And while the review culture is still strong abroad - in Britain and France, for example -- the U.S. book culture is less critic-centered and more author-centric.
As a rule, the more Conservative the newspaper, the less its critic likes Mother Courage.
No less a critic than Philip Roth dismissed her as the warped product of "a homosexual daydream".
It was a taste that was derided by no less a critic than their patron at the magazine, André Bazin.
NO less a critic than John Ruskin called Lincoln Cathedral "out and out the most precious piece of architecture in the British Islands".
No less a critic than H.L. Mencken praised this portrait of the "booboisie" as an attack on the philistinism and puritanism he thought was running rife in middle America.
VideoGamer was less kind, critic Steve Burns writing that it's "flawed in almost every possible way".
Richards' voice, filtered through Fox's brain, is so relentlessly endearing, no less a critic than Maureen Dowd has declared the prince of darkness a "consummate gentleman".
As more trading takes place in these venues, prices on exchanges have less meaning, critics say.
(Sir Trevor also won the less glitzy Critics' Circle Theater Award for best director).
Less enamoured critics have called Our Love "disappointingly shallow" – production-wise, at least.
