Owen gleiberman movie freak reviews
The movie freak show!
If Owen Gleiberman has any complaint against today’s world of criticism it’s that everyone seems to be speaking in one voice, especially on the Internet.
By Gerald Peary
My fifteen years as a Boston Phoenix film critic saw me writings shorter and shorter reviews until the day in 2013 that the newspaper shut down.
Owen gleiberman movie freak reviews
Owen Gleiberman came to the Phoenix in earlier flush days, the beginning of the 1980s, when reviews were typically essay length, and they could go on forever. The model at the Phoenix was Pauline Kael’s film column in The New Yorker; and many of the Phoenix critics not only wrote trying to emulate Kael’s snarky, flamboyant style but they copied her opinions, adoring and despising the same movies she did.
As Gleiberman tells us in his cine-autobiography, Movie Freak: My Life Watching Movies (Hachette Books, $28), he was hired at age 22 by the Phoenix because Kael had recommended him for the open job as the second-string critic.
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