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Example sentences for: panned

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The film itself is panned.
During their rise to fame, the girls wisely avoided giving concerts; when they finally performed live (on Saturday Night Live ), critics panned them.
The latest in a wash of Scream -bred teen horror flicks is roundly panned as a "disappointing adolescent thriller starring no one you ever heard of" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ). Despite a promising premise--high-school students are lobotomized into conformity by a guidance counselor and their parents--the film is said to be packed with clichés (faces in windows, hands on shoulders) and lacking either an ironic or a frightening touch.
An exhibition of the foppish pop artist's ephemera--his clothes, souvenirs, and photos--is panned as unexpectedly boring and blindly reverential of Warhol.
A modest rebound for John Updike's widely panned Toward the End of Time.