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Re: Pauline Kael set the standard for film criticism...

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Criticism in general, has diminished in importance, ever since the Kael and Andrew Sarris left our consciousness, with the advent of the 6oclock News Tv Movie Critic. The Old Masters have been replaced by homogenized and dumbed down photocopies like Joel Seigel, Jeffrey Lyons, et al.

Ebert has survived based upon the strength of his print and long form Tv show work. But even he can't hold a candle, as they used to say, to Kael and Sarris.

That movie companies now make up the critical quotes for advert blurbs, who need em anyway ?


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