What does it mean to review movies today? How do professional critics stand apart from the pack between Rotten Tomatoes and Letterboxd? Does a film critic even matter when measured against social media publicity and influencers? In this new monthly side series, we will talk to critics, vloggers or podcasters about the state of modern film criticism, why they do it, and why it still matters indeed!
To kick off this series, we talk to an old fashioned newspaper film critic. Barry Hertz is the deputy arts editor and film editor of The Globe & Mail, which is just a fancy way of saying his that paper’s senior film writer. He’s also the author of the definitive book about the Fast & Furious franchise, Welcome to the Family: The Explosive Story Behind Fast & Furious, the Blockbusters that Supercharged the World. Today he joins us fresh off spending the week at CinemaCon in Las Vegas to talk about the fine art of reviewing, what he looks for in movies, and why he’s not ashamed of his unequivocal support for Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie!
End Credits Conversations returns next month on the fourth Saturday. End Credits is on CFRU 93.3 fm and cfru.ca Wednesday at 3 pm.
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