Why I Stopped Writing Movie Reviews
4 min readJan 31, 2020
Critiquing someone else’s art into the void feels doubly empty
In 1997, I saw a movie I thought justified my appreciation of a performer whose work had been derided as puerile and stupid. I wrote an email to my friends with whom I regularly discussed movies and pop culture explaining why I thought they should give the movie a chance despite their preconceived notions of this performer. I said it was…
