This x 100. I don't walk out of movies thinking about "ists" and "isms" yet identity politics seem to be what younger critics engage with first these days. The conversation surrounding movies has shifted beneath our feet. Do we shift with it, or stand our ground?https://twitter.com/TheGregoryE/status/971460647698378752 …
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-ists and -isms may not affect your experience of movies (although I know you're not willing to take that to extremes. Do they affect your experience of Birth of a Nation? Triumph of the Will?), but what about your readers whose experiences ARE affected?
Either a) those readers, if they want a critique that will help them approach the movie, will have to read only critics who share their backgrounds/experiences, or b) critics can learn, through some effort, to see art works through more of the lenses their readers will apply.
