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Film Criticism Quotes

Loving the craft of reviewing while despising its worst jargon.

These film criticism quotes come from people who clearly follow the field closely, one admitting to reading every single review, another crediting the internet with opening the craft to new voices. A sharper line takes aim at decades of jargon-filled academic writing about film. See Film quotes for the broader subject behind the reviews.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

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Nov 07, 2020

I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly.

Quotes by Roger Ebert

Nov 07, 2020

I actually did work and produced two short dissertations, one on Faulkner and one on the film criticism of the stream-of-consciousness novelist Dorothy Richardson.

Quotes by Claire Messud

Film
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Nov 07, 2020

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.

Quotes by Camille Paglia

Culture
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Nov 07, 2020

An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.

Quotes by bell hooks

Nov 07, 2020

I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested.

For more on the craft of judging work, browse Criticism quotes, and for the wider context these reviews sit in, see Culture quotes.

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