It makes brilliant use of Prince's LinnDrum, with percussion that's spare and haunting.
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It all sort of makes brilliant and bizarre sense when you look at the tracklist for long enough.
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The film then makes brilliant use of 3D sound to reveal the hidden images of the objects around you in your mind, the same way a blind person's heightened sense of hearing helps them visualize and navigate their environment.
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Much of the drama took place before the television cameras — news conferences and live coverage of hearings, as well as bulletins from the likes of Walter Cronkite, John Chancellor and Frank Reynolds on the networks — and Ferguson makes brilliant use of the archival record.
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Even when its music is relegated to the background, Freaks and Geeks makes brilliant choices with its soundtrack, which packed over 120 songs into its sole season, largely under the influence of music supervisors Buck Damon and Amanda Scheer-Demme, who both also worked on Mean Girls and Garden State.
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The film was well-received by critics and audiences alike, winning the Audience Award at the 2017 Adelaide Film Festival. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 96% based on 91 reviews, with an average rating of 8.21/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Sweet Country makes brilliant use of the Australian outback as the setting for a hard-hitting story that satisfies as a character study as well as a sociopolitical statement". On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 87 out of 100, based on 21 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".
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Alternate theatrical release poster The Shop Around the Corner has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 28 reviews, with a weighted average of 8.51/10. The critical consensus states: "Deftly directed by Ernst Lubitsch from a smart, funny script by Samson Raphaelson, The Shop Around the Corner is a romantic comedy in the finest sense of the term." Dave Kehr argued Lubitsch makes "brilliant deployment of point of view, allowing the audience to enter the perceptions of each character at exactly the right moment to develop maximum sympathy and suspense." It ranked 202nd in the British Film Institute's 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll of the greatest films ever made, having garnered eight critics' votes.
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On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 97% based on 454 reviews, with an average rating of 8.31/10. The website's critics' consensus reads: "Knives Out sharpens old murder-mystery tropes with a keenly assembled suspense outing that makes brilliant use of writer-director Rian Johnson's stellar ensemble." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 82 out of 100, based on reviews from 52 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A–" on an A+ to F scale, while those at PostTrak gave it an average 4.5 out of 5 stars, with 67% saying they would definitely recommend it.
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In September 2010, James Wolcott of Vanity Fair argued that Mondoweiss "is one of the most invaluable sites in the blogosphere, a blast of sanity and moral suasion against the prevailing demonization of anything and anyone perceived as anti-Israel".James Wolcott, "Mondo Narco", Vanity Fair, September 22, 2010. In 2012 Arab News wrote that Weiss and Horowitz had "developed an interactive forum that brims with up-to-the-minute news and comment and makes brilliant attention-grabbing use of text and video material" and that "they bring to their work a moral and intellectual verve woefully missing from coverage of Palestine-Israel issues in even the more respected sections of the mainstream media"."Sidelining of mainstream media in Israel- Palestine debate", Arab News, September 30, 2012, via Highbeam.
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