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their opinions known. Critic is an odd job description, to be sure. And misunderstood — even by some of its practitioners. Critics, in the view of most people, exist for two reasons. One is to pass judgment. Rudely, if possible. The other is to function as a consumer guide, advising people what they should or shouldn't spend their money on. Hence the star ratings (introduced by the Michelin restaurant guides in 1926), the awarding of tomatoes, bullets, popcorn boxes, and those thumbs-up, thumbs-down pronouncements. It is as a consumer reporter that critics have — less so, in recent ...

Going back all the way to Addison DeWitt in All About Eve (1950), critics have often been villainised in cinema, portrayed as self-absorbed failed artists harbouring some hidden agenda when they lay down a harsh verdict. They're seldom shown as creatives who feel privileged and thrilled that they get to do what they do for a living. The tradition of critics being turned into targets of criticism continues in Malcolm & Marie. The woes of the film's protagonist, and by proxy its director Sam Levinson, bring to mind Noel Coward's quip: “I can take any amount of criticism as long as it is unqua...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Mary McNamara: ‘Promising Young Woman’ and ‘Malcolm & Marie’ put film critics under fire. Here’s why [Los Angeles Times :: BC-MOVIE-MCNAMARA-COLUMN:LA] As someone who has written about the entertainment industry for a very long time and in many capacities, I wish I had a nickel for every actor, director, screenwriter, novelist, playwright and performer who looked me straight in the eye and said, “I never read the reviews.” If I did, I could stop writing about the entertainment industry, or anything else, really — I’d be too busy furnishing my Lon...

As someone who has written about the entertainment industry for a very long time and in many capacities, I wish I had a nickel for every actor, director, screenwriter, novelist, playwright and performer who looked me straight in the eye and said, “I never read the reviews.” If I did, I could stop writing about the entertainment industry, or anything else, really — I’d be too busy furnishing my London and Paris apartments. And if I had a nickel for each of those people who were somehow able to quote certain reviews word for word, usually in a voice of outrage, I would also have that It...

George Sanders was cinema's great poet of dry cynicism – and never better than in Voyage to Italy 'Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored...' began his suicide note. In this classic 1954 film, he reveals his cosmic self-contempt George Sanders and Ingrid Bergman filming Voyage to Italy in 1953 Credit: Bettmann One day I’ll make a pilgrimage to the Hotel Rey Don Jaime in Castelldefels, 10 miles south of Barcelona, where George Sanders committed suicide in 1972. (“Dear World,” he characteristically wrote in his over-egged note for the police, “I am leaving because I am bored… I...