“I do think it is fair to say that Roger Ebert destroyed film criticism,” says New York Press film critic Armond White. Benjamin Kerstein agrees enthusiastically at Pajamas Media.
I say it all goes back to New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael, but her disciple Ebert certainly popularized her philistine leftist approach to film criticism, while lacking her knowledge of cinema and her occasional perceptiveness.
He has been truly an awful influence on the nation’s culture, and these articles are therefore well worth reading.