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So The Public Disagrees With Critics? Sorry, But It Doesn’t Matter (And That’s Not How Criticism Works)

MEDIA Posted: March 29, 2016 6:45 am

“Why this apparently overwhelming, unquenchable urge to argue that box office receipts prove the irrelevance and impotence of criticism? Could it be that the movie business feels defensive, maybe even ashamed, of peddling so much profitable dreck, and—whatever the numbers may say—a critic’s reproaches still have the power to sting?”

MEDIA Published: 03.28.16

Read the story in Slate Published: 03.28.16

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