Film critic Dana Stevens discusses the state of movie criticism with fellow critics Bilge Ebiri, K. Austin Collins, Alison Willmore, and Odie Henderson. They reflect on the challenges facing the profession, including the rise of streaming TV, declining theater attendance, and the impact of recent strikes. Despite these obstacles, they remain optimistic about the enduring power of film criticism.
, film critic Dana Stevens emails with fellow critics—for 2024, Bilge Ebiri, K. Austin Collins, Alison Willmore, and Odie Henderson—about the year in cinema.”: an elaborate embroidery on a surface too ephemeral to sustain it. It’s a devastating burn for sure, of the sort Didion specialized in, but though the image may make every critic briefly question their life’s work, that doesn’t make it true.
But like … most of the above has been true for nearly five years now, and some of it for much longer, and yet somehow here people are still going to movies, talking about them on the way down the multiplex escalator, debating their merits and hidden meanings over dinner, getting annoyed with their omnipresent Oscar campaigns.
I noticed, sizing up the year’s films for my own list, that many of the movies that left a mark played with scale in some way. Bilge, at least two of the movies on, that might be seen as a critique of both its subject’s and its director’s toxic ambition, a vast edifice that even a fan like me must admit has significant cracks in its foundation.
a film that made my Top 10 list and was at the very top of Alison’s.
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