Symphony at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-08T20:28:09Z

This is a thrilling reading that aptly unites Toibin’s novelistic gifts for psychology and emotional nuance with his talents as a reader and critic, in incomparably elegant prose. Colm Toibin on the Fathers of Geniuses 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

With every film here shown both to critics and the movie-going public, it's possible to get a truly panoramic view of its prospects. Toronto closes after very public festival 2012-09-13T10:22:04Z

Todd, a biographer and literary critic, also plays with making this a meta-novel. Review | Jane Austen makes a cameo in a charming new novel about friendship and the literary life 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

It's understandable that critics compare us, especially as we've only made one film each. Guardian first film award: The Guard 2012-02-09T20:00:08Z

A discussion will be moderated by the Irish theater critic and scholar Fintan O’Toole. Spare Times for May 8-14 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

He gave critics food for thought as his character struggled to cope with his mother's death while fighting to win his father's affections. Child's play: the best young actors on the small screen 2011-03-04T10:34:43Z

Our critic Jennifer Senior said it’s “not a perfect first effort,” but “a frenetically imaginative one, booming with vitality and originality.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

His critics have brought in Beato, now chief medical officer for Ernst & Young consultants. Auction claims to be selling vial of Reagan blood 2012-05-22T15:16:00Z

Another option is to read other critics' reviews, as Rodell did, and spot the differences. "No one suspected me": Women food critics dish on dining out for a living 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z

Not long ago serious critics didn’t care about the Oscars, and the awards took up relatively little space in both the entertainment news and public’s consciousness. A. O. Scott and Manohla Dargis on Film Festivals 2011-10-01T01:13:02Z

The latter was the only film to receive harsher reviews from female critics, in which Streep played Margaret Thatcher. The growing gender divide over “Ghostbusters”: Why movies starring women get slimed by male critics 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

In that spirit, I asked nine other critics to tell me a little bit about one of their favorite episodes of the year. The best episodes of 2014: Top critics on their favorite TV of the year 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z

The art critic, self-proclaimed “failed artist” and winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for criticism is weathering the pandemic with his wife, the Times art critic Roberta Smith, in northwestern Connecticut. Yes, You Can Channel Your Stress Into Creativity. Here’s How. 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Honig cuts a striking figure in the film, with his aquiline nose, shock of white hair and knowing gaze, making it easy to picture him in the past as a professor, critic and mentor. Movie Review: ‘First Cousin Once Removed’ Documents Edwin Honig’s Life 2013-09-15T22:10:53Z

Suddenly, you were on the cover of magazines and topping critics’ lists. Liz Phair Is Not Your Feminist Spokesmodel 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

Jaden Smith bears a strong resemblance to his famous father and won over most critics as the lead in 2010's reboot of "The Karate Kid." 'After Earth' leaves critics cold ahead of competitive weekend 2013-05-31T22:33:01Z

A handful of critics and curators offer analyses of the book’s sexual politics that are thoughtful and respectful, but also pointed in their attention to power, objectification and sexual inequality in public space. Review: ‘Garry Winogrand’ Pictures an Artist and His World 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

Several Paris Opera Ballet dancers, dance critics and others, were quick to express dismay. Anti-Gay and Sexist Posts Cost Sergei Polunin a Role in Paris 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

But the downside, if only for critics, is that his shows tend to look the same. Fashion Review: Hood by Air, Michael Bastian, Patrik Ervell and More 2013-09-09T23:19:30Z

Russian cinema critics said this was a sign that the quality of Russian film-making was not keeping pace with growing budgets. Moscow film festival bids to boost Russian cinema 2010-06-18T16:55:00Z

Before becoming a critic, I was a dramaturg, dispensing in-house advice to artistic directors and giving what I hoped were helpful notes to playwrights and directors. 'God Looked Away,' and so should you: Why Al Pacino's play falls so short of expectations 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

The cause was complications of heart disease, Nicholas Birns, a literary critic and friend, said. Samuel Menashe, New York Poet of Short Verse, Dies at 85 2011-08-24T03:55:46Z

Reviewing for The New York Times, the critic Martha Schwendener wrote that “the project is one of the best Socrates has presented in recent years.” The Artist as Healer 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

Michael Sragow is the West Coast editor and online film critic for Film Comment and the author of “Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master.” ‘Dietrich & Riefenstahl’ review: Two women who made fateful choices 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

Social media is “not someone’s father’s property,” she tells her critics. Probing the Murder of a Pakistani Internet Sensation 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z

“The Gambler” is an agreeable if ridiculous slice of old-school Hollywood machismo, which will no doubt be widely understood as a harmless holiday-season change of pace, a “genre exercise,” as the critic’s manual puts it. “The Gambler”: Mark Wahlberg’s existential quest for manhood 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

“Split” made about $40 million during its opening weekend, so “Glass” is performing comparably — though it seems unlikely that the movie will wildly outpace “Split,” particularly given mixed reviews from critics. M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Glass’ Tops the Box Office 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z

The novel is beloved by many, but it has its critics. Is "Dune" a white savior movie? Denis Villeneuve responds 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

Dizzyingly, other members of the royal family appeared: the Duke of York; the Countess of Wessex; and Prince Michael of Kent, who told me that the industry needed critics "to pin-prick the egos". Queen given Bafta award for lifetime support of British film 2013-04-04T22:12:13Z

The victims of TV, as depicted by its traditional critics, are hammered down into mute, uniform cogs, then sold as docile lots of consumers to Madison Avenue, their individuality smothered, their innermost selves silenced. How novels came to terms with the internet 2011-01-15T00:06:06Z

“Get a Life” garnered the highest ratings of any new Fox show to that point and drew admiring critics. ‘Get a Life,’ Now on DVD, With Chris Elliott 2012-10-21T03:17:16Z

Mr. Sheldon has been receiving most of the attention this spring, from critics and other theater awards’ groups, however. ArtsBeat: Some Actors Move Up, Others Down, in Jockeying for Tony Consideration 2011-04-29T19:38:03Z

Khashoggi, meanwhile, was writing columns for The Washington Post drawing attention to the prince’s brash foreign policy moves and simultaneous crackdown on activists and perceived critics, including women’s rights activists, writers, clerics and economists. Justin Bieber performs at Saudi F1 race after boycott calls 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

In an interview with film critic Gene Siskel, Brooks revealed that he had filmed a brief scene that made light of the notorious Three Mile Island incident. 11 memorable facts about "History Of The World, Part I" 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z

This is the sort of situation that would have given me heart palpitations and nausea as a critic just starting out. Why I do love to be all at sea at the theatre 2012-07-10T15:30:21Z

She was right in the early 1990s, when, as a fierce critic of China’s human rights record, she rejected the bipartisan faith that economic liberalization in China would inevitably lead to greater democratization. Nancy Pelosi’s Brilliant Career 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

Among the tasks of a restaurant critic is to judge an establishment based on what it aims to do rather than what the reviewer wants it to be. Restaurant reviews: Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steak House and STK DC 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

At 18 ½ hours, “Baseball” was his longest film yet, and if his critics agreed on anything, it was that it lasted a few too many innings. Baseball Continued: Between Rebirth and Calamity 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z

That is the question for thoughtful film critics, who at heart are film lovers, respectful of the filmmaking process. What’s the statute of limitations on movie spoilers? 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

It’s an interesting time to be a critic. Riff: A Critic’s Case for Critics Who Are Actually Critical 2012-08-15T15:40:06Z

In a business that's so full of disingenuousness, it's comforting to have a critic you can always count on to tell the truth — a critic who will stand alone at the service to his truth. Readers respond after 'Boyhood' fails to impress critic Kenneth Turan 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

Eric Asimov, The New York Times wine critic, is discussing the darker side of rosé. Your Next Lesson: Rosé From the Dark Side 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

Michael Kimmelman, the architecture critic for The New York Times, condemned the measure last February. Trump Makes Classical Style the Default for Federal Buildings 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z

For such critics, "Jesus Christ Superstar" seemed to pose a threat simply by juxtaposing the sacred narrative of the Bible with the profane atmosphere of the rock concert. Best Easter pageant ever? Half a century of "Jesus Christ Superstar" 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z

He acknowledged that some critics disparage reverse mortgage ads because they lack the slick production values and clever scenes of the best prime-time spots. New Career for Aging Celebrities: TV Pitchman 2012-03-07T23:30:00Z

For New Yorker critic James Wood, under the headline "What can't the novelist David Mitchell do?" David Mitchell: 'I don't want to project myself as this great experimenter' 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z

Other critics were less impressed, such as William Hawkins of The New York World-Telegram, who called the show a vast disappointment. A Doctor Checks Up on a New 'Allegro' 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

Tony Scott never was in the running for an Oscar, and critics often slammed his movies for his hyper-kinetic style and an emphasis on style over substance. Tony Scott: A man of action films, pure and simple 2012-08-20T10:16:05Z

The document, experts say, reveals just how much Descartes tailored his writings to answer his contemporary critics. Descartes Letter Found, Therefore It Is 2010-02-25T05:10:00Z

Some critics of Mr. Chávez have found fault with Mr. Abreu for what they consider excessive coziness with the Chávez government. Jos? Antonio Abreu Leads El Sistema in Venezuela 2012-03-01T13:00:00Z

A moment later Mr. Carney volunteered that he was not tempting fate with “Spider-Man,” which opens on Tuesday evening and will face critics’ reviews after the curtain call. A Superhero?s Day (and a Damsel?s) Never Ends 2011-06-07T21:53:04Z

