Is it merely Frank Zappa's biscuit line about it being interviews with people who can't speak conducted by people who can't write for people who can't read. Rock criticism is as vital as your favorite band and finally its earliest progenitors are starting to get their fair acknowledgements. In addition to these, scholarly anthologies have been released recently by the university presses of Columbia and NYU, the latter in conjunction with the DIA Center for the Arts. It is the high regard paid to film criticism that enhanced and ennobled film to be recognized as art. Yes, there is plenty of schlock released under the guise of film criticism, but now a discipline like film theory is included in liberal arts curricula.
Filmmakers beget video store clerks beget Tarantino who has become an adjective.
Recall, Truffaut started writing criticism first at Cahiers du Cin ma before working on his seminal debut, the 400 Blows . Not for repute, or almost fame. Instead to push the readers, the public, their peers and maybe even their subjects to do their best work. It should aspire to a similar level of artistic achievement. It should be sensual, physical and smart.