Many of the national reviewers who wrote their opinions of Warriors Don’t Cry mentioned this paragraph as being significant, beautifully written, and haunting. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

One reviewer there fretted, without any evident sense of irony, that Holmes presented his arguments so clearly and compellingly that students might actually come to believe them. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I’m laughing at the movie reviewer’s imitation of an actor’s wooden personality when Rambo’s head turns, making me look at the stairs. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“The conclusions announced by Mr. Darwin are such as, if established, would cause a complete revolution in the fundamental doctrines of natural history,” one reviewer wrote. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Darwin was fortunate that the regular reviewer for the London Times passed off the book to Huxley to review, which meant The Origin got a rave review in that most important of papers. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The public may be forgiven for saying, ‘Here we go again,’ ” wrote one reviewer. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Many academic articles contain bewildering non sequiturs and digressions that the authors stuck in at the insistence of an anonymous reviewer who had the power to reject it from the journal if they didn’t comply. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“If a monkey has become a man—what may not a man become?” the reviewer asked. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when Marian performed before predominantly white audiences in the big cities of the Northeast and Midwest, reviewers who praised her voice often commented that she did not handle foreign languages well. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

When Charles started getting reactions to his book from reviewers as well as from people he knew, he relaxed. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some reviewers had called it a “good” book, and one had even used the word “riveting.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, almost everyone liked the Journal of Researches and many loved it—his expert friends and reviewers in journals and papers. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In early 2001, a reviewer of one of these books in the journal Nature made the additional, rather astounding error of thinking Patterson was a woman. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Your reviewers needn’t even be a representative sample of your intended audience. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The Times reviewer, Howard Taubman, condescended approvingly to the show, calling it “a wild, indiscriminate explosion of exuberant, impertinent youthful talents.” The Public Theatre at Fifty: “A Machine for Making Community” 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

Written by Colson Whitehead before he won the Pulitzer and National Book Award for “The Underground Railroad,” this 2011 book is literary, gory and, according to our reviewer, “for all its ludic violence, strangely tender.” Pandemics in the Pages of ‘The Stand,’ ‘Severance’ and More 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

The reviewer does not make an honest attempt to digest, internalize, and understand the perspectives and history communicated by Mr. Leguizamo in this play. Review: John Leguizamo Goes for Easy Laughs in ‘Latin History’ 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

But the reviewer suggested that Mr. Bell may have been guilty of overkill in portraying his hero as omniscient. Ted Bell, Creative Adman Turned Author of Thrillers, Dies at 76 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z

One Times reviewer wondered whether women had the “extreme aggressiveness” required. ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ Tries a Risky Play: Betting Chess Can Be Good TV 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

A director known for “making likable and highly commercial movies about weirdos, eccentrics and outsiders,” in our reviewer Dave Itzkoff’s words, explores why he “gravitates to these kinds of characters.” New in Paperback: ‘The Devil You Know’ and ‘The Lying Life of Adults’ 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

One of the salutary effects of the Paranormal series, as reviewer Drew McWeeney has noted, is that it killed off the Saw films. Paranormal Activity 3: Three?s a Shroud 2011-10-19T12:57:15Z

Faster than you can say "Misery," Gray kidnaps the petulant reviewer and chains him up in the basement of the chef's remote second home in the woods. "Bitter Feast": Mario Batali's straight-to-DVD horror debut 2011-01-08T16:01:00Z

This may account for why authors are so unaccountably concerned with what the reviewers may say. Writing a book isn't supposed to be fun 2013-03-28T11:04:05Z

As our reviewer, Sadie Stein, commented, Williams’s “earnest, sympathetic and all too conscientious” account may also be the most definitive. New in Paperback: ‘A Little Devil in America’ and ‘My Friend Anna’ 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

They and other books are described by our reviewers, below. 25 best books of 2012 2012-12-13T00:31:12Z

One reviewer called it "unbelievably misogynistic" while Newsnight Review condemned it as little more than soap opera. Booker prize sees Peter Carey and Emma Donoghue head shortlist 2010-09-07T19:22:00Z

Q: Many of the reviewers who praised the recent Muppets movie cited its warmth and the gentility of the Muppets' world. Book Talk: Absurdist Jim Henson film that wasn't 2012-01-19T10:01:06Z

Michelin handed stars to a record 40 restaurants in San Francisco and the Bay Area after its reviewers sampled 46 types of cuisines at 474 eateries. Michelin awards four San Francisco restaurants with three stars 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

ABC only made the pilot available to reviewers and the case in that episode is about Alice trying to track down Ben. The Catch: Shonda Rhimes-produced private eye curio is far-fetched but fun 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

On the left side of the book, he would write down a problem with the film, such as the one identified by a reviewer, who said it didn’t breathe. Michel Gondry: 'I wanted to bring out Jim Carrey's sadness' 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

“It would be remiss not to mention the theme of sisterhood in this smart, unflinching novel,” our reviewer, Mary Kubica, writes. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

Just gratuitous egging on of violence by the reviewer. In ‘Frankenstein in Baghdad,’ a Fantastical Manifestation of War’s Cruelties 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z

Early reviewers cooed over the calming effect of the light, but couldn’t put their finger on why it felt so good to watch. We are all addicts now 2013-05-11T23:00:00Z

Description has a place, and an important place, in criticism; the reviewer’s first job is to convey what it was like to be at the performance. Male critics on female bodies: Tara Erraught, Liza Minnelli and intelligent reviewing

Some years ago, Mr. Kerr went to a lunch attended by a book reviewer he was feuding with. Circa Now: Feuding in 140 Characters 2014-04-25T22:22:54Z

Seattle Times reviewer Paul Pearson called it "one of this year's best guitar records." 5 fun things to do indoors this weekend 2011-11-11T19:20:56Z

Mantel’s memoir of her “tough childhood and a serious illness,” our reviewer said, “does not reassure. It scalds.” What to Read by (and About) Hilary Mantel 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

Released in 1951, the book, with its sober mien, dutiful meter and scrupulous rhymes, was praised by reviewers for its impeccable command of form. Adrienne Rich, 1929-2012: Adrienne Rich, Feminist Poet and Author, Dies at 82 2012-03-28T23:54:57Z

In perhaps the surest testament to her work’s complexity and scope, some reviewers taxed it for being too message-heavy, others for being too diffuse. Rachel Rosenthal, Bold Performance Artist, Dies at 88 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

I always thought My Family was consistently funny and well written, while every other reviewer used it as a benchmark for all things bad about sitcom. Casting a critical eye over the TV critics 2011-07-20T13:55:00Z

Here are skilled reviewers offering thoughtful, informed criticism of a wider range of books than any traditional literary publication. Why book bloggers are critical to literary criticism 2012-09-26T15:37:00Z

"Moist and fresh is a bit of a stretch," one Twitter reviewer wrote, referring to a slogan on the bread's packaging. If you've never had fresh panettone — you've never really had panettone 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

"Super Hexagon is a game," the reviewer James Cunningham lamented, "about failing to not die."It's a return to the oldest of old-school game design, really. ArtsBeat: Game Theory: When Death Makes Us Laugh 2012-12-27T13:00:10Z

The Daily Telegraph’s reviewer, writing about a 2009 production, said that Mr. Brace’s script “crackles with tense dialogue and gradually reveals a cunning sense of structure.” Adam Brace, Director of Ambitious One-Person Shows, Dies at 43 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z

Though there was not a strict divide between male and female reviewers, some female critics have joined the debate, faulting the film for its idealization of naked female bodies in bed. Julie Maroh, Author of ‘Blue’ Novel, Criticizes Film 2013-06-05T22:38:32Z

Dirda is a regular book reviewer for Style and the author, most recently, of “Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting and Living With Books.” ‘Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny’ sheds new light on the storied emperor 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Christopher Dickey, called this portrait of Saudi Arabia’s crown prince and de facto ruler, which was a 2021 PEN America finalist, “detailed and disturbing.” New in Paperback: ‘Why We Swim’ and ‘The End of October’ 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Mark Lilla, calls “The Decadent Society” a “clever and stimulating new book” that contains “a lot about the need for hope and building a ‘ladder to the stars,’ both figuratively and literally. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

Most reviewers agree that "Tammy," which McCarthy stars in and co-wrote with her husband and director, Ben Falcone, is a misfire. Melissa McCarthy road comedy 'Tammy' hits the skids, reviews say 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

As Harp and fellow super reviewer Daniel Jolley both testify, the smarter publishing houses send review copies to the most respected Amazon reviewers, giving the hobby extra cache. For online 'super reviewers' rewards go offline 2010-07-08T23:12:00Z

In The Times, the reviewer described “Hell or High Water” as an “easygoing thriller.” Jeff Bridges, the Dude, Really Is Laid-Back 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

And if reviewer Apollinaire Scherr hoped for a little more amplitude and drama from "Apollo" and "Agon," well, she did so in the nicest possible way. What does New York City think of PNB? 2013-02-14T22:35:02Z

Barnes, who was born in Leicester, formerly worked as a reviewer, literary editor and TV critic for publications including the New Statesmen and The Observer. Lifetime honour for author Barnes 2011-03-18T10:27:47Z

“The book fixes attention on the conditions these women faced — injected with the arsenic compound salvarsan, offered anti-hemorrhagic agents made from corpses, left to die of infection,” our reviewer, BK Fischer, writes. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

“This Siegmund looked the image of blond German godliness, which was no surprise,” one reviewer wrote in The Times. Peter Hofmann, Singer of Rock, Opera and Musicals. Dies at 66 2010-12-01T05:45:00Z

The Guardian and Observer's own literary sections compare favourably with the publications cited by Vida, with the numbers of reviewers approaching gender parity. Research shows male writers still dominate books world 2011-02-04T16:39:57Z

Our reviewer, Sarah Weinman, said Carter explains, “with success and with the clarity of distance, why Eunice was such an extraordinary figure.” New in Paperback: ‘Invisible’ and ‘Little Faith.’ 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

But Diana also gave reviewers a new benchmark of failure to which future royal biopics could be compared — and that benchmark hasn’t served Grace well. "Grace of Monaco" vs. "Diana": Which princess biopic is worse? 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Jacob Silverman, called it “intensively researched” and “engagingly written.” New in Paperback: ‘On Desperate Ground’ and ‘The Paper Wasp’ 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

But for anyone hoping to hear classical music done well, tetchy reviewers included, huge outdoor events are as much trials to be endured as treats to be savored. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Concert in Prospect Park 2012-07-12T22:23:49Z

“Some reviewers have been disturbed because they think this is what my life is like when I’m touring,” he says. What’s it like to live as one of the ‘worst’ comics in the world? Gregg Turkington is finally talking about it. 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

Did you agree with the reviewer that Barker was like you? Tina Fey on Her 'American-White-Lady Problems' in Whiskey Tango Foxtrot 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

The Guardian reports that the author has signed on to a petition to encourage Amazon to stop allowing reviewers and forum participants to hide behind anonymity. Cyberbullying’s Latest Frontier: Amazon Book Reviews 2014-03-05T22:20:01Z

The last time she appeared in the West End, in a 2005 performance of As You Like It, reviewers were scrambling to slate her in the most patronising terms. Sienna Miller: 'I've bought my freedom' 2011-03-08T21:30:01Z

House, "wades into an intra-agency battle over a reporter whose story caused the death of a spy — and is then jailed for refusing to divulge her source," wrote Seattle Times crime-fiction reviewer Adam Woog. Local books: Histories of Vashon and Hanford, a normal kid's battles with aliens and a witch's undiscovered powers 2011-07-11T22:56:04Z

After Fitzgerald’s death, Ms. Ring became a story reader for Paramount and a book reviewer. Frances Kroll Ring, Secretary to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dies at 99 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

The state-of-the-art technology used to bring the Pride Lands and its inhabitants to life drew a polarizing response from reviewers, but the newest version of Disney’s crown jewel proved to be critic-proof. Box Office: 'The Lion King' Rules With $185 Million Debut 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z

The Times Literary Supplement reviewer argued that the novel "will stand out as the great emblematic novel of Latin America's 20th century and deprives One Hundred Years of Solitude of that title". Mario Vargas Llosa: a life in writing 2012-06-15T21:55:18Z

Anna Mundow is a freelance journalist and reviewer in central Massachusetts. Review | These three sisters were the one percent of the one percent — before it all crashed 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

She is the reviewer we need at a time when the medium of television has so elevated itself as an art form and cultural divining rod. Attica Locke, Novelist and TV Writer, Has Some Suggestions for Hollywood 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

Imagine this reviewer sitting across from you, stretching out her hand to offer the either-or choice that ensnared the imaginations of millions over the past 22 years. No one can say if "The Matrix Resurrections" is good or bad. Either way, it makes you think 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

I often get discouraged reading reviews online — it’s time consuming, and I’m skeptical of the reviewers. Hipcamp, Tentrr and the Dyrt: Trying out camping’s newest start-ups 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

The reviewer, jaded though he may be, is professionally interested in books, and out of the thousands that appear annually, there are probably fifty or a hundred that he would enjoy writing about. Confessions of (Another) Book Reviewer 2012-05-09T17:37:24Z

The title, our reviewer, Jenny Odell, noted, refers to the author’s instinct as a young woman to disappear. New in Paperback: ‘Deacon King Kong’ and ‘The Undocumented Americans’ 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

"Heaven is for Real" got a positive "fresh" rating from only 31 of 59 reviewers, according to the site Rotten Tomatoes. Hollywood plays to the faithful, finds hits with God 2014-04-20T20:38:17Z

Eventually, it will ask reviewers to add their jean size to help users better assess each rating. For Larger Customers, Eating Out Is Still a Daunting Experience 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

I’ve never been keen on mocking fans of certain kinds of books or noting, as too many reviewers still do, that “you’ll like this book if you like this kind of thing.” Perspective | Don’t be so quick to dismiss ‘Book Club’ — or fans of ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

While our reviewer admired its “lovely tea party and dance scenes,” she worried children would not understand them because they were “too scenic to register.” Edward Gorey’s Children’s Books Illustrations, Revisited 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

In an interview with the Guardian earlier this year, the actor complained about the lack of female reviewers working in film. Jessica Chastain: the portrayal of women in films is disturbing 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

“A work-in-progress as raw as this morning’s Twitter rant” and as “lasting and important” as “Ulysses” is how our reviewer, Rebecca Makkai, described the seasonal quartet of which this novel is the third movement. New in Paperback: ‘The Old Drift’ and ‘Cake’ 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

The awards are given out by the Broadcast Film Critics Assn., which the org says consists of nearly 300 reviewers from TV, radio and online. 'Birdman,' 'Grand Budapest' top Critics Choice Awards nominations 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

The production captures mainstream pop but not the punk revival the band is known for, other reviewers said. Green Day musical no "time of your life": critics 2010-04-21T20:35:00Z

The New York Times referred to the film as a "", while other reviewers have described it as bland and muddle-headed. Brand new Arthur 2011-04-11T08:18:46Z

As our reviewer, Marilyn Stasio, put it: “To the author, the prison is more than a setting, it’s also a powerful symbol for the closeted life she once led.” Paperback Row 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Michael Sims, calls her book a “masterpiece that the gadfly of youthful America deserves.” Perspective | Why I still love Henry David Thoreau’s ‘Walden’ 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

The sole reviewer, responsible for the decision to accept or reject the article for publication, said that Ingleby and her co-author Megan Head, an evolutionary biologist at the Australian National University, needed more male input. Journal rejects female-authored study: “Find one or two male biologists to work with” 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

Sample marginalia, scrawled by this reviewer with sufficient desperate emphasis to literally tear the page: “Please stop saying BUMMER!” The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

Female friendship, our reviewer, Tatjana Soli, noted, is tested here by class differences, arranged marriages and wartime atrocities. New in Paperback: ‘Everything in Its Place’ and ‘The Island of Sea Women’ 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

It’s an “erudite and devastating” memoir, our reviewer Jessica Knoll writes. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

And as higher levels open up, more desirable items remain beyond your reach — a reviewer complained that many features were still locked even after she had reached a relatively high level. Why Kim Kardashian's Game Has Perfect User Ratings 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

A reviewer in the black press compared the movie to D.W. “Native Son” and the Cinematic Aspirations of Richard Wright 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

Some people don’t like the sensates—an evil biotech corporation has it out for them, and some reviewers have found “Sense8” to be cheesy, nonsensical, and slow. Sympathetic Sci-Fi 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

Still, this and similar musicals have faced an uphill battle to win over reviewers at home. A Global Hit, ‘Notre Dame de Paris’ Finally Lands in New York 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z

Though his books captivated many reviewers, they were not the stuff of best-seller lists, in part because they bewildered some readers and repelled others. Harry Crews, Writer of Dark Fiction, Is Dead at 76 2012-03-30T05:32:16Z

After the rapturous American reception of Jonathan Franzen's Freedom, including two raves in the New York Times, British reviewers, unable to wait for publication, have so far been more measured. Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z

Our reviewer, S. Kirk Walsh, called it “an impressive, thought-provoking novel that examines the complexities of racism and guilt.” New in Paperback: ‘The Disordered Mind’ and ‘In the Garden of the Fugitives’ 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

Some Amazon reviewers complain that the side brushes are especially prone to breaking. Best new robot vacuum 2012-11-25T16:59:00Z

Mehr sometimes quotes other music writers, though typically only in their capacity as reviewers—star rankings, letter grades, poll results—rather than as critics. Why Rock Criticism Was Essential to the Replacements 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

While some reviewers criticized Professor Dutton for indulging in unverifiable speculation, others praised the book for its intellectual reach, nuance and daring. Denis Dutton, Philosopher, Dies at 66 2011-01-01T03:57:45Z

Responding to a reviewer who had referred to his having been received into the Anglo-Catholic church, Eliot pointed out that there was no such entity existent to receive him or anyone. The Letters of TS Eliot: Volume 4, 1928-1929 – review 2013-01-10T11:00:01Z

Still, many reviewers struggled to see past the lush cinematography and Firth’s instantly iconic thick-rimmed spectacles. Tom Ford: ‘I wore a suit on set. It's a uniform… I feel weak in trainers’ 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

“McPartland sure knows how to illuminate a line with lean poetic phrasing,” reviewer Robert L. Daniels wrote. Jazz Legend Marian McPartland Dies at 95 2013-08-21T09:22:12Z

“Grandin keeps his cool — he prefers the stiletto to the club — but he grows angrier as his history reaches the present day,” wrote our reviewer. Pulitzer Prizes: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Patrick Abatiell, noted the novel’s “robust material” and “poignancy.” New in Paperback: ‘Say Nothing’ and ‘The Club’ 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

Our reviewer’s only complaint: He wished the book had been longer than its thousand-plus pages. 17 Great Books About American Presidents for Presidents’ Day Weekend 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

One reviewer of the Isaacson book compared reading it to “going backstage at a Led Zeppelin concert in the seventies and seeing your heroes wasted, and babbling like babies, surrounded by bimbos.” Trump, Jobs, Zuckerberg: We idolize jerks 2012-08-12T12:00:00Z

At least something in the book annoyed every reviewer. Book reviews roundup 2011-07-15T21:55:13Z

Hall's partner now is Morgan Macgregor, a fiction writer and book reviewer who formerly worked at the Los Angeles Review of Books. Michael C Hall: 'I was always playing some fastidious control freak' 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

A few reviewers were upbeat, including The New York Times, which called it a "...thrillingly raucous and gorgeously wrought Broadway musical." Green Day musical no "time of your life": critics 2010-04-21T20:35:00Z

Anyway, the time has surely come for all reputable film reviewers preparing to write about The A-Team to decommission their "I pity the fool" jokes. Have mercy, take pity: The A-Team catchphrase is about to go viral 2010-07-20T10:21:00Z

“From then until now, Phair insists on her right to be seen as, and takes the considerable risk to be seen as, a messy, complete, appetitive, responsible human being,” our reviewer, Stacey D’Erasmo, writes. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

“You get the feeling that Grisham, who has written several dozen books by now, has returned to the place closest to his heart,” our reviewer Sarah Lyall writes. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

Advertisement It’s an experiment that works, with readers and reviewers marveling at how smoothly and urgently the voice draws them in. The Author Elizabeth Strout on ‘Lucy Barton’ and How Her Characters Come Into Being 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

One reviewer, writing about a program of Marian liturgical music, likened the ensemble’s sound to the Virgin herself: “serenely pure, sweetly distant and ineluctably graceful.” Early-Music Ensembles: Praised as Pure, but Seeking More 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

Two one-star reviewers on Amazon have labelled the book “biased” as a result, one of them noting that the passage about Trump and Muslims was “totally wrong and unnecessary, distorted and misleading.” How Educational Children’s Books Are Explaining President Trump 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

Many reviewers don’t share my admiration for animation, as indicated by this year’s New York Film Critics Circle decision not to vote a prize in that category. Filthy Secrets of the 10-Best Movies List 2011-12-09T18:41:29Z

While written before the current pandemic, our reviewer, Douglas Preston, observed, it cuts “exceedingly close to the bone.” New in Paperback: ‘Why We Swim’ and ‘The End of October’ 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

And it’s like, not really: It’s not that the reviewers didn’t understand it, but it was definitely a result of them not having this sort of show when they were growing up. L.G.B.T.Q. Teens on ‘Heartstopper’: ‘I’m Fine With It Not Being Perfect’ 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z

In 2011, after reviewers argued that they had treated True too harshly, the authors posted a retort, noting that seven in 10 readers on their site “think she was guilty of trafficking in looted antiquities.” One of the world’s most respected curators vanished from the art world. Now she wants to tell her story. 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

Rich has “an antic imagination and a delicious wit,” our reviewer Sarah Lyall writes, and his humor is “enhanced by his generous, hopeful heart.” 13 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

“Where ‘A Furious Sky’ is most compelling is in its often harrowing details,” our reviewer Elizabeth Kolbert writes. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

With T3, many reviewers have retreated from their previous horrified stance to baffled resignation. The New Transformers: Turn On the Dark 2011-06-29T21:00:00Z

Last year, there were 41 in this category that anonymous reviewers or “inspectors” agreed on their “high quality cooking, worth a stop.” Michelin awards first U.S. female chef with three stars 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

While second-guessing the marketing strategies of movie conglomerates is happily not the concern of this reviewer, it does seem a shame that this exhilarating, bizarre, good-hearted, blatantly obvious sci-fi-fantasy-slapstick eco-fable isn’t getting wider fanfare. Review: ‘The Mermaid’ Features Stephen Chow Behind the Camera 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

Roger K. Miller, a former newspaperman, is a novelist and freelance writer and reviewer. 'Skyjack': The story of the never-ending hunt for D.B. Cooper 2011-08-10T22:24:04Z

Some reviewers, Bigsby acknowledged, thought it right to stop at the end of the first volume. Arthur Miller: why America lowered the curtain on his reputation 2011-08-19T18:17:25Z

Wood initially gained his reputation as a sharp-eyed and sharp-tongued reviewer of contemporary fiction, and on the evidence presented here he has lost none of his early zeal for pricking inflated reputations. The Fun Stuff and Other Essays by James Wood – review 2013-03-01T08:00:01Z

Their defections, timed to coincide with the third revised opening date, drew a furious response from the show's producers and threatens to upend the often cozy relationship between reviewers and show backers. Reviews of 'Spider-Man' musical draw backers' ire 2011-02-08T17:11:08Z

Anderson is a freelance book reviewer and the author of “Chastened,” a memoir. The thriller ‘The Bullet’ stars a Georgetown professor with a secret 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z

As of the time of writing, the film’s scores from female reviewers are considerably higher, with 84 percent of women giving the movie a thumbs up. The growing gender divide over “Ghostbusters”: Why movies starring women get slimed by male critics 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

Last year this reviewer couldn't even get within three ley lines of the tent La Roux were playing in. La Roux at Glastonbury 2010 2010-06-25T19:36:00Z

Mr. Butler, who wrote a book about his escapades as a fake reviewer, summed it up this way: “When you’re desperate you don’t really think about it, do you?” Five Stars, Zero Clue: Fighting the ‘Scourge’ of Fake Online Reviews 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z

I used to be the conjoined twins reviewer for Booklist Magazine, which is a busier reviewing beat than one might expect. Why John Green Likes Writing for Teenagers 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

Orwell was a hell of a lot better book reviewer than I am. Confessions of (Another) Book Reviewer 2012-05-09T17:37:24Z

While she’s played Lady Macbeth at Folger twice, her performance as Philip has a reviewer wondering whether she might not also at some point be a remarkable Macbeth, or perhaps even Richard II? Review | You won’t find Westeros on Folger’s stage. But you will find a game of thrones. 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

According to our reviewer, Joshua Henkin, Oates’s “fever dream” is “a moving meditation on grief time, where there is no beginning, no end.” New in Paperback: Susan Orlean and Brandon Taylor 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

If a reviewer wants to discuss the writing, fine, but don’t stab the author just to gleefully watch her bleed. Audiobooks, Translations, and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

The interesting thing about all this — especially if you’re a book reviewer who’s never so much as ridden a horse — is that her fixation on horses demonstrates the breadth of Smiley’s skills, not her narrowness. Review | Jane Smiley’s new novel gives voice to her favorite animal, the horse 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z

Synnott, a writer, rock climber and mountaineer, details early-20th-century exploration and tells a story of Everest that, as our reviewer, Edward Dolnick, commented, “merges mystery, adventure and history into a single tragic bundle.” New in Paperback: ‘Caul Baby’ and ‘While Justice Sleeps’ 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer wrote, “Green’s characters may be improbably witty, but even under the direst circumstances they are the kind of people you wish you knew.” 50 States, 50 Love Stories 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

One reviewer dismissed Motherhood as "a yummy-mummy newspaper column splurged onto celluloid", yet the producers almost certainly once used that very phrase as though it were a good thing. My verdict on Uma Thurman's Motherhood 2010-03-31T08:00:00Z

Gig reviewers tend to describe crowds at boy-band shows in a tone of puzzled alarm, like Victorian anthropologists observing some gory and baffling ritual. Why does Bruce Springsteen make middle-aged men behave like teenagers at their first pop show? 2012-06-21T09:34:56Z

Roger K. Miller, a former Wisconsin newspaper editor, is a novelist and freelance writer and reviewer. Book review: 'Lost in Shangri-La': a plane crash and a daring rescue attempt 2011-04-27T21:58:04Z

Our reviewer, Dominique Browning, called this study of “the ways humans and trees interact,” by a former trustee of the Royal Botanic Gardens, “exquisite.” New in Paperback: ‘Around the World in 80 Trees’ and ‘The Truths We Hold’ 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

Breehn Burns: We were reviewed once by someone who compared us to Adult Swim and "Family Guy," and to me, it's clear that reviewer wasn't our intended audience. An interview with 'Bravest Warriors' director Breehn Burns 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

The novel “unfolds as a mystery” and builds to the men’s realization, as our reviewer, Alida Becker, put it, that “they might not know one another as well as they thought.” New in Paperback: ‘The Memory Police’ and ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’ 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Frank Baron for the Guardian Radical speakers such as the Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary should not be banned from appearing on television, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation said on Wednesday. Arjem Choudary controversy sparks debate over TV censorship 2013-05-29T19:27:39Z

Our reviewer, Charles Yu, described this sci-fi novel about how reality might be simulated — “gradually sucking all of humanity into the Matrix in the process” — as a “staggering feat of imagination, intelligence and stamina.” New in Paperback: ‘Mistress of the Ritz’ and ‘No Visible Bruises’ 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Charles Finch, called Harper “a prickly, smart, effective storyteller.” New in Paperback: ‘The Schoolhouse Gate’ and ‘Ghost Wall’ 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

“We walk with Pew, as Pew bears witness to an American community unmasking its shame, as does the novel that bears Pew’s name,” our reviewer Fiona Maazel writes. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

Roger K. Miller is a novelist and freelance writer and reviewer. 'The Story of Charlotte's Web:' How E.B. White conceived and wrote a children's classic 2011-06-29T23:01:06Z

“Lipsyte’s point,” according to our reviewer, Josh Tyrangiel, is that “modern life is so grim, people will bend far below the limbo bar of logic in search of some peace.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

It was a casual affair, with an endless supply of lobster rolls and a total absence of reviewers. There’s a Skeleton in My Closet, Literally 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Matthew Desmond, called this — one of the Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2021 — a “rare and powerful work whose stories will live inside you long after you’ve read them.” New in Paperback: ‘Invisible Child’ and ‘Libertie’ 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

You can see all the gigs our reviewers will be attending by keeping an eye on our Songkick page. Open thread: coming up this week 2012-07-02T15:40:38Z

Our reviewer, Steven Brill, calls it an “important” book: “We are living in a moment of rampant polarization and distrust in the fundamental institutions that underpin civil society,” he writes. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

One reviewer spoke of the composer's "refrigeration of Chekhov's Three Sisters into icy abstraction". Tony Kushner's Angels in America: the opera 2010-03-22T21:35:00Z

Our reviewer, James Shapiro, praised the novel, calling it an “inventive and deeply satisfying” adaptation “suited to our own troubled times.” New in Paperback: ‘Spying on Whales,’ ‘And Then We Danced’ 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

Bitter Lemons reviewers did get gigs reviewing shows coproduced by two established L.A. companies, Theatre West in Hollywood and Latino Theater Company downtown. That offer asking theaters to pony up $150 for pay-to-play reviews falls flat in L.A. 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

A reviewer in Publishers Weekly called the novel “not only a work of great literary beauty, but an eminently readable novel as well — two qualities that do not often concur in French prize novels.” Edmonde Charles-Roux, Novelist and Editor of French Vogue, Dies at 95 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

Indeed he is, but he isn’t in the first two episodes made available to reviewers. The Bastard Executioner: latest medieval drama won't slay you 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

The privilege of seeing Pacino portray the aging American playwright in a Demerol haze while pawing shirtless male hustlers as reviewers crucify him for his latest flop doesn't come cheap. 'God Looked Away,' and so should you: Why Al Pacino's play falls so short of expectations 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

His paintings were immensely popular with The Saturday Evening Post’s subscribers, but reviewers complained that they were treacly. A Model and Her Norman Rockwell Meet Again 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

Jason Reynolds and Washington Post children’s book reviewers share five of their favorite books of 2018. Best children’s books of 2018 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

Vine has already changed a lot, changing with it the lives of its reviewers. The Secret Life of Amazon’s Vine Reviewers 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

Two other movies also get the 3.5-star treatment from our reviewers this week: “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Mood Indigo.” Weekend preview: 5 things to do nowhere near Seafair 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

For once, spoiler sensitivity might be the reviewer’s luckiest break, absolving me of even attempting an explanation of a plot so contorted it’s best not to worry about it. ‘Tenet’ Review: Christopher Nolan’s Time-Bending Take on James Bond 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Jesse McCarthy, called her “a writer of uncommon nerve and talent.” New in Paperback: ‘A Kind of Freedom,’ ‘Secrecy World’ 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

It's great to see something before reviewers, so you can judge for yourself. The insiders' guide to the arts 2010-10-17T20:31:00Z

“The comedy of the ‘Diary’ — one of the book’s most charming and often overlooked aspects — shines in this form,” our reviewer, Ruth Franklin, writes. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

Film reviewers, most of them male, had a tough time seeing Davis as an action heavy. “Chefs do that”: The underappreciated holiday joy of “The Long Kiss Goodnight” 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

More seriously, some reviewers taxed Mr. Kaplan with being a checkbook maestro, paying orchestras to let him ascend the podium. Gilbert E. Kaplan, Publisher and Improbable Conductor, Dies at 74 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

Jerkins travels to the South to reconnect with her heritage, but, our reviewer, Afua Hirsch, noted, it is the African continent, “woven subtly throughout her prose,” that becomes her “unmistakable ancestral hinterland.” New in Paperback: ‘Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why’ and ‘Billion Dollar Loser’ 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

Did the reviewer and I see the same film? ‘Fire at Sea’ Is Not the Documentary You’d Expect About the Migrant Crisis. It’s Better. 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

There were also movies that reviewers and audiences seemed united in hating, like James L. Brooks’s “How Do You Know.” Arts & Leisure Preview: Defy the Elite! Wait, Which Elite? 2011-01-14T19:33:01Z

Influential reviewers at both the daily New Haven Independent and the city’s culture-focused Arts Paper praised Mr. Hafez’s piece for the Open Studios event. A Little Piece of Downtown Damascus in New Haven 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

According to our reviewer, Mimi Swartz, this biography sets Lady Bird Johnson up as “the perfect bridge to the modern first lady,” chronicling her policy initiatives and support for working women. New in Paperback: ‘Second Place’ and ‘Lady Bird Johnson’ 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

This collective biography, our reviewer, Jane Kamensky, wrote, draws out the distinct voices of its characters while molding them into a rich ensemble. New in Paperback: ‘How Beautiful We Were’ and ‘No One Is Talking About This’ 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z

Any reviewer so foolhardy as to describe them in detail would deserve to walk the plank. Review: On the High Seas, Anything Goes in ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

We haven't had a chance to see it for ourselves yet, but Musolino's script-in-hand performances have been going so well that reviewers are expected to be let in over the weekend. Adelaide festival 2013: week one 2013-03-05T12:39:38Z

“Goya, like many artists, had a problem with authority,” writes Times contributing reviewer David Pagel. Essential Arts: The Divine Miss M, an Ibsen sequel, everything Icelandic and charging bulls 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z

A book from an author who spent 2010 coping with scandal, in contrast, found reviewers vying to outdo each other in enthusiasm. Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2012-06-01T21:55:12Z

Although Rushdie “inhabits his novels in all manner of guises and transformations, he has never been so literally present as in this one,” a Times reviewer wrote. The Stabbing of Salman Rushdie Renews Free Speech Debates 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z

“Most chapters delight or provoke in some way,” our reviewer, Jennifer Senior, writes. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

Book reviewers were generally pleased with “Harry Potter” — sometimes extravagantly so — and almost universally dismissive of “Fifty Shades.” Unexpected Lessons From ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

As our reviewer, Ian Morris, noted, “The highest praise for a history book is that it makes you think about things in a new way.” New in Paperback: ‘What You Are Going Through,’ ‘Finding Freedom’ 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

One reviewer praises a novel intent on fighting against poaching in Africa... Reader reviews roundup 2013-01-11T14:39:33Z

They are works, writes Times reviewer Leah Ollman, where “visual logic is subverted in what feels, viscerally, like an urgent bad dream.” Essential Arts & Culture: Vampire weekend, a Mexican masterpiece reemerges (sort of), the rising Academy museum 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

Some reviewers have found the single-shot style too gimmicky; an exercise for the sake of it, a display of technical prowess that distracts from the action. 'The stupidest thing humanity ever did to itself': Sam Mendes and Colin Firth on 1917 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

And then I recalled that when Ronan Farrow released "Catch and Kill" last year, reviewers made a big deal about him voicing the audiobook – especially his attempts at performing various accents and voices. Ronan Farrow's voices (and other audiobook delights) helped me get through this year 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z

This extraordinary book is at once so brilliant and so deeply flawed that it presents an enjoyably knotty conundrum for a reviewer. ‘Beatlebone’ review: What does John Lennon need to find his muse again? 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

British reviewers were mostly unimpressed by Mr. Branagh’s more serious approach. So Many Suspects, but We Know the Director Did It 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Our reviewer called the novel “funny” and “filthy,” adding that its “true brilliance lies in DeWitt’s careful deployment of language so common that we no longer see it.” Amid Weinstein Accusations, 3 Books on Workplace Sexual Harassment 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

One reviewer said this was the point at which the gig caught fire. The worst gig we ever played: musicians on their on-stage lows 2011-08-04T22:00:01Z

Its reviewer, Neil Young, said the movie eventually descended into “schmaltz,” and, like some other critics, he argued that the female characters seemed like an afterthought: ‘T2 Trainspotting’: The Early Reviews 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Shore “seeks to portray the ideals that animated the protesters,” our reviewer Rajan Menon writes, and she “succeeds admirably, particularly because she tells the story through their words.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

Hey Pete--how do you decide to send in "accomplice" reviewers to sniff out preferential service you might receive due to your notoriety? Restaurant Review: Shuko in the East Village 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

McNulty is a freelance reviewer for The Seattle Times' book section. Local Books: Two new poetry volumes, the Rock Doc and Cleopatra as a vampire 2012-04-30T21:26:07Z

As our reviewer, Stephen King, put it, the novel’s chief preoccupations are “the power of words, the power of stories and the persistence of memory.” 15 New Books Coming in October 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

A starry, starry weekend at the multiplex Seven new movies are opening this week and there's not a real dud in the bunch, according to Seattle Times reviewers. A starry, starry weekend at the multiplex 2011-12-23T02:01:04Z

Like other reviewers he didn't mind: " succeeds in bringing an extraordinary family arrestingly to life." Critical eye: reviews roundup 2012-05-25T21:55:13Z

Of this recipe, one reviewer writes, "Factoring prep and cook time, cost of ingredients, and flavor delivered, this is the best recipe on this website. Fight me." Leftover canned pumpkin is a very good thing 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z