Claiming he wanted to beat the critics to the punch, Mr. Moore frequently made light of his limitations. Roger Moore, suave actor who held James Bond role the longest, dies at 89 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

And, seemingly signaling critics that the end product hadn't been worth all the hubbub, the movie was dumped into theaters without critics' screenings. Review of Dream House, starring Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz 2011-09-30T20:05:00Z

I talked to Burton about being shunned by critics, the shadow of “Batman,” and the similarities between Margaret Keane’s career and his own. Tim Burton: “There’s a fine line between good and bad” in movies 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

In his review of “Holler,” Charles Isherwood, a theater critic for The New York Times, lamented the quality gap between the show’s musical numbers and its storyline. Popcast: Can Hip-Hop Thrive on Broadway? 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

It’s only the second time in the last four decades that the critics’ top honor went to a non English-language film. New York film critics name ‘Drive My Car’ best film of 2021 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

That happens to be the side where critics are usually placed. White-Hot Aria, Engulfing Bass: This Week’s 8 Best Classical Moments 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

But some critics complained that Ms. Fiedler was less candid than she could have been about other aspects of life at the Met. Johanna Fiedler Dies at 65; Wrote of the Met Opera 2011-06-04T04:36:12Z

Laura Miller, the influential book critic for Salon, called the book “utterly absorbing” in a review in May. The Novel ‘Silent Wife’ Benefits From Success of ‘Gone Girl’ 2013-08-04T21:53:54Z

However, there are intriguingly loud notes of dissent among the garlands, including the LA Times' indifference or dance critic Apollinaire Scherr's dismissal of the film as "odious" and "pathetic". In praise of the Black Swan controversy 2010-12-10T13:08:00Z

It also doesn’t solve the lack of affordable housing available for low-income families, critics say. Meet NYC’s first-ever “microapartments” 2013-01-22T20:32:00Z

What kind of critic treats a piece of fruit with the same seriousness as a Rembrandt? A (Grudging) Defense of the $120,000 Banana 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z

Kenny Herzog, a TV critic who recaps Curb for New York magazine’s Vulture, said the reception of the ninth season revealed more about the contemporary debate around political correctness than David’s comedy itself. Has America lost its appetite for Curb Your Enthusiasm? 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z

And my sensibility as a culture critic and as a feminist was deeply formed by her. Paglia on Taylor: "A luscious, opulent, ripe fruit!" 2011-03-24T02:58:00Z

The film was widely praised by critics for its cinematography. Olivia Colman wins best actress award at Venice festival 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

She also alleges she helped craft key themes and ideas for many of his books, “served as lead researcher, first-line editor, and critic, and was Dan’s literary partner in the fullest sense.” Ex-wife of ‘Da Vinci Code’ author alleges he led double life 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

These are words to inspire deep distrust in a critic’s heart, and that distrust was not misplaced. ArtsBeat: Nothing Rings True Like Authenticity 2011-07-26T18:21:23Z

British critics raved, comparing the book to George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” and to the fantasies of J. R. R. Tolkien, Jonathan Swift and A. A. Milne. Richard Adams, Author of ‘Watership Down,’ Dies at 96 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

The gallery's decision to limit numbers follows outbreaks of what one art critic termed "gallery rage" as visitors struggled to view works of art on display due to large crowds at various so-called "blockbuster" exhibitions. Cap on visitors to Da Vinci show 2011-05-09T15:01:31Z

While some book critics spoke of being overwhelmed by the biography’s sheer bulk — it ran to some 840 pages — others welcomed the breadth of Mr. Gutman’s historical net. Robert W. Gutman, Biographer of Wagner and Mozart, Dies at 90 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

The critics group will also present critic and former President Leonard Maltin with a special citiation for "more than four decades of tireless, unparalleled service to lovers of cinema the world over." Gena Rowlands wins career achievement honor from L.A. Film Critics 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z

She asks herself whether she’d become what Obama’s human rights critics said he’d become — just another “realist,” but one who “feels bad about it.” What Samantha Power Learned on the Job 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

As one critic said, I create a piece of nature, in a way, with the textures. Ørnulf Opdahl ’s first U.S. solo show lands in Seattle 2013-07-11T22:36:16Z

As a dance critic and dance lover, I’d rather that this dance artist spend more time in the studio than at a desk or on book tours. Misty Copeland’s new book offers advice — and perhaps false hope 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

As if on Dylan's cynical command, most critics have so far focused on the 17-minute running time of "Murder Most Foul." "Murder Most Foul": Unpacking Bob Dylan's new epic, from Dallas 1963 to the pandemic of 2020 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z

Chandler was also not beyond trying to use The Times' pages to forward her cultural agenda, says Martin Bernheimer, who was the paper's music critic for 31 years. Dorothy Buffum Chandler was the driving force behind the Music Center 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

"Strand's poems resonate with a shimmering sense of the infinite," the newspaper's critic wrote. Mark Strand, US poet, dies at 80 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z

There’s also been a contrarian side that says the show is just a mid-century modern soap opera, as sharp-eyed critic Daniel Mendelsohn wrote in a 2011 New York Review of Books essay. What was missing from the “Mad Men” finale (Hint: It’s not a Coke commercial) 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

TIME’s theater critic reviews four new productions that have landed on Broadway:  Betrayal, The Snow Geese, A Time to Kill, and The Winslow Boy. Betrayals and Barristers: Broadway’s New Dramas 2013-10-29T09:45:58Z

The story reminds viewers “of the special potency of grisly things that come in small, impeccably wrapped packages,” the former New York Times critic Ben Brantley wrote in a 2019 review. Spooky Season Has Arrived in New York. Here’s What’s on Our List. 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

The manifesto’s appearance Sept. 19 unsettled some media critics. How publishing a 35,000-word manifesto led to the Unabomber 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

"This is not a show that is easy to digest," New York Times critic Grace Glueck wrote. Artist Louise Bourgeois dies in NYC at 98 2010-05-31T20:51:00Z

The story is told from the perspective of Lester Bangs, a homage to the rock critic depicted in “Almost Famous.” | Lady Gaga's Comic Turn 2010-05-25T17:08:00Z

Which raises the question: why is the movie catching on, with viewers and critics alike? Everything That Is Suffocating About French Film, in One French Film 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

Plaudits to the Central Ohio and North Carolina critics for fêting Davis as the beset mom in The Babadook. If Critics Chose the Oscars: 2015 Edition 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

The critic Leonard Feather described Klein as "one of the most confident and capable of British jazzmen", while the record producer Tony Hall commended his "highly-charged, snorting solos". Harry Klein obituary 2010-08-04T17:08:00Z

During Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival last year, critics at The New York Times debated the concept of spiritual music. Critic?s Notebook: Two ?Passions,? With Two Very Different Effects 2011-04-17T22:14:02Z

But Charlie Hebdo found critics where it had also found champions, among the legions of Europeans and Americans who had long been content to ignore its existence. Adjusting to a World That Won’t Laugh With You 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Christopher Hawthorne, the architecture critic of the Los Angeles Times, characterized the deal as "something of a surprise given the critic's close association with New York and the East Coast." ArtsBeat: Ada Louise Huxtable Leaves Archive and Estate to Getty Research Institute 2013-01-09T17:18:45Z

And good critics should be more excited about getting their boots dirty than making friends on Twitter. Do you want poptimism? Or do you want the truth? 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

Mrs. Clinton’s supporters and critics had expressed concerns that the projects would either denigrate her in order to create TV drama or cast her in an unfairly positive light ahead of the 2016 election. Hillary and Bill Clinton Inspire Musical Theater 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

A 1988 attempt by the media mogul Ted Turner to add colour was eventually defeated after critics pointed out that Welles had spoken out about the process prior to his death. US TV to screen Alexander Payne's hated colour version of Nebraska 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

It is exactly because I reject superstition that I see Bill Maher as less of a critic of Islamic fundamentalism than an apologist for every other form of back-asswards fundamentalism. Bill Maher, atheist fundamentalist: Why he gives nonbelievers a bad name 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z

But Scott makes a compelling case for the critic as artist. Criticism -- what is it good for? 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

Some of Alabama’s critics said the band’s more commercial tendencies watered down its sound. Jeff Cook, a Founder of the Country Band Alabama, Dies at 73 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

Architects were designing homes for critics, not tenants, Charles added, and they were filling London’s skyline with one “giant glass stump” after another. The Town That Charles Built 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

His critics have accused him of seeking to degrade women, inflict senseless torment on audiences and insult humanity. The Human Centipede director shows why three into one will go 2010-08-19T21:26:00Z

To its critics, it is a sign of weakness, emasculation and deceit. The Medical Mask Becomes a Protest Symbol 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

Instead, it was a hit with viewers and critics and a darling of the awards circuit. ‘The Last of Us’ Continues Craig Mazin’s Hollywood Ascent 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z

Over in the world of politics and government, Kimberly is a frequent visitor and critic of President Brown, ready to flaunt her relationship with her father, the late president. Cures for a patriarchal hangover on “Y: The Last Man” 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

As it is, Kaiser sounds rather like those critics that claimed the Occupy movement lacked cohesion. Noises off: is criticism really changing? 2012-06-21T14:41:02Z

And despite indulgent reviews from the critics, real people thought Greek only so-so: exiting moviegoers polled by CinemaScore gave it only a B rating — the same undistinguished score that Killers got. Box Office Weakened: Greeks and Killers Falter in a Junky June 2010-06-06T20:15:00Z

Not to mention that much of my career as a critic and as editor at Film Comment has involved spotlighting much lesser-known movies — often small-budget or foreign, very few starring Schwarzenegger. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

