Shannon Lee Miller (born March 10, 1977) is an American former artistic gymnast . She was the 1993 and 1994 world all-around champion, the 1992 Summer Olympics all-around silver medallist, the 1996 Olympic balance beam champion, the 1995 Pan American Games all-around champion, and a member of the gold medal-winning Magnificent Seven team at the 1996 Olympics.
85-396: Dannis Peary (born August 8, 1949) is an American film critic and sports writer . He has written and edited many books on cinema and sports-related topics. Peary is most famous for his book Cult Movies (1980), which spawned two sequels, Cult Movies 2 (1983) and Cult Movies 3 (1988) and are all credited for providing more public interest in the cult movie phenomenon. He is
170-520: A 0 to 10 scale, while some rely on the star rating system of 1–5, 0–5 or 0–4 stars. The votes are then converted into an overall rating and ranking for any particular film. Some of these community driven review sites include Letterboxd , Reviewer, Movie Attractions, Flixster , FilmCrave , Flickchart and Everyone's a Critic . Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic aggregate both scores from accredited critics and those submitted by users. On these online review sites, users generally only have to register with
255-490: A 1984 Olympian, remarked that she had not seen a gymnast so dominant since Nadia Comăneci in 1976. Bart Conner agreed, stating that Miller could only be beaten if she faltered. Following the break-up of the Soviet Union, its sports system had undergone upheaval, and most former Soviet gymnasts were not ready to mount a sustained challenge in 1993. Miller, on the other hand, had reworked her routines to comply better with
340-591: A book about the origins of her father's greatest quotes. He has edited sports books including Baseball Immortal Derek Jeter : A Career in Quotes and Jackie Robinson in Quotes: The Remarkable Life of Baseball's Most Significant Player . (See bibliography) Peary wrote an episode of the 1985-1989 animated series ThunderCats , titled "The Mountain." He wrote an episode of SilverHawks , titled "Undercover", that aired October 28, 1986. Peary
425-558: A book titled Projected Fears , and ending the book during the year 2006 involved Phillips saying that American horror films had fallen into the cycle of being movies that had predictability. Film theory is also part of academic film criticism, since two main film theories have been created. The first main film theory is the part-whole theory. This theory pertains to Eisenstein's philosophy that segments of films are not artistic works on their own, and they are just unemotional aspects of reality. When those segments of films are sequenced in
510-644: A business partnership with Juice Plus for a branded line of dietary supplements. Also in 2015, her autobiography, It's Not About Perfect: Competing for My Country and Fighting for My Life, was published in 2015 by St. Martin's Press . Miller is the president of Shannon Miller Lifestyle and the Shannon Miller Foundation, which is dedicated to fighting childhood obesity . Miller married lawyer and ophthalmologist Christopher B. Phillips in June 1999. The couple separated in 2004, and their divorce
595-583: A column called "Danny Peary Talks To..." In 1981, Peary released his book Cult Movies . He followed it up with Cult Movies 2 in 1983 and Cult Movies 3 in 1989. (See bibliography) These books cover critically ignored (at the time) cult films . Each book contained an essay for each film (100 in the first volume, 50 in the second, and 50 in the third), including production details and information gleaned from Peary's interviews with various producers, directors and actors. Each volume contained an essay by contributor Henry Blinder. Peary also wrote Guide for
680-467: A duration of eight weeks of time, which displays the fact that film critics are influential towards how well films perform in box offices. Film critics are able to influence the choices of people in the public who decide on whether or not they will view a film. Film critics frequently receive invitations to early viewings of movies before the movies are available to all of the moviegoers who aren't film critics, and viewing films at early points in time allows
765-463: A film critic must enjoy the movies that they are criticizing. In this specific regard, a film critic must also want to make their reviews persuade other people watch the movies that the film critic has criticized. In the academic field of films and cinema, several studies involving research have discovered a positive connection between film critics evaluating films and how well the films perform with audience members. Also, studies involving research in
850-714: A film's suitability for children. Others focus on a religious perspective (e.g. CAP Alert). Still others highlight more esoteric subjects such as the depiction of science in fiction films. One such example is Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics by Intuitor . Some online niche websites provide comprehensive coverage of the independent sector; usually adopting a style closer to print journalism. They tend to prohibit advertisement and offer uncompromising opinions free of any commercial interest. Their film critics normally have an academic film background. The Online Film Critics Society , an international professional association of Internet-based cinema reviewers, consists of writers from all over
935-574: A growing belief in the film industry that critic aggregators (especially Rotten Tomatoes ) are increasing the collective influence of film critics. The underperformance of several films in 2017 was blamed on their low scores on Rotten Tomatoes. This has led to studies such as one commissioned by 20th Century Fox claiming that younger viewers give the website more credibility than the major studio marketing , which undercuts its effectiveness. Today, fan-run film analysis websites like Box Office Prophets, CineBee and Box Office Guru routinely factor more into
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#17327723907051020-553: A manifesto proclaiming cinema to be the "Sixth Art" (later "Seventh Art"). For many decades after, film was still being accorded less prestige than longer-established art forms. In Sweden, serious film criticism was spearheaded by Bengt Idestam-Almquist , whom the Swedish Film Institute has called the father of Swedish film criticism . By the 1920s, critics were analyzing film for its merit and value, and as more than just entertainment. The growing popularity of
