Sentence examples for sound critics from inspiring English sources
The recent Sight & Sound critics' poll named it best picture of 2015.
It was hailed as perfect by most consumers and engineers but disdained for its edgy unnaturalness by The Absolute Sound critics, who knowingly described its artifice.
In 2012 that film displaced for the first time in 50 years Orson Welles's Citizen Kane (1941) as the best film of all time, as ranked by the British Film Institute's Sight & Sound critics poll.
There was much comment when the latest iteration of the Sight & Sound critics' poll demoted Orson Welles's "Citizen Kane" from the No. 1 spot and put Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" in its place.
Put in the DVD of "Vertigo" or any of the other top-ranking films in the 2012 Sight & Sound critics poll — "Citizen Kane," "Tokyo Story," "Rules of the Game," "Sunrise," "2001: A Space Odyssey," "The Searchers," "Man with a Movie Camera," "Passion of Joan of Arc" — and fast-forward ahead randomly, then watch for five minutes.
Applauding its catchiness and pop sound, critics were positive towards "Animal".
It was a remarkable example of avant-garde cinema, even if the Sight and Sound critic reported that "it made no sense whatever".
The influence of dubstep on more commercial or popular genres can be identified as far back as 2007, with artists such as Britney Spears using dubstep sounds; critics observed a dubstep influence in the song "Freakshow", from the 2007 album Blackout, which Tom Ewing described as "built around the 'wobbler' effect that's a genre standby".
(In September, after five decades, "Vertigo" bumped "Citizen Kane" from the No. 1 spot in Sight and Sound's critics' poll of "the greatest films of all time").
Hou Hsiao-Hsien's The Assassin won best director at Cannes last year and topped the Sight & Sound 2015 critics' poll. 1.
Redding had occasional polyps on his larynx (a condition also faced by the singers Adele, John Mayer and Julie Andrews), which gave him a raw, raspy, sound; some critics said he couldn't hit the high and low notes.
