'You can start a conversation': what's the point of critics?

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'You can start a conversation': what's the point of critics?

by Jasper ReesSunday, 04 April 2010

Everyone who likes his reviews on Radio FiveLive would have wanted Mark Kermode, the gobby critic who is well known for having seen just about everything. But he claims that he didn't want the job. And who knows if he'd have got it? Jonathan Ross's replacement as BBC One's resident film critic is Claudia Winkleman.

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