Critics at Large Live: “I Need a Critic!”

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On this episode of Critics at Large, recorded live at the twenty-seventh annual New Yorker Festival, Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz bring their advice series to the stage for the first time. They advise on a range of topics, including films to introduce children to the magic of movies, art to rekindle a feminist spark, and whether trying to optimize one’s inner life can diminish the capacity for genuine taste. Read, watch, and listen with the critics: “Gangs of New York” (2002) “West Side Story” (1961) “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” (2000) “Casablanca” (1942) “Raiders of the Lost Ark” (1981) “Playtime” (1967) “Duck Soup” (1933) “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” (1982) “Spirited Away” (2001) The music video for Michael Jackson’s “Remember the Time” The music video for Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” “War and Peace,” by Leo Tolstoy “Plays: The Seagull; Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard,” by Anton Chekov “The Dolphin Letters, 1970-1979,” by Elizabeth Hardwick and Robert Lowell “The Black Outside,” by Joy Priest “Pricks in the Tapestry,” by Jameson Fitzpatrick “The Morning of the Poem,” by James Schuyler “Mommie Dearest” (1981) Hole’s “