

Give 'Em Enough Trope
Recently, I came across this comprehensive trashing of New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael by Renata Adler. It dates from 1980, a time...
In which a rapidly ageing gentleman makes a series of grumpy, entitled, ex cathedra pronouncements about a popular culture that is fast escaping his feeble grasp. One day, by the law of averages, he'll actually have a point. But not today.