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Stephen Whitty of Newhouse News Service has written a story about the dwindling supply and need for newspaper film critics. Apparently with the Internet avalanche of wannabe critics and the conglomeratization of the movie business — with its ability to spread rave reviews and hype about its films — the demand, supply and importance of film critics is diminishing. Which brings us to the question  — Do newspaper film reviews help you decide whether to plunk down your money on the latest Adam Sandler comedy? Do you rely on bloggers or the guy down the street to tell you how the movie was? And how about Roger Ebert? Like him or loathe him? We at The Californian would  like to know.  Whitty's take is that veteran critics know how to put a movie in context — as he puts it, "trying to capture smoke in words, and get a purely emotional experience down on paper, with a sense of history and comparison and context and wonder."...
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