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Originally Posted by aberkok
If all the critics just took off all of a sudden, the world wouldn't notice.
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Sadly, it didn't used to be this way. There was a day when Pauline Kael, Jay Scott and a bevy of other great critics were out there.
I would say that Ebert is frequently in this class.
Today the vast majority of critics are just reviewers who offer, ironically, a rehash of plot and a thumbs up or down on a film. Of course, the same can be said for the film industry as a whole.