1105-670: A particular kind of “cult" criticism in his multiple volumes of the Cult Movies books. Never dismissive, Peary celebrates these films for their unique qualities and their advocacy of outsider voices. Peary is a fan of the subversive and the humanistic and the books are essential reading for anyone interested in what lies just outside the bounds of the canon. Peary has co-authored books with Major League baseball player-sportscasters Ralph Kiner and Tim McCarver ; writer Tom Clavin; Olympic gold medalist and cancer survivor Shannon Miller on her memoir; and Muhammad Ali 's daughter Hana Ali on
1190-492: A score to each in order to gauge the general reception a film receives. Another aggregator is the Movie Review Query Engine , which is a large data storage on the internet that stores interviews, reviews about movies, news, and other kinds of materials that pertain to specific films. These areas of storage are not intended to help people find specific films or movie content that has aired on television, but
1275-401: A selective amount of German movies. Barry also wrote film criticisms for French movies that were made as experiments. Barry wrote film criticisms with a critical amount of analysis. Judith Crist and Pauline Kael were two of the most influential film critics of the 1960s and 1970s. The Internet led to a decline in jobs at small newspapers where women were more likely to review films, whereas
1360-461: A similar format. They usually include summaries of the plot of the film to either refresh the plot to the reader or reinforce an idea of repetition in the film's genre. After this, there tends to be discussions about the cultural context, major themes and repetitions, and details about the legacy of the film. Academic film criticism, or film studies can also be taught in academia, and is featured in many California colleges because they are located near
1445-478: A staple among most print media. As the decades passed, some critics gained fame, and a few became household names, among them James Agee , Andrew Sarris , Pauline Kael , and more recently Roger Ebert and Peter Travers . The film industry also got the chance to see that sound was able to influence how people behaved in movie theaters. When people spoke or made other kinds of sounds, they would be causing disruptions that created difficulties for people to listen to
1530-399: A traditional style. Writing about academic films puts emphasis on generalized statements that can be verified. Writing academic films also involves film critics preferring to view films that are typical, instead of viewing films that are bizarre. That is because ordinary kinds of films can be reviewed with generalized statements that can be verified. There have been many complaints against
1615-918: Is also associated with structuralism, which involves controlling a situation in an attempt to make it be coherent, and all the aspects of a situation are assumed to be in a structured order. Academic film criticism tackles many aspects of film making and production as well as distribution. These disciplines include camera work, digitalization, lighting, and sound. Narratives, dialogues, themes, and genres are among many other things that academic film critics take into consideration and evaluate when engaging in critique. Some notable academic film critics include André Bazin , Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut (all writers for Cahiers du Cinéma ); Kristin Thompson , David Bordwell , and Sergei Eisenstein . Godard, Truffaut and Eisenstein were also film directors. The critics that participated in academic film criticism during
1700-440: Is also associated with the cultural type of criticism, which is also referred to as academic criticism, and academic criticism is able to primarily make interpretations of films from the viewpoint of directors while the interpretations place emphasis on parallels that films have with previous works that were deemed to be of high quality. Film was introduced in the late 19th century. The earliest artistic criticism of film emerged in
1785-467: Is also associated with the journalistic type of criticism, which is grounded in the media's effects being developed, and journalistic criticism resides in standard structures such as newspapers. Journal articles pertaining to films served as representatives for the film critics who desired to increase the amount of communication about movies to a high degree that ascended above content that was normally featured in popular publications. The critics who work in
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#17327723907051870-402: Is analytical and thorough with detail. The third way in how film critics are able to write criticisms that involve critical discussions containing rationality involves critics making blatant statements that are scientific in regards to the workings of films, and how the films are able to affect people. In fact, viewers can watch films to see if they are affected by the movies in the same way that
1955-539: Is associated with formalism, which involves visual aspects and the rules regarding how they are organized as if they were forms of artwork. Formalism also involves stages of development occurring in an orderly manner, such as learning easy instructions before learning difficult ones. Stages of development in formalism also involved organized stages of development that are orderly, and one example involves people learning simple instructions before they have to follow instructions that involve complexity. Academic film criticism
2040-400: Is the creation of documentaries on nature and films that are about wild creatures. Film critics are able to be influencers in the circumstances of persuading moviegoers to view or not view in the beginning weeks of movies being available for people to view them. Research has found that negative and positive film reviews are connected to the amounts of money that films earn in box offices over
