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She finally landed a three-week temporary position at The New York Times Book Review and later became a permanent staff member. [3] She moved to the daily newspaper, as a cultural reporter. In 1995, she began working as a television critic and in 1997, James was named by the Times as its first chief television critic. [3]
Janet Maslin (The New York Times) Harold McCarthy; Todd McCarthy (Variety, The Hollywood Reporter) Michael Medved (New York Post, Sneak Previews) Nell Minow (rogerebert.com and moviedom.com) Elvis Mitchell (The New York Times, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, The Detroit Free Press) Khalid Mohammed (Hindustan Times)
On the other hand, Caryn James of The New York Times gave the film a negative review and wrote that it "is so dull it leaves you plenty of time to marvel at how a plot can be this rickety, how a production can look this shabby, and how the first-time writer and director Rowdy Herrington could borrow a story with so relentless a grip on our ...
A movie in which reclusive writer Terrence Mann (Jones) helps a farmer (Kevin Costner) build a baseball field, Caryn James wrote in the New York Times that it was “so smartly written, so ...
The Los Angeles Times said that it "isn't really that good". [2] The New York Times said it was "very well done" with a "general air of excitement, suspense and even horror". [3] One of the producers was Maurice Binder, who was best known for doing the title sequences for James Bond movies. [4] The film was shot on location in the Pyrenees. [5]
Despite its thought provoking questions, the film had mixed reviews. “What kind of people want to reveal their most profound thoughts and fears on screen?, asked Caryn James of the New York Times. “As it turns out, people who ultimately say very little, who are at best amusing, occasionally affecting and more often simply bland.” [5]
In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Bosley Crowther called A Lion Is in the Streets "a headlong and dynamic drama" and wrote: It has been eight years since James Cagney paid a quarter of a million dollars for the rights to Adria Locke Langley 's lurid novel, 'A Lion Is in the Streets,' and announced that he would make a ...
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 25% based on reviews from 8 critics. [2] [3] The New York Times critic praised the director James DeMonaco for "adroitly weaving violence, absurdity and sentiment, even an environmental consciousness, into a modest, appealing fable", [4] while the reviewer from The New York Daily News blamed him for "wasting a strong cast in silly roles".