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Film critics gone wild.

By Stephen Saito on 09/01/2009

Filed under: Critic watch, Watchy

Actually, that's a misleading headline if there ever was one, considering that A.O. Scott and Michael Phillips look more buttoned up than ever in this promo for the new season of "At the Movies." But after a year in the wilderness, I share the excitement of Karina Longworth and Anne Thompson in seeing the film critics from the New York Times and Chicago Tribune engage in serious discussions about films, though judging by that picture, I'd be afraid to say otherwise for fear of being found floating in the Hudson River. [Photo: A.O. Scott and Michael Phillips, "At the Movies,"... MORE »

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The Roger Ebert of our age.

By Alison Willmore on 08/22/2008

Filed under: Critic watch, Watchy

Or could he be more the Gene Siskel? Clearly, he's aiming for both... Ben Mankiewicz better watch his back. The new season of "At the Movies" starts September 6, for anyone playing along at home. + Video: My break out in "House Bunny" (BenLyons.com) MORE »

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Mankiewicz and Lyons at the movies.

By Alison Willmore on 07/22/2008

Filed under: Critic watch

Well, if there's ever been a sign of the general decline in estimation of film critics, it's that the new hosts of ABC's review show "At the Movies," from which Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper bailed in the past two days, are just that -- professional TV hosts. Ben Mankiewicz, late of the Air America talk radio show "The Young Turks" and Turner Classic Movies, will be joined by Ben Lyons, who's the son of WNBC's on-air critic Jeffrey Lyons, serves as E!'s "film expert," and supposedly once dated one of the girls on "The Hills." Variety's Anne Thompson reports,... MORE »