Peter Bart: How To Build A Film Critic For The Post-Pandemic Age
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deadline.comBy Peter Bart Editor-At-Large Are film critics extinct? Two of the most prominent practitioners, Ken Turan and Todd McCarthy, abruptly posted their “fade out” notices last week.
They were well timed, because the movie marketplace is a black hole that defies coverage at the moment. But consider this: A veritable torrent of films will hit theaters in the fall – festival films that have lost their festivals and summer tentpole films that have lost their summers.
Hence, thoughtful, informed voices are needed to guide us through the cinematic tsunami and overcome the tyranny of the Tomatoes.
And the media must figure out how to cope: The New York Times last week gave its prime space to a review of Ernst Lubitsch’s 1931 comedy The Smiling
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