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If movies are niche, shouldn't critics be too?
Wed, Sep 30 2009 5:50 PM

The Playlist is a useful blog that aggregates the day's major entertainment news. They're also been dabbling in reviews, which is how I came across Drew Taylor's take on the acclaimed if by no means Romanian film "Police, Adjective," which is screening at the New York Film Festival. Taylor calls it "the most boring fucking movie that's... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Critic watch, Jonathan Rosenbaum, New York Film Festival 2009, NYFF, The Playlist, Ain't It Cool, Police Adjective

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