Malicious reviews are a branch of satire, the genre of art that uses mockery to educate and elucidate. Some malicious reviews -- Twain on Fenimore Cooper, Macdonald on Cozzens, Kael on Sound of Music -- have been delightful and stand as works of art. https://twitter.com/Terri_White/status/1317811595934879744 …
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Yes the opening of the piece is good, and I love the title. But she totally misses the point because, as so often (I'd argue), she's watching herself write instead of really watching what she's writing about. Which I think is the worst thing a critic can do.
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Kael is an interesting test case for me because I often disagree with her judgements (I mean she disliked every Kubrick movie after Strangelove) but her powers of observation were strong even when she was wrong.
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What was odd about Kael's dislike of Goodfellas was that Goodfellas could have been a response to Kael's negative review of The Brotherhood (in Going Steady); she complained that it didn't show us any of the details of modern organized crime, exactly what Goodfellas focused on.
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