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Once again this year, we here at Seattle Screen Scene asked a selection of local critics, programmers, and filmmakers to send us their Top Ten lists for the year and in an extremely close race, Paul Verhoeven's Elle just edged out Barry Jenkins's Moonlight.

Not exact matches

But not everyone agrees that foreign property ownership is a good thing for Canadians, and critics argue that wealthy non-Canadians are driving locals out of the market in cities like Toronto and Vancouver.

Critics of Apple's approach say its emphasis on customer privacy and local device computing over cloud computing hampers its ability to keep up.

Critics of the deduction argue that state and local taxes simply reflect payments for services provided by those jurisdictions and, as such, should be treated no differently than other forms of spending.

Because it reduces price and increases volume, it suggests that if Uber ultimately succeeds, the company could have a much bigger impact on urban mobility, labor, the environment, local economies and the national transportation infrastructure than we've all supposed — and its effects could confound the expectations of its harshest critics.

As Chicago press critic Robert Feder has pointed out from SEC filings, the Ferro - led Tribune is paying the local news aggregation network Aggrego — majority owned by Wrapports — $ 900,000 within four months in connection with the placement of links on its sites.

Flavour's restaurant list is distilled from the finest ingredients — recognized food critics, local publications and industry experts — to provide the best of what you want to eat, when you want to eat and where you want to eat.

Resettlement critics also base their opposition on the health risk of resettled refugees who might carry tuberculosis and HIV, and on the burden placed on local government as refugees exhaust federal benefits.

A leading critic of the Articles of Confederation, the feckless league under which Americans were governed for much of the 1780s, Madison was among the first to contemplate a more far - reaching union, one that would attend more energetically to national needs while offering a measure of security to those who had suffered at the hands of local majorities.

An advertisement was placed in the local paper inviting critics of the church to come and voice their criticisms and discuss them at the coffeehouse.

Fairmont Singapore spices things up with Szechuan Court's authentic house made XO Sauce, which recently came in the top three in a blind taste test of sauces from various hotels and restaurants conducted by a local restaurant critic and food editor.

It's a common scene of suburban traffic congestion, but critics of a housing development proposed for construction less than a block away say traffic problems will become much worse if local officials approve the project.

The Good Food Project, run by local food writer Susan Taylor, offers classroom tastings to help kids learn varieties of apples and other foods, plus how to become «food critics.»

In addition to local gun rights advocates, several elected officials, including the county's top cop, have been vocal critics of the law.

Miner, a former state Democratic Committee co-chairwoman, has been a critic of the governor over the years when it comes to local government policy.

The measure was among the proposals in Cuomo's $ 142.6 billion budget proposal designed to ease the cost of required spending on local governments, which some critics said offers too little to struggling local governments.

After a Staten Island grand jury failed to indict a white NYPD officer in the death of Garner, a black Staten Islander, last year, critics in political and academic circles charged that local district attorneys, who often work closely with the police to prosecute crimes, are too close to law enforcement to consistently bring charges against them when they run afoul of the law.

With the request, Carlucci and local residents also joined a chorus of recent United Water critics including State Assemblyman Kenneth Zebrowski and County Legislator Alden Wolfe, who both expressed skepticism and opposition toward the initial surcharge.

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz has emerged as a leading critic of local economic development practices.

Critics questioned the need to make the payments at a time when the state has taken drastic money - saving steps, such as delaying billions of dollars in aid payments to local school districts, to try to close a $ 9 billion deficit.

Critics of the patchwork system say the state Legislature has failed to provide guidance on how local municipal ethics boards should operate.

Former Southold Republican Committee chairman Denis Noncarrow, an outspoken local critic of the standards, said he's not sure a new party line would make much of a difference in the effort to halt Common Core entirely.

The national leader of the Ten Point Coalition has some high praise for the local organization and some tough words for its critics.

He has been a stalwart critic of the federal government's consistent overreach, and the state government's passing down of expensive mandates, such as massive Medicaid burdens that gobble up precious local resources.

Buffalo Assemblyman Mark Schroeder, a frequent — and often lone — critic of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver among his fellow Democrats, is trying to depart the chamber by running for local office back home in Buffalo.

Lamido declared that the commissioning of the new PDP office in Ringim is an reply to some critics that claimed that the party is dead in the state while urging other local government units to replicate the feat in their areas.

Miner has been a vocal critic of Cuomo in recent years, criticizing his administration's policies toward local governments in particular.

Prior to that Roma anchored the award - winning «Inside City Hall,» a hard - hitting political and public affairs program described by one critic as «the 60 Minutes of local television.»

Local developer and longtime school district critic Carl Paladino, and two other newcomers, Theresa Harris - Tigg and Jim Sampson, were elected Tuesday to seats on the Buffalo Board of Education.

