Roger Ebert was far more sympathetic, praising its delicacy, before adding, "Maybe you have to be a little idealistic to even enjoy this movie".
The problem any PM faces in making such a speech to an American audience is that the rest of the world hears it - and is not always sympathetic to gushing praise for a superpower.
Alessandra Stanley, the television critic for the Times, praised its "sympathetic and layered" depiction of "the female condition," while pointing out that, for American viewers, the show is "almost impossible to find on screen".
Nearly everyone I spoke to about Ernst, even those critical of Putin and sympathetic to the opposition, praised for his creative abilities and his talent for producing quality television.
Having closed in 2003 for what locals feared would be the last time, the revamped pleasure park reopened in June and has been praised for its sympathetic renovations and lively atmosphere.
Critics have praised its intelligence and sympathetic analysis, but there have also been complaints that a tendency to didacticism can stifle the stories as fiction.
His most substantial work was a two-volume biography of George IV, praised for its thoroughgoing, sympathetic assessment of a poorly understood figure: "George IV: Prince of Wales, 1762-1811" (1972) and "George IV: Regent and King, 1812-1830" (1973).
Some commentators sympathetic to anarcho-primitivism have even praised the film as a manifesto for their cause.
Simon won high praise for her chilling yet sympathetic role as the cat woman.
Throughout her career, Ms. Douglas was praised for her unflinching yet sympathetic characterizations, and for her ear for the nuances of Southern speech as it varied across the races and the sexes.
