Recently LA Times film critic Kenneth Turan retired after a long career. I was just remembering something that made an impression on me when I was younger. He wrote a negative review of Titanic, and commentary on how he felt its success illuminated larger issues with Hollywood.
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This was one of my first explicit exposures to something I consider central to what it means to be a critic, and to what makes the work of a critic valuable. So hey, thanks for that, Kenneth Turan, and congratulations on your well-earned retirement.
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(To be clear, I'm talking here about critics doing the work of being critics. I'm not saying it's virtuous to go around telling your friends or randos on Twitter that the things they like are stupid or anything like that. It's not.)https://twitter.com/carolynmichelle/status/1250562848675082241?s=20 …
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