Opinion: In Defense of the Traditional Review, by RIchard Brody, The New Yorker, July 24, 2025
[. . . .] A review by a responsible critic inherently involves introspection, looking into oneself to see whether unnoticed or unquestioned personal factors influence or deform one’s experience of the work at hand. The effort to seize, convey, and deepen one’s personal experience—to expand the two hours at a movie or a concert or a play into one’s own life, to extend that experience through one’s longtime aesthetic passion, and to do so with a sense of style that embodies the excitement and the energy of that experience—makes the review inherently a deeply personal work."