2. In it's earliest days, the New Yorker didn't really have critics or even reviewers so much as quipsters, experts on the oneline dismal: Dorothy Parker, Benchley, Woollcott, etc.
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3. Dorothy Parker's review of Winnie the Pooh, in her voice as the Constant Reader is classic example: "And it is that word 'hummy,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House At Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader Fwowed up."
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4. It was later in the magazines history that it moved beyond quipsters & hired actual critics who responded to works of art as art, not as opportunity for a zinger: Wilson, Rosenberg, Kael.
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5. Anthony Lane is a real anachronism is that he practise 1920s style criticism where the main goal is the well turned put down. He often sounds like he's wear spats & a monocle while turning his phrases.
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6. All of which is to say that Lane's review wasn't necessarily that of a dirty old man self-pleasuring watching a kid's cartoon but maybe a misfired joke: https://newrepublic.com/minutes/149209/new-yorker-offers-sex-drenched-incredibles-2-review …
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Had to google the term "onanistic" and was glad I was not provided the image search results as google often likes to do
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What do you think of Denby?
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Itzkoff reviewing SF wasn't so long ago. He sneered at the genre on the regular
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This is it, the purestrain Jeet. This is the good shit. Straight into my veins baby.
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@NarratedHeer!
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