Sentence examples for a substantial critical from inspiring English sources

The $30m movie was a substantial critical smash and took $96m at the global box office.

— speaks only to the fact that Japan is a country with neither ethnic diversity nor a substantial critical race discourse.

The April 1804 issue of the Edinburgh Review announced his arrival on the British stage in a substantial critical review of Dumont's Traités, though his main appeal was initially confined to a small band of law reformers determined to tackle the antiquated and notoriously harsh punishments meted out by English penal law.

This is a film, avowedly based on a true story, with substantial critical admirers; I can only say I found it charmless, shallow, smug and unlikable: a bromance weepie about cancer with a very serious "bros before hos" attitude.

Her books and her television career have left her with a sizable fortune and substantial critical acclaim.

Her short stories found a wide readership and substantial critical success during her short career, until The Awakening.

None of you are heroes to a substantial and critical part of the electorate.

But it was a good 20 years of scratching out a living teaching and writing before Porter achieved substantial critical and financial success.

But in 1975 Drummond achieved at least one substantial critical hit - Spirit Of The Age, a series of six programmes about British architecture down the centuries.

In 2009, the controversial "Black Dynamite," a "blaxploitation" comedy, showed at the festival before being nationally distributed and gaining substantial critical acclaim.

In 1992, the year before Disney bought Miramax Films, thereby initiating the indie gold rush, Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky became a model for true independence when they distributed their own documentary "Brother's Keeper" (1992) to substantial critical and commercial success.