Action, Cut, Print?
Online movie criticism has long since bulldozed print critics. According to the CSM, "Reviews posted at darkhorizons.com, aintitcoolnews.com, and filmthreat.com—three of the most visited movie sites on the Web—court more attention from Hollywood's coveted 18-to 24-year-old age demographic than, say, a review by Time magazine's Richard Corliss."
CSM reports that there's there's a debate about the phenomenon, quoting the thoughts of print-and-online writer (and media professor) Peter Brunette. He doubts that more reviewers mean better criticism, "But the [Internet] proliferation has probably caused 'serious' critics from regular newspapers to think about how exactly they're different from—and whether they're better than—all those online people."
Thanks to: ArtsJournal