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Alexia Russell

Long Read: Is film criticism a blessing or a curse?

"It should go without saying that having a negative opinion about something popular is allowed. But a few years ago, in the fever swamp of internet reckons, people started to opine, rather gleefully, that it wasn’t ‘needed’ anymore." Photo: Getty Images

This is The Detail's Long Read  one in-depth story read by us every weekend.

This week, it's music and culture writer Tony Stamp reading his latest Webworm column, Totally Normal.

It's called 'Is Film Criticism A Blessing Or A Curse?' and he joins Alexia Russell to wade into what some are calling "the death of media literacy".

In August, the New York Times published an article about MovieTok, a new school of TikTok-based film reviewers who shun the word ‘critic’. To them, the old school was “snobby” and untrustworthy. They, conversely, were true fans.

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