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Our Film Critic on Why He’s Done With the Movies

The Daily

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The Frog Fills in the Sky

I wanted to make the case to readers that... Get out of their comfort zone and see something new. They could show them an aspect of the world or an aspect of movies that they hadn't felt was there before. There's a flip side to that or a negative side to that, which is that you also want to be as a critic the antidote to hype. Every movie comes on a tide of marketing and publicity and advertising. I actually burst into tears when the Frogs fell out of the sky. It's happening. Something that happens.

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