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First Shot Tackles EW's Owen Gleibermannew

Turn off your irony detector for a sec, because we gots something to say: People who write about film sure can be some serious tools.
Orlando Weekly  |  Steve Schneider  |  11-06-2008  |  Movies

Independent Weekly Critic Godfrey Cheshire's 'Moving Midway'new

In his first feature, Cheshire put his great big, highly engaging Southern family (considerably bigger by the close of the show than at its inception) up on the silver screen, with no less serious a literary purpose than the Bard of Oxford, yet with a light touch all his own.
INDY Week  |  Bland Simpson  |  09-18-2008  |  Reviews

Manny Farber, 1917-2008new

As a critic, Farber advocated more modest, elemental "termite art" — throwaway B movies, Westerns and, later on, important works of European and experimental cinema that he found sui generis, teeming with life, and more invested in individual moments than grandiose objectives
L.A. Weekly  |  Scott Foundas  |  08-29-2008  |  Movies

What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Moviesnew

Taking aim at the critics who write with their thumbs.
New York Press  |  Armond White  |  04-24-2008  |  Movies

Love Him or Hate Him, D.K. Holm Needs Your Helpnew

Recently, film critic Holm was diagnosed with esophageal cancer, for which he has begun chemotherapy and is scheduled for surgery.
Willamette Week  |  David Walker  |  04-23-2008  |  Movies

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