This reviewer, with apologies, forsook the promise of classics such as Sunshine Day to leg it back to shelter and a quick change into waterproofs. Womad 2013: Rokia Traore, Arrested Development and more - day two review 2013-07-28T12:23:34Z

It is vital to connect audiences and reviewers to get noticed amid fierce competition. Lost in translation: Fringe comedy 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

“Sacré Bleu” was a delight even for a visual-arts dummy such as your reviewer, but this new book might be just confusing. ‘The Serpent of Venice’: a Shakespeare-Poe mash-up 2014-04-24T20:52:07Z

The same reviewer found one writer's work rather more to their liking. Historian Orlando Figes admits posting Amazon reviews that trashed rivals 2010-04-23T21:26:00Z

After its world premiere last year at the Toronto film festival, Morris was disturbed that some reviewers called Tabloid a slight story. Errol Morris: two sides to every scandal 2011-03-10T22:34:01Z

And, in fact, one man did give it to her straight: a reviewer, played by Christian McKay, who refused to be bought off. Simon Helberg: from Big Bang nerd to Meryl Streep’s cartoonish pianist 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

It might be a little crowded, because restaurant reviewer Providence Cicero just wrote that this Madison Park spot makes some of the best pizza in Seattle. Weekend preview: Beer, pizza, movies, more 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

“Like a fun house hall of mirrors,” our reviewer, Sarah Lyall, commented, “this alternate reality is terrifying as well as diverting.” New in Paperback: ‘Harlem Shadows’ and ‘The Black Church’ 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z

However, the majority of reviewers agree it’s fast, accurate, and if you don’t like it there are alternatives. Best portable scanner on the market 2012-11-04T17:00:00Z

In prose that “truly sings,” our reviewer, Reyna Grande, said, Díaz “gets her hands dirty, her heart broken, her spirit bruised,” and lives to tell the tale. New in Paperback: ‘The Pandemic Century’ and ‘Dad’s Maybe Book’ 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

My career as a book reviewer started with a cold call. Confessions of (Another) Book Reviewer 2012-05-09T17:37:24Z

But that might only be envy from a reviewer whose frequent, unpaid, unblogged bike rides from Wallingford to South Seattle never get the plaudits he thinks they deserve. ‘Life is a Wheel’: writing and riding across America 2014-03-12T19:06:22Z

Many papers have lead reviewers, most are men. Gender balancing the books 2013-06-08T07:00:00Z

“Influenced by artists like Mark Tobey and Morris Graves, Martin is like a down-home, Pacific Northwest version of Marc Chagall,” wrote a Seattle Times reviewer in 2011. Arts and entertainment highlights for the week of Feb. 10 2013-02-06T23:03:48Z

None of the reviewers, who were sitting together toward the front of the hall, heard booing or saw anyone storming out, yet it's clear others did. Why has the media mauled Whitney Houston? 2010-04-15T10:44:00Z

Our reviewer, Jamie Fisher, says that the novel “hits its stride midway as a brutally sad romantic comedy. … ‘ 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

A day later, the world is still turning, fans are prepping for night No. 2 and the reviewers are assessing Bush's return. The reviews are in for Kate Bush's first concert in 35 years 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

“I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers, but, at the same time I sort of hoped someone would like it well enough to give me encouragement.” Harper Lee, Author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Dies at 89 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Elizabeth Graver, calls it a “contemporary and highly readable experiment.” Nine New Books Worth Reading This Week 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

Criticism can be a bloodthirsty enterprise, but the example of “World War Z” contradicts rather than confirms the notion that reviewers are incited to sharkish feeding frenzies when they smell blood in the water. Cross-Cuts: Reconsidering Box Office Bombs Years After the Fact 2013-08-23T12:44:45Z

It was no good: this is a novel that does your head in, and your consolation is the number of quotes from reviewers who acknowledge that it had similar effects on them. The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus – review 2013-04-30T11:41:04Z

Early reviewers have expressed concern over what messages the movie might be transmitting, and what actions it might inspire. ‘He is a psychopath’: has the 2019 Joker gone too far? 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z

At the start of “The Critic,” a self-regarding theater reviewer — is there any other kind? — scans the morning papers and disgustedly tosses them all away. Playwrights get last word in delightful ‘Critic’ and ‘Real Inspector Hound’ 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

The book is written in a “streamlined, occasionally biting style,” and “sends constant warnings that history can repeat itself,” our reviewer Janet Maslin writes. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

British reviewers were scathing Wednesday about the big-budget stage show built around the songs of 1990s “Girl Power” pop group the Spice Girls. Spice Girls musical not a critical darling 2012-12-13T00:49:36Z

The UIC experts said hospital staff and company officials at times tried to mislead them by attempting to cover up problems or keep reviewers from finding out about them. Chilling report slams psychiatric hospital 2011-09-28T11:00:00Z

Michelin’s anonymous reviewers rate restaurants in about 28 countries and its stars are seen as a sign of top-notch dining around the world. Two more Washington restaurants shine with Michelin stars 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

Tech reviewers who finally got their hands on Glass described it as “the worst product of all time,” aptly noting that it had abysmal battery life, and that it was “a product plagued by bugs.” Why Google Glass Broke 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

“Like the animators he celebrates,” our reviewer, Michael Tisserand, commented, Mitenbuler “is able to sum up a character with a couple of quick strokes.” New in Paperback: ‘Wild Minds’ and ‘People From My Neighborhood’ 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

Some reviewers have lamented that Gaga leaves out evergreens like “You and I,” but even they concede she’s the goddess of showering self-esteem on her fans. Lady Gaga, Arctic Monkeys, Counting Crows, what a week! | Concert preview 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

According to Robert Kiely, our reviewer, in “The Anatomy Lesson,” “Roth explores the mind of an author who is the personification of chronic irritation as artistic stance.” A Philip Roth Reader 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

According to our reviewer, Daryl Gregory, Pierce “isn’t afraid to pose the biggest questions: How do we deal with loss? What are the limits and possibilities of love? What is the nature of time?” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

I'm beginning to think that all the level-headed reviewers have fled the scene leaving only the ones with twisty minds who can get into this kind of garbage. Golden Globe Awards Winners Include ‘Boyhood’ and ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

Zinoman, who is this newspaper’s comedy reviewer, seems to have all those dimensions at his fingertips. The Legacy of David Letterman, Icon of the Grizzled Generation 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

That emotional arc has won praise from reviewers. Yippee Ki Yay: ‘Die Hard’ Comes to the Christmas Stage 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

And so we comedy reviewers find ourselves no longer commenting on a cultural artefact, but relaying the latest development in some ongoing tabloid saga. Brian Logan on comedy and the news 2010-11-23T21:46:00Z

What happens to her and her client I will let readers learn on their own; otherwise I would be serving as a reviewer who spoils suspense. ‘Chasing Gideon’: shocking failures of the justice system in defending the poor 2013-05-01T18:25:42Z

Larry David was "Boris" in Woody Allen's Whatever Works, but the enthusiasm of reviewers was curbed by the complaint that he was just being himself from the telly. Simon Amstell, Larry David and the rise of the 'sim-com' 2010-08-29T20:30:00Z

A print book reviewer might be boring, but it’s hard for her to get very far if she is dishonest or corrupt. Rotten Tomatoes, but for books: Old-school book critics get boost from new Book Marks site 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

So the fact that this Broadway import of Hair, the great transgressive hippy musical, has managed to survive such outrages on its reviewers – and even be heaped with praise – is a kind of miracle. What to say about ... Hair 2010-04-15T16:10:00Z

Our reviewer wrote: “That he could have written so objective a book so soon after his almost fatal involvement in the war itself and in the partisan conflict seems miraculous.” 3 Books That Explore Catalonia’s Fight for Independence 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

A reviewer for The New York Times said it “augured a brilliant career.” Walter Hautzig, Pianist Whose Talent Helped Him Flee Nazis, Dies at 95 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

At Lenscircle.com, which is based in Toronto, most of the customers are Americans, ages 15 to 25, who heard about circle lenses through YouTube reviewers, said Alfred Wong, 25, the site’s founder. What Big Eyes You Have, Dear, but Are Those Lenses Risky? 2010-07-03T15:53:00Z

Other reviewers are welcome to embrace the anodyne realism of The Kids Are All Right and Blue Valentine. Sucker Punch Review: Don't Drink the Kool-Aid 2011-03-25T11:45:00Z

But on the book’s publication, most reviewers, including the distinguished English men of letters Philip Toynbee and Cyril Connolly, were lavish in their praise. Colin Wilson, Author of ‘The Outsider,’ Dies at 82 2013-12-12T17:03:34Z

But as a reviewer, I get this stuff free. Video Game Review: Challenging The Wii?s Supremacy 2010-10-15T23:04:00Z

The first series, which starred Elisabeth Moss as detective Robin Griffin on the trail of a 12-year-old pregnant girl who has disappeared, thrilled audiences and reviewers alike. ‘Nicole Kidman asked for a part. Then it was fun to write a sequel’ 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z

The orchestra reviewer was removed from his beat at The Plain Dealer in 2008. Ousted critic loses lawsuit against Ohio newspaper 2010-08-06T17:46:00Z

I wish your reviewers would keep to the business at hand of reviewing books. Letters to the Editor 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

Social media has brought many reviewers into far closer proximity with theater artists than ever before. Perspective | A play is birthed online, and I was in the delivery room 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z

Edward Albee, whose death at age 88 on Friday marked the end of his reign as the greatest living American playwright, chiseled his own choice invectives for reviewers over his topsy-turvy career. The genius of Edward Albee and the inner voice that brought difficult truths to the stage 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Sarah Lyall, commented that this story is “a bracing reminder that postpartum life is a kind of horror story of its own.” New in Paperback: ‘How Beautiful We Were’ and ‘The Cult of We’ 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

My Amazon readers/reviewers give it 5 stars and 4 stars and they say they really enjoyed The Greek Seaman and thought it was well written. How not to handle bad reviews 2011-03-30T11:24:16Z

As our reviewer, Paul Krugman, said here: “This book will challenge your views about the future; it will definitely transform how you see the past.” Paperback Row 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Marina Warner, praised the collection, calling Arimah “a witty, oblique and mischievous storyteller.” Paperback Row 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

“As this riveting novel unfolds — in brilliant, laconic, grimly comic fashion — it becomes apparent that the state is, in its own way, a frightful head,” our reviewer, Jason Goodwin, writes. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

By cutting to the meat of their political argument, this reviewer does not intend to denigrate the authors’ Civil War scholarship. How Lincoln favored the middle class over the wealthy 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Lauren Oyler, called Chin’s debut a “realistic portrayal of a woman in crisis” and a “subtly provocative depiction of the tech industry, and this country, as tilting ever more off-kilter.” New in Paperback: ‘Oh William!’ and ‘The Great Mistake’ 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

It’s slightly more expensive, but to most reviewers eyes, it offers even better picture quality. Best big TV on the market 2012-11-23T16:59:00Z

As this is a consistent practice, I must conclude that it is an editorial decision coupled with sheer laziness on the part of many reviewers. Book Spoilers, Sex Jokes and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

I am delighted by good reviewers and remarkable writers like Taffy Brodesser-Akner. Does Race Matter? Who Gets to Ask That Question? 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

As recently as “Grief,” a reviewer for The New York Times wrote that his books “can seem so determined to speak for their disenfranchised gay characters that the works become inaccessible to anyone else.” Andrew Holleran’s Work Has Traced the Arc of Life. Now, He Takes on Death. 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z

Acclaimed by some reviewers and criticized by others, Ms. Sereny’s books were as much psychological studies as historical ones. Gitta Sereny, Who Wrote About Evil, Dies at 91 2012-06-23T22:10:54Z

One reviewer praised Jack and Rose’s “aristocracy of the spirit” and, while crass, it’s a point well made. My favorite best picture Oscar winner: Titanic 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

Unfortunately, I agree with the comments of most of the other reviewers. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 2: The Wounds We Carry 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z

This best books of 2012 list, compiled by Seattle Times reviewers, supports that notion — 15 novels and 10 nonfiction books were singled out as the best books they read this year. 25 best books of 2012 2012-12-13T00:31:12Z

“This memoir adds an essential voice to the genre of migrant literature,” our reviewer, Grace Talusan, wrote, upending the false narrative that migration “always results in a better life.” New in Paperback: ‘Summer’ and ‘The Dragons, the Giant, the Women’ 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

Metacritic has unveiled its list of the worst new TV shows of 2018, and you can say this for the small screen: Its most poorly received offerings fared better with reviewers than their silver-screen counterparts. The worst new TV shows of 2018, according to Metacritic 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

To start it off, this week site reviewer HorseLover3000 discussed the story of Oksa Pollock – a thirteen year old girl who discovers she is Queen of a magical, hidden homeland: Edefia. Reader reviews roundup 2013-06-21T08:01:00Z

The movie was popular with British audiences but, as noted by the film historian Alexander Walker, many reviewers were offended by its explicit dialogue and situations. ‘Room at the Top’: An Affair to Remember 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

Burning question: Why does this reviewer constantly call Jesus "Paul"? ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 8, Episode 3: Cut to Black 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z

But why would you select a reviewer who clearly has contempt for the whole genre? Reviewer Bias, Imperial Tongues and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Stephen King, called the book “extraordinary.” New in Paperback: ‘Give Me Your Hand,’ ‘The Seas’ 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

Ms. Orlin is sometimes accused by reviewers of a lack of subtlety, but it’s an aspect of her work that she willingly acknowledges. Pointed Choreography, Rooted in South Africa 2011-02-10T23:05:43Z

The Chicago Tribune’s reviewer was lukewarm about the production, pointing out that watching great comic actors play bad performers is different than watching less-starry improvisers. 'Red, White, & Blaine' a Tribute to 'Waiting for Guffman' 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

It also highlights the importance of terminology used by retailers, sommeliers and wine reviewers when describing wines. What in Earth makes a wine taste ‘minerally’ 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z

She co-wrote all but two of the songs and won praise for what one reviewer described as "the cool, critical gaze" in the lyrics. Obituary 2011-07-23T17:32:58Z

“A testament to the aftermath of human culture,” as our reviewer, Sandra Simonds, called it, this collection “carries forward her project to document the struggles of people experiencing political disaster.” New in Paperback: ‘Real Life’ and ‘A Game of Birds and Wolves’ 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

A reviewer in Gramophone magazine sniffed that we needed a revival of period strings as much as we needed a revival of period dentistry. Early Music Is Enjoying Its Moment 2011-03-06T01:45:27Z

It could be because that's just how the reviewer saw it, it's his personal perspective. ‘Into the Woods,’ Disney’s Take on the Sondheim-Lapine Classic 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

The reviewer mentioned savoring the Langston candle’s aroma of “softly sophisticated notes of tobacco and leather.” Candles are comforting us in a dark year. Here’s how to choose the right one for you. 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

The most complimentary word for it that reviewers came up with was "eccentric"; "loathsome" and "facetious" figured, too. Seasonal Suicide Notes: My Life as it Is Lived by Roger Lewis 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z

“No superlatives can exaggerate its importance,” one early reviewer declared. The Irish Novel That’s So Good People Were Scared to Translate It 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

A Washington Post reviewer, she said, “groundlessly accused this book of being ‘racist’ because it doesn’t toe a strict Democratic Party line.” Lionel Shriver Puts On a Sombrero 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

The book is “an admirable feat of journalism” and “a remarkably revealing glimpse into the world of a muzzled yet irrepressibly ebullient neighbor,” according to our reviewer, Marie Arana. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

It is, as one reviewer noted, a plain man's state-of-the-nation book – though one ignoring the major conurbations. The A303: Highway to the Sun by Tom Fort – review 2013-05-14T10:00:01Z

“While you will undoubtedly learn something new about bees, this is, first and foremost, a successful and eloquent piece of modern nature writing,” our reviewer Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson writes. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

Both the author and reviewer fail to mention that one-third of the nation’s welfare recipients live in California and the tax base is... How California Turned Into a ‘State of Resistance’ 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

The director, Paul Feig, was forced to defend these decisions and the film became a cause, with some reviewers scared to criticise it. Can we all just stop banging on about diversity in films? 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z

And, anticipating the inevitable headlines, they come with a judicious reminder to reviewers and commentators. Review | Sharon Stone comes to terms with childhood trauma and Hollywood toxicity in ‘The Beauty of Living Twice’ 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z

It’s fiction, but our reviewer described it as “such a clear and well-constructed extrapolation of the current debate that I doubt any reader will need to suspend disbelief for even a moment.” What Happens When the State Controls Moms? 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z

What follows includes dodgy book-keeping, private jets loaded with high-grade narcotics, and a TBH quite unexciting fall from sobriety, grace and the interest of this TV reviewer. Scratch that: HBO’s Vinyl is a Jagger and Scorsese stinker 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

I don't know what critics like, I don't know what reviewers like. Theater owners say thanks to hitmaker Bruckheimer 2010-03-19T12:08:00Z

But far be it from me to come between a reviewer and his thesaurus. Letters to the Editor 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

Small Town," a Seattle Times reviewer suggested that Blanchard "starts with clichés that she turns into cartoons. Theater roundup: Adventurous Seattle playgoers, start your engines 2011-03-03T21:04:07Z

This month, when his play “Black Milk” opened at the East 13th Street Theater in New York, reviewers sounded mostly exhausted by 100 minutes in Mr. Sigarev’s world, and no wonder. Vassily Sigarev, a Voice From Russia’s Rust Belt 2012-07-29T22:00:23Z

I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of reviewers but at the same time I sort of hoped that maybe someone would like it enough to give me encouragement. Harper Lee 2010-06-28T14:03:00Z

Laura Wilson, the Guardian's crime reviewer, has stuck faithfully to the events, but has placed them very much in a novel rather than a work of history. A Capital Crime By Laura Wilson 2010-10-01T23:15:00Z

Listed as witnesses are multiple Twitter users who complained about the state of their orders, as well as several online food reviewers who specialize in fast food. Burger King accused of a whopper: Lawsuit claims chain's popular burger is deceptively advertised 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z

As our reviewer, Douglas Wolk, put it, “It’s a vehicle for nothing less than Moore’s personal cosmology of space, time and life after death.” New in Paperback: ‘Jerusalem,’ ‘Leonardo da Vinci’ 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

They mock celebrities “in a $2,000 dress talking about socialism on the red carpet” and film reviewers who are clueless, throwing around academic nonsense to cover their lack of knowledge. ‘Malcolm & Marie’ director reveals origins of buzzy film 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

“Michael Jackson would be pleased that such an objective book was written about him,” one reviewer wrote on Amazon. A Casualty on the Battlefield of Amazon’s Partisan Book Reviews 2013-01-20T19:45:33Z

Not surprisingly, reviewers on Amazon seemed to be more excited about Mr. Bone than the sweater itself. The Kenneth Bone Effect 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z

“It turns out that we were just as conflicted about seduction centuries ago as we are now,” our reviewer Alex Kuczynski writes. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

As our reviewer, Jamie Figueroa, noted, Jerkins excels in “conveying the life-giving and life-sustaining power of Black women’s bodies, and the blood relationships between them.” New in Paperback: ‘Caul Baby’ and ‘While Justice Sleeps’ 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z

Conservative reviewers have quoted this sentence, using it to encapsulate, accurately, Vance’s conviction that public institutions can only do so much for kids from broken homes. The Lives of Poor White People 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

“Middletown, America” features some of the “thousands of people in and around New York who are in pain every time they smell something burning,” wrote our reviewer in 2003. What to Read in the Face of Trauma 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

The reviewer calmly tolerates the arrival of the new novel or slim volume, defensively settles into it, and then sees which way it rubs him up. Gender balancing the books 2013-06-08T07:00:00Z

“In decades of dogged concert-going,” my friend Clive Crook wrote in the Financial Times in 2009, “this reviewer cannot remember an evening as uplifting or as satisfying.” Rambling On: Levon Helm, The Band?s Drummer, Dies at Age 71 2012-04-20T04:32:32Z

One reviewer, at close to a mental breaking point while in line for a taxi, was rescued by a carload of giddy ravers who let him ride with them back to the Vegas Strip. Electric Daisy Carnival is reliable onstage, more captivating off it 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

Another reviewer said, simply, “The book is about nothing.” The Madness of Queen Jane 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

When his debut solo album was released in April 1970, McCartney suffered the slings and arrows of one reviewer after another. How "Maybe I'm Amazed" brought Paul McCartney back to life 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

And Variety's reviewer appeared to concur, describing the film as "cluttered", "too busy" and "overly frenetic". Toronto 2013: Reporter's diary 2013-09-09T07:46:10Z

As a granddaughter-in-law of the translator Helen Lowe-Porter, I am sorry to see the scorn directed at her by the reviewer of “This Little Art.” Letters to the Editor 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Matthew Specktor, called it “an exceptionally strange book” and “an exceptionally good one.” New in Paperback: ‘Antkind’ and ‘Looking for Miss America’ 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

The critical enthusiasm at the time of its release — many reviewers put it on their year-end lists — propelled Lynch to a second, even less probable Academy Award nomination for directing. “David Lynch should be shot”: Looking back on the madness and chaos of “Blue Velvet” and Ronald Reagan’s ’80s 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z

The show got a solid thumbs up from Bitter Lemons' reviewer, Joel Beers, who found it "funny, engaging and sharply written." That offer asking theaters to pony up $150 for pay-to-play reviews falls flat in L.A. 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

This episode, while charming, is not to be found in the book; and I fear the unwary reader, not perhaps so imaginative as a trained reviewer, may be disappointed. Peeved, Irritated and Annoyed: Early Letters to the Editor 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

But what is truly odd is how few novels by women are reviewed by male reviewers. Gender balancing the books 2013-06-08T07:00:00Z

Glad my palate is still fresh and not jaded like this reviewer. Review: ‘Anastasia,’ a Russian Princess With an Identity Crisis 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

Is this what the New York Times reviewer Mordaunt Hall was thinking of when he wrote that the film’s humor is “frequently harsh”? The Race to Save the Films We Love 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Is that because only adventurous diners become restaurant critics, or because reviewers get bored eating the same, common meals repeatedly, or because those are the specialties of the restaurant being reviewed? Hey, Mr. Critic: The Linguine and Clams Conundrum 2011-03-10T22:31:18Z

Not only Filipino viewers will see their families represented here; much of it rang true to this Dominican reviewer, as well. ‘Easter Sunday’ Review: A Feel-Good Filipino Family Comedy 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z

Indeed, some reviewers of her 2007 autobiography, My Life Behaving Badly, objected to the degree of responsibility she took for problems within their relationship. Leslie Ash: ‘You go through a grieving process when you've lost your career' 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

But not one mentioned booing or a walk-out, and virtually every reviewer also found things to praise. Why has the media mauled Whitney Houston? 2010-04-15T10:44:00Z

Throughout Mr. Gilbert’s career, reviewers took issue with his penchant for laying out reams of data with little editorial comment, which left the task of historical interpretation to the reader. Martin Gilbert, Churchill Biographer With a Populist Bent, Is Dead at 78 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

In 2015, Amazon had begun asking Vine reviewers for their tax information, which meant that, over a certain value, Vine products were no longer free, really. The Secret Life of Amazon’s Vine Reviewers 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

"My drawing looked almost just like another reviewer’s drawing." 'Psychic Artist' gains popularity on Etsy for drawing pictures of your future 'soul mate' for $30 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

The critical reception of “Spare” has been mixed, with some reviewers praising the prose but questioning whether Harry went too far into airing petty grievances. Prince Harry’s Memoir Has Record Breaking Sales 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z

The author's crow preoccupation incorporates "large concepts such as conservation, the environment and learning to live more thoughtfully," wrote Seattle Times reviewer Irene Wanner. Local books: 'It Gets Better'; a Robin Hobb fantasy collection; 'Crow Planet' in paperback 2011-05-10T00:44:04Z

“Cotton is amazing on these cuts,” reviewer Steve Leggett wrote on the Allmusic.com website, “his harp blasts full of passion, power, and enough pure energy to light up the night sky.” James Cotton, hard-blowing harmonica master of the blues, dies at 81 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z

And never have I missed better and more articulate reviewers. Review: ‘Anastasia,’ a Russian Princess With an Identity Crisis 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

Louis Bayard is a novelist and reviewer who sings with the Captones jazz group. ‘The Song Machine’ review: How music studios have hooked us into listening 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

What distinguishes it from most whodunits, our reviewer, Ivy Pochoda, observed, is that it’s less about the girls’ fate than about how their disappearance affects the women in their orbit. New in Paperback: ‘Running to the Edge’ and ‘The Queen’ 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Pico Iyer, praised the author, writing, “In the tsunami he has found a horrifying metaphor for those subliminal forces that swirl underneath the manicured surfaces of Japan.” New in Paperback: ‘Ramp Hollow,’ ‘Freshwater’ 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

What we don’t applaud is nominating him for Ron Howard’s shrill, frantic, live-action adaptation of the Dr. Seuss classic, which one reviewer simply called “an ugly piece of work.” Perspective | The 10 most baffling Golden Globe wins and nominations of the millennium. (Remember ‘Salmon Fishing in the Yemen’?) 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

These seem to be attempts to assert the reviewer’s own working-class credentials, the better to question that “eerie confidence” of Kushner’s, the uncanny, unfeminine authority with which she feels entitled to write about such things. Rachel Kushner’s ambitious new novel scares male critics 2013-06-05T23:00:00Z

Some reviewers panned the movie, and when it did poorly at the box office, 20th Century Fox, the studio that produced it, pulled it from theaters. Noel Black, 77, Dies; Directed Dark Comedy Cult Hit 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

In a pleasant surprise for many YouTube skin care product reviewers, the packaging also includes signage in Braille. Do Men Self-Care? 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z

The verbal attacks between the two main characters were spectacular and venomous, stirring outrage among more conservative critics and theatergoers but winning plaudits from many powerful reviewers for its discomforting, even shocking vitality. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

The Times reviewer called the book “lively, mostly effervescent” and remarked, “Needless to say, Jeeves saves the day.” Jeeves and Wooster Are Back in a Fizzy New Homage to P.G. Wodehouse 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Mitchell S. Jackson, called the book “magnificent.” New in Paperback: ‘These Truths’ and ‘There Will Be No Miracles Here’ 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

Michelin, whose anonymous reviewers rate restaurants in 28 countries and whose stars are a recognized sign of quality dining around the world, awarded 50 eateries with stars in the prior year's guide. Michelin hands stars to 54 San Francisco restaurants 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

That reviewer — me, obviously — concluded that a smart librarian would categorize “Up in the Old Hotel” as wisdom literature. ‘Man in Profile’ stirs controversy over the work of a New Yorker great 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

"There's something beguiling, sweet even, about this glimpse of the attack dog's human face," added the reviewer. Paxman's show wins warm reviews 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

He explores the medical and ethical challenges while remaining rapt at the promise and digging into the story “with a journalist’s relish,” in the words of our reviewer, Carl Zimmer. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Adam Fitzgerald, called the collection “an autopsy of self and nation in the face of overwhelming loss.” New in Paperback: ‘Somebody With a Little Hammer,’ ‘The Leavers’ 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

It was the unfakeable sense that Guy's American Kitchen & Bar in Times Square had some quality of awfulness about it that struck the reviewer like a personal attack. From Franzen to Fieri, the five rules of the review as takedown 2012-11-28T17:36:00Z

That’s even before the reviewers weigh in: After an extended preview period, the musical’s official opening night is Dec. 17.. What’s next for Britney Spears fans? A Shakespeare Theatre musical that may be headed to Broadway. 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

The sumptuous musical about the life of a Western teacher in a Siamese court features a “blissful” cast and “eye-popping” sets, according to reviewer F. Kathleen Foley. Essential Arts & Culture: A Shakespearean year, a wondrous 'El Niño' and dogs, dogs, dogs! 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z

Beyond my own interest in a review, I look eagerly forward each year to learn what Dominique Browning or another reviewer deems worthy of notice in the nature department and inevitably purchase the recommended titles. Eleanor Roosevelt Buying Pears and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Kippa Matthews This is a fantastic time of year for a theatre reviewer – it's just like, well, Christmas. The Borrowers; The Mouse and His Child; Robin and His Merry Mam!; Dial M for Murgatroyd 2012-12-23T00:04:15Z

“Christie’s art is, as always, breathtaking, uniting folk art and sleek modern gestures with a graceful dynamism that calls to mind Jacob Lawrence and Benny Andrews,” our reviewer, Maria Russo, said. The New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2016 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

An earlier edition of the script won favorable notice from a Times reviewer, who called it "an incisive look into the surreal world of first responders." New works pepper Seattle stages this month 2010-08-05T20:35:00Z

“Waste,” our reviewer, Anna Clark, commented, “is written with warmth, grace and clarity. Its straightforward faith in the possibility of building a better world, from the ground up, is contagious.” New in Paperback: ‘The Promise’ and ‘Whereabouts’ 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

While some Bangladeshis in London complained that the book unfairly painted them as ignorant and narrow-minded, reviewers praised Ms. Ali as an exciting new voice in immigrant fiction. ArtsBeat: A Different, Happy Ending for Diana? Monica Ali Novel Imagines a Future 2011-01-07T17:04:27Z

Mary Quattlebaum is a children’s author and a regular reviewer for The Washington Post. The National Book Award Finalists in Young People’s Literature 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

Their defections, timed to coincide with the third - not fourth - revised opening date, drew a furious response from the show's producers and threatens to upend the often cozy relationship between reviewers and show backers. Reviews of 'Spider-Man' musical draw backers' ire 2011-02-08T07:02:08Z

I’m bound by reviewers’ ethics not to err on the side of the explicit, but I will say that the most memorable shock tactics in the original film are recycled with minor variations in . Prometheus: Alien Minus One 2012-06-05T13:20:45Z

“Maybe they were so common that reviewers at the time didn’t always comment” on the color, seeing no “need to highlight it.” Technicolor at 100: Saturation and Subtlety in Filmmaking 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

The reviewer makes many assumptions about what is known and what is not commonly known about history. Review: John Leguizamo Goes for Easy Laughs in ‘Latin History’ 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

Rather than rectify K-12 inequities, higher education magnifies them, the author argues, in what our reviewer, Tara Westover, called “a powerful reckoning with just how far we’ve allowed reality to drift from our ideals.” New in Paperback: ‘Squeeze Me’ and ‘The Inequality Machine’ 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

Writing in The Washington Post, reviewer Heller McAlpin said, “ ‘The Mockingbird Next Door’ is warm yet wistful, a lament for the books Harper Lee never wrote. Harper Lee objects to new book about her by Marja Mills

Martha Anne Toll is a Washington D.C.-based fiction writer and book reviewer. Review | In Maisy Card’s ‘These Ghosts Are Family,’ resentments are passed down from one generation to the next 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Tom Perrotta, called the story “a work of outsize ambition and remarkable craft, a monumental assemblage of competing and complementary fictions, a novel that contains multitudes.” Paperback Row 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile with similar but more sombre links to the mystery of death, reviewer Smilez sent in a wonderful critique of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize-winning novel: Finding Violet Park by Jenny Valentine. Reader reviews roundup 2013-07-19T09:06:14Z

The title alone should have given reviewers cause to dispatch the tome, unopened, straight into the waste bin. Marco Rubio’s real disqualification: New video outlines bizarre religious faith — and he wants to govern by it 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z

Although his paper was peer reviewed — ordinarily the gold standard of scholarly rigor — the reviewers were most likely specialists in Romance languages, since the paper was published in a journal of Romance Studies. The strange quest to crack the Voynich code 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z

The state of things encourages a reviewer to class “Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America,” by James Poniewozik, as recommended reading for hiding under the covers or sheltering in place. A New Book Argues That Trump Is Television in Human Form 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

Studios are further along in weaning other reviewers off discs. In awards season, movie leakers are 'Enemy Within' 2011-01-27T13:48:00Z

It is “smart and knowing and absorbing,” our reviewer Kurt Andersen writes. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

Mark Jenkins is a music reviewer and the co-author of “Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation’s Capital.” ‘The Half That’s Never Been Told,’ by Doctor Dread 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Many reviewers of The Golden Mean commented upon the risks of attempting a first novel from the great Aristotle's perspective. The Sweet Girl by Annabel Lyon – review 2013-01-17T09:00:01Z

These are mere quibbles, the kind reviewers are paid to make, I suppose. Stephen King Reviews Tana French’s ‘Extraordinary’ New Novel 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

When David Grossman’s novel “Falling Out of Time,” about parents grieving for dead children, came out in 2014, some reviewers suggested that the poetic fable read like a play. Fable of grief has clipped wings at Theater J 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

As our reviewer, Katherine Rosman, put it, “The book saves its firepower for the cataclysmic combination of Neumann’s gift for salesmanship, addiction to fund-raising and focus on his personal wealth.” New in Paperback: ‘How Beautiful We Were’ and ‘The Cult of We’ 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

My weekly What to See blog on Fridays has a number of regular contributors to the comments thread, many of whom are as indefatigable and perceptive as any professional reviewer. Regional theatre coverage is good ? let's make it great 2010-05-28T06:06:00Z

Cassara, a 28-year-old graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, is not transgender — and at least one reviewer deemed the transgender characters in his book less fully realized than the gay ones. The Coming of Age of Transgender Literature 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

The Guardian newspaper's reviewer, Theo Tait, said it was "no masterpiece, but it's not bad at all: intelligent, workmanlike, and often funny." Rowling's first novel for adults goes on sale 2012-09-27T14:38:08Z

Shouldn't it be possible to draw on the resources and talents of non-professional reviewers around the country? Get out more 2010-05-26T15:56:00Z

Another star reviewer Anthony Burgess squeezed his novel-writing into the moments when he was not teaching, or composing music, or drinking, or writing screenplays, or living the life of Riley. Against type: Writers with other careers 2012-11-26T15:30:05Z

For the next two days, Smith continued his newfound food reviewer career. Diamond Princess passenger tweets food reviews during coronavirus quarantine 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z

“The lowest points were in 2012 — when there were only nine female reviewers compared to 79 male reviewers — and in 2013, when Wieseltier’s section published four reviews written by women,” Chang wrote. Perspective | Canning O’Reilly and other media men won’t change a thing. Here’s what would. 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

Jojo Rabbit received one- and two-star reviews in the Guardian and three stars from the Observer, with reviewers calling it “intensely unfunny”, “smug” and “oddly indecisive”. Taika Waititi says Jojo Rabbit's six Oscar nominations vindicate risks of making 'divisive' film 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

Ernest Hemingway adopts the writer's traditional stance towards the reviewer. How writers review their critics 2010-09-22T09:47:00Z

One reviewer called it “absurd” and “impossible to imagine,” but the event has solid support from other sources. ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ and the History in Historical Fiction 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

One group of reviewers has given the film a thumbs down: those who work to limit what they call frivolous lawsuits. Television: Documentary Gives Hot Issue Caffeinated Jolt 2011-06-24T19:54:57Z

Mary Quattlebaum is a children’s author and reviewer of teen fiction for The Washington Post. What does feminism mean now? Wise words from Mindy Kaling, Roxane Gay and others. 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

The Times reviewer Glenn Kenny described it in March as “peaceful but troubled.” The Power of Memories: ‘Muriel’ and ‘Cemetery of Splendor’ 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

I tried very hard both at the New Statesman and the Sunday Times to find and use more women reviewers – but I also remember being attacked for not doing better. Gender balancing the books 2013-06-08T07:00:00Z

During her lifetime, Jackson’s offbeat novels, combined with her fascination with witchcraft, ghosts and haunted houses, made her a difficult figure for reviewers to place. ‘Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life’ 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

Even in the 1840s, this sense of expectation coloured the response to Dickens’s series of seasonal books, which came to seem, as one reviewer put it, as inevitable as the Christmas goose. Bah, humbug! The many faces of Scrooge 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z

Until you read the book yourself, keep your wand drawn to ward off the summaries of enthusiastic fans and clumsy reviewers. Review | Susanna Clarke’s infinitely clever ‘Piranesi’ is enough to make you appreciate life in quarantine 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

Like most reviewers, I've warned of the alarming brutality while praising the film's strong points. The Killer Inside Me: can the violence be justified? 2010-06-12T23:06:00Z

“One of the problems we have now because of social media and the internet is that everybody is a critic, everybody is a film reviewer,” says Schrader. Paul Schrader: ‘I’ve made some important films. Dog Eat Dog is not one of them’ 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

But the reviewers were minor players when it came to hating the book. Guardian book club: Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho 2010-07-14T09:13:00Z

From “The Rhythm Club” to last season’s “Beaches,” the new musicals Signature rolls out often come across to reviewers as undercooked — not uninteresting, just not wholly satisfying. Eric Schaeffer: As his Signature Theatre celebrates its 25th year, any regrets?

