Word: criticism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...CRITIC'S PICKS: Here's your TIME reviewer's annotated Oscar ballot. But these predictions (not preferences) come with a caveat: Don't bet your bailout bundle on "expert" opinions. You'd do just as well with a Ouija board...
...after thanksgiving, my TiVo died. Because it doubles as my cable box, this meant that for the week it took to get a replacement, my TV was dead as well. This would be a tragic circumstance for most Americans. But for a TV critic, it was a blow to my livelihood. I was like a cotton farmer after a weevil infestation. I was cut off from the main pipeline of American media life...
...There is no better time to be a film critic than now, because films have never been better,” joked Boston Phoenix writer Brett Michel at Sunday night’s Boston Society of Film Critics (BSFC) Awards Ceremony. “Tomorrow night I am reviewing the remake of ‘Friday the 13th,’ and it promises to be a real masterpiece.” But despite the presence of subpar horror film remakes, Boston’s critics, writers, and film theorists still found something to celebrate at their second annual awards...
...Theater is not created in a vacuum but rather speaks to both our individual and social conditions. Kenneth Tynan, the influential English theater critic, wrote: “No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.” For that reason, the goals of producing a show should be much larger than merely to create what happens onstage...
...Every kind of film critic was represented: the loves-it-all USA Today type, the can’t-stand-anything-but-artsy New York Times type, the bitter-because-I’d-rather-be-writing-scripts L.A. Times type, and everything in between. Those endowed with press or corporate passes blew by the long lines that grouped outside the theaters, but for once, nobody seemed to mind. Despite the wintry weather, the cinematic discourse continued on between strangers and new acquaintances unabated...