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Print or online. Where is the stuff actually worth reading?

I usually try and read the Voice. I cancelled my subscription to Sight And Sound recently.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 2 May 2003 05:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Rotten Tomato gathers all online reviews together in one place. I think that's the domain name too... Google will help. Naturally, it's hit or miss after that, but if you want to look in one place...

― jm (jtm), Friday, 2 May 2003 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

film journalism is nearly all completely useless.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 2 May 2003 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it's useful on a large scale--big shifts in taste, new artists and works being absorbed into the canon, other ones being spit out--but there's very little that's actually of interest by itself, for itself. I mean, would all of us have heard of or seen The Passion of Joan of Arc if it hadn't been for 100s of basically uninteresting critics (even amateur ones like myself) falling in line and telling us how great it is? But of those critics, how many would be actually bother to read, and of those, how many actually have anything interesting to say about the film?

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 2 May 2003 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

To add to jm's suggestion for reviews-all-in-one-place, Rotten Tomatoes is probably the best, but I also check:

www.mrqe.com (Movie Review Query Engine)
www.metacritic.com

I usually read Roger Ebert, Jonathan Rosenbaum, David Edelstein, and the critics at the NY Times, New Yorker, Salon, and Village Voice.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 May 2003 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

(That doesn't mean I approve of all of them, of course.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 May 2003 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

www.moviecitynews.com is a new one that's pretty interesting. there are also a lot of really great amateur critics, and my favorite is at http://leonardo.spidernet.net/Artus/2386/

― ryan (ryan), Friday, 2 May 2003 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I cancelled my subscription to Sight And Sound recently.

Why? I wish they would write about older movies more often.

― ryan (ryan), Friday, 2 May 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I love that Ebert and Rosenbaum are both working in the same market -- they're wildly different in approach and style, obviously, but they're probably the two most enthusiastic critics in the country. I dig both of 'em.

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Saturday, 3 May 2003 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Check out Anthony Lane in the New Yorker. May favourite comment on criticism is this quote from The Producers.

Franz Liebkind: I am the author. You are the audience. I outrank you!

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Monday, 5 May 2003 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

RIP John McCabe

http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article318579.ece

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

I'm a pretty considerable Laurel & Hardy fan, but I don't own any of those books. I've certainly seen them around, and my uber-comedy fanatic friends have read them.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

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