Many TV shows and movies are based on previously written material and no one requires that the reviewer/recapper read those. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 2: The Wounds We Carry 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z

In her first big Broadway success, as the star of "Jamaica" in 1957, reviewer Richard Watts Jr. called her "one of the incomparable performers of our time." Legendary singer Lena Horne dies 2010-05-10T05:35:00Z

With younger kids in mind, the music and sound effects that underscore big action/swordplay sequences are so loud that children sitting near this reviewer occasionally covered their ears. ‘Peter Pan’ flies high in panoramic performance at Tysons Corner Center 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

Yet while the actor's "bravura acting" drew praise in Time Out New York, its reviewer felt it did not stop Bernard Pomerance's play being a "clunky chestnut". Cooper takes Elephant Man to Broadway 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

“It is the prose itself that provides the lasting affirmation,” our reviewer, Martin Amis, wrote, “and underlying it all the lavishness, the freely offered gift, of his divine energy.” Paperback Row 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

I doubt if this reviewer has had as much experience in such matters as I have. Peeved, Irritated and Annoyed: Early Letters to the Editor 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

The new trailer for a much-awaited film by a very smart director drops just after an odd announcement by a reviewer that he would not review the film. Angry Video Game Nerds, calm down about “Ghostbusters”: It’s still a comedy about ghosts and those who bust them 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

These original essays by a New Yorker staff writer whose voice our reviewer, Maggie Doherty, called a mix of “force, lyricism and internet-honed humor” is a millennial examination of personal essay writing itself. New in Paperback: ‘Wildhood’ and ‘Beaten Down, Worked Up’ 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

A hostile reviewer in the Sunday Times begged to differ with the Guardian's over-the-top "novel of the century" claim. I loved Jonathan Franzen not wisely but too well 2010-10-07T16:28:00Z

Though she was fully aware of the potential controversy of her charges, she never intended for her book to be the hatchet job that many reviewers believed it to be. Katherine Duncan-Jones, Who Cast Shakespeare as a Boor, Dies at 81 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

In April Mr. Diaz was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, causing book reviewers around the country to say, who? A Debut Novel. A Tiny Press. A Pulitzer Finalist. 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

He was grateful that Yaddo housed “no censuring reviewers to bring me up on the charge of beginner’s luck.” Philip Roth Receives Yaddo Artist Medal — In Person 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

And then I glanced at the back cover: There were seven reviewers of Volume 3 quoted, and my name wasn’t among them. Review | 12 books I should have reviewed this year: A critic’s lament 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z

However Strand, the NYT reviewer, whose palate is undoubtably more refined than that of Guardian staff, reported the same croissants to be “the finest you will find anywhere in the world”. So this is what the 'world's best croissants' look like. But how do they taste? 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

The book reviewers are chosen by commissioning editors, they don't choose themselves, and their judgments, if the editor is doing his job properly, must be properly backed up. Are Amazon reader reviews killing off the critic? 2012-08-29T09:59:50Z

"Raw, rough and relentless, it just keeps coming at you," says movie reviewer Soren Andersen. New DVDs | 'The Hunger Games,' 'The Raid' 2012-08-13T21:28:04Z

For a time the show was disdained by other film reviewers, who felt that its thumbs-up or thumbs-down verdicts reduced movie criticism to a mere yes or no — an argument that seems downright quaint today. Final Season for ?At the Movies? 2010-03-25T22:27:00Z

This “war narrative” by the winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature “hews closer to the Brothers Grimm than to Homer,” in the words of our reviewer, Sana Krasikov. New in Paperback: ‘Patsy’ and ‘Information Wars’ 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Ayana Mathis, called it “a brave foray into vast and difficult terrain” that “raises thorny questions about the cost of blackness.” New in Paperback: ‘The Vanishing Half’ and ‘Tangled Up in Blue’ 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

He sees writers clamoring for blurbs to entice reviewers who may not read a book unless it is recommended by a big-name author. Malcolm Gladwell Hands Out Book Blurbs Like Santa Does Presents 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

The reviewer even denigrates Bloom’s love of her daughter as a “bizarre and consuming fixation.” Philip Roth, ‘Middlemarch’ and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

“Our Time Is Now,” which appeared at No. 7 on last week’s hardcover nonfiction list, is, according to our reviewer, “a striking manifesto, a stirring indictment and a straightforward road map to victory.” Want to Be in Stacey Abrams’s Book Club? Sorry, It’s Family Only 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

Review products count as income; their tax value, as calculated by Amazon, can be a major factor in which products Vine reviewers choose to have delivered. The Secret Life of Amazon’s Vine Reviewers 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

“There are so many lovely moments in the book, beautiful passages of writing that speak to Beverly-Whittemore’s empathy and lyrical powers of description,” our reviewer Sarah Lyall writes. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

This was, reviewers decided, the sort of music – all playful brass parps and gorgeous string glissandos – that really only belongs in the dreams of children. The Mummers: 'We're honouring his spirit completely' 2011-01-20T22:18:01Z

Some reviewers, including at entertainment site The Wrap, bemoaned a lack of fresh ground in the director’s repertoire. Cannes critics warm to Ken Loach's dig at gig economy 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

A lot of reviewers were so caught up in trying to argue that monogamy doesn't make someone uncool, that they missed the point of the book. Can women be saved from bad sex? "Finding your desires is a conscious process," says author 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z

Some reviewers did not notice that the letter "e" was missing. The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman – review 2012-07-26T07:00:02Z

More than one reviewer complained that the multicourse vegan meals were too simple to satiate people who are accustomed to eating meat. Seeking Solitude in Japan’s Mountain Monasteries 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

Sometimes a reviewer just can’t wait to write about a book. Review | Lawrence Block and P.G. Wodehouse: How two prolific writers found their voices 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

This clever, witty tale of a beleaguered grandma who just wants to knit in peace “manages to feel both classic and ultracontemporary,” according to our reviewer, Michael Ian Black. Notable Children’s Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Jabari Asim, calls it a “consistently entertaining new book” in which “the relationship between fact and fiction provides an animating tension throughout.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Its publication is “a triumph for Pearlman’s distinctive storytelling, bringing it to a larger audience,” the board of the National Book Critics Circle, a group of 600 book reviewers, said in a statement. ArtsBeat: Edith Pearlman Wins National Book Award for Fiction 2012-03-09T02:52:36Z

Our reviewer, Lee Child, praised the novel, calling it a “fluent, mordant, authentic, propulsive narrative, wonderfully lit from within by an intriguing main character.” New in Paperback: ‘The Disordered Mind’ and ‘In the Garden of the Fugitives’ 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

Rather than a thumbs up or thumbs down or a star-rating, Netflix seems to be asking for a reviewer to issue a shrug. ‘Bloodline’: Will superb acting and family secrets make for another Netflix hit? 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

The findings show that publishing staff and professional reviewers are overwhelmingly white. White women of publishing: New survey shows a lack of diversity behind the scenes in book world 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

Everything else seems like a reviewer attempting to sound intelligent...yet falling short. Review: John Leguizamo Goes for Easy Laughs in ‘Latin History’ 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

If the revival received some of the best notices of the fall on Broadway, the response was something of an anomaly for van Hove, whose work more commonly divides reviewers and audiences. Broadway’s man of the moment: Ivo van Hove 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

He hasn't read reviews for many years, which seems odd for such a prolific reviewer. John Banville: a life in writing 2012-06-29T21:55:12Z

Some reviewers have criticized "The Hobbit" for drawing out the original story, adding characters and taking oblique references from "The Lord of the Rings" appendices to create tension and a bad guy. Wizard garb helped McKellen re-conjure Gandalf 2012-12-12T15:40:14Z

Rowling type next?’ or ‘What might the average Yelp reviewer type next?’ Can algorithms be funny? Veterans of Clickhole and the New Yorker team up to find out. 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

Indubitably, there are excellent reviewers around, some with a devoted following, but most are indistinguishable from the unpaid ones. The film critic is dead. Long live the film critic 2010-04-07T14:52:00Z

On Page 9 of this issue, our reviewer writes, “‘The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois’ is quite simply the best book that I have read in a very, very long time.” The Best-Seller List Welcomes Oprah’s Latest Pick and an Eyebrow-Raising Gadget 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

The book is equally important in uncovering the ways in which historians long discounted the relationship, and became, as our reviewer correctly predicted, “the next-to-last word for every historian who writes about this story hereafter.” 17 Great Books About American Presidents for Presidents’ Day Weekend 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

Critically it’s been a dud, with reviewers baffled by the absence of humour. Bricking it: why the Lego movie franchise is on shaky foundations 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

Also look up the reviewer to see what else they have written. How to spot fake reviews on travel sites 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

That is, you’ve heard that it takes some sharp turns and goes places you didn’t expect to follow it to, and that it would be unsporting for a reviewer to say much more. Review: ‘Forever’ Is a Thrilling Story of Boring Love 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

Dining: Times reviewer Providence Cicero visited the Bellevue branch of Lunchbox Laboratory, and assures us that no one leaves the place hungry. 12 things to do this weekend 2012-04-13T22:36:47Z

Unlike Heti and her reviewers, Soderbergh, in Magic Mike, takes it for granted that the desire to be the object of a man’s reckless, aggressive lust is neither fetish nor pathology. Sheila Heti gets sex wrong 2012-09-28T23:30:00Z

As far back as Cannes, several reviewers at the French festival cited Cotillard as a sure bet for an Oscar nomination. Rust and Bone: Marion Cotillard and Oscar Mania 2012-11-23T10:40:31Z

The final project is set to be designed and coded with help from renowned musical game reviewer, Rebecca Mayes. The Gamecity Festival: the ten events you must not miss! 2010-10-25T11:42:00Z

Our reviewer, Thomas Chatterton Williams, praised the “disturbing and comprehensive analysis of recent campus trends.” New in Paperback: ‘Looking for Lorraine’ and ‘Evolution’ 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

Though many reviewers have questioned its necessity, the film rates 99% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. ‘Toy Story’ lives on, but should it have? 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z

“In Moniz’s collection,” our reviewer, Chelsea Leu, wrote, “the ordinary experience of being female is laced with a kind of enchantment.” New in Paperback: ‘The Vanishing Half’ and ‘Tangled Up in Blue’ 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

“Hers are very vital ghosts,” our reviewer wrote. What to Read by (and About) Hilary Mantel 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

The conventional reviewers’ wisdom about Pixar’s “Cars” movies is that they are colorful and engaging but hardly as breathtaking as much of the other output from that animation studio. Review: In ‘Cars 3,’ Lightning McQueen Faces an Existential Crisis 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

But there’s really no way to critique a story’s ending without giving it away, which, according to my mail, is the single most irritating thing a reviewer can do. Perspective | What book has the most disappointing ending? Readers have many opinions. 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z

The arts weekend just past was studded with famous names, and Seattle Times reviewers were out and about Thursday, Friday and Saturday to note them. Three days, seven Seattle arts reviews 2011-10-31T17:01:02Z

Is this bias within the play, or just the reviewer? ‘The Qualms,’ by Bruce Norris, at the Steppenwolf Theater 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z

Given the similarities to the real-life attacks on the city's transport system in 2005 that killed 52 people, some reviewers found watching the comedy an uncomfortable experience. Films poke fun at Jews, Muslims, suicide bombers 2010-04-09T11:19:00Z

Our reviewer, Elisabeth Egan, called this novel about two families — “white and Black, scattered across the North and the South” — a “poetic, spare, sometimes funny tale of ordinary people pining for meaningful connections.” New in Paperback: ‘The Travelers’ and ‘On Fire’ 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

As a lifelong atheist, from a multi generational atheist "Jewish" family, I just can't buy the "being Jewish" litany given here by either reviewer or author. How to Be a Jew in the Age of Trump? 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

A Time magazine reviewer praised its “flair and ferocity.” Betsy Drake, actress and writer who married Cary Grant, dies at 92 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

A reviewer named LoLinda, who declined to share her surname, did not recall writing a review for russet potatoes. What Does Amazon Know About Your Thanksgiving Groceries? 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

Maybe the relationship of the reviewer to the black experience is the haze that distorted the view. Review: In an Obama Biopic, the Audacity of Hagiography? 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

“The protagonist seems naïve to the point of stupidity, and it is surprising to this reviewer that she mastered shorthand and typing.” Ann Birstein, Memoirist and Novelist, Dies at 89 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

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

“It has become more engaged, and its reviewers have become more interesting,” Mitzi Angel said. A Scrappy Makeover for a Tweedy Literary Fixture 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z

But booksellers are confident "The Casual Vacancy" will be one of the year's best-sellers, whatever reviewers say. Rowling's first novel for adults goes on sale 2012-09-27T14:38:08Z

Oh, several other children’s authors and illustrators, and Washington Post children’s reviewers share their favorite books of 2020 below. Best children’s books of 2020 reveal a growing diversity 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

This reviewer, a long-ago tapper herself, remembers that Charles Cookie Cook called Ms. Conrad, his student and sometime partner, “Little Buddy.” Review: A Rigorous Tap Dancing Lesson in ‘What the Eye Hears’ 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

The reviewer, Charles Powell, probably thought that Eliot's "mad medley" represented the death of poetry. Poetry is not drowning, but swimming into new territory 2013-05-30T12:16:35Z

“Our new email communications will clearly articulate the phrase or sentences that are in violation of our policy, inviting the reviewer to make edits and resubmit their review,” Mr. Carter said. TripAdvisor Icon Will Identify Hotels Where Sexual Assault Occurred 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

Another problem academic reviewers of these websites have pointed out is that they often ask the same questions about a doctor regardless of her specialty. Should doctors withhold bad news? 2012-06-07T15:20:00Z

Miles’s novel mimics a New Journalism narrative style, and our reviewer, Christopher R. Beha, called the book “a highly entertaining literary performance.” New in Paperback: ‘Force of Nature,’ ‘Feel Free’ 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

While it was, and still is, a modest place, this paper’s reviewer called it “the most exciting thing to happen to me in Manchester since the days of the Haçienda.” Can you learn to cook like a chef by watching YouTube? 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Edward Tenner, calls it “a tour de force, an engrossing fusion of scholarly research, professional experience and revelations from intrepid firsthand reporting.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

Its reviewer complained that Mr. Williamson had tried to cram too many events into one evening’s entertainment, but called the first act “light and delightfully funny.” A Scandal-Scalded Murdoch as a Song-and-Dance Man 2013-09-03T21:50:31Z

Book bloggers and online reviewers begin to recommend it but advise against giving it to boys since most of the characters are girls. Perspective | What are we teaching boys when we discourage them from reading books about girls? 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

In the past decade, he has been cut out of documentaries and boycotted by film reviewers. 'Do I really care?' Woody Allen comes out fighting 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

Michelin’s anonymous reviewers rate restaurants in about 28 countries and its stars are seen as a sign of top-notch dining around the world. Two more Washington restaurants shine with Michelin stars 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

I'm always disappointed when a movie I'm interested in learning about is reviewed by this reviewer. ‘Predestination,’ Starring Ethan Hawke 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

Philip Toynbee, with no journalistic experience, was sent out to cover the Middle East before finding his niche as one of the paper's regular book reviewers. David Astor: The pioneering editor who loved an underdog 2011-04-02T23:09:52Z

For many reviewers, the build-up led to a big breakdown when they finally saw it. Review: Angelina Jolie's 'Unbroken' Is Grand, But Not Quite Enthralling 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

These harsh lives are real; the reader can’t help but recognise the losers of the Celtic miracle as both damaged and fully aware of their plight: “savagely articulate”, in one reviewer’s words. Irish charm 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

Some reviewers found Mr. Flew’s reasoning less than impressive. Antony Flew, 87, Philosopher and Ex-Atheist, Dies 2010-04-17T02:21:00Z

The film, which received a "fresh" rating from only 29 of 111 reviewers tabulated by Rotten Tomatoes, was written by McCarthy and her husband Ben Falcone, who also directed. 'Transformers' crushes 'Tammy', 'Evil' to lead weekend box office 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

He is the son of Janet A. Edgar and Bryan P. Edgar of Savannah, Ga. The groom’s mother, who is retired, was a medical billing record reviewer for Health/ROI in Lake Success, N.Y. Mary Brunelli, Christopher Edgar 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z

As a neuroscientist/physician turned author, this reviewer applauds his ambition, and hopes that his extraordinary book recruits many more from both sides to the cause. The Book of Barely Imagined Beings by Caspar Henderson - review 2012-12-25T07:00:15Z

Our guest reviewers discuss glo-fi and why Pitchfork's not as good as it used to be. The incontinent Kings of Leon pigeons review this week's singles 2010-07-28T13:09:00Z

However, the film split critics with one unimpressed reviewer calling it a "promotional documentary" and "an unimaginative concert movie." Guns N' Roses plan 3D concert film 2013-01-22T16:18:16Z

Times reviewer called "transcendent," runs through Nov. 9. Deaf West Theatre makes Tony winner 'Spring Awakening' all its known 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Do reviewers not realize that “musical staging” is its own form of directing? The Best Theater of 2017 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

As a reviewer, tasked with making sense of the magic, I’ve got my work cut out for me. Review | The appeal of ‘And I Do Not Forgive You’ is hard to articulate but impossible to resist 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

He rose above criticisms of his own music, but when a colleague's commission was slated as a waste of taxpayer's money, he petitioned for the removal of the reviewer. Arne Nordheim obituary 2010-06-28T15:07:00Z

British director Loach's latest, on the other hand, was described by one reviewer as "inert". Dolan's troubled teen wows at Cannes, Loach film disappoints 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

His American publishers didn't like it, and it's proved divisive among early readers and reviewers. A life in writing: Jonathan Coe 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z

One reviewer said it best: "Super easy recipe that tastes great!" Our best meal-prep ideas for better weeknight lunches and dinners 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z

“The result,” journalist and pop music reviewer Larry Rohter wrote in The Washington Post, “is a fascinating mixture of Continental elegance and American soulfulness.” Svend Asmussen, irreverent jazz violin virtuoso, dies at 100 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

What follows, our reviewer writes, is “a nation exposed over and over to itself, as in an enormous mirror, part trite situation comedy, part science fiction, part cop show.” Pandemics in the Pages of ‘The Stand,’ ‘Severance’ and More 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

The reviewer for Les Echos was more measured, while observing that no one could have dreamed that one day Tennessee Williams would crash the house of Molière. Theater: In the Land of Moli?re, an Oriental 'Streetcar' 2011-02-14T16:43:52Z

Amazon reviewers, on the other hand, were rather more eclectic, and in particular seemed to be more supportive of debut authors. Amazon v newspaper: which is the more valuable review? 2012-05-22T11:05:28Z

“To call it a rough read at times would be an understatement,” a reviewer wrote in Publishers Weekly. Larry Kramer’s Novel ‘The American People’ Adds a Gay Dimension to History 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

Flanders chronicles the rise of alphabetization in the several millenniums after the alphabet’s birth in Upper Egypt in what our reviewer, Deirdre Mask, called an “original and impressive book.” New in Paperback: ‘Gay Bar’ and ‘Afterparties’ 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

The reviewer wasn’t wrong—the stories are indeed finely wrought. What Kind of Worker Is a Writer? 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

All the better: grandma probably identified Heathcliff with Cliff Richard, who commissioned a musical based on the book – "Withering Rather than Wuthering," sneered one reviewer – as a vanity project in the 1990s. The classics revisited 2011-08-20T23:04:02Z

Follow the hype but take chances on shows that maybe the reviewers haven't seen yet. Kooky queen of comedy 2011-07-16T23:06:31Z

As a reviewer, I start to wonder if I should take the bait. Meghan Daum to Millennials: Get off My Lawn 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

“Ohler employs the present tense throughout,” our reviewer Ariana Neumann writes, “imbuing his account with a sense of urgency and reminding us that the past in many ways remains our present.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

“Cruelty entwines with care everywhere,” our reviewer, Chelsey Johnson, wrote, “from Kingston to Brooklyn.” New in Paperback: ‘Patsy’ and ‘Information Wars’ 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

“Despite the shocking cruelty depicted in this book, Moore also infuses the pages with great humanity — humanity capable of great horror and even greater beauty,” our reviewer, Ijeoma Oluo, writes. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

The staging can be “dowdy,” but the ballet remains “indispensable,” writes reviewer Lewis Segal. Essential Arts & Culture: A 2017 rewind, lots of 'Nutcracker' and Bach, art and selfie marketing 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

In her “intimate,” “witty,” sometimes “acerbic” account, the veteran Times congressional reporter is “often a few steps ahead of the newcomers,” our reviewer, Ellen Fitzpatrick, wryly observed. New in Paperback: ‘Brother & Sister’ and ‘The Resisters’ 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

Here are our reviewers picks for the best concerts of 2016: Seattle critics pick the best concerts of 2016 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

The reviewers didn’t find the book so appetizing, and some sharpened their knives. Pat Conroy, best-selling author of ‘Great Santini’ and ‘Prince of Tides,’ dies at 70 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

"What has to happen in a person's life," Riggan amusingly snarls to a prominent theater reviewer, "for them to become a critic?" In 'Birdman,' Alejandro G. Inarritu takes his doubts and lets them fly 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

Klay’s understanding of Colombia, the main theater of war in “Missionaries,” is the chief source of admiration for this reviewer. The Intricacies of Colombia’s War, Stitched Together in a Novel 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

For Vine reviewers, identifying information — names, email addresses, websites — can be construed as a solicitation for free products from non-Vine sources, which Amazon can decide is grounds for removal from the program. The Secret Life of Amazon’s Vine Reviewers 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

Ebert, who remains a prolific film reviewer for the Chicago Sun-Times and sees as many as four movies a day, called his new voice "Roger Jr" in a recent column for the newspaper. Mute Chicago film critic Ebert "voices" Oscar picks 2010-03-02T17:35:00Z

No sane person will read this book the way a reviewer has been conditioned to read books: straight through. ‘The Glorious American Essay,’ From Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

A reviewer signed as "Historian" posted some savage reviews on Amazon's Web pages, but had a weakness for one writer, celebrated author and Russia expert Orlando Figes. Harsh Amazon reviewer unmasked as author's wife 2010-04-19T16:49:00Z

One of our reviewers described this recipe as “light, refreshing, and delicious.” 25 Indulgent Strawberry Treats 2010-03-22T21:31:00Z

One reviewer called the book "too good for the Booker", but thanks to its nomination by a Norwegian librarian it won the €100,000 Impac prize and changed her life. A life in writing: Nicola Barker 2010-04-30T23:13:00Z

The Overlook Family Restaurant with its video gambling machines on North Skidmore Street, “a weirdo 1960s lounge,” as one Yelp reviewer put it, doubles for a casino in Reno. On the ‘Wild’ Movie Trail in Oregon 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

Masad is a fiction writer and reviewer living in New York City whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, Broadly, McSweeney's, the Chicago Tribune, Electric Literature, Tin House and Hobart. What to do after Orlando: Read LGBTQ stories 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

Early reviewers lavished praise on Ms. Hall’s performance in “Christine” — Variety described her as being “discomfitingly electric in the best role she’s yet been offered” — but the film’s subject made for a tough sell. A Possible Preview of Next Year’s Oscar Race 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

"There is a cadre of negative voters who act like a club and jump from reviewer to reviewer to condemn the villain du jour," says Harp. For online 'super reviewers' rewards go offline 2010-07-08T23:12:00Z

Many travelers said they trust reviewers with numerous postings more than those with only a few. Tips to stop tripping over TripAdvisor’s guest reviews 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

There's a large portfolio review section with a variety of distinguished reviewers but, more interestingly, Arles' squares and cafes during this time lend themselves to chance encounters with people who are passionate about photography. Photography festivals 2012-06-28T11:08:37Z

Some reviewers also praised Radcliffe but America's most influential theatre critic, Ben Brantley of the New York Times, was not overwhelmed. Radcliffe meets challenge 2011-03-28T10:13:52Z

No, not even excitable reviewers like me on the morning after a show like this one. Review: ‘On the Twentieth Century,’ With Kristin Chenoweth, Opens on Broadway 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

But a New York Herald Tribune reviewer noted that “there is much to commend this oddly compelling independent production, not the least of which is a striking performance by Lola Albright.” Lola Albright, alluring actress in stylish ‘Peter Gunn’ TV series, dies at 92 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

They're the ones that I found most memorable as a reader, reviewer and children's/teen librarian at a public library. Kids' books that stand out from others on the shelf 2011-12-17T08:17:23Z

Where reviewers found The Sound of Music slow, sugary and mendacious, audiences discovered a heartwarming story about childhood, and a series of catchy, upbeat songs. How The Sound of Music led the way for the critic-proof hit musical 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

A sad day here in Book World: Our longtime book reviewer Carolyn See is retiring. Alas, farewell to Carolyn See’s wise world of words

Dark Knight Rises fans vented their fury on two US reviewers who criticised the new Batman film. Rotten Tomatoes squashes abuse from Dark Knight Rises fans 2012-07-18T15:49:36Z

Should a reviewer admit to not having heard the first two of the Schubert quartets in this recital of early pieces before? Cuarteto Casals – review 2012-10-11T16:44:30Z

Taylor is an amiable acquaintance and occasional Post reviewer, as well as a mainstay of the Washington mystery scene. Review | One critic’s summer reading list: From a scandalous memoir to obscure literary journalism 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

The guide said its reviewers were bowled over in particular by one of the dishes Kobayashi serves at his restaurant: a garden of crunchy vegetables, Scottish smoked salmon, a rocket foam and a lemon emulsion. Japanese chef wins first ever three-star rating in France 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

Your reviews excellently detailed the realism of the characters - confirming their authenticity for a teen audience: 'I felt every single thing Hazel described about her life' - opined reviewer Mariakozhuhar. Reviews roundup: your top reads this month! 2013-07-08T14:00:00Z

One easy-to-spot tell is that bogus reviewers often use a celebrity photo as their avatar. How to spot fake reviews on travel sites 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

The New York Times reviewer called the movie "about as substantial as a weather report". Nora Ephron 2012-06-27T17:17:21Z

But then he had thrown most of them into the Tiber, following the suggestion of a dismissive art reviewer. Art Review: Rauschenberg, Before Fame Struck 2014-05-08T20:35:43Z

It also unleashed a flood of hot takes, along with — in what may be a first — sniping between reviewers who didn’t like the film and scientists who did. Don’t Just Watch: Team Behind ‘Don’t Look Up’ Urges Climate Action 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

This is not a bad strategy, reminding a reviewer that you’re human. Review: Panti’s ‘High Heels in Low Places’ Delivers Identity Politics in Stilettos 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

So far, however, Munn's Zelig-like appearance in the lives of those he writes about has had a kind of mesmerising effect, not least on reviewers and readers. Michael Munn: the celebrity biographer reveals all 2010-07-24T23:05:00Z

Instead, the reviewer seems distracted by Leguizamo's background and seems concerned about how credibly latino he can possibly be. Review: John Leguizamo Goes for Easy Laughs in ‘Latin History’ 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

“A tough read,” our reviewer, Michael Ignatieff, said, because of its implications for American liberalism, its indictment of “our faith in our own empathy.” New in Paperback: ‘A Children’s Bible’ and ‘The Education of an Idealist’ 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z

In total, 84 percent of the films surveyed received more positive reviews from female reviewers than from men. The Tomatometer gender gap is real: We crunched numbers on reviews of 100 films aimed at women, and here’s what we found 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z

“This may be a story from the city’s outer margins, but it’s one that goes to the heart of questions roiling contemporary France,” our reviewer, Joumana Khatib, writes. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

With a Rotten Tomato certification currently in the teens, this drama about a man who can’t cope with a family tragedy had our reviewer Manohla Dargis calling it a “waste of talent and time.” Holiday Movies to See (or Skip) 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

"It's almost worth seeing the show for her alone," continues reviewer Dominic Maxwell. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 'entertains' 2014-04-03T11:09:18Z

Then came the criticism: the book was ableist, racist, and the early reviewers were paid shills. 'It sounds dorky, but it's really fun': inside the cosy world of bookstagram 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

But in the studio, his new record label, Impulse, wanted easygoing songbook albums that would win over reviewers and buyers. ‘Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album’ Review: Sitting in the Studio With Coltrane 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

“It aims at the palatial and attains the sham-palatial,” the anonymous reviewer wrote, describing the projecting cornice as “huge, umbrageous, unmeaning, irrelevant” and characteristic “of the cheapest and vulgarest kind of tenement houses.” Streetscapes: Ring Around the Collar at 535 Park Avenue 2013-08-01T21:28:06Z

“Even if ‘Blue’ isn’t a play that sends you out thinking,” the reviewer, Bruce Weber, wrote, “you might leave whistling.” Phylicia Rashad to Direct ‘Blue’ at the Apollo Theater 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Jay Jennings, called the account “a tale as fresh as the headlines.” New in Paperback: ‘Working’ and ‘Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know’ 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Maud Newton, praised the book, writing, “It’s the concreteness of Wagner’s own search, in all its messy detail and lingering uncertainties, that underscores our interconnectedness.” New in Paperback: ‘King Zeno,’ ‘The Monk of Mokha’ 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

This reviewer would like to propose a moratorium on women whose glowing souls can be glimpsed through their green eyes. Struggling to Love, Work and Do the Right Thing in Putin’s Russia 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z

“Embarrassing indulgences”? “Reviled species”? I tried to imagine a reviewer who bemoaned the tedium of having to read any novel, or any book of poetry, before launching into her snooty tirade against a specific example. Reviewer Bias, Imperial Tongues and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

"When even Massenet can seem deep, something remarkable is going on," said one reviewer about the new production of Manon earlier this summer. The Royal Opera on tour in Japan 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z

“An uncle in El Salvador was assassinated in the political turmoil of civil war in the 1980s,” Sanchez wrote in a letter to reviewers that accompanied the novel’s galleys. Brave Teenage Refugees Seek a Home of the Free 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z

Daily Telegraph reviewer Neil McCormick said the band exceeded all expectations. Rolling Stones storm London; New York next 2012-11-26T17:16:06Z

The reviewers were disobliging and they included me. Nicole Kidman in Cannes: her tortuous journey to Queen of the Croisette 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

Her illustrations, known for bold colors and a style reminiscent of folk art, were praised by reviewers for their great tenderness and crackling vitality. Vera B. Williams, Who Brought the Working Class to Children’s Books, Dies at 88 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

This was in part due to the "snobbishness" of London reviewers, who thought sport was not a suitable subject for theatre. Harold Brighouse's The Game: Pampered stars, bankrupt clubs ? a tale of football in the 1920s 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z

So far, the updates haven’t produced any new classics, but they’ve given reviewers a chance to moan in unison about “a truth universally acknowledged.” ‘Eligible’: A modern retelling of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

For bored or outraged critics, jukebox musicals are Broadway’s most cynical money-grabbers, mainly good for offering reviewers the chance to see who can gag the loudest. Perspective | Are jukebox musicals like ‘The Cher Show’ dumbing down Broadway, or just giving us what we want? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

Suffice it to say, many reviewers feel differently. 'Aloha': Cameron Crowe rom-com gets cold greeting from critics 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

“Most definitely, this is a singer with a big future,” wrote a Seattle Times reviewer of the YAP production. Local singer Marcy Stonikas stakes a claim on Seattle Opera’s main stage 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

Her story, “both happily and unhappily,” our reviewer, Katharine Grant, quipped, “is rather more than the sum of its rabbit parts.” New in Paperback: ‘Janis’ and ‘Grand Union’ 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z

In the face of such overarching eagerness, do a humble reviewer’s words have even a glancing significance for the box office? Review | The charms of Harry Potter work on Broadway — but read the books first 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

It was a surprising style, clear, and one reviewer said you could see through it down to the bottom of his meaning. Jim Harrison, Mozart of the Prairie 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

Over the years, some reviewers criticized Ai’s poetry as sensationalist, formally repetitive and unremittingly bleak. Ai, an Unflinching Poetic Channel of Hard Lives, Dies at 62 2010-03-28T02:20:00Z

Most reviewers slammed the movie, but it’s not nearly as awful, or offal, as its critical odor. The Vampire as Messiah in Dracula Untold 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

Campbell wrote about translations, and book titles, and clichés, and publicity campaigns, and the timidity of reviewers. Columns That Scrutinized, and Skewered, the Literary World 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

Needing money for his new life, Eliot landed a steady job in a London bank, while also launching a career as a lecturer, editor and reviewer. T.S. Eliot’s American childhood 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

The result is what our reviewer called “a strangely absorbing piece of investigation.” What to Read Before Heading to Ethiopia 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

I also spoke with other expert reviewers to see what they’re using. Best iPhone 5 cases on the market 2012-10-14T16:00:00Z

To this "reviewer", it seems as if they have missed a great opportunity to get back on track after the very hit-and-miss previous album. Readers' reviews: Muse, Kanye West Presents GOOD Music, Bloc Party 2012-10-01T17:17:06Z

The fashion reviewers at Style.com describe his recent and less-sinister creations as “severe,” “austere” and “ecclesiastical” — an upbeat assessment considering his enthusiasm for bitmap skulls. Playful and Sleek, With Subversive Twists 2010-08-02T14:35:00Z

Not one of the films is worthy of a major film festival or a reviewer’s time. Pretty Boys Gone Wild, Part 2: Robert Pattinson in Cosmopolis 2012-05-25T18:05:46Z

As the Washington Post's reviewer put it, this is a "call to arms, a call for help, a call for contributions, but also a call for volunteers". Half the Sky: how the trafficking of women today is on a par with genocide 2010-08-18T23:05:00Z

This is a fairly common affliction — among book reviewers as well as artists — but most people who suffer it find other ways to earn a living. Colm Toibin on the Fathers of Geniuses 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

In her statement, Rowling thanked her editor David Shelley, the publishing staff who worked on the book without knowing her identity, and the reviewers who praised it without knowing about her authorship. JK Rowling revealed as writer of crime novel 2013-07-14T16:55:56Z

The series has had the most viewers of any HBO Max Original reality show so far, the company said, and has gotten good marks from reality-weary reviewers. Can Cads Be Redeemed? A Raunchy Dating Show Investigates. 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

He “metaphorically killed her for it,” our reviewer, Alexandra Styron, reasoned. New in Paperback: ‘The Topeka School’ and ‘Brown White Black’ 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z

“You once wrote that you felt embarrassed when critics and reviewers classified your work as immigrant literature,” Mina says. Refugees Are Suffering. This Novelist Won’t Look Away. 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

And, yet, in most cases, reviewers and executives remain grumpy and grudging about the popularity of Agnes Brown. National Television Awards: the populist choice, for good or ill 2013-01-24T10:57:30Z

But South Coast Rep’s Hugo Armstrong seizes the role and makes it his own, writes reviewer Margaret Gray. Essential Arts & Culture: A new museum on the National Mall, Arthur Miller reimagined, the 'Vermeer' of L.A. 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

Our romance reviewer, Sarah Mac­Lean, didn’t think she was doing anything particularly radical by including a self-published book. Romance finally breaks The Post’s ‘No Self-Published Books’ rule 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

Mixing history, journalism and memoir, Tsui mulls the appeal of this “most commonplace and relaxing way of putting yourself in total peril,” as our reviewer, Mary Pols, phrased it. New in Paperback: ‘Why We Swim’ and ‘The End of October’ 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

Franco's collection of short stories "Palo Alto," released last year, received a mixed response by reviewers with some commenting it lacked insight and depth. James Franco signs deal with Amazon for first novel 2012-01-04T19:58:54Z

Our reviewers shortlist offerings with an emphasis on smaller venues. The 99-Seat Beat: 'ICE," 'Noises Off,' 'Bad Jews' and more 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

In 2004, he had published his first book, an acclaimed memoir called My Life in Orange; reviewers praised Guest's "astonishing maturity" and called it "poignant, funny and wise". The strange life of Tim Guest 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z

Whilst the WCA continues to garner considerable – and sometimes, but not always, justifiable – criticism, the independent reviewer has not seen or heard any compelling arguments or evidence that the whole system should be scrapped. Work capability assessment reform too slow, says independent review 2012-11-20T16:17:22Z

Virtually every reviewer at the first of two shows in London's O2 Arena on Sunday night mentioned the controversy over high prices, but almost all of them said it was worth it. Rolling Stones give satisfaction despite high prices 2012-11-26T11:45:03Z

Even such negative reviewers as Scott Tobias and Wesley Morris grudgingly admit that "The Help" is effective pop entertainment. What we talk about when we talk about "The Help" 2011-08-17T22:18:00Z

“O’Farrell, Irish-born, schooled in Scotland and Wales, and shaped by a childhood steeped in story and school days that always began with song, has a melodic relationship to language,” our reviewer Geraldine Brooks writes. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

In the words of our reviewer, Alida Becker, this novel is a “captivating and slyly subversive fictional paean” to the real women who worked thanklessly on the first Oxford English Dictionary. New in Paperback: Dana Spiotta and Juan Gonzalez 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

They added more than 1,000 endnotes, and in their acknowledgments thank a roster of peer reviewers so long and distinguished as to make any writer of history envious. A Landmark Reckoning With America’s Racial Past and Present 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

British reviewers were generally positive, but also called the book’s jokes “one note.” ‘Look Who’s Back’: Germans Reflect on the Success of a Satire About Hitler 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

