Farewell to a Film Site Packed with Great Writers
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Tag: critics
Best Picture and the Critics – It’s a Cliffhanger
One of the strangest aspects of 2014 is how so many films have been harpooned by critics, especially those aimed ...
Shifting Perspectives – How Anne Thompson and Kenneth Turan are Changing the Game
"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world." - Shakespeare and ...
Vocativ Hands out Awards for Film Critics, Uses Faulty System
Someone was bound to, sooner or later, come down on the critics for one thing or another. So these two ...
Six Aspects of Highly Effective Movie Classics
Mick LaSalle at the San Francisco Chronicle outlines six factors in cinema that propel a great movie to classic status ...
Metacritic Scores and Box Office, Just for Fun
I thought I would use Metacritic to look at the past ten years of Best Picture winners. I use Metacritic ...
Sight & Sound Poll balloons to name Top 250 films of all time
Now that the September issue of Sight & Sound has hit news stands and had a chance to sell out ...
2011 critics scores in the rearview mirror
As we watch the remainder of the critics groups weigh in with their year-end honors, we'll take one last look ...
Peter Travers slimes the worst movies of 2011, so far
In which readers are invited to beat up on your own picks, and pick apart Travers himself. I think he's ...
Weak 'Film Pulse' sad symptom of blockbuster mentality
Very Small Array charts a steady 50-year decline in the quality of films moviegoers want to see most. Steepest nosedive ...
Comprehensive Critics and Precursor Charts
AD reader Andrew has devised another great system of charts to help us navigate the swampy morass we've all sailed ...
Todd McCarthy trades up to The Hollywood Reporter
Most important resurrection for film-lovers since lost footage of Metropolis was found in an Argentinian vault. Reuters reports the happy ...
Top 10 Most Influential Film Critics?
I'll go ahead and assemble the names we've collected into a poll ballot, just for the curiosity element and sheer ...
Cream of the Crop, Top of the Heap: The Critics Who Matter Most
MetaCritic typically collects reviews from around 40 critics and Rotten Tomatoes names roughly the same number among its 'Top Critics.' ...
“I Just Don’t Get It” – The Critics and Inception
As various critics annoyingly yet predictably rip Inception apart one has to yet again marvel at the silly way a ...
2010 mid-year movie rankings
Ziyad Abul Hawa has built us a beautiful chart to display key stats at-a-glance for the year's most acclaimed movies ...
2009 Chart of Charts, a last look back
In less than half an hour the most important numbers on our minds will be which films reeled in the ...
Critics Take Cover, Erik is BACK!
Erik Childress has posted his annual Criticwatch's Whores of the Year - which has funny bits, no doubt. Pete Travers ...
Has Bens
Two thumbs down to Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz, as Michael Phillips and A.O. Scott take over the reins of ...
Yes they are... :)
Are they going with 6 nominees each?
At which point the "cinematic" part of "cinematic and box office achievement" becomes redundant. And with stuff like Teenage Mutant…
I think they could do seven this year and have all the films be at least moderately well-reviewed: Barbie, Creed…
rufussondheim, I wanted to tell you that I have been very melancholy today because I find out today whether a…
