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Critic Speak (10 posts found)
Critic Speak: Conflicting Over The Counselor
The latest from Ridley Scott, The Counselor, came out this weekend and it almost immediately became a hot topic in the critical community. I was one of the many critics who gave the film an unfavorable review, but before even Sunday night there was a growing s...
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A.V. Club’s Jesse Hassenger Questions the Importance of Review Aggregators
Headed to the theatre this weekend? Were you intending on seeing The Counselor? Prior to purchasing tickets, I bet you logged on to Rotten Tomatoes before making the final decision. And there it sat a 35% rotten rating like a sore thumb on a new releases list ...
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Critic Speak: Critics Defend Against the Backlash of 12 Years a Slave
12 Years a Slave has been getting great reviews almost across the board, but it has also inspired some excellent writing outside the standard review format as well. Just in the past couple of days we've had two good ones at Movie Mezzanine, but a couple of oth...
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’12 Years A Slave’ Dissenters Serve As Another Reminder that Oscar Season Is Here
It happens like clockwork every year. A film comes out of a festival sitting on a cloud boosted by the word of critics that are left speechless post screenings. The filmmakers receive standing ovations, Oscar pundits run off to their hotel rooms to write their...
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Live National In-Theatre Screening Series Launches
Not everyone has the chance to go to a film festival and watch films before their release or with the cast and crew in attendance, but there may be an opportunity for this type of screening to become all the more frequent and accessible for American movie-goer...
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BFI’s Nick James Laments More Critic Layoffs
This year has been a bad one for film critics between the mass layoffs at MSN and the number of trimmed staffs that have taken place at countless publications. Last Sunday saw a good deal of critics let go when The Independent removed all its arts critics alon...
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BFI’s Nick James Laments More Film Critic Layoffs
This year has been a bad one for film critics between the mass layoffs at MSN and the number of trimmed staffs that have taken place at countless publications. Last Sunday saw a good deal of critics let go when The Independent removed all its arts critics alon...
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The Government Shutdown Impacts Hollywood, Too
Noah Gittell examines how the current government shutdown in the U.S. is impacting Hollywood and movie theaters.
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Grantland’s Mark Harris Addresses Category Fraud
Grantland's Mark Harris is one of the preeminent film writers of this generation and no one, I mean no one, deconstructs the "importance" of Oscar season like him. His piece this past Friday about the inherent awards-worthiness of films like Nicole Holofcener'...
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‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Could Move to 2014
While all of the hubbub has been focused on which of the fall and winter's feature films could make a run at Best Picture, one high-profile flick may find itself pushed out of the race.
Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street is currently slated for a Nov...
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