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Watchmen Critics

The six meanest things critics wrote about Watchmen. You don’t need 12-sided dice and a fictitious Canadian girlfriend to “get it,” but it certainly helps.

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Sommers On Critics

Stephen Sommers, director of GI Joe, on film critics: I know it sounds cliche, but I don’t read them. Why would I? I make the kind of movies critics love to hate. They love dark and depressing movies....

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Seminal Criticism

Taking “seminal” out of rock criticism. [via] For as long as I can remember, seminal has infected our waters, polluting the stream of good, clean music journalism. Used properly, seminal describes an...

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The past, present and future of film criticism.

It’s undeniably true that the Golden Age of film criticism is long gone. As Jerry Roberts points out in his recent book The Complete History of American Film Criticism, film critics had their heyday in...

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I was once asked to write film reviews. It seemed simple enough. I’m a...

I was once asked to write film reviews. It seemed simple enough. I’m a professional writer and I watch a lot of movies. Easy, right? Except I couldn’t do it. At all. But here’s a comprehensive list of...

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Roger Ebert is bringing back At the Movies. [via]

Roger Ebert is bringing back At the Movies. [via]

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The New York Times Book Review Podcast asks critics “why is criticism...

The New York Times Book Review Podcast asks critics “why is criticism important?” I think this is a question that is going to be very important in the next little while. Or very sad. Or both. Side...

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Bad reviews of awesome movies. [via] If you go to this adaptation of Stephen...

Bad reviews of awesome movies. [via] If you go to this adaptation of Stephen King’s novel expecting to see a horror movie, you’ll be disappointed … the setting is promising enough — an empty, isolated...

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The Observer looks at the current state of serious criticism and popular...

The Observer looks at the current state of serious criticism and popular culture in America by examining the history of serious criticism and popular culture in America. The not-so-subtle subtext is a...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJgKC6sQyMo Tommy Edison: Blind Film Critic....

Tommy Edison: Blind Film Critic. Instead of stars or thumbs, he rates movies by “eyes open.” [via]

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Carr and Scott on Criticism

New York Times staffers David Carr and AO Scott (and Roberta Smith) on criticism, wherein Scott calls The Lorax “a crime against childhood” and Carr counters “who appointed me, really, emperor of all...

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➜ How to be a critic

How to be a critic. Or rather, how you should be a critic. If criticism is the turning of the secondary (the critic’s judgment) into the primary, then the judgment should, in turn, be judged....

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