Everyone’s a critic …
dallasvoice.comAnd why that is more dangerous than ever before Back when I was younger, I used to love watching Siskel & Ebert — and if you’re too young to know who these two were, they hosted a very entertaining movie critique television show.
They were clever, balanced. But most of all, they were … Qualified. They knew about film. They studied film. They even made film.
They were experts in their field. And I never once, that I can recall, heard them call a film “garbage,” or “the worst ever,” or even something as simple as “bad.” They calmly debated their specific qualms about a film, their likes, their misgivings.
But it was all based on one important aspect of that “critique:” their shared knowledge of the art form, years of carefully assembled and curated expertise.
