Micah ☔️’s Reviews > Rainer on Film: Thirty Years of Film Writing in a Turbulent and Transformative Era > Status Update

Rainer going from flexing his impressive bonafides of reading all the right people as a young man (Agee, Farber, Sarris) and curating Kenji Mizoguchi for his university film society. To writing that Wong Kar-wai is “a pop schlock aesthete” is more evidence for my theory that the worst thing that can happen to a promising critic is a stable, prestigious magazine gig