Posts tagged criticism in 2021


Canonical Criteria

Friends of mine and I were talking about the idea of a canon or pantheon of great movies, and how to select them. We had a fun debate about the criteria, and eventually I drew up a list.

Critical Mass

One must have concrete critical standards of some kind, or one ends up in a kind of death spiral of hopeless idealism.

What We Bring To The Table

Learning to find your own take on things you read or watch gives you a sense of what you can bring to your own work, too.


See previous posts from 2020

See future posts from 2022