But this 31-year-old reviewer with a nascent beer gut appreciated the commiserating while taking notes in a room doused in the dew of youth. Five Things: Katy Perry at Honda Center 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

The problem is that the New York Times rarely reviews a movie twice, so if you want to read about a given movie you're stuck with the reviewer assigned to that movie. ‘Predestination,’ Starring Ethan Hawke 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

Unfortunately, I agree with the comments of most of the other reviewers. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 2: The Wounds We Carry 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Mark Levine, praised Robinson’s “bold and angular visual style,” which features deceptively simple brushwork and masterly compositions. The New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2016 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Harold Evans, calls it an “iridescent” book and applauds the author’s “tenacity, his charm and his investigative genius, no other word for it.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

As our reviewer, Julie Buntin, put it, the book “offers a reminder that assumptions — whether about a place, or a person as close to you as your mother — never tell the full story.” New in Paperback: ‘Elastic,’ ‘Brass’ 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

Our reviewer called it “devastating yet unnervingly funny.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Many reviewers strive for a poetry of putrescence in how they excoriate their objects of dislike. Why our dislikes should be celebrated as much as our likes 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z

An August Washington Post report highlighted negative online reviews of Southern plantations where white reviewers decried tours that focused too much on “how hard it was for the slaves.” Wedding vendors romanticize slave plantations. The Knot and Pinterest will no longer promote them. 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Andrea Barrett, praised the book, which she described as “thick with details and even more profound in its rendering of the ways we save, or fail to save, one another.” Paperback Row 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

As one Amazon reviewer astutely pointed out, it's essentially a blend of National Enquirer-esque blind items and condescending gossip from unnamed "chums." Martha Stewart's brand has always been subversive 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

Last year, I attended the festival as a portfolio reviewer and spent a week with a group of curators and editors viewing the work of new, established and emerging photographers. Photography festivals 2012-06-28T11:08:37Z

Being an alcohol and pub reviewer, Giles comes across an awful lot of bags of crisps with his name on them, sometimes literally. New year raises the eternal question: is it possible to live a life without crisps? 2013-01-13T00:05:38Z

Over the years, she has passed in and out of Amazon’s overall Top 100 reviewer rankings. The Secret Life of Amazon’s Vine Reviewers 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Craig Morgan Teicher, praised the collection, writing, “In the guise of a poetry critic, Glück shows herself to be a kind of dark contemporary conscience.” New in Paperback: ‘Augustown,’ ‘The Storied City’ 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

Michelin’s reviewers placed 56 establishments in the one-star category for their “high quality cooking, worth a stop,” the same number as the year before. Michelin awards stars to 76 New York City restaurants 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

“Given that the reviewers were mostly comfortable conservatives, it is not surprising that the reviews were very positive, and contained minimal critique of the data, measures, or methods used in the studies.” Controversial gay marriage study provokes lawsuit 2013-04-20T16:00:00Z

Our reviewer wrote that the accumulation of similar details across the essays speak to the “gray permanence” of the situation in Israel. What to Read Before a Jewish Heritage Trip 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

Its final season is out now, and it's not only gone over well with reviewers, but pleased audiences pretty much across the board. Was "The Last Kingdom" better than "Game of Thrones"? 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z

I first saw “Faith Healer” in 1994, during my first year as a New York Times daily reviewer, a job I am leaving next month. ‘Faith Healer’ Review: Michael Sheen Stirs the Embers in the Ashes 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z

The most prolific reviewers have tax burdens in the tens of thousands of dollars. The Secret Life of Amazon’s Vine Reviewers 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

"With involved sentences, musings over moods and manners, and whatnot, the book is significant only for those anointed few who find Proust the genius of the age," our reviewer scoffed. Happy birthday Marcel Proust! 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

Regardless of the reviewer criticisms of Salmon's proposals, kudos to him for caring and taking action. Chris Hughes Made Millions at Facebook. Now He Has a Plan to End Poverty. 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z

"If this sort of interpretation represents the future of opera, then God help us all," wrote a reviewer for the Telegraph. 'William Tell' controversy over rape scene draws response from Placido Domingo 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

As our reviewer, Lauren Francis-Sharma, observed, “Beneath it all lie tragedy and myriad loves that are tender and rich and fraught.” New in Paperback: ‘Let the Lord Sort Them’ and ‘The Five Wounds’ 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

He rose as a lyricist/composer on the adulation from the critics of this newspaper when such reviewers could really kill or make a show. ‘Into the Woods,’ Disney’s Take on the Sondheim-Lapine Classic 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

One reviewer, Lydia, thought that the plot was too confused to be convincing. Sally Gardner's Maggot Moon wins the Carnegie medal 2013-06-19T12:45:17Z

Weirdly, the new film's Raymond shares the Observer restaurant reviewer's penchant for mimicry of the stars. Steve Coogan: forever Partridge? 2013-04-15T15:29:00Z

Our reviewer wrote that reading “The Evil Hours” will “make you a better and more humane citizen.” What to Read in the Face of Trauma 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Melanie Finn, says that this finely structured novel powerfully succeeds on an intimate scale as its humane characters try to navigate everyday cruelties. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

“The bad news is that the coming decades are unlikely to afford us many moments of calm and tranquillity,” our reviewer, Yascha Mounk, writes. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

This “engrossing, character-driven” book by a former New York Times labor reporter “spans a century of worker strikes, without overcondensing or oversimplifying, and with plausible suggestions for the future,” Zephyr Teachout, our reviewer, declared. New in Paperback: ‘Wildhood’ and ‘Beaten Down, Worked Up’ 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

Many reviewers said Holmes acquitted herself alongside a roster of Broadway veterans, who included Tony-winning actor Norbert Leo Butz as the brother who returns to his Midwestern family and unleashes havoc in the comedy. Actress Katie Holmes' Broadway show to close 2012-12-28T16:47:29Z

But his canvases impressed some reviewers and like-minded friends, including Eugene O’Neill, who shared his commitment to realism. Children's Books: ‘George Bellows,’ by Robert Burleigh 2012-07-04T15:00:00Z

Any good print reviewer today stands on the shoulders of giants. Are professional book reviewers better than amateurs? 2012-10-01T10:21:40Z

Even before digital self-publishing offered a corrective, it was a common view that agents, publishers, reviewers, readers and the law of averages would, between them, eventually discover the authors most deserving of an audience. Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman – review 2013-02-28T10:00:01Z

One reviewer called his book “When All You’ve Ever Wanted Isn’t Enough” a “useful spiritual survival manual.” Rabbi Harold S. Kushner, Reassuring Best-Selling Author, Dies at 88 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

Of the play, reviewer F. Kathleen Foley says the story never condescends to its subjects — even as they remain quirky — but, unfortunately, the directing puts too much emphasis on the twee. Essential Arts & Culture: The Bard and Harry Potter, art after Fidel, John M. Miller's passing 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

An earlier version of the biographical note with this review misstated the title of a novel written by the reviewer. A Novelist’s Exuberant Love Letter to a Mexican-American Clan 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

Critics, including some reviewers and historians, say “The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West” romanticizes white expansion and downplays the atrocities and pain inflicted on Native Americans. McCullough’s new book on pioneers’ history draws criticism 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

One crescendo comes in the segment called "Pollen II," which a reviewer for London's the Telegraph called "an almost eye-wateringly suggestive floor-bound exchange … representing the botanical fertilization process: steamy stuff, but immensely poetic." Taiwan's Cloud Gate Dance Theatre heads to L.A. with force of nature 'Rice' 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z

His third book “Life After God,” a short story collection, evoked contempt from one reviewer for rehashing the same “self-pitying, small-scale ennui of Generation X.” Gen X vs. Bill Clinton: Cobain and Clinton, “Seinfeld” and “Simpsons,” and the ’90s fight for America’s soul 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Alamy Our reader reviews have taken on a youthful tinge this week, with reviewers stepping up to put debuts forward for this year's Guardian First book award. Reader reviews roundup 2013-07-05T17:06:24Z

But it is an indisputable fact that women have often been excluded from or dismissed by the literary establishment, by reviewers, and by the prize system. Why we still need the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z

Some of his intensity, even his mania, can be sensed in this selection, which includes reviewers’ galleys, publicity material and inscriptions. ‘Gatsby to Garp,’ a Feast of First Editions at the Morgan 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

“As a longtime Washington correspondent, Hulse is an expert guide through the machinations on Capitol Hill,” our reviewer, Evan Thomas, writes. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

But reviewers concurred that when, at 75, he took on one of the most demanding roles in opera, Mr. Bergonzi had stayed too long at the table. Carlo Bergonzi, Masterful Operatic Tenor, Dies at 90 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Mona Simpson, called this comic novel “delightful.” New in Paperback: ‘How We Fight for Our Lives’ and ‘Exhalation’ 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

Unlike other fitness books, “Exercised” is not trying to sell any diets or fitness plans, our reviewer, Jen A. Miller, observed. New in Paperback: ‘The Fabric of Civilization’ and ‘The National Road’ 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

As such, “This Time Tomorrow” poses a hazard for any spoiler-conscious reviewer. Review: In ‘This Time Tomorrow,’ a Family Will Be Upended 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

It won high ratings but critical drubbings from reviewers who found Mr. Thicke flavorless. Alan Thicke, mainstay of TV comedy and star of sitcom ‘Growing Pains,’ dies at 69 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

You will get blokes who start a website, pretend they're reviewers and then slag off your show. The insiders' guide to the Edinburgh Fringe 2013-07-30T07:35:47Z

Even though the Kevin Costner sports drama is hitting theaters on Oscar weekend -- a traditionally slow period at the multiplex -- reviewers seem to agree the film is deserving of big crowds. Kevin Costner saves predictable 'McFarland, USA,' reviews say 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

Agree with some of the comments about the reviewer, too. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 8, Episode 3: Cut to Black 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z

Now, as the editor of Book World, I spend my days reading words written about other words, and a reviewer’s frequent criticism is that some poor scribe couldn’t transform language into emotions. Perspective | Google wants to write your emails for you. It’s time to draw the line. 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

Often, there was the feeling that what the reviewer had seen defied description. The Mythic Performances That Are Keeping Me Company 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

In order to distinguish more trustworthy product reviews from less trustworthy ones, Guha created a “Web of trust” system where Epinions users could rate their fellow reviewers as authoritative or not authoritative. You are more than a sexual fetish — but online dating sites might not think so 2014-03-15T20:30:00Z

Most male movie reviewers of the time shared the artists’ chivalry, aka sexism. Bathing Beauty: The Wet and Wild Life of Esther Williams 2013-06-13T15:28:43Z

Two to see in Seattle Seattle Times reviewers were out in force over the weekend. Love musicals? Two to see in Seattle 2011-12-05T23:13:44Z

When her novel Blood Canticle was slammed by anonymous reviewers on Amazon, she did the thing you are not supposed to do: logged on and answered back, with imperious fury. Anne Rice: 'I thought the church was flat-out immoral' 2010-10-24T19:59:00Z

By Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis On to your next pick now, which one reviewer has described as “a compelling and novel account of how humans come to be moral and cooperative”. Sharing is in our nature 2012-08-13T11:45:00Z

He was also a regular reviewer and commentator on musical matters for the BBC, and wrote scores for many radio dramas. Stephen Dodgson obituary 2013-04-15T15:52:17Z

“Great toy for any age, even 82,” said one reviewer. Top STEM toys are hands-on fun 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

Imagine being one of the reviewers who overlooked it, or, horrors, panned it. George Saunders Conducts a Cheery Class on Fiction’s Possibilities 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

By the end of 1956, some reviewers of “The Outsider” had openly revised their early, rapturous positions. Colin Wilson, Author of ‘The Outsider,’ Dies at 82 2013-12-12T17:03:34Z

Their antics earned the notice of Billboard magazine, whose reviewer wrote, “Martin and Lewis do an afterpiece that has all the makings of a sock act,” using showbiz slang for a successful show. Jerry Lewis, Mercurial Comedian and Filmmaker, Dies at 91 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

According to our reviewer, Daniel E. Lieberman, this account brings together investigative reporting, science and food writing to illustrate how the processed food industry manipulates “addiction-inducing sensations” to get Americans hooked on deeply unhealthy food. New in Paperback: ‘My Year Abroad’ and ‘Amoralman’ 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

Would I recommend “Prune” to Post readers, in my role as cookbook reviewer? ‘Prune’ the cookbook: Where’s the appeal?

While some admit to disappointment, there are also many reviewers willing to praise its cheap and cheerful charms. Inglourious Basterds' inspiration gets glorious DVD reception 2010-04-09T12:22:00Z

Neither of the previous reviewers actually bought the costume. 2018 Halloween costumes sparking controversy, from sexy 'maidens' to bloody trophy hunters 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

As our reviewer, Josh Lambert, observed, it celebrates, more broadly, “a traditional liberal faith in books themselves, and in their power to edify, soothe and unite people.” New in Paperback: ‘Wild Minds’ and ‘People From My Neighborhood’ 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

Mr. McKellen and Mr. Jacobi acknowledged that they have been criticized for their involvement in “Vicious,” which some reviewers have said offers a stereotypical depiction of a mincing, over-the-top gay couple. Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi, in a Gay Pride March Debut 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

Last year, on Reddit, a Vine reviewer who had been in the program since 2007 shared that she had been kicked out. The Secret Life of Amazon’s Vine Reviewers 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

Celia Wren, a longtime television reviewer for Commonweal, writes regularly about theater for The Washington Post. Review | Crafting isn’t just about making cute things. For Sutton Foster, it’s lifesaving. 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Despite this, its reviewer continued, "Sting's presence doesn't alter the chemistry of the show in any significant way". Sting 'electrifying' in own musical 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

The modest reviewer may find himself struck by the inadequacy of summarization. Hannah Arendt was right: Walter Benjamin is “sui generis” 2014-03-19T11:50:00Z

“There’s a kind of narrative, often dismissed as the ‘well-crafted, writing-class story,’ that deals in muted epiphanies and trains its gaze inward,” our reviewer, Rand Richards Cooper, writes. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

“All I got out of this book was a repeat of the original,” a reviewer wrote in a two-star Amazon review. ‘Fifty Shades’ Fan Fiction Assumes a Life of Its Own 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

Those on large political subjects like mankind’s dubious stewardship of the land, reviewers said, sometimes read better as prose than as poetry. Maxine Kumin, Pulitzer-Winning Poet, Dies at 88 2014-02-07T20:50:12Z

Anna Sturgeon, 27, a movie content reviewer from Cincinnati, agrees. Edible Souvenirs Need to Travel by Hand 2010-08-17T23:42:00Z

For that matter, this tale of a big-hearted operator at a telephone answering service who rearranges the unhappy lives of her clients into giddy harmony, struck reviewers as dated even in the 1950s. Theater Review: It Was Love At First Sound 2010-11-19T20:42:00Z

Why does this reviewer believe that William Hagerty "speaks Japanese"? And how proficiently does the reviewer believe that he speaks it? Eating Away at Government From the Inside 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

Los Angeles Times Also, reviewer Rick Schultz picks 15 chamber music concerts he’s anticipating this spring. Essential Arts & Culture: Our spring arts preview, more silence from MOCA, a feminist 'Shrew' 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

Times contributing reviewer David Pagel reports that this combination of artist/corporate/nonprofit “collaboration” is, above all, marketing. Essential Arts & Culture: A 2017 rewind, lots of 'Nutcracker' and Bach, art and selfie marketing 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

While Gary Wolfe is a superb critic, reviewer and teacher, Brian Stableford is something even rarer: fantastic literature’s leading scholar and historian. How great science fiction works 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Kurt Andersen, called the novel “smart and knowing and absorbing.” New in Paperback: ‘Spies of No Country’ and ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z

Recipe: Banana Pudding Pie This surprisingly easy recipe takes less than an hour to prepare and consistently receives top ratings from reviewers. 100 Ways to Cook Southern 2010-10-21T18:01:00Z

Our reviewer, Cree LeFavour, calls it an “intense, intelligent and bristly” book, both “angry and alive,” that’s distinguished by the narrator’s “breakneck pace, frightening honesty and biting, self-deprecating humor.” 13 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

Set in today’s Kolkata, this “fierce and assured” debut novel, which opens with a passenger train’s torching, depicts what our reviewer, Susan Choi, described as “exponential change triggered mostly by chance.” New in Paperback: ‘Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why’ and ‘Billion Dollar Loser’ 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

Louis Bayard is a novelist and reviewer in Washington. ‘The Bassoon King’ review: There’s more to Rainn Wilson than Dwight Schrute 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

The reviewer criticizes the film for using the Israeli occupation as a backdrop. Julian Schnabel Discusses His New Film, a Palestinian Story 2011-03-22T17:11:02Z

The Los Angeles Times’s reviewer liked the special effects and the “endless views of healthy young torsos gyrating to the rhythms.” Bert I. Gordon, Auteur of Mutant Monster Movies, Dies at 100 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Daisy Goodwin, called the novel “a mordant observation of the palimpsest of arrogance and resentment” surrounding Britain’s dealings with its neighbor. New in Paperback: ‘Where Reasons End’ and ‘Why We Can’t Sleep’ 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z

The reviewer was also stymied by Tolstoy’s form. 130 Years Ago: ‘War and Peace’ Finally Published in English 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

In a career spanning five decades, the Chicago Sun-Times film reviewer won a huge international following thanks to his brilliant, often acerbic, but always engaging criticism. Roger Ebert: share your favourite quotes 2013-04-05T14:30:29Z

Our reviewer, Rich Cohen, called the book “the literary equivalent of breathing life into a figure made of clay.” New in Paperback: ‘Somebody With a Little Hammer,’ ‘The Leavers’ 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

The Facebook spokeswoman did not identify what would trigger an appeal being elevated to a human reviewer, or if there was a codified process by which that would happen. Why Is Facebook Rejecting These Fashion Ads? 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

“It comes down to the reviewer’s judgment,” said Aaron Wilt, one of the founders of Intimate Rose. Why Did Facebook Reject These Ads? 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

The Last Hotel,” by the Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy, has been seen at the Royal Opera House and the Edinburgh International Festival, where one reviewer found it “searingly powerful.” At an opera festival, tales of drug cartels. At opera houses, same old song. 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

As a reviewer, it’s my job to at least make a scratch at describing the plot of the novel, but as a fellow novelist, I balk at giving more than a few bare details. Stephen King Reviews Tana French’s ‘Extraordinary’ New Novel 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

Some reviewers have said the hack has worked while others have said it does not, adding to the confusion. 'Lemon coffee' trend on TikTok shouldn't be done, health experts say 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

Now that human reviewers are involved, it’s time to get creative and slip your résumé into a box of gourmet doughnuts, as one San Francisco marketing whiz did — right? Work Advice: Résumés, Part 2: Winning over the humans 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

The reviewer says Proulx’s  “700-plus-page takedown of the American timber industry” will likely be received well in trendy Seattle where the author now lives but less well in rural “Weyerhaeuser country.” Memorial Day 2017: What to read, watch this holiday weekend 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Laura Miller, praised many of the collection’s cyberpunk thrillers, alien tales and “good old-fashioned science-fiction yarns shot from new angles.” New in Paperback: ‘Crudo’ and ‘How Long ’til Black Future Month?’ 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Namwali Serpell, called it “lyrical,” “remarkable,” and “breathtakingly skillful” in the way it manages to “solve the riddle” of how to “sing” the inherently complex idea of “the woman at war.” New in Paperback: ‘Running Home’ and ‘The Shadow King’ 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z

A reviewer described Mr. Finkel’s distinctive visage: “His cheeks are two doormen flanking the long sloping awning of his nose. His darting eyes can illuminate or annihilate.” Fyvush Finkel, Pillar of Yiddish Theater, Dies at 93 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z

“Lucky Break” received positive notices in Britain from actors and book reviewers. Esther Freud?s ?Lucky Break? Explores the Actor?s Life 2011-10-30T04:03:33Z

“Warlight” is a novel that presents a challenge to the reviewer, since it would be a disservice to reveal too much of what happens. Wartime Acts, Postwar Retribution: A Mother’s Risky Legacy 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Contributing reviewer Margaret Gray writes that he plays the dramatic, insecure Hedwig with aplomb — in a performance that is “inexpressibly, addictively wonderful.” Essential Arts & Culture: A wondrous Hedwig, Renaissance music remade, Boyle Heights gallery crimes 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer called this book, published in 1969, “a reading windfall — compelling, memorable, superbly executed.” Pandemics in the Pages of ‘The Stand,’ ‘Severance’ and More 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

It was once frequented by Ernest Hemingway and is still hugely popular, but that has not stopped TripAdvisor reviewers describing it as “cramped” with “narrow stairs”. Is Instagram changing the way we design the world? 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

But to help me nail this pick, I also interviewed several of the top headphone reviewers around. A great noise-canceling headphone 2012-09-09T16:00:00Z

As Alissa Quart, our reviewer, put it, “it would be unconditional, like love.” New in Paperback: ‘Invisible Americans’ and ‘Hunter’s Moon’ 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

Viewers, reviewers and executives who remember when the phrase "wall-to-wall Dallas" served as a terrible warning of the possible consequences of the Americanisation of British drama regard the current era with astonishment. State of the nation 2011-03-29T11:25:31Z

And fat is “a socioeconomic marker,” our reviewer, Lydia Millet, explained, praising Thomas’s “sharp,” sadness-tinged humor. New in Paperback: ‘The Dutch House’ and ‘The Nation City’ 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

A recent biography of Grohl was criticized for having too little Grohl in it — perhaps, one reviewer suggested, because he’s too nice to make for an interesting subject. Dave Grohl: A back-aching, coffee-guzzling, minivan-driving classic rocker 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

Most of the essayists are well-established writers of a certain age who, like their editor — indeed, like this reviewer — are slightly too young to have experienced the Beatles contemporaneously. Ask me why: Great writers on the Beatles songs they love most 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

The main risk, she says, is that some Vine reviewers can be picky. The Secret Life of Amazon’s Vine Reviewers 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

A reviewer and a critic play different roles, though the same person can take them on at different times. Adam Mars-Jones: 'The only bad review is one whose writing is soggy' 2012-02-10T13:50:00Z

This is a tricky month for film reviewers. Peter Bradshaw on World Cup films 2010-06-16T21:15:00Z

"He could very well be the single most important Americana artist in recent history," gushed one reviewer. New band of the day – John Fullbright (No 1,471) 2013-03-14T16:01:50Z

One reviewer wrote, "you can smell the cannabis rising from his hoodie." "The Killing's" real killer 2011-05-22T18:01:00Z

“Icebound,” our reviewer, Rachel Slade, wrote, “is a reminder that there was once a time when things were unknown,” when Europe still “wondered what Edens lay beyond, waiting to be discovered.” New in Paperback: ‘Harlem Shadows’ and ‘The Black Church’ 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z

The mystery here is almost secondary to the humor, which is very broad — kids may crack up sooner than this reviewer did. Young Sleuths Hot on the Trail of Their Own Identities 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

Other reviewers noted the movie’s recycling of elements from “Mean Streets,” “American Graffiti” and “Rocky.” ‘Saturday Night Fever’ at 40: You Should Still Be Dancing 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

Rooting for One Player in Baseball Politics: Dad The trouble with baseball movies like “Trouble With the Curve” is that they tempt reviewers to reach for hackneyed sports metaphors. Movie Review: ‘Trouble With the Curve,’ With Clint Eastwood and Amy Adams 2012-09-20T21:56:24Z

One reviewer wrote: "There is no surer or more fatal sign of the decay of a language than in the interpolation of barbarous terms and foreign words." Former OED editor covertly deleted thousand of words, book claims 2012-11-26T20:17:22Z

British reviewers have piled on the superlatives, admiring the show’s thematic audacity, moral severity and all-out razzmatazz. | 'Enron': At the Broadhurst Theater, Revisiting a Scandal 2010-04-28T02:26:00Z

The reviewer for the Times wrote, “Wonderful is the nearest adjective. . . . Oklahoma! could be called a folk operetta; but whatever it is, it’s very good.” An “Oklahoma!” for Today 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

For Michal Turecki, a food reviewer for the popular website Street Food Polska, a milk bar near his grandmother’s old apartment in Krakow is an essential part of his memories. In Poland, Communist-Era Restaurants Are Perfect for the Moment 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

My visit as a reviewer before the show’s opening meant that I had a different Kusama experience than most people who will queue up for the boxes. Perspective | I went to Kusama and all I got was this lousy selfie 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

A huge kerfuffle ensued, but the Guardian's reviewer, Ben Pimlott, concluded it was all a storm in a teacup. Critics not sold on Oprah book 2010-04-12T18:54:00Z

The next year, a perceptive reviewer detected “a grave, private urgency” in his work. Review | Bob Thompson died young, but his colorful jazz- and Old Master-inspired paintings speak to the ages 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

As a reviewer, I’ve always regarded myself as a generalist, lurching from a novel this week to a biography or work of history the next, occasionally interspersing an essay or rediscovering a neglected classic. Review | Robert E. Howard became famous for creating Conan. But that warrior was only the beginning. 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

In the spirit of fairness, we decided to let the band have their say, and review the reviewers who put them in this enviable position. Don't believe the type 2010-07-02T23:02:00Z

According to our reviewer, Gordon S. Wood, Oakes has written, through this detailed chronology of the political struggle between Northern abolitionists and Southern slaveholders in Congress, a “very solid, carefully and rigorously argued book.” New in Paperback: ‘Let the Lord Sort Them’ and ‘The Five Wounds’ 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

I am not, as a book reviewer, in any position to adjudicate this dispute, and Dr. Corkin is not here to speak for herself. ‘Patient H.M.’ Recalls the Story of a Surgery That Took a Man’s Memories 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

Every regular reviewer gets a vote, but this year there were some books that were tapped by several reviewers. 25 best books of 2012 2012-12-13T00:31:12Z

As a book reviewer I wring my hands. Can Walking on Eggshells Have a Healing Effect? Maybe. 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

"The double piano possesses fine sonority of perfect distinction, and the qualities of elasticity, gentleness and bravura," noted a reviewer in Le Menestrel, in 1898. Jazz: Piano a rare find in Bix's hometown 2011-05-02T21:50:00Z

Not that this reviewer would know anything about such things. Crime fiction: Pretentious writers get their comeuppance 2014-02-05T23:37:04Z

Alison McCulloch, our reviewer, calls it a “funny, serious, clever novel” about “sympathetic if simple characters trying to get by in a complicated world” where “deeply held hatreds lie in wait.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

“The author applies honesty, wisdom and even wit to a painful event,” our reviewer wrote of this incredibly beautiful memoir of having a stillborn baby. This Is Parenthood — and Not Just the Charming, Photogenic Parts 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z

Contemporary reviewers praised Emily’s morally enigmatic novel, but its genius was apparent to few in her time. Review: ‘Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart’ 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Most board game reviewers recite a game’s mechanics and how it is played, seeking only to answer the questions of whether it is fun and worth buying. Should Board Gamers Play the Roles of Racists, Slavers and Nazis? 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

His performance was generally well received, with several reviewers praising his first outing in the role and looking forward to him growing into it. Peter Capaldi's Doctor Who debut attracts 7.3m viewers 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

The “restrained but remarkably arresting” result, our reviewer Lucy Scholes writes, is “a master class in digression as a narrative device.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Will Blythe, praised the book and its author’s “sly, entertaining voice.” New in Paperback: ‘The Disordered Mind’ and ‘In the Garden of the Fugitives’ 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

One reviewer said I sounded like one of the Mitchell brothers; the record company said, "You're killing your career". Bard reputation: pop stars pick their favourite poets 2010-10-07T15:52:00Z

But reviewers were impressed with Mr. Pellegrino’s most recent book and did not question its facts. Pondering Good Faith in Publishing 2010-03-08T22:38:00Z

Our reviewer Valerie Martin writes that this novel is “an imaginative flight, full of darkness and light, lively characters, life-altering conflicts, violence and kindness, birth, death and, oddly, a lot of snakes.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

Percy’s thrilling story delivers on the setup’s promise for action and horror: As our reviewer, Terrence Rafferty, put it, “It’s one of the best Stephen King novels not written by the master himself.” New in Paperback: ‘No Apparent Distress,’ ‘The Destroyers’ 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

Her novels — 12 and counting — blend female-centered stories of passion and romance with questions of racial and cultural identity — “heavy messages in the froth,” as one reviewer put it. Setting the Stage for Africa at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z

She herself is a book reviewer and writes freelance articles for assorted publications, from Yoga Journal to The New York Times. Books of The Times: A Cynical Position Overcome With Yoga 2010-12-22T23:06:18Z

The original version of the novel was criticized by some French reviewers for what they felt was a caricatural depiction of Mr. Louis’s sister, whose spoken words are often slangy. For the French Author Édouard Louis, His Books Are His Weapon 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

The story’s rich details, our reviewer wrote in 1987, are “generous irrelevances — the author taking time out from her characters and their battling to enjoy the world that contains them and us.” Time for a Literary Road Trip 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

As our reviewer, Carol Anderson, put it, Phillips’s timely account exposes white supremacy’s capacity “to distort and destroy, not only lives and accomplishments, but historical memory, the law and basic human civility.” Paperback Row 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

Set in Ireland, this “clever, taut” whodunit, as our reviewer, Sarah Lyall, described it, evokes Agatha Christie classics. New in Paperback: ‘Chasing Chopin’ and ‘V2’ 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z

This book “seeks to put to rest forever the dismal imagery of the ‘Dark Ages,’” our reviewer, Michael Strevens, wrote. New in Paperback: ‘The Three Mothers’ and ‘Head Wounds’ 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

The reviewer who can't seem to stop talking about girl power and how haters must be misogynists, or the fan who says "I just didn't want a reboot of a movie I loved." Our ‘Ghostbusters’ Review: Girls Rule. Women Are Funny. Get Over It. 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Stephanie Powell Watts, called it “an ambitious attempt to tell a story of despotism and terror, toxic masculinity and survival.” New in Paperback: ‘Exciting Times’ and ‘Leave Only Footprints’ 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

The most memorable of this “intricate, deeply felt, beautifully written” thriller’s five female narrators, our reviewer, Sarah Lyall, noted, is a “diminutive, damaged, brilliant” detective. New in Paperback: ‘Why We Swim’ and ‘The End of October’ 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

"Where Rudin posts ads for a constant stream of vacancies, one anonymous reviewer warned prospective applicants to 'Please Run Far, Far Away.'" As reports of Scott Rudin's workplace abuses pile up, the producer steps back from big-name projects 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z

More than any other reality series – more than Jersey Shore or anything starring the Kardashians – the show has come to signal the genuine collapse of civilisation for some reviewers. Does Here Comes Honey Boo Boo deserve its 'controversial' tag? 2013-05-10T13:00:00Z

The first time this reviewer met the author, she was living in a hotel in the centre of Juba. From hope to horror 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

“It’s kind of like a movie reviewer reviewing a movie before seeing it,” he said. Will money from conservative Christians sway Bible museum’s professed mission? 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

Full disclosure: I am a professional book reviewer. The battle of the book reviews 2012-05-18T20:59:01Z

Mervyn Rothstein of the New York Times called “Fawlty Towers” the “paragon of sitcoms,” and many other reviewers noted its deft blend of slapstick with the angry humor of its embattled characters. Andrew Sachs, who played hapless waiter Manuel on ‘Fawlty Towers,’ dies at 86 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

This “carefully curated” collection of nine “beautiful” stories, our reviewer, Amal El-Mohtar, wrote, many of which explore the “material consequences” of time travel, was one of the Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2019. New in Paperback: ‘How We Fight for Our Lives’ and ‘Exhalation’ 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

According to our reviewer, Sarah Lyall, this thriller is “high-energy … a lot to take in, told at a quick pace that never lags, and none of it is straightforward.” New in Paperback: ‘The Three Mothers’ and ‘Head Wounds’ 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

Michelin publishes an actual physical guidebook, which contains a brief writeup of each restaurant, and reviewers on Yelp are free to natter on to their hearts’ content. Yelp vs. Food Critics 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

Britain’s newspaper reviewers sometimes struggled for superlatives to describe “Cabaret.” ‘Cabaret,’ Starring Eddie Redmayne, Sweeps Olivier Awards 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z

“And, of course, we go back and take another look. If there’s any ambiguity, we reach out to the reviewer to ask their intent.” Think ‘The Emoji Movie’ Got Bad Reviews? Check Out These Stinkers. 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

Perhaps even more than Barbara, Bob had the inspired editor’s intuition for which books would be an ideal-if-unexpected match for which reviewers. Remembering Robert Silvers 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

For 27 years until her retirement in 2014, she was a regular book reviewer for The Washington Post. Carolyn See, memoirist, novelist and book reviewer for The Post, dies at 82 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

Above all, "Mammuth" is a celebration of surrealism and eccentricity -- and is itself eccentric, intriguing reviewers. Depardieu charms as anti-hero in French tragi-comedy 2010-02-19T22:53:00Z

Indeed, among the rave notices, one reviewer identified that Biffy are "a product of that peculiar Scottish condition: Celtic exuberance rattling against Calvinist understatement and industriousness". Underdogs 2010-05-01T23:05:00Z

Our reviewers also chimed in on Pink Martini at the Paramount; Mark Morris Dance Group at the Moore; and Zoe|Juniper at On the Boards. Love musicals? Two to see in Seattle 2011-12-05T23:13:44Z

A reviewer for Variety wrote, “Although some viewers might prefer to learn more about the artist, ‘Over Your Cities’ is no New Yorker profile; rather, it’s about the power of images and art.” Following an Artist Into His Labyrinth 2011-08-05T15:37:13Z

As a reviewer, I wouldn’t blame readers if this section weren’t the first thing they turned to in their newspapers. Review: ‘Obit’ Follows the Team That Writes Death Notices for The Times 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

It sold poorly but received critical praise; Time listed it among the “Year’s Best,” and one reviewer called the four stories “delicate as a fugue.” What Kind of Worker Is a Writer? 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

But Los Angeles Times reviewers were not kind, dismissing as unfocused a rock-musical takeoff on “Cinderella” that she wrote. Diana Gibson, mercurial mentor on L.A.'s stage scene, dies at 69 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z

And like you said, because I wasn't — I mean, per my Amazon reviewers, I did a lot of drinking, I had a lot of sex. How to survive—and thrive—in "The Heartbreak Years" 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z

Yelp reviewers tend to offer unimaginative, useless notes like “The location is great, service is superb, and food is epic.” Yelp vs. Food Critics 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

It would have behooved both author and reviewer to at least acknowledge that not all gods, and not all depictions of the Judeo-Christian god, are male. Arctic Explorers, New Jersey Literature and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

A British reviewer in 1845 expressed “absolute bewilderment among its mazes.” Philharmonic to Perform Beethoven?s ?Missa Solemnis? 2010-06-18T14:41:00Z

But sometimes a reviewer will shout as if into a mountaintop megaphone. Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ Is an ‘Instant American Classic’ About Our Abiding Sin 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

In its “fierce and essential stories,” our reviewer, May-Lan Tan, observed, “history always resurfaces, and the landscape mirrors the cycles at play in the characters’ lives.” New in Paperback: ‘Sabrina & Corina’ and ‘Save Me the Plums’ 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

This bestseller from Amazon gets high marks from reviewers. How to recork Champagne for long-lasting bubbles 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

The movie’s violence is loud and lurid, possibly needfully by the director’s standards, but gratuitously by this reviewer’s lights. Review: In ‘Shanghai,’ John Cusack Is a Naval Intelligence Operative in a Bind 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

Holden in The Times criticizing All Together, Boston reviewer Allen Stone dismissed Madden’s work as “a fairy tale for old people—an anodyne against the cruel reality.” Can old age still have a happy ending? 2013-02-07T23:17:00Z

Other reviewers, likely fearful of social condemnation, turned a blind eye. Born to be Wilde 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

British reviewers were scathing Wednesday about the big-budget stage show built around the songs of 1990s "Girl Power" pop group the Spice Girls. Critics savage Spice Girls stage musical 2012-12-12T11:58:09Z

But Kitson, by his nature and performance style, seems to militate against newspaper shorthand; indeed, at my performance, he berated another reviewer for having the temerity to take notes. Review | Go on, get inside Daniel Kitson’s head. You’ll find it a strange and funny place. 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

To most of these reviewers, the award-winning production is guilty of racism, Islamophobia and kneejerk militarism. Homeland is not Islamophobic despite what some critics claim 2012-12-24T00:05:34Z

His reputation grew quickly enough that by the time of his first full-scale New York Fashion Week show in 2001, a reviewer for Vogue called him “one of New York’s most promising young talents.” Death of a Downtown Icon: Remembering Benjamin Cho 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z

There’s no pix, only prose — And the ratings disclose That reviewers say: it’s “poor: no graphic.” Style Invitational Week 1348: Same Difference 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

The famed political reporter nearly became a music reviewer instead. Longtime journalist Daniel Schorr dead at age 93 2010-07-23T18:56:00Z

As a frequent peer reviewer of scientific manuscripts, I have noted that over the last 40 years the quality of writing has gone steadily downhill. Indexes, Soaring Imaginations and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

