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Wed 02 Feb 2010Out-takes from a film critic's reel life
BOOK OF THE DAY:It’s Only a MovieBy Mark Kermode, Random House, 344pp, £11.99
IN RECENT years, it has become fashionable to declare that the professional film critic is going the way of the chandler or the farrier. Now that the internet is abuzz with opinions on the latest cyborg thriller or Jennifer Aniston date-killer, we no longer need to hire snooty, supposed experts to tell us what to think. So the thinking goes.
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