My New Second-Favorite Film Critic
Posted by William Rabkin on March 20, 2009
A. O. Scott in the New York Times has been on a roll lately — he also provided the quote about the Witch Mountain aliens in the post below — and is almost at Anthony Lane’s level of pith. In today’s review of Knowing he manages to encapsulate everything wrong with the average Nicolas Cage performance in one sentence:
But the odd thing about Mr. Cage in this movie is that even when he is responding to the threat of complete human extinction, you still can’t help feeling that he’s overreacting.
The whole review is worth reading, especially the paragraphs relating to Cage…
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Avoid nornal situations. said
OK, I’ll bite: who’s your favorite film critic? You?
William Rabkin said
Nah, I’d never believe a word I said about a movie. I was thinking of Anthony Lane in the New Yorker, who writes brilliantly, even when his opinions are insane. The only critic who makes me laugh out loud — except for those two new guys who replaced Ebert and non-Siskel, and that’s a different kind of laughter altogether…