Sometimes,critics may pan a movie or play so severely that no one will go to see it.

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He will also have to play a leading role in shaping pan-European financial regulation.

ECONOMIST: Sir Howard Davies is a hard act for Callum McCarthy to follow

Needless to say, a play doesn't have to be perfect to be worth seeing, and "The Great God Pan, " for all its defects of craft, is never boring.

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