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As a prose writer, Southern (1924-1995) was an inspired and anarchic second-rater, but more necessary than many so-considered first-raters.
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According to Diabolique magazine: > Boone whined about Fox's cheapness, but Zanuck was right. Serling's script > isn’t very good with too much flowery dialogue. Because it's a thriller, the > low budget didn’t necessarily have to hurt in the hands of an imaginative > director. But Dexter was a second-rater.
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" Scott Foundas of Variety described it as an unnecessary remake that will appeal mostly to young adult audiences who have not seen the original film. Michael Rechtshaffen of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the film "has no patience for such subtleties" as Romero's thematic concerns or suspense-building. Elvis Mitchell of The New York Times wrote that "Mr. Snyder's blood feast is strictly by the numbers: this second-rater could be the world's most expensive Troma film.
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A.H. Thompson, who compiled an extensive overview of censorship efforts in the United Kingdom's public libraries, dedicated an entire chapter to "The Enid Blyton Affair", and wrote of her in 1975: Blyton's range of plots and settings has been described as limited, repetitive and continually recycled. Many of her books were critically assessed by teachers and librarians, deemed unfit for children to read, and removed from syllabuses and public libraries. Responding to claims that her moral views were "dependably predictable", Blyton commented that "most of you could write down perfectly correctly all the things that I believe in and stand for – you have found them in my books, and a writer's books are always a faithful reflection of himself". From the 1930s to the 1950s the BBC operated a de facto ban on dramatising Blyton's books for radio, considering her to be a "second-rater" whose work was without literary merit.
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