sneering
Over at Sentences, Harper’s Magazine’s books blog by their in-house critic Wyatt Mason, I found this critical gem:
Even so, most movies, especially movies that are well received, are terrible, for reasons that the Oscars make routinely obvious, both by what films they omit and of course select.
Although I appreciate Mason’s principled defense of literature and of criticism and of realism & lyricism in literature on this blog, I just don’t think I want to waste my time reading a critic who would so quickly and easily dismiss the vast majority of film, as if the form itself were tainted. I imagine Mason would claim that he is a great lover of film just not Hollywood drivel, but another of his vices as a critic is hiding behind the sanctity of artistic achievement, which allows him to sneer at lesser writers, forms, works. This is just the last straw for me.
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