Sentence examples for salon critic from inspiring English sources

"There seems to be a tidal phenomenon going on — the wave went one way, and then it went another," says Salon critic Andrew O'Hehir, who with a lukewarm review was part of the second wave.

Her "hypnotic" portrayal was noted by Justin Chang of Variety, as well as Salon critic Andrew O'Hehir, who wrote, "Rooney Mara is a revelation as Lisbeth Salander, the damaged, aggressive computer geek and feminist revenge angel, playing the character as far more feral and vulnerable than Noomi Rapace's borderline-stereotype sexpot Goth girl".

Salon critic Andrew O'Hehir called it "Hallmark-flavored" and asked, "Has Christopher Nolan grown increasingly desperate to win that elusive Oscar, and made a decision to go for the heart rather than the brain?" (O'Hehir and other critics have noted that Steven Spielberg was originally attached to direct the movie, and much of the emotional heft feels well-aligned with a Spielbergian drama).

"Step right up! See the Jews!" wrote Salon's critic with pardonable sarcasm, underlining the show's presumably unintended freak-show vibe.

The H.&K. movies, in their slovenly and profane style, are about the transition to a post-racial society in which, as the Salon film critic Stephanie Zacharek put it, "no one in real life can say definitively what an American looks like".

But as Salon film critic Andrew O'Hehir told VICE News, "a commercial producer or HR firm in suburban Kansas City could have done a better job" than the Islamic State's videographers.

Her hair was lacquered and coiled "like a lion's mane after an expensive visit to the salon," said one critic; she resembled "some garden district Lucrezia Borgia in regal purple," said another.

And Glenn Greenwald, a Salon columnist and critic of the Bush administration's legal claims, wrote that the statement was a "complete reversal" by Mr. McCain, accusing the candidate of seeking "to shore up the support of right-wing extremists".

Salon's book critic Laura Miller wrote about working with Vintage Books, the publisher of "Invisible Man," to organize a free giveaway of copies of the novel to Randolph County high-school students.

Havrilesky established herself writing brilliant snark for Suck, the Internet's irreverently named first daily, after which she served as Salon's TV critic for seven years.

And as Laura Miller, Salon's book critic, accurately puts it, "the secret of this novel's spell lies not in ingenious twists but in its meticulous plausibility".