A longstanding critic of the nation’s foreign policy argues that Washington mishandled the end of the Cold War by trying to dictate global peace and expand American influence. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

Mr. D’Agata recalled critics “kicking me in the face” and at least one online comment wishing he’d killed himself instead of Levi Presley. What if the Guy With the Red Pencil Is Nuts? 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

As a critic, I encouraged people to watch “Game of Thrones” however they like, so long as they watch it, so long as they give themselves a chance to be part of its moment. Perspective | Was ‘Game of Thrones’ supposed to mean anything? Only if you wanted it to. 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

The Third, critics asserted, sanctioned scores of words—“finalize,” “irregardless,” “wise up,” “hepcat,” “ain’t”—without the ruler on the knuckles they deserved, labels such as “colloquial,” “erroneous,” “incorrect,” or “illiterate.” Oxford Junior Dictionary Drops "Acorn" for "Broadband" 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

But many critics also found the cerebral plot confusing. In a Big Box-Office Test, ‘Tenet’ Grosses $20 Million 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z

The film received a 74% fresh rating from critic site Rotten Tomatoes and a B grade from audience polling firm CinemaScore. 'SpongeBob' washes over 'American Sniper' at Friday box office 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z

Gleaning wisdom from box-office statistics is a risky game, subject to all manner of qualifications, and of course it’s completely vulgar for a critic to pay attention to such things. The Living Is Easy;The Women Are Missing 2011-06-10T19:56:41Z

The peculiar program note spoke of this being a work of “joy and light rather than solemnity,” and even mentioned critics calling it “breezy.” The Pacific Symphony lives up to its name, with the help of India 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

James’s critic is talking to himself and is not necessarily being paid for his reaching. Review: In ‘Better Living Through Criticism,’ A. O. Scott Offers Insight 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

It all sounds eminently sensible, but Sandberg's critics have accused her of underestimating the cultural and institutional barriers that stop even the most self-confident of women getting on. Holiday reading: The best books to pack this summer 2013-06-29T07:00:51Z

There are critics to contend with, the public’s fickle tastes and the endless fluctuations of the market. The fall and rise of Clyde Beswick and his CB1 Gallery's new downtown digs 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z

"Like an angry TV critic, this monster is determined to send celebrities plummeting to their doom," he says. TV review: Downton Abbey and All New Celebrity Total Wipeout 2010-09-27T05:45:00Z

The comedy paid dearly for it; viewership dropped by nearly a third between the first and second season finales, even as many critics heralded the writing’s realism and sensitivity of Cash’s performance. “You’re the Worst” returns at its best: Finding comedy in depression and the rocky road to wellness 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

Our pop and jazz critics surveyed the latest releases and picked out 20 that offer worthy additions to your seasonal playlists. 20 Albums That Put a New Spin on the Holidays 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

The move would bolster a collection critics consider is not the strength of the Fifth Avenue institution that owns artistic creations going back thousands of years. Met Museum to take over Whitney's NYC space 2011-05-11T22:12:12Z

Joyce faced backlash over his ultimatum, with some critics saying he was being too harsh. Barnaby Joyce defends threat to put down Johnny Depp’s dogs 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z

CANNES, France — Midway through the 68th Cannes Film Festival, and the critics are restless. At the Cannes Film Festival, Some Gems Midway Through 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

Yet critics say B&N was late on the electronic uptake and that longer-term social trends are apparent as television and internet browsing compete with books for the public's "media time". Barnes & Noble squares up to tycoon Ron Burkle in poison pill trial 2010-07-13T16:38:00Z

He started a franchise and cleaned up at the box office in the summertime — something he had done before — and then floored the critics and dominated the Oscars when the weather turned cold. ‘Jurassic Park’: Where the Wild Things Are 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

She shaped the way Hollywood and Main Street thought about movies, and challenged a generation of critics to maintain the standards she helped to create. Remembering Judith Crist, Savage Critic and Inspirational Mentor: One Student’s Appreciation 2012-08-07T22:14:56Z

Many of the film’s critics said it reinforced problematic stereotypes — foreign parents with accents, threats of arranged marriage and girls reluctantly wearing hijabs. ‘Hala’ Is the Story of a Chameleon. It Reminded Me of Myself. 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

New York Times critic Holland Carter called the exhibit uneven but rarely uninteresting; he was skeptical about re-creating ephemeral performance art. NYC art exhibit includes nude pair standing still 2010-03-16T07:47:00Z

Part of the challenge is the sheer breadth of his activity, as a poet, political activist and social critic as well as a novelist. A Legless Black Man Comes Into a Windfall in This Biting Satire 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

The show launches, unfortunately, with the two least-successful installments of the four previewed for critics. Review: A ‘Twilight Zone’ Trying to Find Its Dimension 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z

New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells recently lamented what he describes as an “epidemic” of these concoctions: The Latest Happy Hour Rip Off: $1 for 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

Some critics of the exercise noted that of the journals successfully fooled by the articles, only a few, including Hypatia, have significant standing. Hoaxers Slip Breastaurants and Dog-Park Sex Into Journals 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

I receive them in my capacity as a professional critic. The Revenant and The Hateful Eight leaked – and awards season is to blame 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z

I have no doubt that every other critic will give this piece the unalloyed raves it deserves. Review: ‘Vietgone,’ a Refugee Tale With Laughs and Rap 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

Los Angeles Times book critic David L. Ulin offered that it was also broadly, even frighteningly, relevant to circles beyond the world of journalism. William McPherson, Pulitzer-winning book critic who chronicled his decline into poverty, dies at 84 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

Brantley, Isherwood Answer Readers’ Questions About the Theater Season The theater critics for The New York Times answer readers’ questions about musical adaptations, their biggest disappointments of the season and what awards season means. 2013 Tony Awards 2013-05-12T17:38:38Z

As for his critics, he said, “If they are worried because I am too spread, let them tell me, and I will leave.” 2010-01-13T22:49:00Z

Her critics included Howard University, where she had just been made dean of the College of Fine Arts. Diversity, firsts and more facts from the Emmy nominations 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z

One critic praised the "instantly catchy" songs while another found them "below-par". Mixed reviews for sex scandal show 2013-12-20T14:42:24Z

To remind you of our state of mind in that long ago time I’m obligated to quote the previous TV critic at Salon, who makes the following observation in her Season 1 review: Finally, "The Man in the High Castle" fascist fantasy ends amidst America’s sobering reality 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z

The overture was followed by “The Storm,” which Haydn wrote in tacit response to a London critic who said he hadn’t yet shown his prowess as a composer for voices. McGegan, BSO offer slender, uneven, but compelling Beethoven Ninth 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

Both "Bodyguard" and "Singham" were panned by critics but loved by audiences. Bollywood rediscovered heroes in 2011 2011-12-26T02:02:35Z

One of her last public appearances, two years ago, was to see her daughter, the design and fine arts critic Corinne Julius, receive her own RCA fellowship in the Royal Albert Hall. Rosamind Julius obituary 2010-07-01T17:47:00Z

The critic David Vaughan once wrote that the ABC of contemporary classicism was Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine and Merce Cunningham. Three Stars of World Dance Traditions Converge on New York 2012-09-09T04:55:01Z

Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan has been a movie fan since his days as a kid in Brooklyn, when he had to sneak into the theater to avoid the wrath of his father. 'Not to Be Missed': Kenneth Turan on selecting his 54 favorite films 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

The following year the critic Dixon Scott described the new process as mobilizing “a fabulous army” of “starch grains colored green, violet and orange, densely and adroitly marshaled, some four million to the square inch.” How Photography Cast New Light on Art 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

William Wolf was a longtime film and theater critic whose work appeared in Cue Magazine, New York Magazine and Gannett Newspapers. Luminaries Lost: A look at some of the artists lost to virus 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

As Entertainment Weekly's Suna Chang reported at the time, where Disney's "Mulan" drew positive reviews from Asian American critics for its cultural sensitivity and historical accuracy, the McDonald's spots generated charges of ethnic stereotyping. How McDonald's Szechuan Sauce went from a "just fine" '90s relic to a riot-causing cult condiment 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z

When David Bowie released his 24th studio album The Next Day in March — after a 10 year musical hiatus — fans and music critics alike were thrilled. The Next Day Extra: David Bowie’s New Extended Album Includes 5 Unreleased Songs 2013-11-05T16:14:40Z

He’s a filmmaker, went to film school and has worked as a film critic. Will the Oscars be a `who cares’ moment as ratings dive? 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z

Jason Farago, critic at large for The Times, writes about art and culture in the U.S. and abroad. How Erdogan Reoriented Turkish Culture to Maintain His Power 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

The two chief art critics of The New York Times weighed in on the significance of these changes. The Met Should Be Open to All. The New Pay Policy Is a Mistake. 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

This crosses a bright ethical line, writes Times art critic Christopher Knight. Essential Arts & Culture: Remembering Gordon Davidson, Roy Lichtenstein's L.A.-tinged pop, MOCA's problematic show 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

As a result, movies that screen at far-flung festivals often become instant news, at least for film critics and other amplifiers. 2019 Has Already Been an Exceptional Year in Movies 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

So as can tell you, the question of how well the white lab coated can carry on in the absence of their team leader was foremost on critics’ minds. | Lanvin Wins! 2011-03-05T21:23:29Z

A new picture, in this case a moving picture, will premiere on HBO on Dec. 8, remembering the writer, activist and critic herself. Watch the Trailer for the Upcoming HBO Documentary Regarding Susan Sontag 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

