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" I am all for qualitiy criticism. Do these guys ever offer that?"

Anthony Lane's stuff in the New Yorker deserves every plaudit.

His new collection of reviews, Nobody's Perfect (great title), exhibits him at his most enjoyable, figure-skating across the world of movies (and books) like a Russian, er, Canadian champion, glittering wit flying up from his blades. He writes the most alluring lead paragraphs of any critic I know, and one can only imagine how much effort goes into making all his throwaway aperçus seem effortless.

-- L.A. Weekly

Anthony Lane was awarded the 2001 National Magazine Award in Reviews & Criticism, for three of his articles.

-- Wikipedia

Not too shoddy huh? Guess you've never heard of him.

James Verniere is a tough critic in this movie-happy town of Boston. While The Globe falls for anything even hinting of political correctness, Jim tells it like it is, in the Herald. His remark about cinematic quality, and I'd gather this passed you by, was a backhanded swipe at the book, whose distinguishing quality was exactly that.

For the record, I devoured it in one sitting, or rather laying, through the night... miserably written though it was. Also for the record, Angels and Demons is a far better book.

clark

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