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The New York Times by A.O. Scott
The Film Critic is at once too clever by half and not as smart as it pretends to be.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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Criticism mutated long ago, after the internet's floodgates opened, and that outmoded disconnect between The Film Critic and today's film critics underscores how the persistent references to cinema and film writing are self-awarely mimicking clichés but not subverting them.
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Slant Magazine by Clayton Dillard
It perverts cinephilia by asserting that anyone who engages in criticism actually, deep down, wants to be a practicing artist.
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Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein
Although the meta-style conceit is fun, it doesn't fully kick in until the film's midpoint. Until then it's a sluggish, fairly dour ride.
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The whole movie is encased in air quotes, and its sole purpose, apart from that winking, is to argue that even artsy-fartsy grumps secretly identify with Hollywood wish-fulfillment. Would Guerschuny the film critic have liked The Film Critic? If so, he’s a soft touch.
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RogerEbert.com by Sheila O'Malley
The Film Critic takes a light and knowing tone, spoofing the sacred cows of the critic world, and cramming every scene with visual film clichés that act like a "Where's Waldo?" of cinema.