what he said: John Scalzi at Filmcritic.com…
…on “Why a Few Awesome Scenes Are Not Enough in Sci-fi Flicks”…
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what she said: Melissa Silverstein at Women and Hollywood…
…about how Hollywood is flummoxed by Noomi Rapace, the original girl with the dragon tattoo…
what he said: Dustin Rowles at Pajiba…
…on what critics can do about the tragedy of crap such as Life as We Know It scoring very highly with audiences and doing well at the box office…
what he said: Patrick Goldstein at The Big Picture…
…on The Social Network as such a dramatic contrast to the appalling quality of most Hollywood big-screen scriptwriting these days…
what she said: Emma Thompson…
…on what women in movies need to do to make their voices heard…
what he said: the Chicago ‘Tribune’s Michael Phillips…
…on what arts criticism is, and what it isn’t…
what he said: Peter Bradshaw at the ‘Guardian’ Film blog …
You haven’t heard what Emma Thompson said about Audrey Hepburn? Tee-hee!
what he said: A.O. Scott in ‘The New York Times’…
…about the Internet upheaval over Inception: If I had to issue a one-sentence manifesto for film criticism, it would be this: Any movie worth seeing is worth arguing about, and any movie worth arguing about is worth seeing. It really is as simple as that.
what he said: Patrick Goldstein at The Big Picture…
…on Jerry Bruckheimer’s bad summer, what with The Sorcerer’s Apprentice flopping, and right on the heels of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time sorta flopping by Bruckheimerian standards: What makes things bad for Bruckheimer is that he’s been wrapped up in his self-contained world for so long that outside of his close friends, the … more…
what she said: Monkey See’s Linda Holmes…
…on dissenting reviews of critically acclaimed movies (and in particular, Inception) Aggregations of reviews (and the resulting “scores” at a place like Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritic) are useful as rough approximations of critical reception, but not only is there no reason to prize perfect scores, there is every reason to be suspicious of them. There … more…