The day after the PEN/Faulkner gala, Washington Post book critic Ron Charles described Daniela’s reading as “the launch of a brilliant career.” At 15, Daniela Shia-Sevilla’s writing has already wowed the literary community 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

And considering reincarnating specialties Dr. Scott's Maple Duck -- among the dishes that blew this critic away at the original Blue Onion Bistro. Lunchbox Laboratory blows-off Ballard for South Lake Union 2010-12-20T20:28:04Z

This meant Collins was not a favorite of critics. Jackie Collins, bestselling author of sexy, unapologetically trashy fiction, dies at 77 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z

It is pretty surreal,” he told a TV critics meeting. Jason Biggs savors his lasting ‘American Pie’ connection 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

Possibly not for theatre critics, though, who may squirm in their seats. This week's new theatre 2010-07-09T23:06:00Z

But he maintained that when the final language is published, critics may find themselves saying, “Wow, this is reasonable stuff.” Rules Meant to Protect Human Research Subjects Cause Concern 2011-10-23T22:37:05Z

One critic thought it was about the general strike. Summer reading: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 2011-08-10T10:35:43Z

Mr. Valdés maintains a detached pragmatism on political subjects, in contrast to his former bandmates, who have been outspoken critics of Castro’s regime. Chucho Valdés, the Pianist, Reflects on Irakere and His Career 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

But the real blame here belongs to Deen, not her critics. Less Than Accidental Racist: Why Paula Deen’s Comments Insult Her Fans Too 2013-06-20T17:10:41Z

For Marxist-oriented critics, the zombie represents the economic victims of capitalism. Zombie Poetry Takes On a Life of Its Own 2012-01-13T14:47:39Z

But more than ever, practitioners and critics are asking difficult questions about how we make actors, how we make plays, how we make seasons, how we make money — in short, how we make theater. Is It Finally Twilight for the Theater’s Sacred Monsters? 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

Over several decades in the middle of the past century, scholars, critics and knowledgeable art lovers realized that the wellsprings of modern art did not all flow from Picasso. Review | Duchamp was all about playful subversion. That’s what makes his presence in Washington so fitting. 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

His seemingly clumsy and naïve efforts were ridiculed by the critics, but they caught the eye of a fellow artist, Paul Signac, who invited him to exhibit at the Salon des Indépendants in 1886. Rousseau’s Wide Circle of Devotees 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

Shown in competition on the last day of the festival, it left prizeless — this year’s jury was deeply at odds with critics — but is already one of its most talked-about films. ‘Elle,’ Starring Isabelle Huppert as a Rape Victim Who Turns the Tables, Rivets Critics 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Stewart Lee could easily come across as smug or judgmental – and by his own admission, plenty of critics have interpreted his act that way. How I Escaped My Certain Fate: The Life and Deaths of a Stand-Up Comedian 2010-07-31T23:14:00Z

And those turned out to be films that certain critics and scholars found worth taking seriously as well. The rise and fall (and rise?) of teen horror films 2010-05-03T15:01:00Z

Organized by the critic Raphael Rubinstein, “Reinventing Abstraction: New York Painting in the 1980s” fruitfully if inconclusively reconsiders painters who did not fit into then fashionable categories. Art In Review: ‘Reinventing Abstraction: New York Painting in the 1980s’ 2013-07-11T21:08:09Z

That intelligence, and intensity, repeatedly comes up in reviews, and not a few critics have observed over the years that Jackson, who died on Thursday at 87, often seemed smarter than her material. Highlights From More Than 50 Years of Glenda Jackson Reviews 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

Sometimes you hated him as you do every critic. Death of film critic Ebert elicits wide reaction 2013-04-05T10:31:04Z

Proponents argue they attract jobs and spending that outweigh their costs, while critics say the benefits are overstated and the incentives divert taxpayer money from other needs. Hollywood's big summer movies were all filmed elsewhere 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

You may have noticed by now that Chancellor does not do polite interview non-answers and her assessment of her career is tougher than any critic's. 'My life was chaotic' 2011-08-20T23:05:34Z

Overlaid was a map of five Southern cities, including Tuscumbia, Ala., the birthplace of Helen Keller, whose blindness, one critic wrote, protected her from color-line prejudice. Houston Conwill, Whose Sculptures Celebrated Black Culture, Dies at 69 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

He knows fans of the original “Exorcist” rolled their eyes when Fox announced the show, as did plenty of critics; had he not been making it, “I would have had the exact same reaction.” On rebooted ‘Exorcist,’ a new way to get rid of demons: Hugging it out 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Film critics and the audience decided Capote was wrong and hailed Hepburn's portrayal. 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' added to US film registry 2012-12-19T12:46:05Z

At the time, the private eye genre - typified by a wisecracking knight-errant with a pistol in his shoulder holster and a bad attitude toward authority - had fallen out of favor with both readers and critics. Parker's `Sixkill' has compelling story line 2011-05-04T11:24:12Z

The critics just hadn't been primed to try to look beyond it. The Heli director on why his film was too brutal – and honest – for Cannes 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Although "Get Hard," with four credited writers including Cohen, attempts to walk the tricky line between satirizing stereotypes and reinforcing them, many critics say the movie is only occasionally funny and often tone-deaf. 'Get Hard': Kevin Hart prison comedy has a hard time with critics 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

As the Times critic Dwight Garner put it, the first 100 pages alone are “among the more memorable in recent American literature.” New in Paperback: ‘Klara and the Sun’ and ‘The Committed’ 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

Low point The critics didn’t love Channel 4’s late-night current affairs comedy 10 O’Clock Live, which she co-presented for three series. Lauren Laverne: ‘More charisma than any woman presenter of her generation’ 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

Art critic Martin Gayford, whose portrait Freud painted, says the NPG show demonstrates that the artist's powers intensified rather than diminished with age. From Yoko Ono to Leonard Cohen ? the old masters finding new inspiration 2012-02-10T19:24:18Z

After a screening of “Bette and Joan” for critics at a theater in January, I tweeted that I couldn’t speak for everyone but that I personally came away from it feeling 19 percent gayer. Review | FX’s ‘Feud: Bette and Joan’: Another total knockdown, drag-out hit from Ryan Murphy 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

His bleak landscapes, slow editing pace and long spells without any dialogue meant his movies did not always please filmgoers or critics. Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos dies in accident 2012-01-25T16:05:08Z

The government has listened to its critics and responded to their concerns. Michael Gove's history wars 2013-07-13T07:00:05Z

Most critics despised the book when it came out. Robert Frank Revealed the Truth of Postwar America 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

These days, I find, literary novelists are much more interested in plot and much less interested in plausibility, or in realism, than literary critics are. Literary Revolution in the Supermarket Aisle: Genre Fiction Is Disruptive Technology 2012-05-23T10:45:11Z

“Fast Five,” meanwhile, delighted a majority of critics and generated positive chatter on Twitter and Facebook; “Fast & Furious 6” kept the quality going, receiving a 72 percent positive rating on RottenTomatoes. ‘Fast & Furious 6’ Opens as Huge Hit 2013-05-26T19:35:38Z

Then you'd have a play that critics and academics would probably admire. 'Being Harold Pinter' ★★★★ 2011-01-28T04:46:37Z

The two episodes sent to critics for review are a mere peek, but they give no sign of the show’s having lost a step in the past four years. Welcome to the Future. ‘Atlanta’ Has Been Waiting for You. 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

Both critics also wrote that they feared the architecture would undermine the purpose of an encyclopedic museum like Lacma by integrating different collections — from Mesopotamian antiquities to contemporary art — in uniform galleries. Lacma’s $650 Million Building by Peter Zumthor Is Approved 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

Her first, Conversations with Friends, was also well received by critics and gained her the title of Sunday Times Writer of the Year in 2017. BBC reveals stars of its adaptation of Normal People by Sally Rooney 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

While fundamentally homosexual, he nonetheless fell in love with women and married twice, the second time to Natasha Litvin, the illegitimate daughter of an actress and a music critic. The real Stephen Spender as seen by his son in ‘A House in St. John’s Wood’ 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

To borrow a term of art, it’s forcible entry: Hands up, “S.W.A.T.” — the TV critics are here! Perspective | ‘S.W.A.T.’ and other cop dramas are trying to tackle race. They could take a page from ‘This Is Us.’ 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

After faking his death Lionheart revenges himself on his critics, with murders inspired by Shakespeare. Let It Bleed: The Perverse Influence of ‘Titus Andronicus’ 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

Together, the films made her something of an “it” girl, a favorite of critics and reporters determined to identify the character of an elusive free spirit. Karen Black, Versatile Character Actress, Dies at 74 2013-08-09T00:10:51Z

But Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne says the redo misses the boat on what Johnson’s original building was intended to be. Essential Arts & Culture: An immigration musical, self portraits fusing black and white, getting gender-bendy 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

As our own critics have only reviewed a fraction of the albums out there, we've also made it possible for readers to create their own reviews to help other readers find new music. Introducing the Guardian's new music album pages 2011-08-02T16:21:21Z

He won numerous critical plaudits for that reprise, with some critics saying that he remained the best thing about “Dallas.” Larry Hagman, Who Played J.R. Ewing on ‘Dallas,’ Dies at 81 2012-11-24T06:49:07Z

Frequently underestimated by critics, the Gap Band served a long apprenticeship before achieving major chart success in the late 70s. Robert Wilson obituary 2010-08-18T17:02:00Z

She’s revered by literary critics and her peers for her spare, direct and confessional verses. ‘I Was Unprepared’: Louise Glück on Poetry, Aging and a Surprise Nobel Prize 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

