If you've read a critic for a while and know all about what they hate about the art form they cover but have no idea what they like about it, they're not a critic and you don't need to read them anymore
The weird thing is that Pauline Kael was a contrarian when she started out, but her voice was so strong it became the new mainstream.
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Even a contrarian critic must have a minimal affection for the genre he or she reviews. (Don't assign John Simon to review sitcoms.)
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Right. What made Farber & Kael great contrarians is not so much the stuffy movies they dismissed but the under-rated movies they convincingly championed.
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