This was in his review of Ratatouille and his response to Anton Ego admitting that even the worst chef takes a greater risk and makes the greater contribution than the most prestigious restaurant critic
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"Okay, and if he gives someone food poisoning he does more damage than the worst most thoughtless review"
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"A bad meal, like a bad movie, can change your life just as much as a great one can, often in gruesomely visceral ways Surely the least you can do is let me complain about it"
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tbh, this is ultimately a tacit admission that film criticism (and arts criticism in general) is largely if not entirely irrelevant Of course, I’m biased and reading it that way because I loathe film criticism and the entire culture around it, so take my two cents how you will
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Ebert agreed with the movie that the most powerful thing a critic can do is be a champion of artists who might otherwise never be heard but argued you only have the credibility to do that if people know you see all the trash out there for what it is
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Reminds me how nothing is more satisfying than hating something & then reading a review that also hates that thing.
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