‘Midsummer in Newtown’ and the Difficulty of Reviewing Certain Documentaries
It’s not personal. But it will often look that way.
One of the biggest problems with documentary criticism is the reviews that go after what a film is about rather than how it’s about it. Criticism can address and engage with the subject matter of art, but first and foremost it’s supposed to be the quality of the form of delivery we’re writing on. The pr…
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