Geoff Pevere: Wither the Critic

Okay, so it’s not the end of the world, but it’s certainly the end of something. I refer to the news last week that two of the most influential, articulate and generally inspiring movie critics writing anywhere today were let go by their respective publications. J. Hoberman, chief film critic for The Village Voice since the 1980s, and David Thomson, The Guardian‘s film columnist and the author of the indispensable Biographical Dictionary of Film, will no longer be enriching the pages of either organ.