Comedy Central requested that critics refrain from posting reviews of the finale until it airs. "Broad City": Breaking out, not breaking up 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

Another review of an Egyptian restaurant by the same food critic. In Queens, Star Treatment for Seafood 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z

Acclaimed by critics for its witty dialogue and strong characterisation, Frasier won a total of five Emmy awards for outstanding comedy series, a record figure that has only been matched since by Modern Family. Frasier: Kelsey Grammer's snobbish shrink poised for a return to TV 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. McCartney and Mr. Starr, along with most critics, hailed “Get Back” as an upbeat corrective to Mr. Lindsay-Hogg’s more somber take. Directing the Beatles Was Just One Part of His Long and Winding Career 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z

His high repute may be suggested by one critic who said that Bykov “represents the war through the dialectics of the human soul.” Movie Review: ‘In the Fog,’ a Wartime Tale in a Russian Forest 2013-06-13T23:30:45Z

In a world where everyone's a critic because otherwise they wouldn't quite exist, isn't it inevitable that we will someday soon begin to review each other? How novels came to terms with the internet 2011-01-15T00:06:06Z

Some critics reject using water derived from sewage outright. Is farming with reclaimed water the solution to a drier future? 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

Writing in The New York Times, the critic Roberta Smith described Mr. Bickerton’s pieces in that show as “the most bumptious, engaging and least didactic on view.” Ashley Bickerton, Whose Art Evoked Humor and Wonder, Dies at 63 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z

"Paul Goodman Changed My Life" pays tribute to a man — poet, teacher, social critic, guru without portfolio — whose name was once a household word and whose books were talismans of intellectual seriousness and social concern. 'Paul Goodman Changed My Life': Gadfly gets his due 2011-12-01T21:53:07Z

When “Vikaspuri” was published in India, many critics referred to it as a “dystopian” story. A Graphic Novelist Captures the Paradoxes of Living in the “New India” 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z

The musical may be the ultimate rebuke to Mr. Ellis’s early critics. Bret Easton Ellis Takes In ‘American Psycho’ the Musical 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

“Maurizio was so in demand and I liked it because I thought it was a way to be a committed critic, giving your words to an artist,” Mr. Gioni said. Massimiliano Gioni, of Venice Biennale 2013-05-23T12:00:01Z

Tips from Facebook friends routinely beat the ability of professional critics to drive an audience. Hail the Amateur, Loved by the Crowd 2011-06-10T14:21:36Z

Two critics reflect on changes set in motion by Ms. Waterbury’s lawsuit. Two Critics Reflect on Ballet’s #MeToo Moment 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

Even New York magazine critic David Edelstein, who found a lot to criticize in the film, said of Smith, "He's all but sewn up this year's editing Oscar." Oscar speculation underway for "Inception" 2010-07-19T05:19:00Z

“To remove this work art from view is not an interesting critique but a crass gesture that will end up on the wrong side of history,” the art critic Jonathan Jones wrote in The Guardian. Gallery Wanted to Provoke Debate by Removing Naked Nymphs Painting. It Succeeded. 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

For some critics it was a technical and aesthetic triumph, a productive marriage between broad-shouldered American capability and Dubai's vast ambition. No shortage of architectural head-scratchers 2010-12-20T17:57:04Z

In the HBO debut of her “visual album” Saturday night, Beyonce addressed a number of the concerns of her critics, and the Internet responded as the Internet responds, with careful and astute analysis: Y’all can stop tweeting about Beyonce’s #Lemonade now — Monica Lewinsky just won the Internet 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

I propose the introduction of a Philip French button in honour of the late, long-standing Observer film critic. Roma, Benny Hill style: why film-makers hate Netflix's fast-forward button 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

Fans may be pleased, but some music critics say issuing the recording feels like exploitation. A Selena Song Goes Out to Fans 20 Years After Her Death 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

“Its depiction of the situation of the family, of the moment, is so beautifully done,” says Wall Street Journal classical critic Heidi Waleson in a phone interview. ‘Blue’ is the opera on police violence that America needs to see, but can’t 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

Also, in America there was less attention to bias and critics and reviews. Phil Collins: 'I realise in hindsight how annoying I was' 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

New York Times critic Charles Isherwood called Falls' Lear "aggressively raunchy" and "excruciatingly violent" but observed that it succeeded in its aim "to reawaken our revulsion at the violence in this relentlessly dark tragedy." Robert Falls, Midwesterner at heart, warms to L.A. for 'Luna Gale' 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

Billboard 200 album chart with “Man of the Woods,” despite harsh reviews and a Super Bowl halftime show that was deemed underwhelming on social media and by music critics. Poor reviews aside, Justin Timberlake's 'Man of the Woods' is No.1 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

In this academic satire, whose wryly funny first two episodes were screened for critics, the main person his character is trying to deceive is himself. ‘Lucky Hank’ Review: Better Call Solecism 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells described the restaurant list in question as “a nice one” and “a prelude to a conversation.” Perspective | When restaurant wine lists intimidate even the dining pros, something needs to change 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

Even “Bunheads,” which delighted critics and obsessed fans, was canceled by ABC Family after a single season. Did You Hear the One About the Housewife Who Walks Into a Comedy Club? 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

Almost everyone who cares about culture has had that kind of encounter with critics. The Fate of the Critic in the Clickbait Age 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

As many of Blanc’s critics have pointed out, this doesn’t qualify as dating advice, it’s assault. Is This The Most Hated Man in the World? 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

The self-described "Painter of Light" produced sentimental scenes of country gardens and pastoral landscapes beloved by many but derided by some critics. Autopsy set for painter Thomas Kinkade 2012-04-09T18:44:11Z

Violence, spectacle, intimidation and terror were not just aimed at bludgeoning opponents, silencing critics and empowering activists. How Hitler Transformed a Democracy Into a Tyranny 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

An annual note on methodology: The critics limit themselves in making these lists, each selecting only from those books they reviewed for The Times since last year at this time. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

All three books, but particularly In the Forest, were well-received in Britain and the US, but turned her critics in Ireland apoplectic. Doyenne of Irish fiction 2011-02-06T00:05:42Z

The National are that rare type of band, regarded with reverence by audiences and critics alike. The National: 'Our songs are about death – but in really fun ways' 2013-05-10T06:00:10Z

The critics have been bowled over by the variety and excellence of the nominees this year, from old favourites on top form, such as Mike Leigh, to stupendous debuts such as Clio Barnard's The Arbor. Another Year and The King's Speech vie for London Critics' Circle awards 2010-12-21T12:41:01Z

A friendly argument with the French critic Waldemar George at the gallery one day lasted all afternoon. Albert Barnes and his pursuit of non-French art in Paris 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

The House and Senate appropriations bills provide no construction funds, notes Justin Shubow, president of the National Civic Art Society and a relentless critic. Bob Dole leads the fight for Ike 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

Based on a short story by Sudanese novelist Hammour Ziyada, critics say it demonstrates that the country’s cultural scene is reawakening after decades of oppression. A Sudan in transition presents first-ever film for Oscars 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z

And Times theater critic Charles McNulty, who has been following the show’s evolution since it first debuted in New York, says the L.A. version would do the Founding Fathers proud. Essential Arts & Culture: 'Hamilton' opens, the debate over Confederate monuments, Mozart reimagined 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

The event, perhaps not surprisingly, has had its critics. Wearing Paint Instead of Clothes on the Streets of New York 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z

An architectural critic called their two monumental houses “the thingiest edifices in New York.” An Immigrant Named Trump 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z

"She touched millions of women, and I'm sure they share my loss," Zoglin, a theater critic for Time, said in a statement. Author-commentator Charla Krupp dies in NYC at 58 2012-01-23T23:16:09Z

Readers agree with us ... for a change This is the life of an arts critic. Readers agree with us ... for a change 2011-10-20T02:01:04Z

Yet many of the band's critics were persistent. Guns N' Roses bottled off stage in Dublin 2010-09-03T10:55:00Z

Shot over 12 years, the movie was a smash emerging from last year's Sundance Film Festival and won many critics prizes at the end of 2014, but recently lost momentum. At the Oscars, it's the night of the 'Birdman' 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

As a critic, I’m less inclined to dip into other festivals when I see programs that have already taken place elsewhere or that will make their way to New York. The Classical Music Event of the Summer Is in Salzburg’s Shadow 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z

Fans call her courageous; critics call her shameless; TV bookers just call her. She works for Trump. He can’t stand him. This is life with Kellyanne and George Conway. 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

His appearances on awards shows are greeted by both eager fans, horrified critics and one of the most revolting Twitter trends of all time. Chris Brown's Fortune: A Mix of Beats and Ballads, But No Regrets 2012-07-03T14:45:47Z

This Week’s Movies: June 29 In today's edition of This Week's Movies, our critics look at three Hollywood movies that are neither sequels nor based on a comic book. ArtsBeat: This Week's Movies: June 29 2012-06-29T16:30:04Z

It seems to me that those critics are often nostalgic. Styles Q&A: Eric Klinenberg on the Trend of Living Alone 2012-02-11T01:12:42Z

His presence in documentaries and on video commentaries about movies, his own and those of others, can seem as ubiquitous as that of film critic and historian Richard Schickel. 'Conversations with Scorsese' well worth a listen 2011-03-09T12:39:10Z

Mr. Adrià likes to cook with liquid nitrogen, which — as one critic has pointed out — is the stuff dermatologists use to burn off warts.Mr. Books of The Times: A Chef as Visionary, Poet and Chemist 2010-10-05T17:16:00Z

