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July 30, 2020
Charlie Kaufman’s Defense of Film
The screenwriter’s novel “Antkind” takes aim at the worst kind of critic.
October 13, 2017
In Defense of Rotten Tomatoes
Filmmaker Martin Scorsese thinks that the reviews site is ruining film criticism. He's wrong.
July 26, 1980
In Memoriam—Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
"He was among the greatest artists of this century."

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