Subj : Re: Ok .. Tyson or Jake?
To   : Nightfox
From : Adept
Date : Sat Dec 07 2024 11:51 pm

 Ni>  Ad> It hadn't really occurred to me that, yes, back in the 1990s, going t
 Ni>  Ad> rottentomatoes.com and checking to see what the average critic and
 Ni>  Ad> audience score were was not a common part of picking a movie.
 Ni> 
 Ni> I remember watching Siskel & Ebert on TV sharing their movie reviews.  I
 Ni> also seem to recall seeing a section in the newspaper that had movie
 Ni> reviews.

Yeah, and that's what we had. If you wanted to find out reviews on various different films from the 1970s, you probably had to use some microfilm at the library.

Or find a book, I guess. I would imagine there were plenty of those that compiled movie reviews.

Though it makes me wonder when movie reviewing in newspapers became a thing. Probably from the beginning, I guess...

....searching...

I guess the short answer is, "earliest 1900s, with the first paper coming out in 1908, but the essay style that we're familiar with now emerged in the 1940s."

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