His early work is pretty universally considered brilliant by critics and by the fans who’ve heard it. Get ready to revisit “The River”: Springsteen’s forgotten “Party Lights” alone shows the depths of his power 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

Mr. Vishnevetsky, 24, is a contributor to The Chicago Reader and a critic and essayist for MUBI.com, a new Web site that operates as a kind of screening room and social networking forum for movie lovers. ArtsBeat: New Critic Named for New Ebert Movie Program 2011-01-04T17:50:27Z

Carlyle raked in millions in fees, in what critics referred to as “the Great Eskimo Tax Scam.” What’s this Washington insider and billionaire’s wife doing in Alaska? 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

The album’s deluxe packaging, with its handsome photographs, illustrations and text, amplifies its brilliant musical ambitions and serves as a statement of principle for Ms. Schneider, a vocal critic of music streaming services. Review: Maria Schneider Orchestra’s ‘The Thompson Fields,’ Connections to the Natural World 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

Times art critic Christopher Knight says it’s “an exciting rush of work by scores of artists almost entirely unknown outside their home countries.” Essential Arts & Culture: A censored mural returns, PST: LA/LA is humming, learning from Las Vegas 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

Sony sneaked this parody into theaters on Christmas without screenings for critics, normally evidence that the film in question is less than the work of a mastermind. ‘Holmes & Watson’ Review: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly and the Dull Routine of Bromance 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z

"The movie is filled with good intentions and good feelings, but they seem to conceal another side of Uncle Buck," wrote critic Roger Ebert at the time. How "The Bear" paid homage to John Hughes and the dark heart of the Chicago suburbs 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z

Literary critic Harold Bloom proposed that the famously combative author was in fact just mythologizing himself. Matthew Barney's 'River of Fundament'? Well, it's certainly big 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z

Tate Britain hopes there will be fewer critics when the rehang is opened to the public next May. Tate Britain promises new chronological display of art treasures 2012-05-17T18:00:33Z

Seth Colter Walls is a contributing music critic for The Times and the author of the novel “Gaza, Wyoming.” The Bohemian Life of the French Composer Erik Satie Imagined as a Novel 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

At various times critics deemed his work predictable, preachy or sentimental. Arthur Laurents, Playwright and Director on Broadway, Dies at 93 2011-05-06T04:27:34Z

Their not thoroughly engaging with Black Lives Matter frustrated some in the moment, including The New York Times’s critic, Jesse Green. Richard Nelson’s New Play Closes a Chapter of Theater History 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

In 1959, the literary critic George Steiner published a book called “Tolstoy or Dostoevsky.” Knausgaard or Ferrante? 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

Engdahl, of course, appears to exempt himself from such criteria; an editor and critic, he teaches at Denmark’s University of Aarhus, in addition to his duties at the Swedish Academy. Nobel Prize: Judge critiques 'professionalization' of writers 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

But Lisiecki’s technique was mature even then, and he won respect from critics and fellow musicians for his clarity and precision. Jan Lisiecki, Piano’s Doogie Howser, Comes of Age With Chopin 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z

The group mixed the sounds of sludgy Southern rap with dizzy shoegaze, deconsecrated church music and recordings of terrible accidents, all with a reckless abandon that made some critics wonder whether they were being punked. A Decade Later, Salem Returns to an Even Darker World 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z

Even though these films don't have much of a reputation and failed at the box office, and don't have much of a cult, and critics weren't very kind to them, they're worth giving another shot. Q&A: Writer Nathan Rabin on Years Watching Hollywood Flops 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z

A literary critic and gifted essayist, Moustafa brings his formidable skills as a reader of texts to his analysis of contemporary political culture. “All Muslim life in America is seen through the lens of terrorism” 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

And our sense that he’s surrendered his integrity for personal gain is, as the critic Daniel Mendelsohn wrote in 2009, contingent on particular assumptions — debatable, at least — about the morality of the bomb. Review: ‘Doctor Atomic’ Brings the Bomb Home to New Mexico 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z

Plenty of his aphorisms were quoted throughout the service: “It’s perfectly O.K. to repeat a phrase, just don’t say the same thing,” Larry Blumenfeld, a jazz critic, remembered Mr. Coleman saying. Remembering What Made Ornette Coleman a Jazz Visionary 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z

Writing a few years after the film’s release, the cultural critic Susan Sontag likened its impact on cinema to the effect the Cubists had on traditional painting. Jean-Luc Godard, Daring Director Who Shaped the French New Wave, Dies at 91 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z

“Once an Argentine critic called him ‘our Henry Fonda’ because he projects great integrity,” Campanella said. Ricardo Darín: Argentina’s Lucky Charm at the Oscars 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction: Correction: November 25, 2012 An earlier version of this review misattributed it to the wrong music critic. Music Review: Frank Peter Zimmermann and Philharmonic Play Shostakovich 2012-11-25T23:04:20Z

"Handsome but empty," wrote one critic, and pervading the faint praise was the suggestion that the British critics had over-egged the pudding. Chroma/Tryst/Symphony in C; RainForest/The Art of Touch/A Linha Curva 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

Jazz critic Will Friedwald marveled as Mr. Asmussen’s rendering of a baroque chamber work by Telemann, calling the performance “completely straight and breathtakingly moving.” Svend Asmussen, irreverent jazz violin virtuoso, dies at 100 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

This was manifestly not true in the case of Marshall McLuhan, the Canadian cultural critic, who was born 100 years ago last Thursday, and was famous not only in his own country, but also abroad. Thanks, Marshall, I?think we've finally got the message... 2011-07-23T23:06:16Z

Don't expect to find any shocking Benghazi revelations, she tells critics. 'Saturday Night Live' tackles Hillary Clinton's e-mail scandal 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

To his admirers and even his scalding critics, Fleming was unfailingly charming and assured. Review: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters in ‘The Man With the Golden Typewriter’ 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

Then she collected herself and reread her book several times, examining the plot and characters to see if the critics were right. She Pulled Her Debut Book When Critics Found It Racist. Now She Plans to Publish. 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

“Ruth is a harsh opera critic,” he said at the time. ‘Tristan’ to Open Met Season in 2016 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

When Pixar releases a film about a cranky old man mourning his wife, or a rat that aspires to cook haute cuisine, or a post-apocalyptic robot trash collector, critics are primed to expect something different. Frozen-mania: how Elsa, Anna and Olaf conquered the world 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

If they’re both conscientious and lucky, critics also find ways of overcoming their prejudices. What to Stream This Weekend: “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice,” Through the Eyes of Pauline Kael 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z

Beauty and the Beast, the Walt Disney Studio’s 30th cartoon feature, cast a quick, sure spell over audiences, critics and the Motion Picture Academy. Beauty and the Beast in 3-D: Still an Enchantment 2012-01-12T17:33:27Z

A mere week after his death, the critic Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote an Op-Ed piece in The New York Times titled “Scenes From an Overrated Career.” Viewing Ingmar Bergman Through a Glass Less Darkly 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

In any case it didn’t distract American critics, who found “Le Trou,” which opened in New York as “The Night Watch,” pleasingly and sufficiently American. ‘Le Trou,’ a Very French Prison Drama, Steals From Its Maker’s Life 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

The bar's interior also reportedly features an orange motif, which critics claim is inspired by Agent Orange, a chemical weapon used in the war. Vietnam War-themed bar in Australia apologizes following backlash over 'horrific' decor 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z

As a result, parents, teachers, politicians, and other critics can voice concerns over what some consider a free-for-all of perspectives allowed in the classroom. Teachers reimagine US history lessons with eye on diversity 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z

"These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship," he said. Rolling Stone releases Lennon's final interview 2010-12-08T11:46:00Z

The independent film was received well by critics at festivals, ranking 87 percent positive on review site RottenTomatoes.com. His role in "The Watch" puzzles British star Richard Ayoade 2012-07-27T20:01:46Z

A critic for The Globe and Mail called it a gripping, superbly made example of “landmark Canadian TV.” What’s on TV Friday: ‘Cardinal,’ ‘The Ranch’ and ‘The Great British Baking Show’ 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

So “Mozart in the Jungle,” which some musicians and critics initially rolled their eyes at, has taken on an importance to classical music that grew after the show won two Golden Globes this year. Not Even Plácido Domingo Can Say No to ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

“To be honest, I wanted to end it after season two,” he said during a Q&A with TV critics. ‘Atlanta’ to end with season 4; Donald Glover has no regrets 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

There are occasions when various interested parties — filmmakers, publicists and perhaps especially critics — would like you to think so. Review: In Nate Parker’s ‘The Birth of a Nation,’ Must-See and Won’t-See Collide 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

“This will be the hardest part of the afternoon,” joked Freedman, a restaurant critic, wine educator and editor of Drink Me Magazine. The Grapes of Wrath 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

Noth is unequivocal: the blame lays solely at the feet of the critics. Wanted: whoever killed Sex and the City. So we can shake your hand 2010-09-28T10:39:00Z

Instead, the Troubles exhibit, say its critics, is small, muted and evasive. Belfast's Ulster Museum and the trouble with the Troubles 2010-05-19T15:35:00Z

After their debut was received rapturously by the blogosphere and many critics, the xx - whose members are all 21 or younger - are overdosing on summer festivals. After debut sensation, the xx adapt to spotlight 2010-06-12T04:07:00Z

While Hollywood is known for backing liberal causes, and many celebrities are fierce critics of Trump, organizers said the telethon is not supporting any party. 'Cool to vote': Hollywood election telethon aims to get young to polls 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

Even though I specialise in contemporary fiction, I was intrigued enough by ancient novels, and angry enough at contemporary critics, to attempt a complete history of the novel, with special attention to the innovative ones. The novel is centuries older than we've been told 2010-07-23T13:56:00Z

