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    said Childress, who's also a movie reviewer for eFilmCritic.com. "Next to 'Lawrence of Arabia' and 'Citizen Kane'? The only way you can say that with a straight face is if you've only seen 50 movies in your life. Or you're trying to give quotes to appease someone who can do you a favor later." Lyons declined to be interviewed for this story. Full Article at SouthCoastToday.com
    Next to 'Lawrence of Arabia' and 'Citizen Kane'? The only way you can say that with a straight face is if you've only seen 50 movies in your life. Or you're trying to give quotes to appease someone who can do you a favor later.
    SOURCE: SouthCoastToday.com 11 months ago
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New film critic gets thumbs down
  1. 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: SouthCoastToday.com 11 months ago
  2. For marketing purposes, a 'two thumbs up' was great to have.
    SOURCE: SouthCoastToday.com 11 months ago
  3. One of the 'greatest movies ever made'?
    SOURCE: SouthCoastToday.com 11 months ago
  4. 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: SouthCoastToday.com 11 months ago
  5. Did he spend 20 years as critic for a major newspaper? No. He's very much of the TV generation who don't spend time reading newspapers. I think we have a guy who is giving the information that audiences want to hear about film to make decisions about what to see.
    SOURCE: SouthCoastToday.com 11 months ago
  6. 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: SouthCoastToday.com 11 months ago
  7. It crystallizes everything that's wrong with American pop culture right now ... I don't expect to agree with a critic all the time. But his approach is to throw out blurbs just so he can get on a poster.
    SOURCE: SouthCoastToday.com 11 months ago
  8. His integrity's out the window. He has no taste
    SOURCE: SouthCoastToday.com 11 months ago
  9. 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: SouthCoastToday.com 11 months ago

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