The mostly brutal reviews prompted the producer to examine carefully all the problems and take dramatic action to fix them.

In October, he was appointed Enterprise Adviser to the Prime Minister and asked to conduct a "brutal" review of the relationship of government to small firms.

I prefer brutal reviews with annoyed fans griping in the comments as opposed to always-generous reviews worded as such to satisfy the maximum amount of the reader base.

When Homer sees Gibson talking with Marge, he gives him a brutal review, leading Gibson to believe that Homer is the only man brave enough to give suggestions.

At Yale, he wrote a brutal review of a professor's book in the college newspaper, and he dashed off a note to Yale's president complaining about an inept sermon.

After years of tussling with the studios (and making his own flops without their interference), Coppola began self-financing movies like "Twixt" that find tiny audiences and often get brutal reviews from critics.

After watching his team's sorry 6-3 surrender Monday night to the Los Angeles Kings, Carpenter had issued a painstakingly brutal review of the performance.

Over the next few years, Truffaut became a critic (and later editor) at Cahiers, where he became notorious for his brutal, unforgiving reviews.

And did anyone bring up the brutal reviews?

His son said Dr. Sieburth never mellowed, producing "brutal" reviews of his colleagues' articles.