Shutterstock The Hollywood Reporter recently asked a panel of anonymous “studio heads, marketing chiefs, directors, screenwriters and a slew of industry types” to rank their favorite New York film critics. On the one hand, it doesn’t seem very scientific, but on the other, MEEE-YOW, FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT! I always enjoy hearing business-side Hollywood types, who are so bad at reading that they’ve long preferred buying pitches to actual scripts, try to critique critiques of their product. Anything that isn’t mindless cheerleading inevitably becomes “snark” (as a producer called the New York Times’ Manohla Dargis) and a dude probably responsible for Paul Blart 2 calls the Wall Street Journal’s Joe Morgernstern “too highbrow.” This at a publication that … Read entire story.
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