criticism

67 posts

1. What Do We Mean When We Call Art ‘Necessary’? January 29, 2019
2. The Wesleyan Argus | A.O. Scott Defends the Art of Criticism November 29, 2015
3. Film Snob? Is That So Wrong? October 4, 2015
4. When Did Feminism Get So “Sneaky”? August 6, 2015
5. On Sentimentality: A Critique of Humans of New York February 3, 2015
6. In Defense of the Expert Review | Balder and Dash | Roger Ebert April 19, 2014
7. I Started a Joke: "PBR&B" and What Genres Mean Now | Pitchfork January 7, 2014
8. Critical thinking #4: Daniel Mendelsohn December 6, 2013
9. The best Pixar movies as chosen by children - Slate Magazine June 30, 2013
10. Marlboro Southern Cut Cigarette Review May 12, 2013
11. Change This Face: Towards Being A Better Fan | The Classical April 12, 2013
12. The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film December 27, 2012
13. ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ review by Ryan • Letterboxd December 26, 2012
14. Yelp Hates on Museums | Los Angeles County Museum on Fire | ARTINFO.com November 2, 2012
15. AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia October 15, 2012
16. The White Market – The New Inquiry September 17, 2012
17. KNOWLEDGE + TASTE = MEANINGFUL JUDGMENT September 2, 2012
18. Q. and A. - Chris Rock Is Itching for Dirty Work - NYTimes.com August 3, 2012
19. The Four Deadly Fallacies, Pathetic and Otherwise June 21, 2012
20. Age and experience will slowly whittle away at your dreams June 20, 2012
21. How Roland Barthes Gave Us the TV Recap - NYTimes.com June 4, 2012
22. The Last Days of Disco: Abebe Remembers Donna Summer and Robin Gibb May 30, 2012
23. I dream about a kind of criticism that would try not to judge March 23, 2012
24. Young Jeezy - Hustlaz Ambition February 22, 2012
25. Extra Lives (review) February 8, 2012
26. Super 8 as an Allegory on the Triumph of Digital FX « Pancake Dominion January 4, 2012
27. You're Not Me: Nyjah Huston and Inflationary Spectacle | The Classical December 8, 2011
28. my mortifying month November 9, 2011
29. The New Inquiry - Fear of an Ape Planet September 19, 2011
30. The difference is between sitting around listening to music and partying… August 2, 2011
31. It’s my theory that rock and roll happens between fans and stars, rather than… May 30, 2011
32. A Real Critic Is Always a Cultural Critic May 30, 2011
33. Strange as it may sound to many people, who tend to think of critics as being… February 3, 2011
34. The Mad Men Account by Daniel Mendelsohn | The New York Review of Books February 3, 2011
35. Riff Market: Theoretically Unpublished Piece About Girl Talk February 2, 2011
36. The Simple Art of Murder - Raymond Chandler January 15, 2011
37. Raymond Chandler - The Simple Art of Murder January 15, 2011
38. Criticism can be instructive in the sense that it gives readers, including… December 20, 2010
39. Criticism can be instructive in the sense that it gives readers, including… December 18, 2010
40. Of all the duties required of the professional critic, the least… November 12, 2010
41. The Running of the Dead - Christian Thorne | Commonplace Book October 17, 2010
42. Recent juxtapositions September 23, 2010
43. There’s always something more interesting going on than whether I like… September 20, 2010
44. Bad poets just bore us, but bad critics mislead us July 16, 2010
45. The Obscure, the Forgotten, and the Unloved: 40 Critically Acclaimed But Little Seen Should-be Classics June 3, 2010
46. Observations on film art: Metropolis unbound June 1, 2010
47. Then That's What They Called Music! | The A.V. Club April 16, 2010
48. Pitchfork: Why We Fight: Why We Fight #1 April 13, 2010
49. The Rules of the Game: A Fuller Thought on J. Hopper and Vampire Weekend January 31, 2010
50. I think Jones suffers from a common problem some good actors have… October 27, 2009
51. There are three kinds of critics: those who have importance; those who have… September 15, 2009
52. Reading through the histories of both jazz and rock, I am struck again… August 20, 2009
53. The Film Critic of Tomorrow June 17, 2009
54. Trash, Art, and the Movies June 10, 2009
55. "The Gangster as Tragic Hero" - Robert Warshow on the Gangster Film June 8, 2009
56. How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken (review: 3.5/5) October 23, 2008
57. Daniel Mendolsohn October 19, 2008
58. Something to shoot for August 12, 2008
59. Classical and pop reviews 2 July 13, 2008
60. Classical vs. pop music reviews June 29, 2008
61. Faint Praise: The Plight of Book Reviewing in America (3.5/5) February 19, 2008
62. Dining with Notebook Manifesto January 16, 2008
63. Charlie Rose talks with Alex Ross January 16, 2008
64. Yesterday I stumbled on the I Want to See That! December 9, 2007
65. Faint Praise: The Plight of Book Reviewing in America December 4, 2007
66. An excellent essay on John Updike and the work of book reviewing November 27, 2007
67. A rather critical review of Burning Man 2006 September 29, 2006