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I've always thought Brody's reviews were maybe interesting but kind of beside the point
But his repeated insistence that Barbie was a masterpiece put me off him completely and forever
I love Justin Chang, maybe there are some cliches in his writing, but he has great taste and is a good voice. It is a shame that the LA Times lost him to the New Yorker
― Dan S, Thursday, 11 April 2024 23:58 (two weeks ago) link
honestly as a subscriber of 15+ years I’m still unclear on who the median subscriber to the magazine really is. if it’s roughly the ilx demographic then I don’t really see the issue with brody being the face of film criticism is. if they’re really so concerned about selling issues at newsstands then I suppose he’s not the most accessible choice
― brony james (k3vin k.), Friday, 12 April 2024 00:05 (two weeks ago) link
I assume their demo is pretty MOR, all said and done, with subjects sometimes falling in either margin (I'd say ILX typically feels more like the inverse; we're the margins looking in). Though when they're writing about "the arts" they can kind of go all over the place, because there is no specific beat, as such - that is, I doubt anyone reads the NYorker specifically for its arts coverage. I could equally imagine pieces on, say, either Taylor Swift or Merzbow, and there probably have been. But if someone brought up Merzbow in a piece on Taylor Swift, I'd also call bullshit. Stuff like that, just like name-checking "Barbie" and Bruno Dumont in the same graf, feels performative to me, stunty, even if I believe a weirdo like Brody isn't necessarily doing it on purpose. It's not that his tastes are or are not mainstream, it's that I get the sense he is so willfully blind to the very notion of the mainstream that he tends to get lost in the weeds when writing for a general audience. He sometimes comes off contrarian, but I suppose from my vantage it more often just ends up seeming confused: it's hard for me to parse his pans and praise because his baseline of what is good or not is pretty blurry to me.
Honestly, I was harsh, because I don't dislike him as a writer, I just don't think he's a good fit for the pole position.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 April 2024 01:04 (two weeks ago) link
reviews by known movie critics are one of the things that make basic media literacy an easier concept to explain, imo. you know the source, you get a handle on their biases, and you have your lens to decipher whether something they liked or panned will appeal to you based on your differing stances
I guess some of them are unreadable or corny, though
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 12 April 2024 12:49 (two weeks ago) link
I used to read the New Yorker to learn something new which was my main draw to Brody for all the wild references. Now I’m older and need stuff to get to the point quicker so I read the internet. I’m definitely stupider but that’s ok
― Heez, Friday, 12 April 2024 13:02 (two weeks ago) link
two weeks pass...