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Movies 101

Movie Critics & Criticism

From top to bottom: Pauline Kael; Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert; Robert Glatzer.
From top: Pauline Kael; Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert; Robert Glatzer.

Here’s a question that every moviegoer has likely asked at one time or another: what exactly is the point of movie criticism... or, more to the point, movie critics? On this week’s show, Nathan Weinbender, Mary Pat Treuthart, and Dan Webster try to provide an answer, not so much to make a case for what they do but to try to explain why they feel the need to talk about an art form that they all love and why they think doing so is important.