Critics have said local prosecutors can not properly investigate or prosecute such cases because of their close relationships with police.

That ad, which served as the basis for Wednesday's rally, accused de Blasio of blocking access to charter schools for minority students, and FES was left defending its merits after some critics — many aligned with local teachers» unions — accused it of «race - baiting.»

This led — not as critics predicted at the time to the formation of a pair of jumped - up local councils — but two thriving institutions that have helped to foster new political systems, a process given expression in spectacular fashion in Scotland a few weeks ago.

In December, Christie pushed legislation — dubbed the «revenge bill» — that would have allowed the governor to profit from the sale of a book, while kneecapping the advertising revenue of the local newspapers that had become reliable critics of his administration.

Mr Pickles has made weekly bin collections one of his top priorities for local government but critics have branded him a «philistine», claiming he has put money for bins ahead of funding for libraries and museums.

Critics claim that as well as being potentially unsafe, multi-storey blocks of flats stop people feeling a sense of community in their local area.

The combination of comments appeared aimed at undermining DiNapoli's work and authority, and fit the Cuomo mold of punching back at critics, whether they are advocates, local elected officials, or the elected chief fiscal officer of the state, DiNapoli.

But critics point out that subsistence farmers in developing countries often buy small amounts of improved varieties and breed them with local varieties to bolster yields.

A love of the dramatic arts had already taken root for the thespian when — at age 12 — he had signed on to play a key role in a local production of Kurt Vonnegut's Happy Birthday, Wanda June, and received an outstanding review from a local critic.

Following the exploits of the Paris police department's «child protection unit,» Polisse (which screened early on) helped to establish this year's Croisette - spanning theme of children in peril, which could be found to varying extents in fellow Competition entries Michael (kidnapping and pedophilia), Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin (teenage sociopathy), Aki Kaurismäki's universally admired Le Havre (illegal immigration), and the Dardenne Brothers» Grand Jury Prize co-winner The Kid with a Bike (child abandonment); in the Directors» Fortnight entry Play (bullying); and in just about every film at the 50th - anniversary edition of the Critics» Week, from French actress - director Valérie Donzelli's opening - night Declaration of War (pediatric cancer) to Israeli actress - director Hagar Ben Asher's The Slut (pedophilia again), the fact - based 17 Girls (teen pregnancy), and the profoundly disturbing Snowtown, which recalled Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer in its verité sketch of Australian serial killer John Bunting, who lured local youths into aiding and abetting his violent crimes throughout the Nineties.

Compliance - A fellow local critic warned the rest of us about the «deepy troubling» nature of filmmaker Craig Zobel's Compliance even as he encouraged us to look at it.»

A member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, his work has appeared in the Advisor and Source Newspapers, «Local Celebs Magazine,» and at Christ and Pop Culture.

WAFCA is comprised of Washington, DC area film critics from local newspapers, television, and radio.

CRYSTAL DECKER Artistic Director Crystal is a film - school grad with a background of film criticism (a Met critic for 3 years), promotion and advertising (with a local PR agency), and festival planning in the DFW market.

The Seattle Film Critics Society (hereafter, «SFCS») is an association of professional reviewers working in concert to facilitate a community that supports local productions and festivals, that enhances public education, awareness, and appreciation of cinema, and strengthens the bonds of critical dialogue as it pertains to the cinematic arts.

Noel frequently reviews under - the - radar documentaries for us, and his highest grades for the year so far also include City Of Gold, about Pulitzer Prize - winning food critic Jonathan Gold and his passion for the cheap local eats of Los Angeles, and NutOf Gold, about Pulitzer Prize - winning food critic Jonathan Gold and his passion for the cheap local eats of Los Angeles, and Nutof Los Angeles, and Nuts!

Some critics have felt this film lacks engagement with the local population or the wider scope of the war, but surely that's exactly the point: these soldiers are just ordinary blokes (they're all blokes), a long way from home, doing an incredibly dangerous job without much sense of why.

(With the actress having also hit UK cinema screens this year in «White Material» and «Villa Amalia,» local critics are likely wondering when she sleeps: «Do the French have some kind of loyalty card system where Huppert gets a free meal every tenth film she does?»

But by the middle years of the decade, any self - respecting paper had its own local critic, and everyone of them had studied Kael's I Lost It at the Movies and Andrew Sarris» The American Cinema.

But regardless of the critical distain from pompous film critics (guilty), there are still those who trek to their local cinema each year for their dose of the increasingly incoherent story of the Jigsaw killer (guilty as charged).

The second stage of the process is delegated to the critics circle lists, where critics announce individual «10 Best» lists and vote in local and national groups as marketing budgets grow for critical favorites.