NY Times Culture Critic Kicks the Snacks Out of NY Times Movie Critic
David Carr and A.O. Scott go at each other hammer, tongs and munchies.
Posts tagged: Critics
The Phantom Menace: Dreadful, Calamity, or Just Pretty Bad?
Critics hate the 3D reissue of The Phantom Menace. Let’s enjoy!
Cowboys & Aliens: What Went Wrong?
One terrific trailer, several famous Hollywood geniuses, and $163 million in wasted budget later, one of the most-anticipated movies of summer 2011 is a baffling dud.
Roger Ebert Is Not an Especial Fan of ‘The Change-Up’
“‘The Change-Up’ is one of the dirtiest-minded mainstream releases in history. It has a low opinion of men, a lower opinion of women, and the lowest opinion of the intelligence of its audience. It is obscene, foulmouthed, scatological, creepy and perverted. As a bonus, it has the shabbiest low-rent main titles I’ve seen this side of YouTube.”Roger Ebert lowers the boom.
Ernest Hemingway = Captain Kirk?
“There’s a lot there to pick apart in the man: the bluster, exaggerated machismo, mood swings, four marriages, alcoholism, death-wooing in the bullring, at the D-Day landing, and in bed. No small ego there. But, in all the fancy analytical footwork, it’s sometimes forgotten that, like Captain Kirk of the Starship Enterprise, Hemingway explored ‘strange new worlds … to boldly go where no man has gone before.'”