Huffington Post logo Huffington Post 11 months ago

Ben Lyons, New "At The Movies" Film Critic, Gets Two Thumbs Down From Film World

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  1. If (Lyons) wants to sit in Siskel's or Ebert's seat, he's got to prove he's worthy of our attention ... What Ben says about movies, it's not worthwhile. He seems to be doing the show more because he wants to be on TV than because he has something to say about the movies.
    SOURCE: Louisville Courier-Journal 11 months ago
  2. It's a pretty microcosmic phenomenon when you look at who hates him ... But for people who take film criticism seriously, he's an imposition. If he's established himself as the benchmark for where popular criticism is headed, we're all kind of (in trouble).
    SOURCE: Louisville Courier-Journal 11 months ago
  3. I ... wonder if the era of sitting passively in front of a TV screen and listening to a couple of guys trade opinions about movies has the same vitality that it had when Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel started 'Sneak Previews' on PBS in 1977
    SOURCE: Louisville Courier-Journal 11 months ago
  4. This is a guy who, if you sit and talk with him, he really does have an enormous love and knowledge base of movies
    SOURCE: Louisville Courier-Journal 11 months ago
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