It’s a challenging play, writes reviewer Margaret Gray, though she left Hollyhock “feeling more connected to Fornés, Los Angeles history and even womankind.” Essential Arts & Culture: The new Marciano museum, the Center Theatre Group at 50, LACMA's museum-rethink 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer said the book “asks some of the most important questions fiction can ask, and it does so with energetic and acrobatic prose, hilarious wordplay and great heart.” A Literary Guide to the Oscars 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

As our reviewer, Josh Lambert, put it: “What seems like a book about language taboos turns out to be a cognitive scientist’s sneaky — charming, consistently engrossing — introduction to linguistics.” Paperback Row 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

Weill, a radio reviewer, already had praised one of Brecht's plays and was looking for works to set to music. 'The Partnership' looks anew at Brecht's creative circle 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

“I read this book a long time ago back in the late 1960s,” a reviewer wrote on Amazon. A 1965 Novel About an Unhinged President Is Being Rereleased 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

Please urge your reviewers to actually critique and/or praise books, not give us all their feelings about doing so, the controversy behind the book, or questioning the author’s right to tell the story. Letters to the Editor 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

No, but plenty of reviewers are up in arms about that.The critics said "A powerful and intense debut… driven by quite outstanding performances." Sundance 2011: fewer stars, more ideas 2011-01-30T00:06:59Z

Our reviewer, Deborah Solomon, calls this biography “accessible, factually reliable and, at 439 pages, free of the inflated heft of so many recent biographies.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

But rarely does a traditional reviewer cause as much excitement as Atlanta has seen with the recent visit of Keith Lee, a food obsessive with a vast army of 14 million followers on TikTok. Atlanta’s Dining Scene Feels ‘the Keith Lee Effect’ 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z

The film’s “female gaze” has prompted almost every reviewer to reference the sensual depiction of French soldiers in Claire Denis’s Beau Travail. Meet the new hotshots of American film-making 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Jay Winik, called it “a superb and important book.” New in Paperback: ‘Presidents of War’ and ‘Solitary’ 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

Indeed, this reviewer’s complaint is that the explaining is too convincing. The Message of Thomas Friedman’s New Book: It’s Going to Be O.K. 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

In a story that our reviewer called a “biting and astute debut novel,” Katya and Sabrina become unlikely allies, working to expose the technology industry’s patriarchal culture. Amid Weinstein Accusations, 3 Books on Workplace Sexual Harassment 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Russell Shorto, likened the book to a cross between “a travel guide to places that no longer exist” and “a compendium of archaeological findings on humanity’s urban origins.” New in Paperback: ‘Made in China’ and ‘Better Luck Next Time’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

In 1965, Mr. Simmons, an incisive, erudite reviewer and essayist, won a William Faulkner Foundation Award for “Powdered Eggs,” recognized as a notable first novel. Charles Simmons, Novelist and Critic, Dies at 92 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

Keishel Williams is a Trinidadian American book reviewer, arts and culture writer and editor. Review | What inspired ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’? One novel explores the possibilities. 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer called this, Whitehead’s first novel since he won Pulitzer Prizes for “The Underground Railroad” and “The Nickel Boys,” “a rich, wild book.” 20 New Works of Fiction to Read This Season 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

Movie reviewers tend to ignore or dismiss Perry, and he returns the compliment, refusing to screen most of his films in advance for critics. Madea's Big Happy Family: Tyler Perry's Drag Ball 2011-04-24T14:05:00Z

One of the most anticipated Broadway musicals this year, the show about three frustrated youths searching for meaning in the post-9/11 era left some reviewers underwhelmed. Green Day musical no "time of your life": critics 2010-04-21T20:35:00Z

The occasion is Kahn’s staging of “The Critic” and “The Real Inspector Hound,” a century-hopping comic double bill of British writers taking on reviewers. The wrath of Michael Kahn in comedies about critics 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

When I first played Othello, a reviewer absolutely slaughtered me. Portrait of the artist: David Harewood, actor 2010-08-30T20:46:00Z

Maybe it was tactful of my reviewer not to attend, and I'm going to extend her the same courtesy by not linking to her review. Chris Cleave: what happened when authors and book bloggers met for lunch 2011-02-21T12:56:34Z

One reviewer limited his assessment to a four-inch-wide blank space on the page. The Everyday Avant-Gardist: Paul Taylor’s First Principles 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

“A book I entered hesitantly, cautiously, I exited anew — something in me unloosed, running,” our reviewer, Danez Smith, writes. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

“We had this idea that he was a movie reviewer who was incapable of staying awake for the entire length of a movie,” Daly says. Andy Daly on Review: 'There is a limit to how horrible things can get' 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

As you might guess, each box brought to mind old acquaintances — friends, colleagues and reviewers — who, like the days of auld lang syne themselves, can never be forgot. Perspective | Clutter, says who? College essays, letters from Stephen King and Tucker Carlson: I’m keeping (almost) all of it. 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

While it's no masterpiece, it's not nearly as duff as some reviewers said. Your next box set: The Kennedys 2011-08-25T20:59:02Z

Gervais' hosting duties on Sunday night brought some often harsh criticism from reviewers. Golden Globe audience up, Gervais' hosting panned 2011-01-17T20:20:57Z

One senior reviewer found it all just too much, while a youngster told his readers that the love scenes lacked passion. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 2012-07-06T21:43:01Z

“In dramatic and photographic technique it is beyond our present-day criticism,” wrote an anonymous reviewer in the trade publication Motion Picture News. ?Birth of a Nation,? Born Again for DVD 2011-11-27T05:03:04Z

Pasteur's was extolled by a reviewer in these pages for "food so delicious, so authentically Vietnamese, it all but exhales the essence of the country." Lakeside Bistro draws South End diners with its Vietnamese inspired cuisine 2010-03-18T20:53:00Z

Often, though, the history of the book is actually the history of the people who work with books—publishers, editors, reviewers, booksellers, librarians, and so on. The Bizarre, Complicated Formula for Literary Fame 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Yiyun Lee, praised the book, calling Levy “an astute observer of both the mundane and the inexplicable.” New in Paperback: ‘Bowlaway’ and ‘Heart’ 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z

Would he be interested, find it at all engaging, or could a male reviewer get away with flaying me? Women and sex: intimate adventurers 2011-07-06T07:00:00Z

Some time ago I wrote a blog called "What every film critic should know", suggesting that reviewers should have a basis in film theory and a wide and deep knowledge of film history. The film critic is dead. Long live the film critic 2010-04-07T14:52:00Z

The thesis of “In Search of Dracula” has not been universally accepted by scholars, nor did all reviewers embrace it. Radu Florescu, Scholar Who Linked Dracula and Vlad the Impaler, Dies at 88 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Spielberg has said that he first heard about Tintin in 1983, when he learned that French reviewers were comparing his “Raiders of the Lost Ark” to some of Hergé’s work. Tintin Is a New Breed of Comic-Book Hero for Most Americans 2012-01-02T20:37:06Z

This may be merely a quirk on this reviewer’s part, but generally it doesn’t bode well for a movie when the opening text, setting up its premise, is in the passive voice. ‘Same Boat’ Review: At Sea, With an Assassin From the Future 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

When the reviewer finally opened the packaging, the condiment, which was warm, reportedly smelled "like ranch." Will someone please just tell me what the heck is "Pink Sauce"? 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

As our reviewer, Clay Shirky, put it, it’s now a network: “fluid, collectively negotiated, constantly altered.” New in Paperback: ‘This Land Is Our Land’ and ‘Your House Will Pay’ 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

Some reviewers have found the show too sinister and sophisticated for theatergoing tykes. Review: A Wondrous ‘Pinocchio’ With That ‘Lion King’ Magic 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

Along with features on other opera houses, performers of past eras and festivals, it also publishes critiques of performances around the world by knowledgeable and respected reviewers. Opera News Will Stop Reviewing Metropolitan Opera 2012-05-22T03:06:11Z

A cursory glance at the majority of broadsheet books pages would show that most reviewers are not "wannabes" – most of them are also published writers. How writers review their critics 2010-09-22T09:47:00Z

“Some reviewers said, ‘The sex scene is too aggressive.’ Charlize Theron Is Here to Save Us From Boring Action Movies 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

In an email to students and faculty sent March 12, 2015, Jay Conison, the school’s well-connected dean, said that the accreditation process was going well and that reviewers just had a few questions. After a law school shuttered, aspiring lawyers hired real lawyers to sue it 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

One reviewer wondered how the hero managed to win a graduate scholarship to America despite never opening a book or attending a lecture, but most of his colleagues were more appreciative. Wilfrid Sheed obituary 2011-02-21T19:01:03Z

We call them super reviewers, not obsessive reviewers, because they are largely held in a positive light by the public. For online 'super reviewers' rewards go offline 2010-07-08T23:12:00Z

Me with the reviewer who said I looked “like a disgraced Vegas magician”. Has Steven Seagal proved you can be a Buddhist and a mascot for the arms trade? 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

But sadly this year it marked a new diplomatic low between Weinstein himself and the Guardian newspaper whose "reviewer" he denounced from the stage in his speech. Harvey Weinstein's Cannes gala turns tricky for the Guardian 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

The film was described as “a miracle,” by one reviewer in Denmark, “beautiful and life-giving” by another. Pixar’s ‘Soul’ Has a Black Hero. In Denmark, a White Actor Dubs the Voice. 2021-01-16T05:00:00Z

Guardian reviewer Sarah Moss called it “beautiful and compelling”, while Observer reviewer Lucy Scholes said it was “a simple but moving story, meticulously researched and hauntingly told”. Jennifer Lawrence to star in film adaptation of Hannah Kent's Burial Rites 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Veronica Chambers, wrote that it was “quite simply the best book that I have read in a very, very long time.” New in Paperback: ‘The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois’ and ‘Bloodlands’ 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

Many reviewers noted the melancholy tone of the record and speculated that lyrics like "we argue a lot no matter what we do" indicated further problems in her marriage. Cole's roles 2011-05-05T15:16:24Z

Reading this first novel to be published in America by the acclaimed septuagenarian German writer often compared to Kerouac, our reviewer, Ethan Hawke, became “newly excited about getting old.” New in Paperback: ‘Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath’ and ‘Sisters’ 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

Writing in The New York Times, Bosley Crowther called the movie “as dismal, dark and depressing a drama of events in World War II as this reviewer has yet witnessed.” Remembering Andrzej Wajda, Unflinching Observer of Modern Poland 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

Is a dancer’s body fair game for reviewers? ArtsBeat: City Ballet Dancer Responds to Times Critic 2010-12-13T14:50:00Z

And that courtroom is composed of online reviewers. Beware, homophobes: Yelp commenters are watching you 2013-02-06T16:26:00Z

Hollywood Reporter reviewer Kirk Honeycutt said the element of fun that made the 2008 original so terrific had vanished with in its second outing. "Iron Man 2" lacks a big punch for many critics 2010-05-07T00:26:00Z

As our reviewer, Jason Goodwin, put it, “This brilliant and lively history deserves nothing but praise.” New in Paperback: ‘Real American,’ ‘Touch’ 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

“Unforgettable,” our reviewer, Catherine Hong, called this winner of the 2017 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, about an adopted, pregnant teenager who seeks out her own birth family. Notable Children’s Books of 2017 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

“Mildred Pierce” was a departure from Cain’s claustrophobic earlier novels, and some reviewers complained about the odd mix of social realism and melodrama. Television: ?Mildred Pierce?: A Mother?s House of Love and Hurt 2011-03-20T02:30:05Z

Last month, a small archive assembled by a reviewer of “Gravity’s Rainbow” — including a lone, 260-word letter by Pynchon — sold for around $18,000. Thomas Pynchon, Famously Private, Sells His Archive 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z

Chang proves, our reviewer wrote in 2016, that struggling with the immigrant identity “can at least be funny and strange, especially when you struggle together with family.” Time for a Literary Road Trip 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

“Many histories of this important interregnum period have been written,” our reviewer, David S. Reynolds, noted, “but none emphasizes the fragility of the American experiment as strongly as Taylor’s book does.” New in Paperback: Susan Orlean and Brandon Taylor 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

And like Jenkins, Powell later worked for a down-at-heel publisher before becoming a book reviewer and struggling to be noticed as a novelist. The One-Hit Author Whose One Hit Had 12 Volumes 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

The New York Times reviewer Mordaunt Hall thought Ms. Stuart’s gown “a trifle out of place” but “a stunning creation” nonetheless. ‘The Old Dark House’ Is Creepy. Its Occupants? Downright Kooky. 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

“The plot is frequently outlandish,” our reviewer, Sarah Weinman, remarked, “but the main character is so endearing that it’s easy to surrender to the ridiculous.” New in Paperback: ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’ and ‘My Broken Language’ 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

“He stands in danger of being typed as the screen’s prime psychotic,” a reviewer for The New York Times primly noted. Ida Lupino, a Woman of Spine on Both Sides of the Lens 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

A post from a blog about the sacking of long-time Variety film reviewer Todd McCarthy, probably sums up the consensus. The film critic is dead. Long live the film critic 2010-04-07T14:52:00Z

My last novel, despite having a male protagonist, was reviewed by only two male reviewers. Gender balancing the books 2013-06-08T07:00:00Z

And joking aside, writers do harbour really quite dark thoughts about certain reviewers. Chris Cleave: what happened when authors and book bloggers met for lunch 2011-02-21T12:56:34Z

The well-meaning reviewer thus finds herself in a difficult position: eager to urge readers to buy tickets, but reluctant to explain why. Spoiler alert! 'Borrowed Time' magic show will leave you astonished 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

At the heart of Mr. Bai’s book, according to one of our reviewers, is how to judge The Miami Herald, which received a tip about Mr. Hart’s affair with a young woman named Donna Rice. What to Read Before Heading to Movie Theaters This Fall 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

One day, Campbell recalls, his gruff, straight-from-central-casting news director walked into the newsroom and growled, “I want a movie reviewer.” After 40 years on the air in Washington, Arch Campbell says goodbye — sort of

Plus, because there’s never enough Bach: Times reviewer Richard S. Ginell reviews the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s cycle of all six “wondrous” Brandenburg Concertos. Essential Arts & Culture: A 2017 rewind, lots of 'Nutcracker' and Bach, art and selfie marketing 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

Asked about the sorts of euphemisms reviewers use to disguise their negative thoughts on books, James Ley from The Sydney Review of Books said "'Interesting' is a usefully neutral term." Ten thoughts to take from Sydney Writers' Festival 2013-05-27T01:41:55Z

Our reviewer Sadie Stein writes: “Warm, affectionate, often angry but never cruel, cynical but not without a certain faith in people, Sorel gives us a life — and a world — in pictures.” 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

Since when did reviewers/editors all become 11-year-olds when reacting to fiction. The Salon author questionnaire: “The word ‘nice’ makes me break out in hives” 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

As our reviewer, Jade Chang, put it, “Watts is interested in what black people are allowed to want — and allow themselves to want — in 21st-century America.” Paperback Row 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

"The Interestings," published last year, prompted a reviewer for the Guardian to declare Wolitzer a "writer of prodigious energy and detail." Meg Wolitzer's 'Belzhar' nurses its teens back to emotional health 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

“It is far from having the power of her great novels,” the reviewer said. Toni Morrison?s ?Desdemona? and Peter Sellars?s ?Othello? 2011-10-25T21:57:27Z

The book-lined church and miked-up pulpit, the respectful congregation, the interviewer's catechism, confessions disguised as questions, the supplicant line to the healing power of a signature, the reviewer's blessing or curse. Ian McEwan: when faith in fiction falters – and how it is restored 2013-02-16T08:30:12Z

According to our reviewer, Aciman writes “with the ferocity of a writer who’s finally getting his vision down.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

“Uniquely fun and campily gory,” as our reviewer, Amy Silverberg, put it, this novel is “a gruesome love letter to rich food and rich men, and to gorging on both with abandon.” New in Paperback: ‘Mantel Pieces’ and ‘Borges and Me’ 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

But if instead it was an established act with a reputation, then the reviewer will probably think twice. The quantification of controversy: are women funnier than men? 2012-06-19T11:05:00Z

It's a lot, and some reviewers have criticized the film for "too many plot beats," as The Washington Post wrote, or that it is "so full of ideas," according to Vox. Academia is dark and full of terrors in “Master” 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z

Read this baseball book, reviewers exclaim, and feel pride in your intellectual labor! English teacher: I was wrong about “Hunger Games” 2012-07-19T18:30:00Z

Last June, novelist Alice Hoffman tweeted that "Roberta Silman in the Boston Globe is a moron" following a poor review in the paper, going on to publish the reviewer's phone number and email address. Jodi Picoult attacks favouritism towards 'white male literary darlings' 2010-08-20T14:44:00Z

Our reviewer wrote, “How to approach a memoir of a war still being waged?” Homeira Qaderi Wants Her Son to Know Her, So She Wrote a Book 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

Which brings us to Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times book reviewer, who has been known, now and then, to express a dislike. From Franzen to Fieri, the five rules of the review as takedown 2012-11-28T17:36:00Z

Shakespeare, the reviewer added, “must be in paradise.” Toni Morrison?s ?Desdemona? and Peter Sellars?s ?Othello? 2011-10-25T21:57:27Z

The musical got mostly poor reviews when it opened last month, leaving reviewers confused. Harry Connick Jr.'s musical to close on Broadway 2012-01-13T02:31:03Z

The money would buy a reviewer’s attention, but not his or her favor, Bitter Lemons insisted. That offer asking theaters to pony up $150 for pay-to-play reviews falls flat in L.A. 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Carvell Wallace, praised the “hearty inspiration” provided by this riveting nonfiction account of the Native American students who developed most of what we consider modern football. Notable Children’s Books of 2017 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

Times reviewer Rick Schultz reports that the show has moments both assured and contrived. Esssential Arts & Culture: An operatic Steve Jobs, a museum of O.J. ephemera, Dudamel and Venezuela's crisis 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z

Its reviewers looked at books well in advance of release; Kirkus was one of the sources librarians and booksellers relied upon to evaluate forthcoming titles. Kirkus Media announces new $50,000 literary prizes 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

“It is completely against the spirit of our site for any business owner to attempt to bully or intimidate reviewers who have had a negative experience.” Write a negative online review and get sued? It can happen, but maybe not for long. 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

As our reviewer, Anderson Tepper, noted, Ngamije’s book is one “of youthful anxiety and dreams — written at a lively, chatty pace.” New in Paperback: Dana Spiotta and Juan Gonzalez 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

Anna Mundow is a freelance journalist and reviewer in Central Massachusetts. Review | ‘Happiness’: An exquisite novel about how chance and love connect us 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

“Michelin reviewers,” he wrote, “are accused of being pretentious and ‘out of touch’ and of enforcing a rigid view of dining that’s biased against certain cuisines.” Yelp vs. Food Critics 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

Her scenes were limited, but reviewers praised her performance. Lizabeth Scott, Film Noir Siren, Dies at 92 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

“The book is rich with details, both serious and frivolous,” our reviewer Sarah Lyall writes, “and deftly sets the story of this singular institution in the context of the greater forces of English history.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

Small wonder, reviewers often said, that Mr. Martínez wrote in the style he did. 2010-02-06T07:20:00Z

And in his last paragraph he offers a surprising personal glimpse into the reviewer’s fear of being “gobsmacked” by a superior book, even when he is. Indexes, Soaring Imaginations and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Elisabeth Egan, called it “a slim but sweeping story” with an outsider’s perspective that has never before felt “so timely and so familiar.” New in Paperback: ‘Klara and the Sun’ and ‘The Committed’ 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

Our reviewer wrote, “Even just focusing on focus for this much time is useful, and ends up giving the reader a novel and worthwhile way of measuring our quality of attention.” The Best-Seller List Is a Smorgasbord 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

However, our count of the gender makeup of reviewers and authors reviewed, and our further breakdown of the split between non-fiction and fiction, makes for instructive reading. Gender balancing the books 2013-06-08T07:00:00Z

Then at the bottom you can see the reviewer is a Vanity Fair correspondent. Bringing Down a Media Empire 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

Film reviewers are often portrayed as recommending cryptic or difficult movies. ‘Feast of the Epiphany’ Review: Farm to Table, but Not in That Order 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

Diaghilev, spinning as usual, completely misrepresented the way that the anonymous reviewer for that newspaper, writing in the regal plural, reported a bit of overheard partisan scuttlebutt, quite likely planted by Diaghilev himself. ‘Rite of Spring’ Cools Into a Rite of Passage 2012-09-16T03:27:28Z

There are entire communities of amateur reviewers trying to unravel chasmic plot holes and sidesteps of logic. What films have left you confused? 2012-08-20T10:22:30Z

Themes of consumerism and celebrity culture seem just as vital today as they did back then, says reviewer Michael Upchurch. 5 things to do this weekend, from cheap to splurgey 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

And so do its reviewers – even JoyBaby Henry Hitchings, who is too young to number nostalgia among the evening's pleasures. What to say about ... Hair 2010-04-15T16:10:00Z

Now maybe there's a film reviewers' rule book somewhere saying that personal stuff like that is subjective, irrelevant, inadmissible. Roger Ebert: stimulating, authoritative critic with formidable internet presence 2013-04-05T09:15:32Z

In this study, which our reviewer, Nicholas Stargardt, called a culminating “final lecture,” Hayes offers “an intellectually searching and wide-ranging study of the Holocaust in a modest, didactic form.” Paperback Row 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

Imposture turns on a "ridiculous mistake" which somehow fooled credulous reviewers; A Quiet Adjustment is "three hundred pages of repression, of a particularly English kind". Childish Loves by Benjamin Markovits ? review 2011-08-26T09:40:01Z

By using objects to tell history, "even oblivion," as one reviewer wrote, "is given a voice". Let each of us write our own history in 100 objects 2010-12-26T19:00:00Z

Weekend preview: The 4-star edition This weekend is rife -- overflowing, we tell you -- with high-quality events that our reviewers are excited about. Weekend preview: The 4-star edition 2012-09-21T12:54:54Z

Perhaps the emptiness reviewers and audiences of the film have pointed out is what happens when one does not have lived experience of the central issues inherent in their tale. In defense of "The Menu" diners 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z

Several reviewers claimed that the evening only really catches fire during the encore, when the cast energetically perform a couple of Spice Girls songs. Critics pan Spice musical 2012-12-12T14:11:41Z

In this project, “Brown creates poetry that is a catalog of injuries past and present, personal and national, in a country where blackness, particularly male blackness, is akin to illness,” wrote our reviewer. Pulitzer Prizes: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

Although miscast, a reviewer for The Times of London wrote, he had “shambling and inarticulate charm.” Sean Connery, Who Embodied James Bond and More, Dies at 90 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z

“The effect is beautiful,” wrote our reviewer, Louisa Hall, evoking the gravitational pull of dormant, unobservable attachments and discarded hopes. New in Paperback: ‘Lanny’ and ‘The Unwinding of the Miracle’ 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Andrea Barrett, says that “Hall has shaped a richly imagined, tremendously moving fictional work. Its genius is not to explain but to embody the science and politics that shaped Oppenheimer’s life.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

Hurst; £20 How the Middle East came to be the way it is, by a frequent reviewer of books on the Arab world. What we wrote... 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Mairead Kelly, however, insists Yelp's creative element will continue to attract her and other reviewers. For online 'super reviewers' rewards go offline 2010-07-08T23:12:00Z

Our reviewer, Ruth Franklin, called the book “beautifully written and deeply moving.” New in Paperback: William Trevor’s ‘Last Stories’ and Dani Shapiro’s ‘Inheritance.’ 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

The Boston Globe reviewer, though, warned that some might find the sheer volume overwhelming — “mind-numbingly loud” is the term used — and noted that earplugs are provided. He May Be Bound, but This Prometheus Still Manages to Rock 2011-03-07T22:46:22Z

And, though it goes against journalistic instinct, the ending of Broadchurch was better for watching it with everyone else, rather than at a reviewers' preview. Shhhh! How keeping secrets became cool 2013-04-23T15:29:58Z

“A dramedy of the inarticulate fears marinating in the martini glasses of the elite,” this reviewer called it, after a seating at a splendid revival at Arena in 2009. Edward Albee, the last of the giants 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

Among the most meaningful reforms that could take place would be committing to hiring people of color in decision-making positions and as ancillary workers who often serve as gatekeepers, such as agents and literary reviewers. What the New York Times gets wrong about the "American Dirt" controversy 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Julian Lucas, called it a “bonfire of a book.” New in Paperback: ‘Bowlaway’ and ‘Heart’ 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z

He is better known for infuriating reviewers with his clunky pseudo-science and cheesy religious symbolism in thrillers that have sold all over the world. Manila less than thrilled at Dan Brown's Inferno 2013-05-24T05:30:00Z

“Robin Williams, enough already!” complained a reviewer in the Los Angeles Times. Review | Robin Williams: The hilarious, tortured life of a comic genius 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z

“It was the only one I could sip coffee while wearing, and my skin felt nice after,” said a reviewer with combination oily-dry skin. Sheet Masks, Ranked by Hydration 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z

Still, most reviewers have agreed that the portrait she paints of Johnson, the 36th president, was far more empathetic than the one that emerged from his most famous biographer, Robert Caro. Petraeus Biography Underscores Ethics Questions for Authors 2012-11-14T00:36:11Z

Editors disagree with other editors, our reviewers love books that we hated or hate books that we loved, and subscribers don’t hesitate to let us know when we’ve done an injustice to their favorites. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

“Unknown in this country, the stacked blonde showed a warm husky voice as she went thru a series of French tunes,” its reviewer wrote. Léo Marjane, a Music Hall Star in Occupied France, Dies at 104 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

The editors . . . are responsible as well, for being too indolent, timid or unobservant, if the reviewers are right. The lost art of editing 2011-02-11T14:05:33Z

Two US-based reviewers, Marshall Fine and Christy Lemire, found themselves targeted by Batman fans, with the former reportedly receiving death threats after claiming The Dark Knight Rises was "grandiose, not grand". Rotten Tomatoes squashes abuse from Dark Knight Rises fans 2012-07-18T15:49:36Z

Revisiting a revised show after an initial, unsatisfying experience can skew a reviewer’s perception: If changes have been made, you’re more likely to yield to natural impulses and give the enterprise a break. Review | ‘Beetlejuice’ cleans up its act for Broadway. It’s not a raging success, but it’ll do. 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

The memoir “doesn’t shy away from the task of holding the ordinary and otherworldly in its hand, at once,” our reviewer, Rachel Khong, writes. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

Understanding how audio is made is important for a reviewer. Get with the programme: how to make an audio show 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z

Her novel “The Fountainhead,” published in 1943, though panned by reviewers, became a word-of-mouth sales triumph and then a film starring Gary Cooper as a visionary architect modeled on Frank Lloyd Wright. Three Blockbuster Novels From the 1950s, and Their Remarkable Afterlife 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

But are both literary editors and their bosses in thrall to the idea of the "star reviewer", created by steady accretion of high-profile reviews, eventually leading to the figure of the "man of letters"? Gender balancing the books 2013-06-08T07:00:00Z

The average age of the IMDb reviewers of “Superbad” seems to be roughly “12” and the average gender seems to be roughly “boy.” Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Finally, a proven method to show just how funny I am 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

Even his recent staging at the Young Vic in London of Simon Stephens’s “Song From Far Away,” which some reviewers found too chilly by half, struck me as a deeply affecting elegy to human loneliness. Review: In ‘Antigone’ at BAM, Agony and Despair in Inexorable Motion 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

Surely some journal would weed out flimsy numbers and peer reviewers would reject shoddy work, right? Polar bears just might outlive us all 2012-12-30T16:00:00Z

“This is the stuff not of nihilism, but of someone searching for true belief,” our reviewer, Errol Morris, commented. New in Paperback: ‘My Year Abroad’ and ‘Amoralman’ 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

This writer seems unable to perform two of the basic requirements of a movie reviewer: 1. ‘Predestination,’ Starring Ethan Hawke 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

And, as he says, “no movie reviewer ever compared them to restaurant dining rooms.” Keith McNally Stirs the Pot 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z

As our reviewer, John Paul Brammer, remarked, Taylor presents “sumptuous, melancholic portraits of characters overwhelmed.” New in Paperback: Susan Orlean and Brandon Taylor 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

Based on the account the reviewer provides, Slater offers a keen take on American psychiatry. A Reckoning With an Imperfect Science in ‘Blue Dreams’ 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

An earlier version of the biographical note with this review garbled the middle name and the surname of the author who wrote “Mighty, Mighty Construction Site,” the most recent book illustrated by the reviewer. What Not to Tell the Kids When the Goldfish Dies, and Other Lessons From Pet Picture Books 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

War Dances" a "mix tape" of writing styles and forms that not all reviewers and readers understood; "stories, poems, themes intersecting themes. Sherman Alexie wins Pen/Faulkner award for fiction 2010-03-23T16:41:00Z

Some reviewers criticized the script as too simple. Lebanese action film takes on Israel-Hezbollah war 2012-06-01T09:31:05Z

Times dance reviewer Lewis Segal catches up with the award-winning Dorrance Dance at the Wallis, which fuses tap and other genres. Essential Arts & Culture: Kusama-palooza, Getty Center's birthday, censored Hollywood public art 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

Reviews were excellent - one reviewer even held a listening party where he made some of the recipes. Grammy Nominations 2018: Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar Lead the Way 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

There have been four previous movies in this most divisive of franchises, and all have been treated by reviewers as an enormous target at which to blast their critical barbs. Breaking Dawn - Part 2: best of the Twilight series? 2012-11-15T16:44:40Z

An exuberant look at the irrepressible yet often overlooked Greek god Pan that “seems to owe as much to Old Hollywood as to modern graphic novels,” our reviewer, Maria Russo, said. Notable Children’s Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

As our reviewer, Rand Richards Cooper, put it, “These are stories about the death of stories.” New in Paperback: ‘Thinking Inside the Box’ and ‘The Mountains Sing’ 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

The result, reviewers concurred, was an aural seamlessness throughout his range, without a hint of strain. Russell Oberlin, Renowned Countertenor, Is Dead at 88 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

“A combination of scholarly insight and firsthand pain lends force to this book,” our reviewer, Michael O’Donnell, commented. New in Paperback: ‘Halfway Home’ and ‘The Code Breaker’ 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

I remember one reviewer saying that it was to be hoped this junior member of the McEwan/Amis school had exorcised his sillier fantasies. Adam Mars-Jones: 'The only bad review is one whose writing is soggy' 2012-02-10T13:50:00Z

When it opened in neighborhood theaters on a double-bill with a lesser gangster film, “Mad Dog Coll,” the New York Times reviewer Howard Thompson praised Fuller’s direction as “nimble, particularly in his use of close-ups.” Sam Fuller and Fritz Lang: Audacious Auteurs of Noir 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

The book “vividly evokes an especially ugly moment half a century ago, when the misbegotten Vietnam War and a malformed notion of patriotism combined volatilely,” our reviewer Clyde Haberman writes. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Andrew Solomon, lauded Williams for reaching “both ways across the aisle of racism” and theorizing “the temperate peace” of which we’re all “sorely in need.” New in Paperback: ‘Speaking American’ and ‘The Seine’ 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z

I found a review of the Berlin Philharmonic from the end of the 19th century, and the reviewer is complaining that the Philharmonic stopped allowing people to drink beers during concerts. Amit Peled, Cellist, Walks in the Footsteps of Pablo Casals 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

Protesters objected to the blackface, and reviewers were so uneasy that critic Jason Zinoman wrote a defense of the show in Slate asking, “Is the most ambitious new musical of the Broadway season racist?” Navigating minstrelsy in Kander & Ebb’s ‘The Scottsboro Boys’ 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Burden was not so well liked critically, with the Guardian’s reviewer finding it “as subtle as a sledgehammer”. Sundance 2018: 'gay conversion' drama wins grand jury prize 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

A reviewer isn't paid to be right, just to make a case for or against, and to give pleasure either way. Adam Mars-Jones: 'The only bad review is one whose writing is soggy' 2012-02-10T13:50:00Z

And we are no better: in the Guardian, 44.9% of reviewers were women and 34.1% of books reviewed were by women. How we calculated the gender balance of UK literary journalism 2013-06-08T07:00:00Z

In 2013, The Globe & Mail’s reviewer wondered if it was ultimately too much of an “in-joke for the in crowd.” ‘All Our Happy Days Are Stupid’ Heads for a New York Run 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

I was particularly intrigued by the reviewer’s mention of “a bald woman chained to a bed.” Peeved, Irritated and Annoyed: Early Letters to the Editor 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

I'm not sure any more who is doing the bullying – authors bullying reviewers, reviewers bullying authors, readers bullying reviewers – but it's certainly leaving a bad taste in my mouth. Literary feuding sinks to new low 2012-07-19T15:40:38Z

Some authors get friends and family to post positive reviews, but readers soon smell a rat when they see these reviewers have never judged another book. How to become an ebook superstar 2012-06-06T19:00:06Z

After spending years in Germany, the director moved to Hollywood, where he worked on several movies, including the 1927 classic “Sunrise,” which one reviewer called a “brilliant achievement.” Skull Stolen From the Grave of F. W. Murnau, Director of 'Nosferatu' 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

As a naturalist, writer and book reviewer, I end up reading many books that explore the natural world. ‘Limber’: essayist has a gift for the language of nature 2014-04-16T19:08:05Z

The author might be “unfashionably male,” in the words of a reviewer in these pages, but the concerns were “unfashionably universal”: the romantic travails of the young, straight and white. The Moral of These Stories? ‘You Are Not as Special as You Think’ 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Tariro Mzezewa, praised the story’s “moving portrayal of a struggle against something that exists within, a mental anguish that no amount of reasoning can conquer.” New in Paperback: ‘Ramp Hollow,’ ‘Freshwater’ 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

It pulled a libelous 15% on the Rotten Tomatoes aggregate site of reviewers. Box Office: Horrible Is the Boss of Zookeeper -- But Where's Woody? 2011-07-10T05:35:00Z

It is also, though, a genuine popular hit, drawing audiences of 8 million on BBC1 after being ridiculed by previewers and reviewers. Bafta TV awards strike balance between popularity and risk 2012-05-28T10:08:36Z

According to one reviewer on Publishers Weekly, Fey's narration of her memoir was so funny "that I clipped a cement highway divider driving to work". Storytelling: how reading aloud is back in fashion 2013-01-06T00:08:26Z

While reviewers mostly enjoyed the thriller, some found the plot vague and confusing. Five Joan Didion Movies You Can Stream Right Now 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z

With the giant lizard’s return in Godzilla: King of the Monsters, launched in cinemas at the weekend, reviewers are parsing the blockbuster for insights into the world’s paralysis in the face of climate breakdown. Godzilla: from radioactive colossus to unlikely climate hero 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

If a reviewer uses the term, it generally means that they shouldn't be trusted. Looking back at the Lost Booker: JG Farrell 2010-04-15T11:26:00Z

Grudgingly impressed, the Times reviewer Anita Gates wrote that the film “eventually turns into a very interesting play on levels and perceptions of reality.” Animation That Broke the Rules 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

“The plot was bad, almost everything was bad,” wrote one reviewer on Amazon. The Magic Is Gone but Harry Potter Will Never Die 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

For LBC's producers, I'm sure this is considered the "quality stuff" talk radio is made of: snarling, hard-nosed, cheapshot punditry that gets the switchboard buzzing and radio reviewers irate within three minutes of airing. Call Clegg – radio review 2013-05-10T05:59:04Z

Some reviewers still question the tour’s focus on enslaved people. For Black tour guides in Savannah, the historical is personal 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

I once had a reviewer for an academic journal article I submitted about women's experiences with catcalling tell me to replace my use of "Latino" and "Latina" with "Latinx." Stop using "Latinx" if you really want to be inclusive 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z

They “describe intense friendships as one of life’s foundations, neglected at our peril and, likely, our regret,” our reviewer, Trish Hall, wrote. New in Paperback: ‘A Knock at Midnight,’ ‘The Vapors’ and More 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

Maybe because Duran wasn't "a well-rounded character"? Next time choose a reviewer familiar with the subject matter of the film. Review: ‘Hands of Stone’ Returns Robert De Niro to the Ring but Pulls Its Punches 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

In the opinion of Time magazine, he was "certainly the best American reviewer of books". Wilfrid Sheed obituary 2011-02-21T19:01:03Z

The source of this digressive, wending approach and his unwillingness to play by the rules seems, to this reviewer at least, a resistance born of integrity. Galloping Through History 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

Mary Quattlebaum is a children’s author and the reviewer of teen fiction for The Washington Post. How to write great books for children and young adults 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

The book “slides vertiginously between the mundane and the fantastical,” our reviewer, Sheila Glaser, writes. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

I suspect that were he alive, Adolphe Sax would face the same quandary and would further be dismayed by your reviewer turning his invention into a meaningless adverb. Letters to the Editor 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