The role of the critic, Scott says, is to resist the manufactured consensus—to interrogate the successful, to exalt the unknown, to argue for ambiguity and complexity. The Fate of the Critic in the Clickbait Age 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. Zinsser wrote 19 books, taught at Yale and elsewhere, was drama editor and movie critic for The New York Herald Tribune and executive editor of the Book-of-the-Month Club. William Zinsser, Author of ‘On Writing Well,’ Dies at 92 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

Each season arrived with a list of no-nos for critics, such as the number of floors in the advertising office where it was set. Review: ‘The Romanoffs’ Is Elegant but Frustrating 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

As a member of the NYFCC, the nation’s oldest and most aggressively self-aggrandizing critics group, I’m sworn not to reveal any details about our deliberations or our voting process. New York critics pile the love on “Carol” — but wait, “Mad Max” is now an Oscar contender, too 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

In a recent round table in The New York Times, he was several critics’ dream choice to replace the outgoing music director Alan Gilbert. Review: New York Philharmonic Performs Esa-Pekka Salonen’s ‘Nyx’ 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

Jeffrey Goldberg, an influential American commentator and frequent critic of Israel, also accused Beinart of playing down Israel's legitimate security concerns. AP Interview: Author rattles US Jewish leaders 2012-06-21T19:44:11Z

As a TV critic, I am the last person to judge someone for spending too much quality time with their DVR. Trump Isn’t Watching Too Much TV. He’s Watching the Wrong Kind. 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

Reviewing the memoir for the Chicago Tribune, writer and critic Penelope Mesic said the book was “as intimate and stylistically informal as a chance phone call from an old friend.” Carolyn See, memoirist, novelist and book reviewer for The Post, dies at 82 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

Audiences and critics at this year’s Cannes Film Festival were outraged. Nicolas Winding Refn Dissects His Bloody Confection 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

In the past, critics also disapproved of Jewish names being used for villainous characters. Belgians keen to share Hollywood's Tintin with world 2011-12-05T14:55:52Z

George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright and critic, argued that the Tarnhelm, a magic helmet central to the drama, is really the top hat of the capitalist class. Getting into Valhalla 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

“The show is brought to life by a strong ensemble cast that features many different shades of masculinity,” writes Times theater critic Charles McNulty. Essential Arts & Culture: L.A. culture after the riots, a stirring Beethoven concert, controversial Carl Andre 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z

You could hardly have missed — and many critics were enthralled by — the way this new light seemed to reveal the work’s bones like an X-ray delivering bad news. Review: ‘The Most Happy Fella,’ Sliced, Diced and None Too Pleased 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z

Film review website RottenTomatoes.com gave the movie an average rating of 6.4/10 based on 26 film critic reviews. Forget the politics, Sony executives say North Korea comedy 'desperately unfunny' 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

As a young critic, he chronicled the rise of new wave, as well as no wave, its grittier arch rival. Yo La Tengo: Indie rock’s standard-bearer is still changing the formula, 30 years in 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

Dudamel seemed simply too good to be true, especially to dubious East Coast critics. After five years of Gustavo Dudamel, what's next? 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

Along with the film critic Amy Taubin and other special guests, these musicians are gathering tonight to pay homage to the pioneering filmmaker through song and spoken word. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

Mullally plays the part of a wealthy producer whose townhouse serves as the setting for the comedy, while Abraham is a cranky New York critic. Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick open in 'It's Only a Play' on Broadway 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

They knew they would need to bring the movie back into year-end voters’ minds, from critics and the industry guilds to Academy members. Look Out: “Black Panther” could roar all the way to the Oscar for Best Picture 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

Many of our greatest critics believe a negative review should be as painful to write as it will be to read. New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells reviewed my book; now I know why so many chefs hate him 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

I think there’s probably a sense of jeopardy, were he ever to become a critic, because they have so much on him, but I think he is very much a true believer. Alex Gibney interview: journey into the seductive world of Scientology 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

Instead, he addresses critics via a filmed address before the start of the movie. 2010-02-15T11:49:00Z

In Park City they know if they got into Sundance they will have a chance to connect with critics and audiences, and it will be the same in London. Sundance London 2013: Eagles and Peaches flying high as lineup announced 2013-03-11T12:32:02Z

I admit to delight when I read professional critics trashing the film, which is based on J.D. The chattering classes got the "Hillbilly Elegy" book wrong—and they’re getting the movie wrong, too 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z

The film hardly dented the box office or moved the critics, but anyone who’s lived in California gets the larger point. Kelly Osbourne’s Donald Trump fail: Fighting his racism with her own harmful stereotypes 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

Music critics and opera managers all recognize her artistic abilities and stage presence. Ekaterina Bakanova, an Opera Sensation Also Touched by Luck 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

Helen Shaw is a theater critic for 4Columns and Time Out New York. The Latest in Jazz, the Genius of Jerome Robbins, and Bernhardt vs. Duse 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

But most critics found the book readable, persuasive and sobering. William H. Grier, Psychiatrist Who Delved Into ‘Black Rage’ in 1960s, Dies at 89 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

The network announced Monday at an annual summer event for TV critics that characters from "New Girl" and "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" will crossover in back-to-back episodes airing Oct. Fox's 'New Girl' and 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' mashup planned 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

His next movie role, in 1945, was as the supporting villain Finley in The Southerner, co-written by William Faulkner and directed by Jean Renoir, the French auteur revered by critics and filmmakers alike. Norman Lloyd: Hitchcock's Saboteur Is a World-Class Raconteur 2012-05-26T23:41:42Z

After Thursday's opening night, The Stage's critic Mark Shenton said the West End was not there to "nurture the egos of minor Hollywood actors". Lindsay Lohan makes stage debut 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

Yet, in contrast to Tagore, there's no fundamental debate about him, because we take the French and modernist canons on trust, and the Anglophone critics who made up their mind about him were multilingual. Rereading Rabindranath Tagore 2011-07-08T21:55:11Z

The Drama Desk organization, which is made up of theater writers and critics, has a full list of the winners at www.dramadeskawards.com. ArtsBeat: 'Book of Mormon,' 'Anything Goes' Lead Drama Desk Winners 2011-05-24T12:57:42Z

Let us hope he doesn’t abandon his investigative pursuits to become a critic just yet. The “Unmasking” of Elena Ferrante 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

Part of what both critics are speaking to is who tells whose stories. James Gray on ‘Armageddon Time,’ Antisemitism and Racism in 1980s Queens 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

One critic has called his work “pop expressionism”. A hotline to Satan: why is the ex-CEO of Vodafone making a film version of Faust? 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

This is his inner critic, which provides a running commentary on his show. Can Netflix, the King of Stand-Up Specials, Be Dethroned? 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

When New York magazine, originally a Sunday section of The Tribune, became a freestanding publication in 1968, Mr. Rich was its first music critic, a post he held until 1981. Alan Rich, Los Angeles Music Critic, Dies at 85 2010-04-27T03:42:00Z

Several New York critics observed that the relevance of Gregory’s material today — after all his efforts to fight bigotry — is disheartening. 'Scandal' actor Joe Morton on Charlottesville, bigotry and reviving the activism of Dick Gregory 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

Critics praised its portrayal of the Stones in the 1960s and 70s, when many music critics argue they were at the peak of their powers untainted by commercialism. Rolling Stones rehearsing 70 songs for upcoming gigs 2012-10-18T21:15:40Z

Many actors only get the parts of the script for their specific scenes and critics do not get to see the film in advance. 'Rise of Skywalker' actor John Boyega: 'I left the script under my bed' 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

Mr. Haggis, who acknowledged on the stand that there was no evidence linking Ms. Breest to Scientology, was a prominent member of the church before becoming an outspoken critic. Jury Says Paul Haggis Raped Woman After Film Premiere 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

When Scorsese’s remarks first broke, a month ago, many film critics weighed in, notably on Twitter, to endorse his distinction between Marvel movies and cinema. Martin Scorsese Avenges the Auteur 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

Over her 50-year tenure, she built a beloved cultural institution that has introduced the work of now-prominent filmmakers to American audiences, earning the affection of critics and patrons alike. Longtime Film Forum Director to Step Down After 50 Years 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z

The cranky New York Observer critic was one of several reviewers who panned Franco's staging of the new off-Broadway play "The Long Shrift" with the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in New York.  James Franco gets bad reviews for theater directing debut 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

Now that we’re all strident critics trading the day’s outrages across Twitter and the dining room table, how are we to avoid being sickened by our own bitter indignation? Perspective | Ghosthunters, grabbers and grifters: What would Jonathan Swift say of our times? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

Supporters hope the winner will impress critics with an innovative museum design for the site, on prime waterfront property on the South Harbor facing the heart of Helsinki and its neo-Classical buildings. Helsinki Divided on Plan for a Guggenheim Satellite 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

Yes, I know what you’re thinking: A book critic shouldn’t fall for that. Desperately Seeking Hope and Help for Your Nerves? Try Reading ‘Hope and Help for Your Nerves’ 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

A series of "Avatar" games, including mobile editions and a console game developed by Ubisoft Entertainment, were released alongside the first "Avatar" movie and received a mixed reaction from critics and fans. 'Avatar' mobile game landing ahead of film sequels 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

As a critic, I’m of two minds about “Bad Moms.” “Bad Moms” need good movies: This sleeper hit teaches Hollywood a lesson in what women want 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

