Jamie W.
2010-08-22 07:49:41
A critic’s job should be to deepen an audience’s understanding and appreciation of whatever it is the critic is observing, much like the best moviegoing companion does after the film. “You can’t outrun an explosion” does not do this. Neither does a bunch of liberal pablum, which Ebert is also known for spouting. Kerstein has put his finger on what bugged me about Ebert all this time (besides the liberal slant) – what is sad is that I should have seen it myself. But the state of movie criticism is such that most critics are Ebert-like, not Kerstein-like.
I do wonder what alternate critics Kerstein would recommend to someone like me, a written-word storyteller who has a deep appreciation for the alternate storytelling methods in cinema?