Scary 5 was as up-to-date as a Saturday Night Live skit and, to most reviewers, no funnier — an abysmal 6% rating on the Rotten Tomatoes website of critics’ reviews. A Jackie Robinson Home Run: 42 Scores Big 2013-04-14T21:55:00Z

The Guardian's reviewer described it as "a powerful and skilfully constructed conspiracy thriller – Chinatown without the air of despairing fatalism." Orange prize shortlist revealed 2010-04-20T08:49:00Z

The pervasive sense of impending conflict evoked an unusually personal response from the New York Times reviewer Howard Thompson. France’s Colonial Conflict, Filmed From Both Sides 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z

We've seen some reviewers compare it to shoegazing, others to the systems music of Steve Reich with its attendant "repetitive musical phrases that shift in and out of unison". New band of the day – Picture (No 1,334) 2012-08-20T15:56:02Z

The reviewers used their words, of course, as well as their giggles, which were captured by laugh trackers fastened to their shirts. Tennessee tourism department enlists kids to rate the state’s attractions 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z

“Many popular lines from ‘Be More Chill’ were met with cheers and screams from the audience,” one reviewer blogged of the weekend run. Perspective | ‘Be More Chill’: The rare new musical you can see now on Broadway or on a small stage 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z

She graphically recalled their sexual encounters — so graphically and in such conversational detail that some reviewers questioned the memoir’s veracity and suggested that she should have written a fictionalized narrative instead. Margaux Fragoso, Memoirist Who Wrote Hauntingly of Sexual Abuse, Dies at 38 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

Asked if she felt Vine had altered her relationship with material goods, K.T., the Vine reviewer in the Blue Ridge Mountains, suggested they consider how it might allow them to give back. The Secret Life of Amazon’s Vine Reviewers 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

After all, the vast majority of books that are published in any given year—in any genre, and of a vast range in quality—are effectively ignored by reviewers and the general public. In Y.A., Where Is the Line Between Criticism and Cancel Culture? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

The 199 members of the BFCA, North America's largest film-critic group, are a mix of reviewers for radio and TV — a dwindling fraternity, as are the print critics — and the swelling contingent of industry bloggers. 2010-01-18T07:40:00Z

The danger is, as a NYT Book Review reviewer once wrote: "Here is another book about writers writing about writers." Can Sobriety Be as Interesting as Addiction? A Writer Wonders 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

So, while remaining anonymous themselves, they're posting details about these bullying reviewers on the website, including their photos and real names. Literary feuding sinks to new low 2012-07-19T15:40:38Z

In making her gallery rounds, she struck up an acquaintance with Howard Devree, the art news editor of The Times, who in 1955 offered her a job as a reviewer. Dore Ashton, Art Critic Who Embraced and Inhabited Modernism, Dies at 88 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

“Jerkins makes plain that denying space for Black identities in history is itself a legacy as American as its original sins of racism and enslavement,” our reviewer, Afua Hirsch, writes. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Ruth Ware, said Abbott’s book “should cement her position as one of the most intelligent and daring novelists working in the crime genre today.” New in Paperback: ‘Give Me Your Hand,’ ‘The Seas’ 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

Wells “never loses sight of her inspired objective, to restore and revive what she refers to as ‘the promised land,’” our reviewer, Gretel Ehrlich, wrote. More Than a Muse 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z

For our reviewer, Luis Alberto Urrea, the title of this debut collection of stories exploring “the true meaning of borders” called to mind “empty lots, our lots in life, even the biblical figure Lot.” New in Paperback: ‘American Carnage’ and ‘Mrs. Everything’ 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

The thought warmed my cold reviewer's heart, and made me think that I may even attempt to be a little more outgoing at the theatre. Confronting Demons: the play that forces theatregoers to talk to each other 2010-07-13T16:48:00Z

I still won reviewer of the year at the London Restaurant Festival awards last year, regardless. My life as an (almost) vegan restaurant critic 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z

But other reviewers expressed disappointment with her first outing on "Live to Dance". Paula Abdul dances back into hearts of viewers 2011-01-05T22:34:30Z

After early screenings of “Downsizing,” some reviewers and audience members criticized the role as a caricature, with her thickly accented broken English played for laughs. ‘Downsizing’ Actress Breaks Through, for Better and Worse 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z

According to Facebook, it has added thousands of reviewers over the last few years, but three million businesses advertise on Facebook, the majority of which are small businesses. Why Is Facebook Rejecting These Fashion Ads? 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

Warming to his theme, he cites one reviewer of Civilization who clearly hadn't even read the book before attacking it. Niall Ferguson: 'The left love being provoked by me ... they think I'm a reactionary imperialist scumbag 2011-04-11T06:59:01Z

When a manager comes over to offer us a gratis bottle of Champagne, we wonder if one of us has been tagged as a restaurant reviewer. Review | Giada de Laurentiis has her many designs on Baltimore 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

"The first thing I thought was 'the reviewer's mental'," he says. Is there a backlash against rape jokes? 2013-08-20T07:21:24Z

Plus, Times contributing reviewer F. Kathleen Foley says that A Noise Within’s production of “A Raisin in the Sun” is “an opportunity to experience a near-optimum staging of this American classic.” Essential Arts & Culture: Our spring arts preview, more silence from MOCA, a feminist 'Shrew' 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

This delightfully twisty tale of traveling children — are they saints or heretics? — wanted by the King of France in 1242 is “dense with literary and earthy delights,” our reviewer, Soman Chainani, said. Notable Children’s Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

The 1980s were not the most salubrious decade in which to shine as a movie reviewer. How Movies Work 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

And yet, reviewers have largely been calmly effusive in their praise for The Ghost. You review: The Ghost 2010-04-19T13:02:00Z

“Death in this ‘ancient and deathless’ terrain is always too close, where the land is sometimes a resplendent spectacle, more often a callous god,” our reviewer, Chanelle Benz, wrote of this novel. New in Paperback: Dana Spiotta and Juan Gonzalez 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

The existing organ, which was built by Aeolian-Skinner and installed in 1972, has been criticized by performers and reviewers for its poor functioning and musical inadequacy. ArtsBeat Blog: Kennedy Center to Replace Its Pipe Organ 2011-09-27T18:11:00Z

As our reviewer, Merritt Tierce, put it, the novel “crackles and satisfies by all its own weird rules, subversively inventing delight where none should exist.” New in Paperback: ‘Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine,’ ‘The Fact of a Body’ 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

Chat about stuff other than your book, reply to everyone, and don't get drawn into slanging matches with hostile reviewers. How to become an ebook superstar 2012-06-06T19:00:06Z

One decent, well-reasoned Kirkus review by an experienced book reviewer, even in its “Indie” ghetto, could be worth 20 breathless shills on Amazon, where product reviews have become a kind of meme-based performance art . Can self-publishing win respect? 2012-08-27T16:26:00Z

“The great appeal of Ehrman’s approach to Christian history has always been his steadfast humanizing impulse,” our reviewer Tom Bissell writes. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

In 2002, the museum hosted a “Star Wars” exhibition that reviewers criticized as lowbrow. Hannah Gadsby’s Picasso Show Was Meant to Ignite Debate. And It Did. 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

Predictably, even when she performed the lectures in 1911, the reviewers ignored the content and concentrated instead on the presentation. Lynne Truss: rereading Four Lectures on Shakespeare by Ellen Terry 2012-07-27T21:55:01Z

“For the most part the Oliver Stone depicted in these pages — vulnerable, introspective, stubbornly tenacious and frequently heartbroken — may just be the most sympathetic character he’s ever written,” our reviewer Benjamin Svetkey writes. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

At the time, he worried that he was treading on familiar ground, but reviewers took the opposite view. For Kazuo Ishiguro, ‘The Buried Giant’ Is a Departure 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

The truth is that outside of the mainstream media world, where reviewers are increasingly disposable, film criticism is doing fine. Film: David Bordwell, Film Historian, Focuses on Movie Blog 2010-04-24T02:36:00Z

Glaser, a veteran journalist, investigates “a singular story to illuminate a universal truth,” our reviewer wrote. Nine People Under One Roof for Two Weeks? Have Fun! 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z

Herman Melville suffered for us all, I think, so that those of us who came after can console ourselves that when we’re dead, reviewers will be sorry. How Karen Joy Fowler’s Grandfather Lied His Way Into a Who’s Who 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

This was no doubt down to the reviewer bias I talked about in 2010. The quantification of controversy: are women funnier than men? 2012-06-19T11:05:00Z

Our reviewers raved about four movies in today's edition of MovieTimes -- all playing here this weekend. Four fabulous films for Friday 2011-09-09T21:02:21Z

Some reviewers found Mr. Cox’s films overly introspective and self-conscious, but those who championed his work did so ardently. Paul Cox, Independent Filmmaker Who Explored Postmodern Life, Dies at 76 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

Crist, who called herself a "journalistic reviewer", knew what the public wanted and catered to them. Judith Crist obituary 2012-08-10T11:55:04Z

When reviewers receive items, sometimes they’re affixed with cardboard tags, which Amazon uses to designate what sort of “sample” the shipment is. The Secret Life of Amazon’s Vine Reviewers 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

Still, other reviewers applauded the film for its dazzling effects and expressed excitement about the film’s potential to export Chinese culture to the rest of the world. ‘The Great Wall’: What Critics and Filmgoers Are Saying in China 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

More than one reviewer used terminology around the idea of not knowing who to “root for.” The Salon author questionnaire: “The word ‘nice’ makes me break out in hives” 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

To describe such reviewers as suffering from a sense of humour failure is almost as much of an understatement as the following delightful assessment I came across on Wikipedia: "Bateman's mental state appears increasingly questionable." Guardian book club: Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho 2010-07-14T09:13:00Z

This, Terry's first major prose work as far as I know, is, as pompous book reviewers like to say, A Major Achievement. tapestry by Philip Terry – review 2013-05-28T10:36:05Z

In those days, Grey’s love of the outdoors had already propelled him to renown as the “most popular of living authors,” as one reviewer concluded. In Sedona, Ariz., biking a landscape that embodies the romance of the American West 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Seattle Times reviewer Gayle Clemans once called his colorful paintings "full of vivid imagery and nuances of wonder, hardship and transformation." 17 of Seattle's top entertainment picks, March 18-24 2012-03-14T21:50:05Z

As our reviewer, Rick Moody, wrote, Johnson draws on his “singular skill” for revelation to “brighten the interiors of tragedy and help us wave off the vultures hovering above.” New in Paperback: ‘The Power,’ ‘Fire and Fury’ 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

Where other reviewers mistook Frost's verse as simplistic, Thomas was moved to announce his 1914 volume North of Boston as "one of the most revolutionary books of modern times". Edward Thomas, Robert Frost and the road to war 2011-07-29T21:57:01Z

Our reviewer, David Enrich, deemed the book an important volume in a growing library “documenting this strange period in American history.” New in Paperback: ‘The World’s Fastest Man’ and ‘Our Time Is Now’ 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z

The result was a candygram filled with high fructose corn syrup and reviled by reviewers; the movie rated an abysmal 15% on the Rotten Tomatoes poll of critics. 2010-02-14T22:50:00Z

As our reviewer, Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, wrote, the novel swells “with wisdom about the self-destructive longing for paternal approval and the devastating consequences of clinging to rotten models of masculinity.” Paperback Row 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

All I want from a reviewer is a sense of the pace, rhythm, characterization and place, and how they are delivered. Books You Wish You Hadn’t Read and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z

Here's a taste of what our reviewers said: Henning Mankell is gone, but he leaves enduring legacy with Wallander novels 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

A longtime reviewer as well as a crime novelist himself, Ripley writes with breezy, infectious enthusiasm. In the golden age of spy fiction, our coolest heroes were shaken, not stirred 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

“Reynolds is rowing against the tide just as surely as Brown did,” the reviewer wrote. Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher and the sad footnote to their shared Broadway debut 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

One reviewer said: “3G speed, forget even the most basic web surfing.” I've decided to reclaim my life – by using an old Nokia phone 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z

The bond that the two men created during their journey, commented Michael Greenberg, our reviewer, “is moving, with its unexpected moments of confession and shared fragility.” New in Paperback: ‘Mantel Pieces’ and ‘Borges and Me’ 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

"Form and content are seamlessly integrated in an astonishing, audacious and courageous show," the reviewer continued. Sondheim hails 'fresh' Assassins show 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

One reviewer called it “the puff piece to end all puff pieces.” The most glowing stories about Trump run in tabloid media. Why the romance? 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

One reviewer called the film "a cheap and cheerless effort that looks like a Channel 5 mid-week matinee". Rush motors to top of UK box office 2013-09-27T15:07:32Z

A female Times reviewer in 1932, praising the novel’s “wholesome freshness,” noted that “countless hard-working, industrious, healthy young girls recognized themselves in the heroine.” How a Grandmother’s Diary Led to a Long-Lost Literary Gem 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

Back-to-back Broadway experiences this weekend reminded this reviewer once again that all presuppositions are shredded the moment the ticket taker hands you back your stub. Review | Nathan Lane and Adam Driver are both starring on Broadway. Only one of them gives us a good time. 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z

The proposal to create a new category to honor popular films was met with a huge backlash from the movie industry and film reviewers when it was announced last month. Oscar organizers pull back on proposed 'popular film' category 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

“Andreas’s naïveté and eventual enlightenment might have been cartoonish in the hands of someone less ironic and wise than Roth,” our reviewer John Williams writes. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

Also, rather than buying the power adapter, some Amazon reviewers have just used a standard USB power adapter, though I can’t guarantee the wisdom of doing so. Best portable scanner on the market 2012-11-04T17:00:00Z

The film became a box office hit, raking in more than $90 million in the U.S., and was generally well-received by reviewers. 25 years later, "When Harry Met Sally" is still the perfect rom-com 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

A few movie reviewers, perhaps puffed up a bit on testosterone, which must increase in some men when they watch violent movies, have declared that women won’t be able to watch the movie. Cinéma vérité: “The Revenant” and “Spotlight” — two tales for our time and beyond 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z

“Our reviewer found it too elaborate and indecipherable,” Mr. Jones said. Whatever Happened to Just Being Type A? 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z

Someone writes a sentence that includes the words “the atopic character of literary space” and supposes it will appeal to a reviewer of travel books. Travel: Philip Marsden’s ‘Rising Ground’ and More 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

Did the reviewer and I see the same film? ‘Fire at Sea’ Is Not the Documentary You’d Expect About the Migrant Crisis. It’s Better. 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

However, the Guardian's crime fiction reviewer Laura Wilson seemed less eager to renounce realism without caveats – understandably, as her period novels draw on detailed research. The truth about crime fiction 2013-01-26T09:00:51Z

Our reviewer, Jonathan Lethem, called the book “a panorama, a rumination and a polemic at once,” which “delivers riches in return.” New in Paperback: ‘Notes on a Foreign Country,’ ‘The Seventh Function of Language’ 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

Some reviewers compared "Cloud Atlas" to Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey," called it revolutionary, an artistic masterpiece. | Halle Berry 2012-10-18T20:21:12Z

"Dull, boring and offensive," wrote one Amazon reviewer. Booker-longlisted novel The Slap is 'most divisive in years' 2010-07-30T23:08:00Z

This reviewer cannot attest to the quality of the readings or blind dates. Brace for fun in Source Festival’s new plays 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z

This memoir by Barnett — a young Black lawyer and the cofounder of Buried Alive, an organization that appeals life sentences for nonviolent drug offenders — “unfurls like a coming-of-age story,” our reviewer, Sierra Crane Murdoch, wrote. New in Paperback: ‘A Knock at Midnight,’ ‘The Vapors’ and More 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

A reviewer for this newspaper described it as "almost the exact scientific opposite of well good". Comic character stands for parliament in David Miliband's old seat 2013-04-21T19:00:11Z

Even in his final, less mobile years, French continued his passion for cinema, watching even more movies than when a full-time reviewer. Philip French, much-loved Observer film critic, dies at the age of 82 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

Other reviewers, considering Mr. Larson’s work more directly on its own merits, often admired his writing skills. Jack Larson, a Playwright Better Known as Jimmy Olsen in ‘Superman,’ Dies at 87 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

Granola vs. milk exposes what may be material character flaws for a restaurant reviewer. Union Square Cafe Returns, With More Than a Dash of Déjà Vu 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

As to why some comments get published and others don’t, I suspect it is up to the individual movie reviewer whether they want anyone to give a different opinion. ‘Taken 3,’ Starring Liam Neeson 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

“Binocular Vision” left reviewers asking why they hadn’t heard of Ms Pearlman before. First among equals 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

“There’s a certain amount of leniency required. Sometimes I have to wait or the person doesn’t show up,” said the pink-haired reviewer, who was dressed in head-to-toe black. The life of a hotel reviewer: Hang out in lobbies and bars, sleep in king-size beds 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z

On “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” our reviewer wrote, “it is not simply the best book on the hippies, it is the essential book.” Your Tom Wolfe Reader 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer Margaret Gray, a "Love Story" devotee if there ever was one, wrote, "Both actors’ performances strengthen as the characters age and their relationship is tinged with nostalgia and regret." Essential Arts and Culture: The critic's life, vintage plays and vintage couples 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

He has “produced an authoritative, gripping and finely detailed narrative that charts the decline of one of the great American companies,” our reviewer David Gelles writes. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

“Almost every time you expect a scene of horror,” our reviewer Martha Southgate writes, “you get a scene of kinship instead.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

In a foreword to “Let Me Tell You,” Ruth Franklin — who is at work on a biography of Jackson — laments that this once-noted reviewer and Bennington College teacher is now sadly unread. New collection of Shirley Jackson writings is best left to devoted fans 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

Interesting sentence formations and strange narrative structures were what excited our reviewers most. Reader reviews roundup 2012-11-30T19:00:21Z

“The greatest value” of this book, our reviewer, Jason Zengerle, noted, “is that it offers us one last, long opportunity to hear Thompson’s singular voice.” New in Paperback: ‘Klara and the Sun’ and ‘The Committed’ 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

I would say the reviewer made a good choice in omitting it, except omitting it was so obvious it does not even qualify as a choice. Review: ‘Doctor Strange’ and His Most Excellent Adventure 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

The Danish Girl,” by comparison, is sensitive and delicate; one reviewer called it “yawningly polite.” Mya Taylor is the face of this year’s most improbable Oscar campaign 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

As one of the reviewers who admired the collection, I liked its combination of linguistic nuance and emotional intensity. Poem of the week: A Mind of Winter by Martha Kapos 2010-09-20T09:21:00Z

All this makes “The Flamethrowers” a fascinating litmus test for reviewers, especially the male ones. Rachel Kushner’s ambitious new novel scares male critics 2013-06-05T23:00:00Z

As our reviewer, Mary Pols, noted, this is an “easy, accessible novel filled with hard, important truths.” New in Paperback: ‘My Year Abroad’ and ‘Amoralman’ 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

The Post reviewer, quite the literary fellow, goes on to note that in Mitchell’s early pieces the peripatetic reporter resembles a wedding guest who keeps running into one talkative Ancient Mariner after another. ‘Man in Profile’ stirs controversy over the work of a New Yorker great 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

“Boyle is offering an honest picture of humanity here, particularly the sort of humanity that gets involved in such a plainly romantic enterprise,” writes our reviewer Michelle Dean. Welcome to the new L.A. Times books newsletter 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

I attended the Saturday night performance, and I agree with the reviewer on the... Danish conductor wows Benaroya crowd 2011-11-04T19:46:04Z

One reviewer compared the experience to "gorging on a DVD boxset", and it's no coincidence that Homes has been writing for TV shows such as The L Word. Women's prize for fiction: a darkly comic and addictively readable winner 2013-06-05T19:48:54Z

Louis Bayard is a novelist and reviewer whose most recent book is “Courting Mr. Lincoln.” Review | Were Zsa Zsa and Eva Gabor the proto-Kardashians? 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z

But she is hardly alone in feeling that way; in the words of a recent reviewer in The Independent, “at least the old smoothie’s going down swinging.” Books of The Times: ‘I’m Your Man,’ Leonard Cohen Biography by Sylvie Simmons 2012-09-13T22:17:26Z

Despite the language of "The King's Speech" and the words of many of the film reviewers, there is no cure for stuttering. How "The King's Speech" gets stuttering wrong 2011-02-21T23:01:00Z

On the Mark Web site, one reviewer said that a cheek tint left “zero shimmer on my cheek but plenty on my hands.” 2010-01-14T00:15:00Z

"The fact that Amazon.com supports such blatant plagiarism by allowing this product on their website is appalling to me. This guy is an utter hack and creates none of his content," one reviewer wrote. 'The Fat Jew' cancels Santa Monica book event, citing threats 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

Some reviewers said that, although he did not mention the tragedy on stage in Oslo, it lent a poignancy to songs like Worried About You and Miss You. Rolling Stones resume tour in Oslo 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

She guessed that the whole thing was a clerical error of sorts—the result of a policy reviewer who “saw something on the blog they interpreted as out-of-bounds from Google policy and took it down.” Why Did Google Erase Dennis Cooper’s Beloved Literary Blog? 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z

Quattlebaum is a children’s author and regular reviewer for The Post. A holiday story collection by YA fiction stars will delight readers of all ages

But online reviewers are generally critical of the 2,300-room hotel, calling it outdated and dirty. Quad hotel to get $223M upgrade, new name ‘LINQ’ 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

Becker filed a request for records last month through Florida’s Public Records Act, asking the school to turn over communications between Wright and other scholars and reviewers regarding the publication of the study. Controversial gay marriage study provokes lawsuit 2013-04-20T16:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Anne Barnard, calls the book “a classic meditation on war, how it compels and resists our efforts to order it with meaning.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

"I find it quite odd when I see it referred to in some way by people that I haven't met, and that aren't reviewers or critics," she says. Amy Sackville, accidental novelist 2010-12-07T13:49:00Z

“Tragedies tunnel through life, and the suspense comes from seeing how these spaces will be filled,” our reviewer wrote. 50 States, 50 Love Stories 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

“Is there a Kindle edition available,” asked one reviewer of Monet’s 1868 portrait of his daughter Jean. ArtsBeat: Amazon Reviewers Have a Few Thoughts About That Monet 2013-08-07T19:44:18Z

The commentary, from both reviewers and social media users, became so vicious that Wilson’s wife, the actress Dagmara Dominczyk, felt compelled to respond. Kevins Can Score Improbably Attractive TV Wives 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

The “stories all begin in the relatively humble territory of realistic fiction,” our reviewer, Rebecca Lee, said here. Paperback Row 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

Steavenson is “excellent on a war reporter’s difficulty with confronting her own vulnerability, her loss of perspective,” our reviewer, Louise Doughty, writes. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer Douglas Brinkley praised this “thrilling” history, noting that “with granular detail, Graff writes about the white-collar criminals, hatchet men and rogues who populated the outer circles of Nixon’s covert operations.” Pulitzer Prizes 2023: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

The reviews for her last album, The Element of Freedom, were mixed – while some reviewers rated it among the best of her four studio albums, others found it lacking in passion. Alicia Keys: 'Everything I do comes from a primal place' 2011-07-14T20:30:02Z

It was a fairly small world — there weren’t very many products or very many reviewers and also there were limits on how many users could claim. The Secret Life of Amazon’s Vine Reviewers 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

Assisted by a panel of judges made up of writers, editors, bloggers, and reviewers, editorial director Kreizman sifts through submissions from participating publishers to find the five “best” for the club’s members. It's not your grandma's Book of the Month Club 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

The Guardian's reviewer complained that "despite fact that the glitz is laid on with a trowel, Strictly Ballroom the Musical takes a long time to ignite". Mixed reviews for Strictly musical 2014-04-14T12:19:47Z

“Were Whitehead’s only aim to shine an unforgiving light on a redacted chapter of racial terrorism in the American chronicle, that would be achievement enough,” wrote our reviewer. Pulitzer Prizes: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

Giving small-ball independent reviewers free copies of a $60 game if they offered it praise seems like a very clear and serious case of corruption. Gamergate’s fickle hero: The dark opportunism of Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

According to our reviewer, Dana Thomas, Postrel’s account is “a journey as epic, and varying, as the Silk Road itself.” New in Paperback: ‘The Fabric of Civilization’ and ‘The National Road’ 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

Sex and the City 2″ received far more scathing treatment from male reviewers than did guy-oriented movies that were every bit as wretched, I at first resisted. The “man crisis,” continued 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

I was annoyed at the audacity of this reviewer. Stop using "Latinx" if you really want to be inclusive 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z

The show, titled “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess” and now running at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass., won praise from Boston critics, but New York reviewers were more mixed. ArtsBeat Blog: It Is Necessarily So: Revamped 'Porgy and Bess' Will Come To Broadway 2011-09-14T20:30:49Z

The best of this satirical collection is “SantaLand Diaries,” a meditation on his time as an elf for hire, which our reviewer, Alexandra Jacobs, called “at once hilarious and profoundly depressing.” Just Foolin’ Around: 7 Books From Comics and Humorists 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

Wen: I wouldn’t say “despise,” but I cracked up when a reviewer called my book “whimsical.” Salon’s author questionnaire: Inside Tom Perrotta’s “Mrs. Fletcher” and more summer must-reads 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

However, he doesn't recognise that the only ones who mourn this situation are film reviewers like himself. The film critic is dead. Long live the film critic 2010-04-07T14:52:00Z

“At first glance, it may seem the book is meant for an intelligent student in the middle grades,” the reviewer, Rosemary L. Bray, wrote. Patricia McKissack, Prolific Author Who Championed Black Heroes, Dies at 72 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

The result, “In His Own Write,” was a hit — reviewers compared Lennon with Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll — and Mr. Maschler commissioned the follow-up, “A Spaniard in the Works.” ArtsBeat: John Lennon Manuscripts Go to Auction 2014-02-25T17:31:34Z

As several reviewers pointed out, there is not a great deal of Burns’s famous poetry in the show. Alan Cumming Uses Dance to Get at the Truth of Robert Burns 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

Similarly, research presented at the American Association of Wine Economists conference in 2013 showed that reviewers reserve florid prose for expensive bottles and use simpler, more pedestrian language to describe Two Buck Chucks. Is There a Better Way to Talk About Wine? 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

As she “zigzags” around the country snapping photos, Smith shares what our reviewer, Ken Tucker, referred to as her “quivering inner life during her 70th year.” New in Paperback: ‘The Testaments’ and ‘The Patient’s Checklist’ 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Hillary Rosner, called the book “beautiful and brutal, uplifting and bleak, a story of the universal human condition set in some of the most distinctive places on earth.” New in Paperback: ‘The Source of Self-Regard’ and ‘Horizon’ 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

A majority liked the resort, and many positive reviewers chided the negative Nellies for expecting luxury accommodations at bargain prices, a sentiment I related to. Frugal Traveler Blog: Using TripAdvisor? Some Advice 2013-01-01T16:37:28Z

Critical response to the book was generally favorable, with some reviewers praising Ms. Hart’s detached, spare style. Josephine Hart, Author of Best-Selling ?Damage,? Dies 2011-06-06T02:32:46Z

When I read about great service in restaurant reviews, I always wonder if it's because the reviewer was recognized---for example, Ruth Reichl's raspberries at Le Cirque. Gramercy Tavern: A Classic Still on the Move 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

At the reviewed performance, which transpired in the immediate wake of the Emanuel AME Church massacre, this reviewer found himself repeatedly wiping away tears and joyously swaying in the spirit. 'The Gospel at Colonus' proves timely, timeless 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

“It’s as if he’s tired of playing life safe up the middle of the fairway. He wants to confront something that is out of control,” wrote our reviewer. What to Read Before Heading to Movie Theaters This Fall 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

What is never guaranteed is a good reaction from the reviewers. What to say about ... Danny Boyle's Frankenstein 2011-02-24T17:14:39Z

But most reviewers concurred that the new musical is a great deal of fun, helped along by the wittily inventive, hugely varied dances that characterize Hunter’s style. ‘The Doors Didn’t Open Easily’ on Her Path to ‘Cinderella’ 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

On mass review sites like Yelp, Amazon and Epinion, "super reviewers" get extra recognition for the hundreds of reviews they post. For online 'super reviewers' rewards go offline 2010-07-08T23:12:00Z

As a reviewer, who’s seen every season, I can see that the show is a fine, transporting entertainment. Downton Abbey, I Am Too American to Love You 2013-01-04T18:45:35Z

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

And though readers who crave narrative may have been put off by them, reviewers almost always found themselves succumbing to what many referred to as a cumulative, hypnotic effect. David Markson, Postmodern Novelist, Dies at 82 2010-06-08T03:22:00Z

“A glorious, heart-warming pageant of humanity,” a reviewer for The London Evening Standard declared. Peter Maxwell Davies?s New Opera, ?Kommilitonen!? 2011-11-12T22:15:07Z

Many seem little more than opportunities for the reviewers to show off their witticisms, and we still see that today. Bogus Populism and Bad Music 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

“Flowers brings an invigorating sense of purpose to the page,” our reviewer, Anna Clark, writes. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

“The name confuses me,” muttered a Yelp reviewer. At Capitol Hill Crab Cakes, the name may confuse you, but the food sure won’t 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

The reviewer fails to mention the superb performance of Michael Parks, one of our most underrated actors. Review: In ‘Blood Father,’ Mel Gibson Plays With Pulp Fiction 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

“Pitch Perfect,” which was liked by 93.8 percent of female critics, was rated much lower by men—just 76.9 percent of male reviewers liked it. The Tomatometer gender gap is real: We crunched numbers on reviews of 100 films aimed at women, and here’s what we found 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z

Like the author’s acclaimed novels, her first story collection, which our reviewer, Molly Antopol, called “moving” and “superb,” explores “memory and spirituality and transnational Jewishness.” New in Paperback: ‘Memorial’ and ‘Singular Sensation’ 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

As our reviewer, David Means, noted, this collection “fuses cultures, or perhaps leaps over them, defying time, beating like pop songs, touching universal nerves.” New in Paperback: Haruki Murakami and Richard Thompson 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

This bookstore is where legions of writers and reviewers have come over the decades to be rescued, to make a bit of necessary cash by selling their extra books and review copies. A Critic’s Tour of Literary Manhattan 2012-12-14T17:13:34Z

Our reviewer, Thessaly La Force, finds Mizrahi’s descriptions of his unhappy boyhood to be “unexpectedly tender” as well as “heartfelt and honest.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

This “smart and accomplished” debut collection, as our reviewer, Kirstin Valdez Quade, commented, focuses on women with muted desires, standing at a distance from their own stories as they navigate the uncertainty of early adulthood. New in Paperback: ‘Let the Record Show’ and ‘Hell of a Book’ 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

Defiant grossout and uncompromising immaturity usually win very high marks from this reviewer, but not when they're allied to an eerie absence of funny lines and funny ideas. 21 & Over – review 2013-05-02T21:30:01Z

They just didn’t expect it to work so well so soon; that it did they ascribe to the enthusiasm of reviewers. A Theater Company’s Secret to Success: Bedlam 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

I chose the Seikoro Ryokan in Kyoto because online reviewers mentioned that the staff spoke English, which was critical for us because of our dietary needs. Why you should stay in a Japanese ryokan 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Men made up 68 percent of those reviewers and women, 32 percent. Male Critics Are Harsher Than Women on Female-Led Films, Study Says 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

By novel’s end, this reviewer at least, perhaps revealing my own “food issues,” found herself ever so slightly nauseated. A Novel of Sex, Faith and Lots of Yogurt 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

Some reviewers are complaining about the film's blase approach to destruction. 'San Andreas' leaves critics shaken, not stirred 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

The only people who will get back to you usually are cranky people who disagree with you, want to pick a fight and a few reviewers. George Orwell stopped and smelled the roses, and Rebecca Solnit wants modern people to do the same 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

Seattle Times reporter/reviewer Ken Armstrong wrote that while “the authors’ adjective of choice for rabies is diabolical ... Facts rule: 8 great nonfiction books 2013-06-14T17:29:09Z

The New York Film Critics Circle, the nation's oldest organization of movie reviewers, chose The Illusionist as the best animated film of 2010. 'The Illusionist': Better Than 'Toy Story 3'? 2010-12-25T11:10:00Z

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

And yes, the reviewers are a tougher audience, far more critical on average than general audiences are. Analyzing Why Audiences Rate Movies Better Than Critics Do 2013-08-14T22:14:14Z

The reports holds that “female reviewers mention the name of a woman director in 89% of their reviews and males in 81% of their reviews.” Female film critics are the minority, and predominantly cover movies about women 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer wrote that “what survives in its pages is a vibrant testimony to the power of words to transcend time.” 3 Books That Explore Catalonia’s Fight for Independence 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

The novel has drawn widespread praise from reviewers impressed with Haslett’s bold, original prose, and it was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Adam Haslett, L.A. Times Book Prize finalist, discusses 'Imagine Me Gone' 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

"The author fails to find anything remotely insightful to say in these 11 amazingly underwhelming stories," wrote its reviewer. James Franco to publish book of poetry 2012-12-18T12:03:19Z

If it's more throwback than breakthrough, or if an air of the mechanical hovers around the entire enterprise, nothing this reviewer or anyone else says will matter an iota. Energetic 'Newsies' chock full of extras -- read all about it 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

Web development … do the fiction-buying public still listen to newspaper critics over online reviewers? Amazon v newspaper: which is the more valuable review? 2012-05-22T11:05:28Z

And now that I’m 21 years down the line, I realize that pretty much I’ve outlived most of the reviewers that ever wrote a nasty review. Shirley Manson has outlived the haters: “The business got very fat and lazy and was full of people who didn’t even care about music” 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

I've lost count of the number of times readers or reviewers have assumed my novel is autobiographical. Rude awakenings: Elizabeth Day 2011-04-02T23:07:50Z

This emotionally resonant, retro-style debut about a boy and the dog who moves in and out of his life is “sure to be a book worth revisiting,” our reviewer, Tom Lichtenheld, said. Notable Children’s Books of 2017 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

A beekeeper recounts his experience moving from novice to master, providing ample advice and presenting the eccentrics, oddballs and, as our reviewer, Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, put it, “flagrantly self-promoting windbags” he encounters along the way. New in Paperback: Haruki Murakami and Richard Thompson 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

A reviewer at Gothamist raved last week: “It’s early, to be sure, but Nix seems poised to be one of the best openings of 2016 so far.” Vegetarian and proud: without meat, Nix packs a bite 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z

The reviewer's last paragraph is a wonderful summary. ‘Reckless Daughter’: A Protective Biography of Joni Mitchell 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

Without any known recordings of the performance, “The Four Moons” has been fragmented into a few hazy memories, with some clues left by reviewers. Oklahoma’s Gift to Ballet: The Five Moons Ballerinas 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

Fashion reviewers have struggled to be kind about Mr. Krakoff’s sartorial talent, which isn’t quite ripe yet. | Reed Krakoff: Bulletproof Clothing: Take Your Best Shot 2010-09-21T21:46:00Z

The British novelist Beryl Bainbridge had a lifelong fascination with tragedy — what she called “an interest in death” and what one reviewer cattily summarized as “the Beryl Bainbridge school of anguished women’s fiction.” Beryl Bainbridge: The writer who used tragedy as an entry point into farce 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

Roasts began in the 1920s at the Friars Club in New York – a Broadway haven for performers, publicists and reviewers that held tribute dinners to celebrate members' careers. Channel 4 launches comedy roast shows 2010-04-05T06:00:00Z

One iPhone user summed up the opinion of most reviewers when she wrote that “Everything. Costs. Too. Much.—it’s almost not even realistic.” Why Kim Kardashian's Game Has Perfect User Ratings 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

It is evident that the reviewer does not particularly like the circus. Review: The Big Apple Circus Is Ripe for Another Bite 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

While still a student of his, in 1948, she caught the attention of a reviewer for The Times, who observed that her work “transformed Albers’ color-shape experiments into personal fantasy.” Ruth Asawa, an Artist Who Wove Wire, Dies at 87 2013-08-17T23:07:13Z

These accounts offer a sampling of the new breed of movie reviewers. 8 TikTokers Redefining the Movie Review 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Spielberg is an executive producer of the latest film, which more than one reviewer criticized as lacking his sure touch for fantasy adventure. ‘Jurassic World’ Tromps All Over the Box Office Competition 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

In fact, I noticed that there was just one review on Amazon complaining about that, and dozens of other reviewers jumped to your defense to say that, of course, it doesn’t matter. Q&A with Deborah Madison: ‘I want to make it resonate’

Some readers and reviewers bristled at the relish with which the book deconstructed celebrity mythology. ArtsBeat: Richard Ben Cramer On and Off the Field 2013-01-08T20:53:46Z

It wasn’t simply that Kael recorded those years as a regular reviewer. The warrior critic: in praise of Pauline Kael 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

Orwell was an exceptionally prolific book reviewer and columnist, but it was his dystopian novels, “Animal Farm” and “1984,” that cemented his cultural legacy. How ‘Orwellian’ Became an All-Purpose Insult 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z

