"Does film criticism have a future? What is film criticism, anyway? It is, for some of us, a job, sometimes a vocation and arguably a profession.
"One recent afternoon I was sitting at my computer studying old clips of Gene and Roger. After a while my daughter sat down next to me. We watched in silence for a while, and then she said: 'These guys are always fighting. Even when they both like a movie, they have to fight about why it’s good.' That may not be an exhaustive definition of criticism as a discipline or a mode of thought, but it strikes me as a pretty good summary."
A.O. Scott in The New York Times assesses Roger Ebert's career as Ebert announces his farewell from television.
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