And it is these scenes, functioning more like trailers for "American Psycho" and advertisements for Mr. Ellis's books than as perceptive and illuminating critical translations of his work, that most contradict the designation of "This Is Not an Exit" as "documentary biography".
Mr. Isherwood, formerly theatre critic for Variety, has proven himself a perceptive, if generally stingy critical voice on the theatre, but he likely knows even less about video games than he does about The Beatles' music.
First of all, sci-fi audiences are very smart and very perceptive and, I don't want to say critical, but they're very intelligent viewers.
Despite some critical remarks of Bloodlands in an otherwise perceptive and generous (London) Times review of 26 September, which perhaps Zuroff and Katz read, I don't equate Stalin with Hitler in that book either.
Ferrol Sams, a country doctor who started writing fiction in his late 50s and went on to win critical praise and a devoted readership for his humorous and perceptive novels and stories that drew on his medical practice and his rural Southern roots, died on Tuesday at his home in Fayetteville, Ga.
Taylor was less perceptive.
'An intelligent perceptive rom-com'.