Aren't reviewers allowed to believe we sort of look like them? Peter Bradshaw on not looking like Brad Pitt 2010-04-28T21:45:00Z

Our reviewer, Douglas Preston, called the book “a powerful and affecting story, beautifully handled.” New in Paperback: ‘Florida,’ ‘Robin’ 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

The result — somewhat frustratingly for a reviewer — is that La Farge has written a self-critiquing novel that seems to anticipate every possible complaint a reader could have. Paul La Farge’s ‘The Night Ocean’ will suck you into the vortex of H.P. Lovecraft 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

Martha Anne Toll is a D.C.-based writer and reviewer. Review | Morowa Yejidé’s capacious imagination is on full display in ‘Creatures of Passage’ 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z

Hollywood Reporter’s Todd McCarthy, one the most influential American reviewers in Cannes, praised the film as “a tasty wallow in sordid goings-on.” Pretty Boys Gone Wild, Part 1: Zac Efron in The Paperboy 2012-05-25T16:21:11Z

Reading it is like “sinking into a snowdrift,” our reviewer, Julian Lucas, wrote. New in Paperback: ‘The Memory Police’ and ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’ 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

Photograph: George Marks/Getty Images We spotted this great conversation starter on our new Family reviewers thread, and thought it deserved a blog of its own. Open thread: Which phrases have your family 'caught' from reading? 2013-01-24T10:28:51Z

Paul Gray, a reviewer for Time magazine, described its “perfervid prose,” replete with exclamations. Colleen McCullough, author of ‘The Thorn Birds,’ dies at 77 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Such is the necessary restraint of a book reviewer — or at least a courteous one. Perspective | What book has the most disappointing ending? Readers have many opinions. 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z

Quattlebaum is a children’s author and regular reviewer for The Washington Post. Finalists for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature

Mr. Finn ultimately concludes that Wallace’s “success among professional reviewers proved only a part of the enthusiastic popular reception that spawned groups like the collective reading and discussion website Infinite Summer.” ArtsBeat Blog: Thinking Cap: From David Foster Wallace to Bret Easton Ellis by Way of Faulkner 2011-09-27T18:08:13Z

How would a male reviewer read my memoir? Women and sex: intimate adventurers 2011-07-06T07:00:00Z

One reviewer was particularly distressed by the novel’s dismal gloominess. Perspective | Two centuries after her birth, Emily Brontë’s gifts keep giving 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

“Bohjalian strikes a fine balance between disclosure and secrecy” in deciding what to reveal and when, our reviewer Sarah Lyall writes. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

And we have a squad of talented and resilient freelance reviewers to help us make sure new releases get the attention they deserve. And Now Let’s Review … 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

As VIDA, a women’s literary organization, showed in February in its second annual statistical roundup, women get shockingly short shrift as reviewers and reviewees in most prestigious publications. Essay: ‘The Second Shelf’ 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

So, a lot of praise from our brilliant reviewers for the Hunger Games! Valentine's Day romantic reads – tell us your favourites 2013-02-14T14:30:00Z

The book’s harsher detractors scorned it as Prussian-minded drivel, with a reviewer for The Nation jeering, “Mussolini’s old slogan had more style: Believe, obey, fight!” Should We Worry About Trump’s Fawning Admiration of the Military? 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

Here’s a look back at what our Seattle Times reviewers said about some of his concerts. From the archives: A look back at Elton John’s very energetic Seattle-area concerts 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

Some mainstream reviewers have responded with the kind of outrage that greeted Ibsen’s “Ghosts” more than a century ago. Theater Review: Thomas Bradshaw’s ‘Intimacy’ Makes Sex Neighborly 2014-01-30T03:00:17Z

Early reviewers focused on its action credentials, and made little reference to the film’s Christmas Eve setting, or McClane’s desire to reunite with his children and partner for the holidays. Yippee Ki Yay: ‘Die Hard’ Comes to the Christmas Stage 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

"Influenced by artists like Mark Tobey and Morris Graves, Martin is like a down-home, Pacific Northwest version of Marc Chagall," wrote a Seattle Times reviewer in 2011. 'Top Gun,' the Globetrotters, and other things to do this week 2013-02-11T17:16:07Z

Our reviewer, Alex von Tunzelmann, doesn’t find that thesis wholly persuasive — but she does admire the book’s ambition and sweep, adding that “much of the material here is lively, enjoyable and compelling.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

Most laptop reviewers focus on flashy expensive systems rather than budget laptops, so reliable sources are hard to come by. A great cheap laptop 2012-08-26T16:00:00Z

Contributing reviewer Lewis Segal reports that the show’s highlights include the ways in which Bourne “acutely” reveals character and social class. Essential Arts & Culture: Chicago architecture biennial, 'The Red Shoes' hits L.A. and more PST: LA/LA 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

Gay manages to explain why she found Santopietro’s book unsatisfying in clear and cogent prose, without the hesitation and pulled punches that plague many other reviewers. Letters to the Editor 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

Writing in The New York Times, the reviewer Walter Goodman said that the scene goes on so long that “you are left with a feeling of being worked on.” A Russian Filmmaker’s Travelogue of Hell 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

The book “reads like an impassioned survey course on migration, laying bare the origins of mass migration in searing clarity,” our reviewer, Lauren Markham, writes. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

When this was exhibited in the Whitney Biennial, Iannone was happy when a reviewer said it was the most transgressive work in the show. Dorothy Iannone: art's original bad girl 2013-03-13T18:00:54Z

Because of its strong narrative thrust, frequent autobiographical bent and tendency to shun conventional poetic devices, some reviewers dismissed it as merely prose with line breaks. Philip Levine, Former U.S. Poet Laureate Who Won Pulitzer, Dies at 87 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z

Plus, Times contributing reviewer Richard S. Ginnell landed at the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s season opener, which was led by Spanish conductor Jaime Martín — and which featured an appearance by violinist Joshua Bell. Essential Arts & Culture: A censored mural returns, PST: LA/LA is humming, learning from Las Vegas 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Joyce Carol Oates, called the book “an epic of a biography.” New in Paperback: ‘Winter,’ ‘Ten Restaurants That Changed America’ 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

“As a reviewer, your profile is on the page for others to evaluate.” How TripAdvisor altered your vacation-planning universe 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

After Powell’s largely uneventful army experience as a noncombatant in World War II, Muggeridge hired him as a book reviewer for the weekly Punch. The One-Hit Author Whose One Hit Had 12 Volumes 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

In Time magazine, the reviewer R. Z. Sheppard wrote, “Toffler’s redundant delivery and overheated prose turned kernels of truth into puffed generalities.” Alvin Toffler, Author of ‘Future Shock,’ Dies at 87 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

Near the end, the reviewer writes that there is no “satisfying answer” as to the question of what will give us meaning in the 21st century. Letters to the Editor 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

“This complex, substantive debut offers a singular and transfixing take on the nature of identity — both national and personal — and the dangers of secrecy, both national and personal,” our reviewer, Joanna Rakoff, writes. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

A reviewer for the Independent called it "a rather mixed affair," adding that Cumberbatch's prince is "pointedly subversive if insufficiently spontaneous." Benedict Cumberbatch's 'Hamlet' is center of his own 'six degrees' game 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer called the book “beautiful and brilliant, heartbreaking and wise, but also pitiless, which may be controversial to list among its virtues but is in fact essential to its success.” Pulitzer Prizes 2023: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

One local reviewer said the show delivered laughs “at a staggering clip,” though another critic warned that the jokes were “a little smutty.” ‘Shucked’: A Broadway Musical That Doubles Down on the Corn 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z

But there's a fierce intelligence at work, and her performances provide "a glimpse of the transcendental," as one London reviewer put it. Quick Hits: Helene Grimaud plays live 2011-09-10T16:01:00Z

Our reviewer, Sophie Gee, described Cohen’s memoir of the experience, into which she folds “provocative comparisons” between art and life, as “thoroughly authentic, smart and consoling.” New in Paperback: ‘Transcendent Kingdom’ and ‘Agent Sonya’ 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, James Goodman, called the book “lovingly researched” and “lively and illuminating.” New in Paperback: ‘Women Talking’ and ‘How to Disappear’ 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

“This is not a potato salad,” the reviewer says. Crimes against potato salad: How not to get uninvited from the cookout 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z

On the page, Gone Girl played devious games with its reviewers as well as its readers. David Fincher's Subtle and Wild Gone Girl 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

"It's not an ideal situation for a new gallery to have to ban a reviewer, but Ian was adamant," she says, giggling. Victoria Miro 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z

Seattle Times reviewer David Laskin called it “stupendous… ‘All the Light We Cannot See’ is a beautiful, daring, heartbreaking, oddly joyous novel.” The children of World War II – Anthony Doerr's novel ‘All the Light We Cannot See' 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

Included with the mask, which one reviewer said made her look “like a cast member of the Blue Man Group,” is a lightly scented face cream containing sodium hyaluronate, hyaluronic acid, plus additional glycerin. Sheet Masks, Ranked by Hydration 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z

I probably won't be the only reviewer of Janice Galloway's second volume of autobiography to fall back on Tolstoy's line from Anna Karenina, even though I'm not sure I believe it. All Made Up by Janice Galloway ? review 2011-08-12T09:00:01Z

Can a reviewer count as an "honest reader"? Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked – review 2013-02-07T07:00:01Z

A Pitchfork reviewer praised her voice and her songs, only to add the caveat that her ability to write about personal matters with such candor “would be more remarkable if it weren’t a genetic trait.” Martha Wainwright Tells a Few Stories She Might Regret 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, he worked as a radio reviewer for the Independent and then the Observer, and wrote many book reviews. Tom Lubbock obituary 2011-01-10T18:34:36Z

From 1973 to 1990 he was the "sporadically active" chief reviewer of poetry for the Observer, and before that for the Guardian. Peter Porter obituary 2010-04-23T16:54:00Z

The show at the Nordic Heritage Museum in Ballard pulls together archival photos and promotional materials from the Finnish design company, all of which convey an outdoorsy simplicity, with modernist sophistication, writes reviewer Gayle Clemans. Review: Feelin’ groovy with Marimekko at Nordic Heritage Museum 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

When the book first appeared, a contemporary reviewer remarked, “Imagine a novel … with a middle-aged ruffian for a hero.” Men in books 2012-06-30T14:00:00Z

Don't look for "Boo!" to end up in the Oscar race or on many reviewers' "ten best" lists, but the Halloween comedy is a hit for distributor Lionsgate and reaffirms Perry's star power. Box Office: 'Madea Halloween' Edges Out 'Jack Reacher 2' With $27.6 Million 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

Its reviewer urged: "Read these books and join me in adding him to the list … of the world's very greatest writers." German resistance centenarian Hans Keilson wins UK deal for war novel 2010-10-17T21:50:00Z

Ms. Passlof’s canvases are distinguished by the primacy of the brush stroke: they were sometimes so thickly worked in oils that reviewers commended their smell as well as their visual aspects. Pat Passlof, Abstract Expressionist Painter, Dies at 83 2011-11-25T02:50:45Z

That film was criticized by military veterans for inaccuracies and savaged by reviewers, ending up a box-office disappointment. Demi Moore Lets Her Guard Down 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z

Am I the only reader of the Book Review who often wonders, “Is this reviewer seeing his or her task at hand as an opportunity for self-promotion?” Using the Bible in an Apocalypse and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

The first instalment, The Curse of the Black Pearl, was well received, but later editions have proved less popular with reviewers, even as the films continue to perform impressively at the box office. Will Johnny Depp swing the lead for Pirates 5? 2011-07-08T09:34:16Z

Thanks to all our reviewers, who come through faithfully to help me compile this shining list. 31 of the best titles of 2013 2013-12-04T22:03:53Z

Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton star in an aggressively uplifting musical that will leave you either snarling or singing—maybe both Inside every movie reviewer lurks two creatures: the critic and the fan. Joyful Noise: Is it Awfully Nice or Just Plain Awful? 2012-01-12T21:30:09Z

Our reviewer, Stephen McCauley, called the book “strikingly original, compelling and beautifully written.” New in Paperback: ‘Unsheltered’ and ‘Come With Me’ 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

The product has been a popular beauty buy and holiday gift option with an average rating of 4.5 stars out of 5 from 4,740 reviewers. Best beauty buys under $70 from Ulta and more 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

The spread of the world wide web, which is now transforming our culture, allows anyone with a computer to set himself up as a reviewer, a participant in a critical discourse and a potential legislator. Is the age of the critic over? 2011-01-30T00:07:09Z

“Citkowitz’s narrative flows seamlessly from past to present, folding time into pleats, shaking them gracefully loose,” our reviewer, Dylan Landis, says. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

Best Revival of a Play: “The Cripple of Inishmaan” and “The Glass Menagerie” both were lauded by reviewers, but fellow nominees “A Raisin in the Sun” and “Twelfth Night” thrilled audiences as well. Tony Awards To Feature Big Names and Tight Contests 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

Amazon sends her free stuff; she, as an established and trusted reviewer, tests it out and writes reviews. The Secret Life of Amazon’s Vine Reviewers 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

A reviewer says she finds my emotional candour more shocking than the sex. Women and sex: intimate adventurers 2011-07-06T07:00:00Z

At the same time, “Below Deck” satisfies the Yelp reviewer that lurks inside each one of us, the customer who needs to speak to a manager. Perspective | Here’s to the class-conflicted, workplace-inappropriate ‘Below Deck’ — TV’s ideal mental vacation 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z

This “deeply personal project” probes “the meaning of language and family, inheritance and debt,” as our reviewer, Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, put it. New in Paperback: ‘The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata’ and ‘This Is Not My Memoir’ 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

“In Gates’s telling,” noted our reviewer, Jon Meacham, the Black church “shines bright even as the nation itself moves uncertainly through the gloaming, seeking justice on earth.” New in Paperback: ‘Harlem Shadows’ and ‘The Black Church’ 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z

She devotes an entire chapter to her boundless enthusiasm for Dorothy Sayers, whom she describes as “one of the great writers of the twentieth century,” an assertion that made this reviewer laugh aloud. “The Art of the English Murder” is a great read, but light on historical sources

As Agamemnon leads Iphigenia to her doom, there is a — well, that’s as much as this reviewer will tell you. Review | Michael Kahn turns to a timeless play from ancient Greece to send off his career 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

The film's animation drew praise from reviewers, and several aerial sequences — including a memorable twilight flying scene — are filled with eye-catchingly realistic uses of light. Software behind 'Big Hero 6' pushes envelope on computer animation 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

But the most revealing response came from Rolling Stone magazine, whose initial reviewer Ira Robbins was one of the smarter music writers of the time. "Nevermind" 30 years on — how Nirvana’s second album tilted the world on its axis 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

The book critic for NPR’s “Fresh Air” and a regular reviewer for The Washington Post, Corrigan digresses wherever her fancy takes her. ‘So We Read On: How “The Great Gatsby” Came to Be,’ by Maureen Corrigan

A reviewer for The Guardian said that Ms. Yoncheva was “surely a star in the making” and described her singing as “technically nigh-on faultless.” The Soprano Sonya Yoncheva Is Poised for Stardom 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

A local restaurant reviewer called shortly after, confused. Renee Erickson has four Seattle restaurants, and now a cookbook 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

Theatre, dance, opera, film, and the visual arts all have reviewers recognized for their knowledge and experience in the field. Review: The Big Apple Circus Is Ripe for Another Bite 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

The final film was released by the Weinstein Company, without screenings for reviewers. Review: In ‘Jane Got a Gun,’ Clear Skies, Followed by a Hail of Bullets 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

A consensus of decent sound quality among reviewers merely suggests that most people will like said headphones, not a guarantee. A great noise-canceling headphone 2012-09-09T16:00:00Z

Edgar Wright has asked, nay politely implored, reviewers not to reveal "some of the surprises, twists and actors" in the movie. The World's End – review 2013-07-20T23:05:25Z

A reviewer for NPR likened her skill at portraiture to that of “one of those cartoonists who can sketch out four lines and suddenly you see your face in them.” Lauren Hough Loses Lambda Prize Nomination After a Twitter Feud 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Eric Grode, calls the book an “empathic biography” that is on especially sure footing in its analysis of Berlin’s approach to lyrics. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

He is also a frequent reviewer of contemporary science fiction and fantasy. Review | The dauntless machismo of the Vikings 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z

The reviewer seems to believe that the artist owes us an exact representation of himself onstage. Review: John Leguizamo Goes for Easy Laughs in ‘Latin History’ 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

We aren’t looking for confessions of sexual preference from male reviewers of films made for the male gaze. Women, stop apologizing for loving “Magic Mike XXL”: Our visual pleasure matters as much as any man’s 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

“If this verbal and visual caution occasionally seems almost craven,” a reviewer for The New York Times Book Review wrote, the blind spots for which it sought to compensate were real. Doctor Dolittle’s Talking Animals Still Have Much to Say 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer wasn’t sold on “A Prayer for Owen Meany.” 50 States, 50 Love Stories 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Terrence Rafferty, praised the collection, warning that it “is a dangerous book to read quickly or casually because it’s so consistently delirious.” New in Paperback: ‘The Dawn Watch,’ ‘The Complete Stories’ 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

In contrast, Times of London reviewer Libby Purves found it "absurd and hugely enjoyable," with terrible dialogue but "brilliantly clever" design and powerful performances. 'The Bodyguard' stage musical opens in London 2012-12-06T13:21:10Z

Hired reviewers cut corners That gives you an advantage. How to spot fake reviews on travel sites 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

The music and the person are not that deep as this reviewer tries mightily to make them out to be; using all sorts of linguistic twists and turns. Taylor Swift Is a 2017 Pop Machine on ‘Reputation,’ but at What Cost? 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

The effect is “a hallucinatory jukebox doc with killer subtext,” as one reviewer wrote, appreciatively, after it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this spring. A Filmmaker Explores David Bowie’s Life and Finds Clarity About His Own 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

Its latest financial results, published this month, reported that the “fair value” of its catalog, as determined by an independent reviewer, rose 10 percent from April to September. This Man Is Betting $1.7 Billion on the Rights to Your Favorite Songs 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

The trailer included this line: “The Atlanta Journal-Constitution raves, ‘Actually, we had to get rid of our full-time movie reviewer nine years ago . . . so we haven’t seen it yet.’ ” The Fate of the Critic in the Clickbait Age 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

“By making addiction so central to his plot,” our reviewer, James Shapiro, writes, “Nesbo also makes Macbeth’s paranoia and hallucinatory visions, so crucial to Shakespeare’s play, not just believable but meaningful in a contemporary way.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

But all the tracks soon made their way to the Internet, giving U.S. fans and reviewers an early chance to weigh in on the third album from the New York pop-dance performance artist. New Lady Gaga album leaks ahead of May 23 release 2011-05-19T00:49:28Z

While one reviewer described the Manchester world premiere of the songs as "massively self-indulgent", many more were gushing in their praise of "moments of simple, transcendent beauty". Nature's way 2011-07-28T08:18:35Z

She is also the beauty and health product reviewer at Wirecutter. In Search of Black Santa 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

Were there no women reviewers on the roster? James Baldwin’s Review, Babe Ruth and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

This “absorbing” biography of the first Black American fighter pilot “reads like a picaresque novel,” our reviewer, Thomas E. Ricks, noted. New in Paperback: ‘All Blood Runs Red’ and ‘Frankissstein’ 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z

He found original versions of manuscripts and restored expurgated words and entire passages which had been subject to censorship because editors, publishers and reviewers deemed them to be obscene or tasteless. Peter Davison, Orwell Scholar on a Monumental Scale, Dies at 95 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

The magazine's reviewer, David Benedict, also praised the production's "clarity", with a contemporary setting in which "characters and, crucially, their status becomes immediately clear". Critics split on complex Richard III 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

On screen, it’s clear the veteran reviewer loves the tongue-in-cheek banter. After 40 years on the air in Washington, Arch Campbell says goodbye — sort of

Most reviewers of expressed astonishment that a young man could write with such confidence about women on the brink of death. Author, author: Paul Bailey 2011-01-15T00:05:47Z

The reviewer never said AR stands for assault rifle. Review: ‘On the Exhale’ Addresses Grief and the Attraction of an Assault Rifle 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

Yet, in this reviewer’s opinion, the magic of writing pales in comparison to the powers of the book’s subject: ice cream. Funny Genre-Bending Fiction From the Creators of ‘Dragons Love Tacos’ and the ‘Spy School’ Series 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

It boldly solicits reviewers' blurbs proclaiming that the picture lives up to its title — that it is less a cash cow than a sacred one, equal to the éclat of its celebrated young stars. A Failing Grade to X-Men: First Class 2011-06-02T17:35:00Z

Arendt and Mary McCarthy did some detective work, and discovered the reviewer's identity. Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic by David Caute – review 2013-06-20T07:00:34Z

An extra level of crowded platform has been inserted to emphasize what one reviewer described as the station's "Dantean circles". A world of change in 250 photos at London exhibition 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

“A lot of his songs are not of the jolliest in content,” a reviewer for The Living Tradition, a traditional-music magazine published in Scotland, wrote in 2002. Louisa Jo Killen, Folk Singer With a Booming Tenor, Dies at 79 2013-08-26T02:29:11Z

Wow!, good to see The NY Times reviewer finally... eh...you know... actually review the show as opposed to summarizing it, something any unfortunate viewer can do by him or herself. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 8, Episode 3: Cut to Black 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z

But I skim many more, and, of course, I try to keep up with what is popular among the young readers in my library and what other reviewers are highlighting. Kids' books that stand out from others on the shelf 2011-12-17T08:17:23Z

“The Silent Wife,” published in late June, picked up momentum when it received crucial attention from a handful of reviewers. The Novel ‘Silent Wife’ Benefits From Success of ‘Gone Girl’ 2013-08-04T21:53:54Z

One audience reviewer deemed the movie “a complete disaster.” When ‘Captain Marvel’ Became a Target, the Rules Changed 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Sebastian Modak, hailed his book as “one upbeat, observant man’s emotional and physical journey through some of the most beautiful places in one very large country.” New in Paperback: ‘Exciting Times’ and ‘Leave Only Footprints’ 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

In 2017, Amazon removed the Vine discussion forums from its site; Amazon didn’t share its reasons with Vine reviewers. The Secret Life of Amazon’s Vine Reviewers 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

It’s framed by one of the outlying courtiers of the industry: a fictional former freelance journalist and reviewer named Joe Shaw. Nice Guy Meets Iron Man in the First Novel by Tom Hanks 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z

Some reviewers have critiqued the series’ relatively brief mentions of sexual violence as a tool of colonization, a reading that Peck calls “very superficial”. ‘Sometimes, it’s shocking’: Raoul Peck on his bold new colonialism series 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z

When she played them at the Kennedy Center two years ago, The Washington Post's reviewer praised her "superhuman control over the shadows, shades and whispers" of the pieces. Pianist Simone Dinnerstein brings her brand of Bach to Seattle 2011-01-06T22:08:07Z

The result, our reviewer, Janny Scott, noted, is a “searching,” “ruminative,” “sometimes lyrical” memoir of their relationship. New in Paperback: ‘Thinking Inside the Box’ and ‘The Mountains Sing’ 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

“Skillfully narrated” by Norman, also the author of the Beatles book “Shout!,” the guitar legend’s life story “becomes even more astounding, thanks to an abundance of rich details,” according to our reviewer, Lauretta Charlton. New in Paperback: ‘The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata’ and ‘This Is Not My Memoir’ 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

Is it asking too much for film reviewers to be as educated about cinema as classical music, literature or art critics are about their own subjects? The film critic is dead. Long live the film critic 2010-04-07T14:52:00Z

Before long, food critics and bloggers joined Yelp reviewers in skewering its pretensions. Up Close: The Velvet Rope Comes Down 2010-10-27T18:04:00Z

“My skin somehow drank up all the mask juice,” a reviewer with dry skin said, “even though it was extremely drippy and difficult to stay put.” Sheet Masks, Ranked by Hydration 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z

The book deserved a reviewer who could ask whether a writer with Williams’s hue and life experience has any standing to opine that race doesn’t matter. Does Race Matter? Who Gets to Ask That Question? 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

“They have their feet firmly planted in reality,” writes contributing reviewer David Pagel, “in times whose weirdness is deeper and more troubling than the art’s.” Essential Arts & Culture: 'Hamilton' opens, the debate over Confederate monuments, Mozart reimagined 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

Here, we've ranked all eight movies based on the combined opinions of four reviewers who've seen the series through -- sometimes switching publications themselves in the process. Ranking the 8 Harry Potter films 2011-07-15T16:01:00Z

Arlen eventually settled in Southern California and worked for decades as a music reviewer for The Times. James Conlon to debut at Wallis Annenberg Center in Beverly Hills 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

Though savaged by critics, with a lamentable 18% grade from the Rotten Tomatoes survey of movie reviewers, Just Go With It aced an A-minus from CinemaScore's poll of exiting moviegoers, and an A from women. Man-Boy Box Office Battle: Sandler Edges the Bieb 2011-02-14T01:00:00Z

When the Velvet Underground played England in 1971 with the drummer Maureen Tucker as the only original member, a Melody Maker reviewer deemed it “a travesty, a masquerade.” Reunion Tour! The Band Is Back! Wait, Who Are These Guys? 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

Contemporary reviewers didn’t know what to make of this one, but Colette called “The Pure and the Impure” her “personal contribution to the sum total of our knowledge of the senses.” The Essential Colette 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z

"Here is an encyclopedic survey of all that Mr. Jobs accomplished, replete with the passion and excitement that it deserves," wrote New York Times reviewer Janet Maslin. Reviewers praise new Steve Jobs biography 2011-10-24T19:46:23Z

Both the author and the reviewer seems totally unaware of the important role a free press must play in our democracy. The Walls That Hillary Clinton Created 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

There was a second, even more significant problem with the dress: “I had to wear Spanx and had to unzip to use the restroom,” wrote another reviewer, who also gave it a four-star rating. Rent the Runway means you can always wear something new. Should you have to? 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z

Since then we've featured a stream of his debut album, described by our reviewer as "achingly hip" and "awkward to define". Latitude 2012: festival preview 2012-07-11T09:36:00Z

As a reviewer, I usually read and scribble notes in the uncorrected page proofs of forthcoming titles. Perspective | In turbulent times, culling my book collection gave me the illusion of control. Then the dilemmas began multiplying. 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

“In the hands of a younger, brasher novelist, we might expect high drama, but here, instead, is a nuanced, quietly devastating family soap opera,” our reviewer, Melanie Finn, writes. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

On June 9 "Ms. Marvel" was polling at a 6.6. out of 10, thanks to 22.2% of the site's reviewers giving the series one star. Let's all stop ignoring The Fandom Menace. It's real, and it's winning 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

“I’m not a reviewer,” Mr. Gibson declares, “I just want to say I like this record a lot, O.K.?” Books of The Times: William Gibson?s ?Distrust That Particular Flavor? - Review 2012-01-01T20:27:07Z

Our reviewer, David W. Blight, called it “engrossing history, animated by the stories of several key characters.” New in Paperback: ‘Say Nothing’ and ‘The Club’ 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

That is not all that Tasso will have to deal with, though, as Yelp reviewers have started airing their grievances with the establishment. “We don’t serve your kind here”: Yelp tears into Arizona bar that ejected transgender woman 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

So it is with Top 10 Films of 2010 as drawn up by seven film critics for "The Hollywood Reporter," six U.S.-based and one overseas reviewer who keeps up with domestic releases. "Social Network," "Inception" top THR film list 2010-12-24T17:26:37Z

Our reviewer described Gay’s stories as revealing her to be “a writer as interested in form and language as she is in social commentary.” Skipping the inauguration on TV? Here are 10 other things to do 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

Our reviewer, the retired C.I.A. officer Paul Pillar, says it is “useful as a one-stop reference for citizens who want to think intelligently about all issues of public policy having a cyber dimension.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

He also served as a peer reviewer for a Center for Food Safety report on the dangers of neonics. Was a USDA scientist muzzled because of his bee research? 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

The reviewer referred to 'the stench of celebrity vanity'. The Hay Q&A 2010-05-31T21:00:00Z

The reviewer fails to mention the superb performance of Michael Parks, one of our most underrated actors. Review: In ‘Blood Father,’ Mel Gibson Plays With Pulp Fiction 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

She had been invited there to screen “Mariannes Noires,” her documentary about Afro-French women—“women who are perceived as having come from elsewhere, but whose hearts beat first for France,” as one reviewer wrote. The Campaign to Remove a Shocking Painting from the French National Assembly 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

As much as Sarris yearned to canonize Samuel Fuller and Nicholas Ray, he also needed to cauterize the work of directors laureled by front-line movie reviewers. Remembering Andrew Sarris: A Great American Film Critic 2012-06-21T12:39:03Z

“The book overall is a gracefully written, scrupulously balanced and quite satisfying account of what Obama meant for Black Americans,” our reviewer Orlando Patterson writes. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

“The all-important spark of genius was there,” The Times’s reviewer wrote, adding that his delivery was “that of conversation, almost colloquial,” a point of contention for British critics. A Battle of the Hamlets 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

According to our reviewer, Rebecca Makkai, the best pieces in this first collection of Smith’s stories “achieve something less narrative” than her more traditional tales of disillusionment, “and closer to brilliance.” New in Paperback: ‘Janis’ and ‘Grand Union’ 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z

Athitakis is a reviewer in Phoenix and the author of “The New Midwest.” Joshua Cohen's novel 'Moving Kings' is brilliant 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

AO Scott, the respected reviewer on the New York Times, has weighed in with his thoughts on the axing of his TV programme, At the Movies. The film critic is dead. Long live the film critic 2010-04-07T14:52:00Z

One reviewer accused me of not dealing with race and class. Jamaica Kincaid Isn’t Writing About Her Life, She Says 2013-02-04T23:08:15Z

Post reviewer Michael Lindgren wrote, “A subtle and moving exploration of the boundaries and contradictions of ethnic identity shimmers through these stories like a melody.” The 2016 finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z

“Hornby seems, as ever, fascinated by the power of music to guide the heart, and in this very funny, very charming novel, he makes you see why it matters,” our reviewer wrote. 50 States, 50 Love Stories 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

The group has its sassy side, taking pleasure in mocking Yelp reviewers and trashing Michigan's favorite seasonal ale, Oberon. T Magazine: Motor Mouths 2012-09-13T12:00:15Z

Our reviewer wrote, “Land survived the hardship of her years as a maid, her body exhausted and her brain filled with bleak arithmetic, to offer her testimony. It’s worth listening to.” The Author Behind ‘Maid’ Has a Room — and a Voice — of Her Own 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

Before the first series' figures came out one reviewer wondered if The TV Book Club – with its daytime-TV, Loose Women feel – might "actually have a negative impact on sales". TV book clubs 2010-07-24T23:01:00Z

Optimally, a reviewer’s evaluation should not be influenced by where she read a book. Slavery and the Holocaust: How Americans and Germans Cope With Past Evils 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

The gross-out comedy earned plague warnings from the few reviewers who subjected themselves to the ordeal. Hansel & Gretel Grab Some Candy on a Skimpy Weekend 2013-01-27T16:18:04Z

As an Earthling reviewer, however, I had no spaceship available to transport me out of “Between Worlds,” an overblown, highly colored, crudely conceived spectacle that aims directly at the sensationalist entertainment category. Dance Review: Flamenco, Hip-Hop and Bare Midriffs 2011-03-20T22:01:42Z

“As a follower of fashion at a distance and a reviewer of theater by profession, I have always wondered whether fashion shows made for exciting live viewing,” Mr. Isherwood wrote. On the Runway: Walk Like a Man 2011-02-14T21:03:21Z

I have never understood reviewers that don't review a movie in its context. Review: ‘Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates,’ Antics to Not Love nor Cherish 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

An external reviewer said that if the two police officers who interrogated Marie hadn’t documented their own “bullying and coercive” behavior, he “would have been skeptical” that such conduct actually happened. The Lesson Here Is Listen to the Victim 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

In The Times, reviewer Robert Abele called the film "exquisitely attuned to the commingling of the bitterly funny and tragic … proof that the legendary provocateur is still a font of out-there invention." Alejandro Jodorowsky's renewal continues with 'The Dance of Reality' 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

“Come for the promise of a compulsively readable novel,” our reviewer, Adrienne Brodeur, parlayed, “and stay for a fascinating lesson on the making of art.” New in Paperback: ‘The Pull of the Stars’ and ‘Memorial Drive’ 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

During a stint as a film reviewer for The New Republic, during the late fifties, Roth mentioned a director’s name only once. Philip Roth Versus the Movies 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

And it was released to picket lines in some cities and some scathing criticism from reviewers, politicians and other black advocacy groups. Song of the South: the difficult legacy of Disney's most shocking movie 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

But the authors savaged by reviewers may yet have their revenge. Review of "literary blah" memoir wins 2013 mauling award 2013-02-13T14:57:59Z

Early reviewers called it “strange,” “disagreeable,” “baffling,” “disjointed” and even “inexpressibly painful.” Perspective | Two centuries after her birth, Emily Brontë’s gifts keep giving 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Michael J. Totten, called it a “memoir that reads like a thriller.” New in Paperback: ‘Prisoner’ and ‘All My Puny Sorrows’ 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

“Obtuse is what this play is,” a reviewer for United Press International wrote in 1987. Warren Manzi, Whose ‘Perfect Crime’ Is New York’s Longest-Running Play, Dies at 60 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

Wilkinson “has mastered the facts with painstaking research and allowed them to speak for themselves,” our reviewer, Rosemary Mahoney, commented. New in Paperback: ‘The Vanishing Half’ and ‘Tangled Up in Blue’ 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

The reason reviewers give for praising the movie is false, and Greenwald knows the right one. The Zero Dark Thirty Argument: Why Deceptive Art Can Be Great 2012-12-11T16:10:11Z

The Walt Disney Co. movie received four or five stars from most reviewers, along with praise for its energy and emotion. 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' mostly finds its force with critics 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

The fruit of her labor, reviewers agreed, was a forthright portrait of a complex personality, set against the background of his renown as the composer of “Rigoletto,” “Aida,” “Otello” and other operas. Mary Jane Phillips-Matz, Biographer of Verdi and Puccini, Dies at 86 2013-01-27T03:13:09Z

His full-time work as a reviewer and essayist for the Independent began in 1997. Tom Lubbock obituary 2011-01-10T18:34:36Z

“Carter’s portrayal of his grandmother is full of love and admiration,” our reviewer, Sarah Weinman, writes. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

I’m bound by reviewers’ ethics not to err on the side of the explicit, but I will say that the most memorable shock tactics in the original film are recycled with minor variations in Prometheus. Prometheus: Alien Minus One 2012-06-05T13:20:45Z

Our reviewer called Rule’s book “as chilling as a bedroom window shattering at midnight.” Listen at Your Own Peril: 3 Chilling Audiobooks for Halloween 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z

Some reviewers of his memoir also detected a degree of self-importance: "No one", the novelist Christopher Hope wrote, "could say that Brink takes his work, or himself, too lightly." A life in writing: Andr? Brink 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

Though some reviewers took Mr. Kaplan to task for analyzing Whitman’s poetry insufficiently, that, the book made clear, was not his primary aim. Justin Kaplan, Literary Biographer, Dies at 88 2014-03-04T05:34:11Z

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

She taught writing at the University of California, Los Angeles, and was a prolific book reviewer, contributing regularly to The Washington Post for 27 years and frequently for other publications, including The New York Times. Carolyn See, Author of ‘Golden Days,’ Dies at 82 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Dominique Browning, called the book “appealingly shambolic and literary.” New in Paperback: ‘Life in the Garden,’ ‘The Mere Wife’ 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

Many reviewers criticized it for its huge system requirements, which were largely the result of the inclusion of so much historical and documentary footage. And the Oscar Goes to … a Film From a Video Game 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z

The Golden Dagger was a recognition of a book which the reviewer Jonathan Cecil described in the London Evening Standard as "masterly ... essential reading for both advocates and opponents of the death penalty". Martin Beales obituary 2010-07-22T16:56:00Z

Here is the lowdown from our reviewers on several of these offerings. Outdoor shows: ‘The Tempest,’ ‘Midsummer’ and more 2013-07-16T20:31:29Z

He began as a game reviewer, then became a TV critic, then a critic on TV. ‘Black Mirror’ Gives Power to the People 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

To moviegoers who hardly need to be reminded of Toy Story 3, the reviewers called attention to a worthy film — affirmative action being a critic's favorite act of seasonal benevolence. 'The Illusionist': Better Than 'Toy Story 3'? 2010-12-25T11:10:00Z

I was asked to take out some of the humor, because editors were afraid reviewers would dismiss the book as a joke. Kids' books: Remembering Newbery Medalist Sid Fleischman 2010-04-02T11:24:00Z

The reviewer for this paper wrote of your “powerful … unhurried detachment.” Steven Seagal: ‘I like to go after murderers, bank robbers, rapists, kidnappers’ 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

