Richard Schickel, Critic and Filmmaker, Dies at 84

[JSngry]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/20/movies/richard-schickel-dead-time-film-critic.html?_r=0

“Criticism — and its humble cousin, reviewing — is not a democratic activity. It is, or should be, an elite enterprise, ideally undertaken by individuals who bring something to the party beyond their hasty, instinctive opinions of a book (or any other cultural object). It is work that requires disciplined taste, historical and theoretical knowledge and a fairly deep sense of the author’s (or filmmaker’s or painter’s) entire body of work, among other qualities.”