“Nothing wrong with that! If they don’t like it they are welcome to QUIT! Just saying,” one critic quipped. Norwegian Air says flight attendants must have doctor's note to avoid wearing heels: report 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

“Like a master craftsman, Mr. Galanos is constantly seeking new ways to achieve different effects, to extend the range of dressmaking techniques,” Bernardine Morris, The New York Times fashion critic, observed in 1993. James Galanos, Fashion Designer for the Elite, Dies at 92 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

We live in what the critic Simon Reynolds calls “retromania”; soft rock keeps experiencing little revivals, and its harmonies inspire bands like Grizzly Bear and Fleet Foxes. Books of The Times: Why 1970 Deserves Its 15 Minutes of Fame 2011-06-23T21:59:42Z

Very few of a restaurant critic’s working meals have a sense of occasion, but this one did, and Francie fit the moment like a pair of Lululemon ABC pants. A Welcome Return to Fancy (but Not Fussy) Dining, at Francie 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z

Any Wagner collector grows immune to oversize praise from critics as past recordings are unearthed by enterprising labels and spit-shined with the latest technology, but here was a “Ring” that warranted extravagance. Critics Name Their Favorite Wagner Recordings 2013-08-22T20:50:13Z

On Twitter, critics cited a slave auction that plays a central role in the book’s plot as evidence that “Blood Heir” borrows the tropes of chattel slavery without fully engaging with them. In Y.A., Where Is the Line Between Criticism and Cancel Culture? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

He said that a local art critic decided something needed to be done to make the suite shine. Exhibit reunites art JFK saw before assassination 2012-09-19T21:27:15Z

That type of precision proves absorbing, and the suspenseful series has gotten rave reviews from critics — and, possibly more important — accolades on social media. HBO’s ‘The Night Of’ is getting early rave reviews. Can that translate into a hit? 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy,” you might want to pick up the book our critic deemed its French counterpart: “The End of Eddy,” an autobiographical novel about growing up alienated and economically immobile in rural France. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

In Jameson’s case, these words are meant to admonish critics who belittle the “Star Wars” effect on American cinema. Review | You think ‘Star Wars’ is childish? You don’t know the power of the dark side! 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

“Better Living Through Criticism” is as much about self-doubt and ambivalence as it is about a critic’s certainty, but it manages to be thrilling and grimly funny at times as well. Critics are human, too: “But I don’t think you’re doing the artist or the audience or the art form itself any favor if you pat things on the head” 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z

My own 8-year-old critic in training stared rapt throughout the 2 hours 10 minutes, then confidently declared that the live show was “even better than the movie.” | 'Cathy Rigby Is Peter Pan': ?Cathy Rigby Is Peter Pan? at Theater at Madison Square Garden - Review 2011-12-15T22:48:20Z

The author and critic Liesl Schillinger, a regular contributor to The New York Times Book Review, recalled being moved by “In Flanders Fields” when she was 9. ArtsBeat: A Great War Reading List at PEN World Voices Festival 2014-05-02T18:57:31Z

These are my current favorites; other New York Times critics will be posting their own every week. Five Artists to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

“Portman brought a new level of drama to hotel architecture,” writes Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne. Essential Arts & Culture: Inside the Bonaventure, along the border and a Pacific Standard Time proposal 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

It's such a relief when a splash of green shows up after 66 minutes that this critic made a point of marking the time in his notes. "Monster Hunter" review: Jovovich and Jaa team up for a virtually unwatchable video game movie 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z

While not without its critics, this novel won the PEN/Faulkner Award. Philip Roth and race: A legendary novelist's troubling pattern 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z

Other critics found the movie pretentious and confused. Presto! Pulp and Poetry: ‘Chandu the Magician’ and ‘Stranger on the Third Floor’ 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

"A creative bar is set by each year as filmmakers see the films that are successful commercially and with critics, and filmmakers are aware they have to be a little bit better." Sundance unveils key films for 2012 festival 2011-11-30T22:37:16Z

The Iraq war made him a loud critic of Tony Blair. Iain Banks dies aged 59 2013-06-09T17:22:02Z

Martin Gottfried, a drama critic and the author of several biographies of entertainers and playwrights as well as two influential studies of the Broadway musical, died on Thursday in Manhattan. Martin Gottfried, Theater Critic and Author, Dies at 80 2014-03-08T02:15:02Z

Some critics are concerned about the privacy implications of biometric technology. Perspective | What does the future of airport screening hold? 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

Authenticity has been rightly picked apart by critics, who argue that it’s easily manufactured and so vaguely defined as to be meaningless. The Most Adventurous Comedy Right Now Is Also the Most Real 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

In The Times' review of the show, critic William Wilson praised his work as “art that can hold its own and assert its distinction against any other art made at any time, any place, anywhere.” Ed Moses, 'Cool School' painter who helped forge L.A.'s art scene, dies at 91 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

But often the critics were wrong in their judgments. The quiet tragedy of Ernest Hemingway 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

"Behind his furrowed brow and tendency to complain roil new and exciting storms, which may tilt the tale away from love and longing and back to adventure," echoed Los Angeles Times critic Mary McNamara. Thumbs up for Capaldi's Doctor 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

The critic was unimpressed for the most part with the event, calling it a "megatenor show" and describing the three stars as "contenders for the universal Golden-Larynx award." A look back at the Three Tenors concert at Dodger Stadium 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

But throughout her career Goldin has dismissed “heroin chic,” the term critics have deployed in describing her work. Nan Goldin Survived an Overdose to Fight the Opioid Epidemic 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

Last year, a New York Times critic called actress Viola Davis, who’s in “Dark Girls,” “not classically beautiful.” Q&A: 'Dark Girls' to 'Light Girls,' Bill Duke talks colorism in new film 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Splash News/Corbis Hang around the Venice Lido in September, and you could form the erroneous impression that film critics are mellow souls who inhabit a haze of balmy contentment. Venice film festival – plenty of punch to disturb the peace 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z

A critic in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper called it “the rebirth of the Frankfurt Opera out of the spirit of comedy.” American Directors Bring Fresh Visions to Europe’s Opera Stages 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

Those would be the same brothers whose dark comedies and twisted genre spoofs turned them into a fetish object for a generation of critics. Film: The Coen Brothers, Shooting Straight 2010-12-10T19:26:00Z

In this week’s video, Times critics share their thoughts on “Men, Women & Children,” “The Blue Room” and “Keep On Keepin’ On.” Video Reviews of 'Men, Women & Children,' 'The Blue Room' and 'Keep On Keepin' On' 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

Which raises another sticking point for critics of the category. Music: Dear Grammy, Is It Hawaiian Enough? 2011-02-06T02:08:04Z

A few critics are letting "Let's Be Cops" off with a slap on the wrist. 'Let's Be Cops' should hand over its badge and gun, reviews say 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

Here the pop and jazz critics of The New York Times recall some of their favorite live events of 2012, in order of importance. The Best Concerts of 2012, as Seen by Times Critics 2012-12-26T23:38:02Z

In this week’s video, Times critics share their thoughts on “Black Sea,” “Cake” and “Mommy.” Video Reviews of 'Black Sea,' 'Cake' and 'Mommy' 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

That Mr. Braithwaite, a well-educated middle-class man from the colonies, was trying in the capital of the British Empire to look past the squalor and despair of the school, was not lost on critics. E. R. Braithwaite, Author of ‘To Sir, With Love,’ Dies at 104 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

There are only a handful of grand-master literary critics in action at any one time in the English-speaking world. John Sutherland's top 10 books about books 2010-12-30T10:36:30Z

It was characteristic of the disarming and endearing humility of a man lauded by other musicians and critics but who left little footprint of his own on the masses. Jesse Winchester, a songwriter’s songwriter 2014-04-15T17:43:59Z

The comment of one critic well summarized King’s plight: “Whites have ceased to believe in him, or really to care; the blacks hardly listen.” The “macroethics” of Martin Luther King Jr.: When he spoke out against the Vietnam War even his supporters deserted him — here’s how he endured 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

We hear about harassment by a high-school bully and a newspaper critic, the two conflated into one. Review: Dancing Their Friends and Heroes (and My Little Pony) 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

I was a critic, and I wish I could take it all back, because it came from a smelly and ignorant place in me and spoke with a voice that was all rage and envy. Riff: A Critic’s Case for Critics Who Are Actually Critical 2012-08-15T15:40:06Z

A cellist and scholar of Russian classical music, Professor Ewell, 54, describes himself as an activist for racial, gender and social justice and a critic of whiteness in music theory. Obscure Musicology Journal Sparks Battles Over Race and Free Speech 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z

This parable of resistance to a rising plague of authoritarianism was savaged by the French critics, who couldn’t help invidiously comparing the work to the author’s novel “The Plague.” Tyranny and resistance: Albert Camus' 1948 drama 'L’État de siège' carries new relevance 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

With six Academy Award nominations, including best picture, the film generated buzz among critics and audiences. 'American Sniper' passes 'Mockingjay -- Part 1' as top film of 2014 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z

Lal is a writer, editor and critic in the Washington area. Book review: ‘The Lives of Others,’ by Neel Mukherjee

Ai Weiwiei The artist Ai Weiwei is one of China’s most prominent artists and one of the most outspoken critics of the Chinese Communist Party. ArtsBeat: Museums Press for the Release of Ai Weiwei 2011-04-08T16:25:41Z

As a critic, you’re a generalist, sampling widely and drawing connections across a broad medium. What I Learned Watching 16 Years of Television for TIME 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

The movie was also recently chosen a Best Film by an association of Turkish film critics. Turkish film highlights gay honor killing 2012-01-24T12:16:04Z