A year later, after Ms. Lincoln sang her own lyrics to a song called “Retribution,” her stance prompted one prominent reviewer to deride her in print as a “professional Negro.” Abbey Lincoln, Jazz Singer and Writer, Dies at 80 2010-08-14T19:25:00Z

He is a reviewer, a committee man who chaired the 2010 Man Booker prize, and his debut play about the Afghan war was staged last year. Andrew Motion: a life in writing 2012-10-05T21:55:13Z

The Bookbag is run on a voluntary basis by Sue and Jill Murphy and involves over 100 volunteer reviewers who are auditioned and edited by them. Chris Cleave: what happened when authors and book bloggers met for lunch 2011-02-21T12:56:34Z

Not alone in her assessment, New York Times film reviewer Caryn James called him the “film’s best surprise.” Alan Rickman, actor who brought dynamic menace to ‘Die Hard’ and ‘Harry Potter,’ dies at 69 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

As such, an honest restaurant reviewer can feel the heat from all sides: from chefs, readers, management, but especially from fellow critics. From Dallas’s top kitchens, reviewer Leslie Brenner is feeling the heat

At first glance a standard crime story, the novel is “a more piercing tale of investigation, one revealing how the mind drives on its own ‘wheels within wheels,’” wrote our reviewer. Read It Before You See It 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Christopher Bollen, noted that the author sidesteps “easy sensationalism” to produce a thorough and rigorous history. New in Paperback: ‘Sexual Justice’ and ‘Last Call’ 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

That the reviewer mentions Ratatouille and not The Book of Life seems like a major oversight to me. Review: ‘Coco’ Brings the Pixar Touch to Death 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

Also, if you find another pro reviewer who has a similar palate to yours, same deal. 20 Wines Under $20: Reds for Winter Moods and Foods 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

This is usually where a reviewer synopsizes the plot, but there is no plot to speak of in this novel, and, honestly, I didn't miss one. In 'Innocents and Others' Dana Spiotta explores the creative tensions between two female filmmakers 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

Seattle Times reviewer Valerie Ryan described this book as a "quirky, funny, erudite hybrid of intellectual razzle-dazzle, graduate-school angst, youthful high spirits and a serious examination of aspects of Russians and their literature." A wordy week in Seattle, overflowing with literary events 2010-06-19T01:08:00Z

In 2002 it hosted an exhibition featuring props, models, costumes and characters from the “Star Wars” films that struck some reviewers as particularly lowbrow. Arts & Leisure Preview: Pondering Brooklyn Museum?s Mission and Future 2010-08-05T15:17:00Z

Photograph: Frantzesco Kangaris For someone whose own translation of the Inferno is still widely available, Sean O'Brien proved a creditably enthusiastic reviewer of Clive James's version of Dante's The Divine Comedy. Book reviews roundup: The Divine Comedy, The Son and The World Is Ever Changing 2013-07-19T18:00:00Z

Theatrical in-jokes are hardwired into both shows, as is turning the tables on reviewers. The wrath of Michael Kahn in comedies about critics 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

What do Santa Claus, Sen. Joseph McCarthy, a certain Washington Post reviewer and the Lord High Executioner from “The Mikado” all have in common? Review | 7 beautiful books that transport you to the worlds of Bond, Tolkien, Spider-Man and beyond 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

One star is "good" which actually seemed generous after the reviewer suggested completely ignoring half of the menu. TsuruTonTan, a Japanese Chain That Knows Its Noodles 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

Still, most reviewers are in line with Entertainment Weekly's Joe McGovern, who says it's "a pity that the film is bereft of satiric zing, bludgeoning the laughs with a nonstop sledgehammer of bro humor." 'The Interview': Farce doesn't live up to fuss, reviews say 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

The reviewer is trying to say “First of all.” ‘Firstable,’ you’re wrong 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

It was the most-watched show of the night, but some reviewers called it "TV's biggest belly flop". Daley diving show makes a splash 2013-01-07T11:01:52Z

Nevertheless, the facile reaction to the exhibition – and some of the reviewers are bound to fall for it – is to denigrate most of Picasso's British contemporaries when seen alongside his towering achievements. Pablo Picasso and his influence on British art 2012-02-10T22:55:13Z

And this is where things get sticky for a reviewer. Hugh Jackman Stars in ‘The River’ on Broadway 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z

The KKK exercised huge influence over local politics and everyday life, to a jaw-dropping degree; our reviewer said the book “should be required reading.” A Literary Guide to the Oscars 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

Finally, a reviewer from the Scotsman came in the last week and said: "There's a show in a cave, it's really good!" Kooky queen of comedy 2011-07-16T23:06:31Z

And, to ensure that criticism doesn't get stale, it's essential that their generation is represented in our reviewers. 'This is not criticism in a vacuum' 2010-10-20T21:01:00Z

“What would happen if the television cameras stayed?” our reviewer, the Times reporter Kate Taylor, asks, describing the book’s effect. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

See, the daughter of longtime Washington Post book reviewer Carolyn See, tells the story in the alternating voices of these distinctive women. ‘China Dolls’: Lisa See’s novel about friendship in a nightclub in the late 1930s

Movie Awards Season 2010 Film awards' hilarious Michelle Williams mix-up Like other agglomerations of movie reviewers across the land, the Broadcast Film Critics Association is in the process of selecting its year-end award winners. Film awards' hilarious Michelle Williams mix-up 2010-12-13T19:45:00Z

It puts serious reviewers on scholarly books other publications rarely touch. A Scrappy Makeover for a Tweedy Literary Fixture 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z

Before their sofa chats, books were only discussed on TV by "experts": reviewers, fellow authors, literary types. TV book clubs 2010-07-24T23:01:00Z

Whose opinion are you more likely to trust, a professional reviewer or someone on Google +? ArtsBeat Blog: Thinking Cap: From David Foster Wallace to Bret Easton Ellis by Way of Faulkner 2011-09-27T18:08:13Z

She approached the front desk and announced herself: The hotel reviewer with Fodor’s Travel had arrived. The life of a hotel reviewer: Hang out in lobbies and bars, sleep in king-size beds 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z

When a well-known writer of adult books dashes off a juvenile story, a scarred and hardened reviewer is apt to approach it a little gingerly. When William Faulkner and Langston Hughes Wrote Children’s Books 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

The NY Times reviewer said "I've seen better film on a pond". Review: ‘Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates,’ Antics to Not Love nor Cherish 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

Of this story of a refreshingly abnormal family, our reviewer wrote: “For Tyler, the quality of mercy is anything but strained. By her own admission, she’s a chronicler of sad failures and unhappy marriages.” 50 States, 50 Love Stories 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

As our reviewer, Monica Drake commented, in this tender, meditative memoir, Griffin’s evangelizing of Black literature sends you back to Baldwin, Coates, Morrison and others “to ponder and treasure them anew.” One Apartment Building, Many Lives 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z

The anecdote is a long way of telling you that my spies report vigilant service in the absence of a restaurant reviewer. Gypsy Soul: R.J. Cooper brings a wanderer’s touch and Southern flair

The paper brought in an outside reviewer, political journalist Michael Kinsley, and he advised moviegoers to see "His Girl Friday" instead. David Carr dies: 'Page One' documentary stands as fitting tribute 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

Readers should go to reviewers as much for their opinions as with the desire to learn something. The film critic is dead. Long live the film critic 2010-04-07T14:52:00Z

I was like the 19th-century reviewers who condemned any novel where the moral failings of the heroine were not punished by death. My verdict on books I haven't read 2012-07-29T20:30:01Z

He is breathing, upright and miraculously remains employed as a reviewer of life itself, a job that has nearly killed him several times. An unexamined life: “Review” returns for one last joke on its sadly hilarious host 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

One reviewer described the book as "Neighbours as Philip Roth might have written it"; another called it "unbelievably misogynistic". Slap author Christos Tsiolkas takes swipe at 'dry' European fiction 2010-08-15T17:58:00Z

Our reviewer said Katznelson offered a “penetrating new analysis, supported by vivid examples and statistics.” Deep Thinking on Affirmative Action 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

However the reviewers said they were heartened that a number of employees stepped forward and provided them with much of the data in the report. Chilling report slams psychiatric hospital 2011-09-28T11:00:00Z

It took the New York critics’ top prize, and Scorsese and the film were runners-up with the Los Angeles reviewers. The Oscar Field Has Narrowed. Who’s on Top and Who’s in Danger? 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

“It’s a sophisticated story, told with first-rate lights and shadows,” wrote its reviewer, Laurence Reid. Baz Luhrmann Puts ?The Great Gatsby? Into 3-D 2012-01-16T22:51:46Z

Our reviewer, Sarah Weinman, wrote that this novel illustrates “the country as it was, and is, rather than the stuff of myths and dreams.” New in Paperback: ‘The Copenhagen Trilogy,’ ‘Tom Stoppard: A Life’ and More 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

This has been rigorously fact-checked using more than one pair of the reviewer’s jeans. A Serious Reader Offers Appealingly Casual Thoughts on Reading, and Life 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

When “The Day After Tomorrow” was published in 1994, Los Angeles Times reviewer Robert Ward wrote, “The suspense is almost always unbearable, the story hugely entertaining.” Allan Folsom, author of blockbuster novel, dies at 72

One reviewer described it as a “portentous and lugubrious revision ... the dreariest story ever told”. Faith films challenge Hollywood at box office 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z

As our reviewer, Ayelet Tsabari, put it, “The novel digs into the enduring wound of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and offers an unflinching, unforgiving look into the harsh realities of the occupation.” New in Paperback: ‘Let the Lord Sort Them’ and ‘The Five Wounds’ 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Zoe Greenberg, called Abel “a perceptive writer whose astute observations keep the book funny and light even under the weight of its Big Ideas.” New in Paperback: ‘Bruce Lee,’ ‘Fruit of the Drunken Tree’ 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

The book “abounds with moments of dark humor, but the levity is balanced by Mabanckou’s portrait of a dysfunctional society,” our reviewer, Joshua Hammer, wrote. New in Paperback: ‘The Parisian’ and ‘Black Moses’ 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

Selected from the books our reviewers loved, we celebrate the best fiction of 2017, in alphabetical order by author, below. Best books of 2017: The best fiction 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

He was so prolific that reviewers would sometimes fault him for piling on the minutiae but missing the personality. Donald Spoto, Biographer of Hitchcock and Many More, Dies at 81 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

“Soaring,” our reviewer, Minh C. Le, called this playful story about a Native American boy who, tired of sharing a name with his father, seeks a suitable new one for himself. Notable Children’s Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Of the 22 amateur reviewers on Amazon.com, the vast majority agreed with the pros, with 18 giving it a highest-possible five stars, while only three tarred the book with a lowly one-star rating. Reviewers praise new Steve Jobs biography 2011-10-24T19:46:23Z

Then, as now, but especially then, the Amazon reviewer community was at turns close-knit and competitive. The Secret Life of Amazon’s Vine Reviewers 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

One reviewer marveled at his transformation from the rough miner and suntanned riverboat pilot of the 1860s. The night Mark Twain brought Huck Finn alive 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

As one reviewer noted, the appeal of those diaries was their "unguarded revelation of habits and outlook that normally remain private". Simon Garfield: a life in books 2012-09-28T21:55:09Z

Weeks after the study wrapped up, the kid reviewers were still in sharing mode. Tennessee tourism department enlists kids to rate the state’s attractions 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z

I always thought that a book review was supposed to be primarily about the book being reviewed and not a platform for the political views of the reviewer. Letters to the Editor 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

And the veteran movie reviewer Roger Ebert, the first man to receive a Pulitzer Prize for film criticism, finally lost his long battle with cancer at the age of 70. In pictures: Stars we lost in 2013 2013-12-30T01:27:27Z

So one could call this the Best Bond Ever, as some reviewers have, and not mean it as the highest praise. Skyfall: Bond and Bardem Go Boom 2012-11-09T13:00:22Z

Now in its second decade, the Thumbs Down study is the most comprehensive and longest-running study of women’s representation and impact as film reviewers available. Female film critics are the minority, and predominantly cover movies about women 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

Wendy Smith, a contributing editor of the American Scholar and Publishers Weekly, is the author of “Real Life Drama: The Group Theatre and America, 1931-1940” and a frequent reviewer for The Washington Post. ‘Death and Mr. Pickwick’ asks if Dickens stole his famous first novel 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

People began wondering whether reviewers were revolting against the film they were expected to champion. Critics Awards 2: Judgment Daze 2013-12-10T18:55:39Z

A reviewer for the New York Times praised her 'phenomenal vocal cords'. Deanna Durbin obituary 2013-05-01T11:26:11Z

That on the other hand is what reviewers are for: give us some intelligent information without revealing too much on movies that are coming out. Review: ‘Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates,’ Antics to Not Love nor Cherish 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

A couple of reviewers have noted that the father gives him the name, instead of the kid picking it on his own. “There’s nothing worse than a white liberal who thinks they’re doing the right thing”: Sherman Alexie on Hollywood diversity, “The Revenant” and why he’s “not the proper kind of Indian” 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Christie Watson, called this book “an ambitious, elegant meditation” on the reduction in child mortality. New in Paperback: Helen Oyeyemi and George Saunders 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Gail Collins, described this as the first major single-volume biography of “the most important first lady in American history” to appear in more than 50 years. New in Paperback: ‘Out Loud’ and ‘A Thousand Ships’ 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

Clearly working from this perspective, an unsigned reviewer in Melody Maker commented that "the whole thing positively reeks of an indulgent sterility. It's a godawful yawn!" What critics got wrong about John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "Double Fantasy" 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z

Our reviewer, James Shapiro, praised the adaptation, calling the book “a dark but ultimately hopeful ‘Macbeth,’ one suited to our own troubled times, in which ‘the slowness of democracy’ is no match for power-hungry strongmen.” New in Paperback: ‘Elastic,’ ‘Brass’ 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

I say this as someone who laughed so hard at the press screening for it years ago that the New York Times reviewer got in a huff with me, which sadly made it funnier still. Arnie's Governator is a guilty treat until TV's real muscle returns 2011-04-09T23:05:41Z

Even if you would not want to review yourselves, would you be interested in having this enhanced access to AggieH's "trusted reviewers"? Tips, links and suggestions: What you are reading today? 2013-04-19T10:57:10Z

While in Seoul, Mr. Elfering found a new job working remotely as a software engineer at G2, a software reviewer in Chicago. After Hundreds of Emails, a First Date 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

One aspect of the book that feels neglected is the aspect that so revolted its early reviewers: the sexual content. Why We Are No Longer Shocked by “Ulysses” 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

“He writes books,” a reviewer once observed, “the way the rest of us write shopping lists.” Martin Gilbert, preeminent Churchill biographer and Holocaust historian, dies at 78 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

The science is grounded at the start of the book professionally enough to satisfy the reviewers of Nature and New Scientist; the rest is adventure story, against the clock. Chasing Venus: the Race to Measure the Heavens – review 2013-01-29T10:26:31Z

And it turns out that he isn’t a reviewer at all. The Fanatic: John Travolta and Fred Durst made a horror movie together 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

Dirda is a regular book reviewer for Style and the author, most recently, of “Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books.” ‘Ted Hughes’: A controversial biography shows the poet’s darker side 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

This parallel had very much been in the author's mind, she said, though it had not been remarked on by any reviewer. Book Club: Restoration by Rose Tremain 2012-10-05T21:55:08Z

Our reviewer, Matt Wille, called it a “master class of tone and tenderness.” New in Paperback: ‘Let the Record Show’ and ‘Hell of a Book’ 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

The film was shown at the 1940 Venice Film Festival, where it was excitedly received, including by — in a dagger to the heart — the young reviewer and later director Michelangelo Antonioni. Movie Review | 'Harlan': Haunted by What Dad Did in the War 2010-03-02T23:38:00Z

The tension of this “frightening” thriller, inspired by “the era of poisonous chain letters” in 1970s Ireland, “builds whenever the mother and daughter appear,” our reviewer, Tina Jordan, noted. New in Paperback: ‘The Topeka School’ and ‘Brown White Black’ 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z

He traveled the country’s perimeter in this way, our reviewer wrote in 1983, “as if he wanted to try to grasp it in his arms.” Time for a Literary Road Trip 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

A British horror comedy beloved of theater reviewers and the people who hate them. Let It Bleed: The Perverse Influence of ‘Titus Andronicus’ 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

Before hanging up their reviewer’s caps, the kids shared their opinions in a recording booth. Tennessee tourism department enlists kids to rate the state’s attractions 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer described “Swamplandia!” as a wild ride, “vividly worded, exuberant in characterization.” 50 States, 50 Love Stories 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

“Dodge intimates that through such coincidences we can spy the divine,” our reviewer, Ismail Muhammad, writes. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

An online reviewer wrote, “This restaurant has one Michelin star and easily deserves another.” REVIEW: Does The Hundred-Foot Journey Deserve One Michelin Star or Two? 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

Woody Allen would liken his work to the jazz of Charlie Parker and reviewers compared him to Will Rogers, who had tweaked politicians in a gentler manner. Mort Sahl, comedian who satirized politics, dies at 94 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Jill Lepore, offered a counterargument: “My country went to the moon and all I got was this lousy surveillance state.” New in Paperback: ‘Running Home’ and ‘The Shadow King’ 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Michael Gorra, writes that Kunzru’s fiction uses “the machinery of the thriller, with its secrets and hidden identities, as a way to explore the contemporary sense of the self.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

But reviewers faulted her for appearing inexpressive to the point of boredom and for a repetitively dull use of the word “awesome.” Source: Britney Spears Out of ‘X Factor’ 2013-01-10T23:53:52Z

For more than a decade, reviewers have been wearied by Raine's schoolboyish anal-fixation, which continues unimpeded, supplying a rush of anaphrodisiac prose. Heartbreak by Craig Raine 2010-07-04T11:43:00Z

Hey Pete--how do you decide to send in "accomplice" reviewers to sniff out preferential service you might receive due to your notoriety? Restaurant Review: Shuko in the East Village 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

Guns N' Roses' Get in the Ring calls one unfortunate reviewer out for his troubles. Readers recommend: songs about magazines – results 2013-05-23T14:00:00Z

“It’s always a pleasure to see that a new vehicle has been found for Edward Gorey’s distinctive drawings, and in this instance a fey, imaginative little tale that fits them to perfection,” our reviewer wrote. Edward Gorey’s Children’s Books Illustrations, Revisited 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

This shouldn't prevent film reviewers from still writingentertainingly, wearing their erudition lightly. The film critic is dead. Long live the film critic 2010-04-07T14:52:00Z

Every week our team — reviewers with more than 50 years of combined experience tracking local theater — will shortlist the current offerings and point out productions you might otherwise miss. The 99-seat beat: Carl Weathers, hidden figures and political warfare hit L.A.'s small theaters 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

The judge was careful to say in his summing-up that "a reviewer is entitled to be spiteful as long as she is honest". How rude should theatre critics be? 2011-07-29T14:03:46Z

A line about which I had read one reviewer complaining – "A woman had to choose her own particular unhappiness carefully" – was evidently droll. Guardian book club: The Collected Stories by Lorrie Moore 2010-04-23T23:07:00Z

He is broke, but as a freelance book reviewer is able to keep his own hours and to enjoy perks such as lunches with his agent and publisher, along with invitations to parties. Bitter Experience Has Taught Me by Nicholas Lezard – review 2013-07-15T08:00:01Z

The following star ratings are by Seattle Times reviewers, freelancers or wire services. New DVDs | 'The Fighter,' 'Hereafter,' 'The Switch,' 'The Wildest Dream' 2011-03-14T23:55:06Z

“Fake Accounts,” our reviewer, Katie Kitamura, noted, is “an invigorating work, deadly precise in its skewering of people, places and things.” New in Paperback: ‘How Beautiful We Were’ and ‘No One Is Talking About This’ 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z

The Washington Post reviewer, Hank Stuever, called the show "lazy and perfunctorily smarmy" and added that Gervais "proved last year that he wasn't the right man for the job". Golden Globes 2011: who'd be an awards show presenter? 2011-01-17T20:30:01Z

Mary Quattlebaum is a children’s author and regular reviewer of teen fiction for The Washington Post. Kate DiCamillo’s ‘Raymie Nightingale’ is a fairy tale for our times 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

One reviewer described it as a "scintillating debut novel", while another called it "astonishingly mature". J.K. Rowling outed as writer of acclaimed crime novel 2013-07-14T10:28:42Z

The company itself was nearly silent: Aside from occasional announcements and necessary interventions, it left the forum to the Vine reviewers. The Secret Life of Amazon’s Vine Reviewers 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

According to our reviewer, Danez Smith, this love story reaches “across time and form to shake something old, mighty in the blood.” New in Paperback: ‘The Vanishing Half’ and ‘Tangled Up in Blue’ 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

Every year, my fellow movie reviewers and I bemoan the current state of cinema — Too many comic-book flicks! The best movies of 2016: ‘Moonlight,’ ‘Manchester by the Sea’ and ‘Southside With You’ make the top 10 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Even those running shoes became Internet famous; “Guaranteed to outrun patriarchy” wrote one Amazon.com reviewer of the sneakers. Wendy Davis on the Filibuster That Mattered to Her Most 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

"One reviewer in the Independent once wrote: 'Jack Higgins books are famous for harbouring all-purpose paragraphs that have stayed with their creator over the years,'" he says. A life in writing: Jack Higgins 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z

Female fans of the best-selling book — apparently dragging along a lot of reluctant husbands and boyfriends to theaters — created a wave of interest that pushed past reviewers, who gave the film terrible notices. ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Leads Weekend Box Office, Stirring Reflection on Sex Films 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z

Pitchfork music website reviewer Stephen Deusner said the track was "one hell of a wedding reception jam, as bubbly as champagne," while Billboard's Jason Lipschultz called the song a "sleek, wholly assured dance number." Justin Timberlake brings sexy back with new song 2013-01-14T22:04:52Z

As one of our Yelp reviewers remarks: “I just truly believe this place is a hipster cult.” Lift up your hearts for Hillsong, the church that’s made a believer out of Bieber 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

But I do believe that calling Hagerty an “amazing reviewer” is hyperbole at best and disingenuous at worst. Marilyn Hagerty is the restaurant critic we either love or loathe. Why?

Nearly every newspaper sent a reviewer, and their opinions are remarkably similar. Why has the media mauled Whitney Houston? 2010-04-15T10:44:00Z

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

Strangely, the software undescored the biggest difference between reviewers — some love it, some don’t. Best portable scanner on the market 2012-11-04T17:00:00Z

Father Girzone, reviewers often said, was no stylist, a state of affairs he cheerfully accepted. Rev. Joseph F. Girzone, Author of ‘Joshua’ Novels, Dies at 85 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

“And, though their marriage is at its end, there’s still a spark between them; something faintly electric that refuses to die,” writes our reviewer Moira Macdonald. Memorial Day 2017: What to read, watch this holiday weekend 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

Editors, publishers and book reviewers — even book reviewers! — lost all faith in their own judgments. Review | ‘Dead Souls’ is a witty, sharp, cruel critique of literary culture. But it’s not for everyone. 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z

For this reviewer even native american oppression is too cliche and stale news. Review: John Leguizamo Goes for Easy Laughs in ‘Latin History’ 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

Its artwork was recently described by one awestruck Washington Post reviewer as “profoundly virtuosic art that measures up to the content of the characters, and the import of the story.” John Lewis marches on: “Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America” 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

Back when it debuted in 1999, reviewers were startled by its savagery. Why Matt Groening's new adult fantasy Disenchantment will find the fun side of hell 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

Yet for all the reviewer catches at this show's power to grab at the national racial malaise, don't miss that Underground Railroad Game is also an incredible piece of entertainment. Let’s Play ‘Underground Railroad Game’: A Lacerating Comedy on Race 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

Judging from the many blogs and websites by "amateur" film reviewers, the latter are as good or as bad as most professionals. The film critic is dead. Long live the film critic 2010-04-07T14:52:00Z

On opening night, others took to the dishy-ditzy humor more than this reviewer. Review: 'Vanities' at ACT Theatre watches 'mean girls' as they move through life 2011-02-11T23:25:07Z

Maybe this is why American reviewers seem to dislike it. Letters to the Editor 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, an unbiased reviewer, but that is precisely why people interested in the show should read this article. “Narcos” isn’t “Breaking Bad”: How season 2 betrays Pablo Escobar’s victims 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

One Amazon reviewer said, ‘You’ll never be as perfect as they are,’ ” he recalled. Vegans Go Glam 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

Not long thereafter, Seattle Opera tapped him to direct its resident opera program and then the chorus, where his work earned raves from reviewers. George Fiore, former Seattle Opera chorus master, dies at 87 2013-08-30T01:50:48Z

But he never had a grand plan to become a movie reviewer. After 40 years on the air in Washington, Arch Campbell says goodbye — sort of

“Collins’s vivid descriptions of the abuse of that magic within a grimy faux-Victorian-era world of workhouses and exploitation are almost too painfully true,” our reviewer, Naomi Novik, writes. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

In response to Mr. Ragoonanan’s post, reviewers took to Amazon to register their disapproval. Boys Puberty Book is Pulped After Aging Badly 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

Galgut, our reviewer, Rand Richards Cooper, wrote, “is a gleeful satirist, mordantly skewering his characters’ fecklessness and hypocrisy.” New in Paperback: ‘The Promise’ and ‘Whereabouts’ 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

While Pauline Kael was an early and mostly steadfast champion, other reviewers objected to the violence and sensationalism of his movies. Review: Brian De Palma Says He Is Hitchcock’s True Heir 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Particularly if the reviewer is Reginald Edward Morse, the querulous narrator of Rick Moody's frustratingly uneven novel, "Hotels of North America." Rick Moody's uneven 'Hotels of North America' is not worth a stay 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

The characters are haunted by ghosts, and our reviewer writes that in Ward’s novel, ordinary people “possess the weight and the value of the mythic.” What to Read Before You Go to Mississippi 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

The book baffled reviewers, however, and sold poorly. Nearly a Century Later, We’re Still Reading — and Changing Our Minds About — Gatsby 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

Some reviewers dismissed “The Heart Goes Last” as a digital experiment gone awry. Margaret Atwood, Digital Deep-Diver, Writes ‘The Heart Goes Last’ 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

One reviewer, Lydia, argued that the plot was too confused to be convincing. Longlist released for 2013 Guardian children's fiction prize 2013-06-03T08:57:35Z

Our reviewer said it belongs in “the canon as one of the necessary documents of 9/11.” 7 New Memoirs to Read This Season 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

Louis Bayard is a reviewer and novelist whose most recent book is “Roosevelt’s Beast.” ‘The B-Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song’ 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

He’s maintained a steady rate of production, but reviewers haven’t always been kind. This Novel Recounts a Haunted Sibling Relationship in Epic Verse 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

Our team of reviewers — people with more than 75 years of combined experience tracking local theater — shortlist current offerings at 99-seat theaters and other smaller venues. The 99-Seat Beat: A twist on Dickens, a 'Latina Christmas Special' and more 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

"The only thing to do is raise the white flag and surrender to the film's awesome silliness," writes British reviewer Jason Best with the What's On TV website. After foreign haul, 'Battleship' faces choppy seas 2012-05-04T18:35:09Z

Our reviewer, the Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown, calls it an “authoritative and ultimately moving” book that brings the pair’s masterpieces to light “with bracing clarity.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

Die Hard was released in the US in July 1988, and reviewers made only passing reference to its Christmas element– why would they, given they were writing in the heat of midsummer? Yippee ki-yay, turkey plucker … how Die Hard became a classic Christmas movie 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

According to our reviewer, Joshua Hammer, the novel “sticks close to the facts — even as it holds out the tantalizing hope of a different outcome.” New in Paperback: ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’ and ‘My Broken Language’ 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

Much of the plot centers on an expected visit from the Michelin reviewer and the momentary crisis of Apollo’s disappearance. Rare Steinbeck story, set in Paris, published this week 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

“Winter’s greatest accomplishment,” according to our reviewer, Mary Beth Keane, “is that she takes on enormous, highly charged topics — faith, the right to choose, female identity — and presents a story without one shred of moralizing.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

In a phone interview, Mr. Kipiniak said the earnestness of the reviewer’s hurt feelings over such a trifle made it prime comedic fodder. Noted: A YouTube Series: ‘Real Actors Read Yelp Reviews’ 2012-08-01T21:48:35Z

Several of the other shortlisted titles have won high praise from British and American reviewers, including “At Night All Blood is Black,” by the French-Senegalese author David Diop, translated by Anna Moschovakis. French Authors Lead International Booker Prize Shortlist 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

The film’s message, a BBC Radio reviewer suggested, is that bureaucratic inefficiency is actually deliberate. Holiday Movie Release Schedule 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

Indeed, the weakness of this picture, from this reviewer’s point of view, is the sentimentality of it — its illusory concept of life. 10 Classic Christmas Movies That Our Critics Didn’t See Coming 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

Fifty Shades of Grey began life as fan fiction set in the Twilight universe, which has prompted a degree of criticism from reviewers. Could Bret Easton Ellis bring Fifty Shades of Grey to fruition? 2012-06-12T13:16:00Z

At Cannes its ambition baffled a few reviewers but it found favour with the nine-member jury, chaired by Robert de Niro. Malick's drama triumphs in Cannes 2011-05-22T21:18:05Z

“There is an art to writing about unlikable people while still engaging the reader to invest in their indulgence,” our reviewer, Michael Callahan, observed. New in Paperback: ‘The Three Mothers’ and ‘Head Wounds’ 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

“For a famous sex symbol who has turned a tragedy into a fairy tale, Turner is charmingly down to earth,” our reviewer, Evelyn McDonnell, wrote. New in Paperback: Rebecca Traister’s ‘Good and Mad’ and Tina Turner’s ‘My Love Story’ 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

Writing in the Times, reviewer Mike Wade concluded the show was "funny" and "insightful" and delivered a four-star verdict. Paxman's show wins warm reviews 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

Mantel’s memoir of her “tough childhood and a serious illness,” a Times reviewer wrote, “does not reassure. It scalds.” A Writer Who Stared Down Her Past, and the World’s, With Steely Resolve 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer Janet Maslin calls it a “buoyant, mischievous” book, written with a sense that “this reliable best-selling author is feeling real pleasure, and not just obligation, in delivering his work.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

“Margonelli turns cutting-edge science into rich narrative by plunging deep into the termite’s world,” our reviewer, Lucy Cooke, writes. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

I think reviewers are sexist… This isn't to sound bitter but I think you're more likely to get a critical kicking if you're a woman. Marian Keyes: 'I thought I'd never be able to write again' 2013-04-21T08:00:17Z

As our reviewer, Tayari Jones, wrote, “These brilliant miniatures display all of the rambunctious fearlessness of his deeply empathetic imagination.” New in Paperback: ‘An American Family,’ ‘Red Clocks’ 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

Before Gold became a restaurant reviewer, he was a music writer—the kind whose voice you recognized within the first sentence of a piece. Jonathan Gold Was Proof That Local Journalism Matters 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z

When it comes to nipples, there are “criteria” to help both human and technological reviewers identify a nipple as male or female, Instagram’s Newton said. Will Instagram Ever ‘Free the Nipple’? 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

Mr. Harbutt’s first public show of his work was in 1960, in the East Village of Manhattan, prompting a Times reviewer to call him “one of the most mature and competent of today’s young photographers.” Charles Harbutt, Photojournalist With an Eye for Art as Well as News, Dies at 79 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

It’s no wonder that the painted-egg precision of short stories allows reviewers to comfortably celebrate female accomplishment, even to celebrate it prominently in the case of Alice Munro. Essay: ‘The Second Shelf’ 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

The reviewer seems to think only Mexicans can be subject to the slur "beaner", and that since Leguizamo is Colombian he loses credibility. Review: John Leguizamo Goes for Easy Laughs in ‘Latin History’ 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

He explores the book’s themes and characters instead of listing plot events, as too many reviewers do. Indexes, Soaring Imaginations and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

Because, as every reviewer has pointed out, Wonder Woman is by no means perfect. Why Wonder Woman is a masterpiece of subversive feminism 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

“Readers familiar with Donoghue’s masterly 2010 best seller, ‘Room,’ will recall the focused intensity she can bring to bear on constricted spaces,” our reviewer Karen Thompson Walker writes. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

So we now have a collective portrait of the reviewers’ favorite movies and people of 2012. Film Critics Awards: Early Clues to the Oscars 2013-01-09T16:32:50Z

One reviewer of the much-maligned novel “To Have and Have Not” accused Hemingway of creating not characters but “sacs of basic instinct.” The quiet tragedy of Ernest Hemingway 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Every reviewer of the novel has remarked upon its use of repetition as a technique. A Selfless Man: David Peace Talks About Bill Shankly and 'Red or Dead' 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

The Critics’ Verdict: “‘Tanna’ is a movie in which every single shot is picturesque, and more than a few of them are genuinely beautiful,” The New York Times’s reviewer, Glenn Kenny, wrote. A Quick Guide to the Foreign-Language Oscar Nominees 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

Anyone employed as a film reviewer has to get used to some scary and horrible experiences. The BT wedding is hideous, but I've got a Polanski-inspired plan to liven it up 2011-03-20T22:30:01Z

“Each observant sentence in this gorgeous book is a gem,” our reviewer, V. V. Ganeshananthan, wrote. New in Paperback: ‘Augustown,’ ‘The Storied City’ 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

Flanders’s book “isn’t just smart and diverting but also brave,” our reviewer wrote. Why Sofas? These Books Explain the Joys and Mysteries of the Home 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

In this “series of memoir-infused reported essays,” as our reviewer described it, “Cornejo Villavicencio traveled the country, gaining access to vigilantly guarded communities whose stories are largely absent from modern journalism and literature.” New to the American Melting Pot, and Finding Its Taste Bittersweet 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

It’s an origin story, which is too bad, but at least relieves a reviewer of tedious explanatory duties. Review: ‘Ant-Man,’ With Paul Rudd, Adds to a Superhero Infestation 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

According to our reviewer, Christian Cooper, the success of Weidensaul’s account “rivals the astonishing feats of the birds he chronicles.” New in Paperback: ‘Caul Baby’ and ‘While Justice Sleeps’ 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z

Other reviewers referred to Baker's performance as servile or what we might today call thirsty. Where is the love?: Seeking intimacy in Josephine Baker's films 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z

"I want to say – the movie reviewer from the Guardian …" Oh dear. Harvey Weinstein's Cannes gala turns tricky for the Guardian 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

“Our ultimate aspiration, Steele makes clear, should not be simply improving people’s quality of life as they age,” our reviewer, Annie Murphy Paul, noted. New in Paperback: ‘Of Women and Salt’ and ‘Drug Use for Grown-Ups’ 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

Here are reviews that outlive their occasions, and a reviewer sparked by a book into curiosity and reflection. Sir Frank Kermode obituary 2010-08-18T13:20:00Z

Book editor Mary Ann Gwinn's list of 22 suggested gift books and our reviewers' compilation of 32 favorite books of the year have both racked up thousands of page views. Holiday book-shopping lists 2011-12-23T19:51:47Z

She enjoys playing the bass because “it’s like the foundation without being really up front”; when reviewers listen to her music, she encourages them to focus “on the object and not the person behind it.” Weekend Reading: The Makings of Three People 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z

A panel show hosted by Bird on BBC3 called The King is Dead got a bit of a bashing from reviewers. Simon Bird spreads his wings 2011-02-20T00:05:18Z

Our reviewer called the novel “energetic and unusual,” and wrote that Léger’s “Haiti-in-crisis, richly seen and unforgettable, is all too real.” What to Read Before Heading to the Caribbean 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

That remark two weeks ago by the nation's most prominent dance critic reverberated across the Web, with many coming to Ringer's defense and calling the reviewer a cad. Her, fat? Ballerina tells critic she's just fine 2010-12-14T00:46:04Z

The Walt Disney Co. movie received four or five stars from most reviewers, along with praise for its energy and emotion. 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' mostly finds its force with critics 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Charles Finch, praised this debut thriller, calling it “as fast, flexible and poised as a chef’s knife.” Paperback Row 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

"Haim are a group on a crest of a wave – in demand, adored and feeling capable of anything," the Guardian reviewer wrote. Haim win BBC Sound of 2013 poll 2013-01-04T10:58:02Z

He was stunned last year when a reviewer called his show misogynistic. Is there a backlash against rape jokes? 2013-08-20T07:21:24Z

A reviewer for Hampton’s Magazine was not impressed, finding insufficient wickedness overall, “naughty French songs” notwithstanding. | West 46th Street: West 46th Street/Streetscapes - Mementos of a Lost Battle 2011-10-09T05:48:09Z

Plus, contributing reviewer Lewis Segal checks out a presentation of “Swan Lake” by the Los Angeles Ballet. Essential Arts & Culture: Pondering the Pritzker, dancing with Joffrey and touring with TMZ (and living to tell) 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z

Our reviewer wrote that she “meticulously documents what happened next, as the federal government partnered with a real estate industry, enthusiastic about exploiting a new market but refusing to bear most of the risk.” Pulitzer Prizes: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z