![]() This entails touching base with the indies but also with the myriad streaming platforms here and abroad. In entrusting the newcomers, however, filmgoers might be justified in assigning them some important new missions.įor one thing, they have a tacit obligation to scout the landscape for bright young filmmakers –those who would have become the “discoveries” at festivals that never happened. Still, we clearly need young cineastes like this to succeed the Turans and McCarthys and to guide us through the fall melee. At Cannes one year I foolishly commented to a critic that the spring weather was lovely, and she replied, “I feel it’s miscast, badly shot, the story sucks, and there are too many close-ups.” Her life, I realized, had become a movie. The classic dilemma is that critics have the numbing task of seeing too many movies. Turan and McCarthy have faithfully served filmgoers and filmmakers over the years, pushing through fervid festival crowds, knowing that audiences there would give standing ovations to movies that perhaps deserved a polite groan. ![]() ![]() ![]() Esteemed THR Lead Film Critic Todd McCarthy Writes About His Abrupt Firing ![]()
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