By Peter Bart
01.05.2020 - 00:23 / deadline.com
By Peter Bart
Editor-At-Large
Are film critics extinct? Two of the most prominent practitioners, Ken Turan and Todd McCarthy, abruptly posted their “fade out” notices last week. They were well timed, because the movie marketplace is a black hole that defies coverage at the moment.
But consider this: A veritable torrent of films will hit theaters in the fall – festival films that have lost their festivals and summer tentpole films that have lost their summers. Hence, thoughtful, informed voices
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