Camera takes nice photos and certainly better than I was expecting due to pre-release reviews.

Several pre-release reviews of the episode were generally positive.

BloodyGoodHorror.com in a pre-release review of the album gave a favourable assessment.

Pre-release reviews of the album have been positive.

The Next Day received widespread critical acclaim in pre-release reviews.

According to the majority of pre-release reviews and interviews, Cosmic Egg was generally well received among music critics.

A pre-release review in the July 2006 issue of Toronto-based Exclaim!

In a pre-release review, French media source JudeBox described the song as follows:

Despite the protests and poor pre-release reviews, the film still opened with an estimated $31 million in box office sales on its opening day, averaging $7764 per screen.

In a pre-release review of the album AbsolutePunk called the song "Bring Me the Horizon's best song yet".

Variety had already noted in a pre-release review that The Kremlin Letter "...makes for valuable viewing, but with the piecing together another thing.

In a pre-release review of the album, American music magazine Spin offered the following background and description of "New Moon Rising":

A pre-release review from NME called Neighborhoods the band's best album, calling it "bravely progressive" and noting the dark lyricism and random experimentation.

Scott Heisel of Alternative Press gave it a pre-release review of high acclaim saying it is "just as strong if not stronger than anything on Neighborhoods."

Within the book industry, printers often fly some copies of the finished book to publishers as sample copies to aid sales or to be sent out for pre-release reviews.

By May 1996, CD-ROM and VHS video demos were being shipped to game magazines for pre-release reviews, along with a one-page color brochure.

In another pre-release review, Nobuko Yamasaki, writing on behalf of Moviewalker, said that Snow Prince was filled with "tears of gratitude" and Shintaro Morimoto's acting was lovely.

The weekly entertainment-trade magazine Variety gave the film a positive pre-release review, stating, "The lavish production, boasting some brilliant special effects and superior creative efforts, is an entertaining, enlightening excursion through inner space - the body of a man."

A pre-release review in Plan B magazine left the reviewer wondering if they were, "actually some elaborate practical joke" despite featuring the band in the front of the issue, and the bassist Merek being a regular contributor to the periodical.

In a pre-release review of certain album tracks, Peter Robinson from the NME blog wrote that Gaga channels "Whitney Houston-esque pop euphoria" into the song, notably that from the singer's musical peak.

Following up to a pre-release review of the game, Japanator.com intern Jon Synder wrote "this game was little more than a string of pornographic images and accompanying text, barely held together by poor voice acting and something that could be called a 'plot'[...]"

In a pre-release review of the film, Asahi Shimbuns Atsushi Ohara said that "the film has adapted Dog of Flanders well", but he took issue with the treatment of Sota and Chibi, saying that they were treated too harshly.

Warner Bros., the film's distributor, refused to allow any early press-screenings for movie reviewers that most releases use to generate interest; such a decision is often made when a studio and/or distributor knows a film will not be received well and pre-release reviews would only be negative.

My low expectations were the result of two things: (a) a scathing pre-release review written by MJ Simpson, Douglas Adams' biographer, who blasted the makers of the film for, in his word, "leaving out all the jokes"; and (2) my personal opinion that Hitchhiker's is fundamentally unsuited for the big screen.