…there is no longer any serious antagonism between critics, film…

…there is no longer any serious antagonism between critics, film distributors and moviemakers… we are now… welcomed respectfully by publicists, our notices, as they used to be called, filleted for favourable comments, but generally disregarded. In these placid days one looks back nostalgically to the anger an unfavourable review could elicit.

Film

Philip French, The Observer March 19 2006

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