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How Rotten Tomatoes has changed film criticism.
Wed, Aug 19 2009 9:40 AM

The uproar Armond White raised by panning "District 9" has raised a lot of interesting points about The State of Film Criticism. It prompted Slate's Daniel Engber to fret over his original pan of the film; being one of the few dissenting voices on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes was, he wrote, "beginning to make me nervous." So Engber... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Critic watch, District 9, Armond White, Jonathan Rosenbaum, J. Hoberman, Rotten Tomatoes, Slate

Armond White and the art of trolling.
Sat, Aug 15 2009 2:10 PM

There are really two kinds of people who care about constantly controversial New York Press critic Armond White. There are those who care about keeping up with film criticism regardless of what the movie is; White's a veteran critic, a member of the New York Film Critics Circle, etc. He is Important, and you read him. And then there's the rabid geek who... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Critic watch, Roger Ebert, Transformers 2, District 9, Armond White, Glenn Beck, Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaur