Christopher Nolan Says There Is a ‘Fundamental Flaw’ With Amateur Film Criticism: ‘To Identify the Mechanism Does Not Invalidate the Mechanism’

Critics have said their piece about Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” and now he is saying his piece about them. While on “The Odyssey” press tour, the director spoke with podcaster Zhong Shu about “a fundamental flaw of film criticism” he sees with amateur critics. “The criticism that’s often leveled at movies in gen

With Letterboxd at the palm of our hands, everybody truly is a critic these days, much to Christopher Nolan’s annoyance. The 2x Oscar winner recently unpacked “a real problem” with amateur film critics today, explaining there is a “very accessible modern language of storytelling” that they don’t see as necessary to fil