2125-486: Is the second most decorated U.S. gymnast in Olympics history, with a total of seven medals, surpassed only by Simone Biles in 2024. With a combined total of 16 World Championships and Olympic medals between 1991 and 1996, she is the second-most decorated American gymnast, male or female, surpassed only by Simone Biles . She was also the most successful American athlete at the 1992 Olympics , winning five medals. Miller
2210-479: Is to help readers decide whether they want to see a particular film. A film review will typically explain the premise of the film before discussing its merits or flaws. The verdict is often summarized using a rating system, such as 5- or 4-star scales , academic-style grades, and pictograms (such as those used by the San Francisco Chronicle ). Film reviews are created with the purposes of making
2295-664: The New York Daily News , The Boston Globe , Sports Collectors Digest , the SoHo News , The Philadelphia Bulletin , Films in Focus , Films and Filming , Slant , L.A. Panorama , Memories and Dreams , The East Hampton Independent , and Country Weekly , as well as The Velvet Light Trap and Newsday , and the Sag Harbor Express . He conducts celebrity interviews for Dan's Papers , in
2380-780: The Oklahoma Legislature named a section of Interstate 35 in Edmond, Oklahoma the Shannon Miller Parkway in her honor. In 2003, Miller graduated from the University of Houston with a B.B.A. in marketing and entrepreneurship. She entered Boston College Law School later that year and graduated in 2007. Afterward, however, she opted not to take the bar exam . She moved to Florida, where she made appearances at gyms, conducted beam clinics, and starred in workout DVDs. On October 21, 2015, Miller entered
2465-543: The University of Southern California . While attending USC, he worked as the fine arts and sports editor for L.A. Panorama . Since 1977, Peary has lived in New York City . He and his wife Suzanne have a daughter, Zoe. Over the years, his film criticism has been published in FilmInk , Movieline , Satellite Direct , OnDirect TV , TV Guide , Canadian TV Guide , Cosmopolitan , The New York Times ,
2550-605: The balance beam at the Swiss Cup and the Arthur Gander Memorial. At the 1991 Gander Memorial, she won the all-around with the highest total score ever recorded by an American woman under the traditional 10.0 scale: a 39.875. At her first World Championships in 1991 in Indianapolis , Miller won two silver medals: one on the uneven bars (where she tied with Soviet gymnast Tatiana Gutsu ) and one in
2635-591: The Film Fanatic (1986), reviewing a wider range of films. Peary's Cult Movies trilogy, along with other touchstones such as Michael Weldon's Psychotronic Video magazine and books, helped establish a foundation for critical analysis of low-budget genre movies. As the Austin Film Society wrote, There is what we might consider the Danny Peary faction. An excellent writer, Peary lionized
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2720-606: The Games, and she alone performed all sixteen of her routines without serious error. Thirteen of her routines scored a 9.9 or higher, with her lowest score being a 9.837 in the vault final. With her two silver and three bronze medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics, Miller holds the record for most medals won at a single Olympic Games without winning gold. At the 1993 World Championships in Birmingham , Miller won every event in preliminaries, and television commentator Kathy Johnson ,
2805-660: The Trials over her rival, Kim Zmeskal , who was the 1991 world champion. Miller won the compulsory portion of the 1992 Olympic Games and scored the highest of any gymnast in the overall team competition, securing the bronze medal for the US women's team and advancing to the all-around final as the top-ranked gymnast in the world. In the all-around final, she missed out on the gold by the closest margin in Olympic history, finishing 0.012 points behind Gutsu. Her coach, Steve Nunno, claimed she
2890-656: The Video Store (2019), and in the cult-movie documentary Time Warp (2020. Co-author Editor Co-editor Film critic Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium. In general, film criticism can be divided into two categories: Academic criticism by film scholars , who study the composition of film theory and publish their findings and essays in books and journals, and general journalistic criticism that appears regularly in press newspapers , magazines and other popular mass-media outlets. Academic film criticism rarely takes
2975-617: The Women's International Sports Hall of Fame. She is the only woman, in any sport, to be inducted into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame twice, as an individual and for her team. With seven Olympic and nine World Championship medals, Miller is one of the most decorated American gymnasts, male or female. She is tied with Nastia Liukin for third most World Championship medals (9) won by an American gymnast, behind Simone Biles (30) and Alicia Sacramone (10). In 1998,
3060-713: The World Championships in the Olympic year due to injury, and later the Olympic Trials. She was able to petition onto the American team as the top performer at Nationals, and the injury was sufficiently recovered by July to allow her to compete in her second Olympics. Miller led the American team, dubbed the Magnificent Seven , to the gold medal, edging the Russian team. Kerri Strug garnered
3145-803: The all-around title at the World University Games . In 2000, Miller made a brief comeback attempt for the Sydney Olympics . She competed in the Olympic Trials, but after a fall on vault, she decided to withdraw from the competition despite being cleared by a doctor to continue. Miller is a member of the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame, the United States Olympic Hall of Fame the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame , and
3230-490: The artwork highlight social justice issues? Does it adequately meet Equality and Diversity briefs? Is the artwork, in one of the words of the age, problematic ?" As of 2021, movie critics earned a yearly average salary of $ 63,474. As of 2013, American film critics earned about US$ 82,000 a year. Newspaper and magazine critics made $ 27,364-$ 49,574. Online movie critics earned $ 2-$ 200 per review. TV critics made up to $ 40,000-$ 60,000 per month. Shannon Miller Miller
3315-460: The author. Another challenge in film criticism pertains to film critics being pressured into writing reviews that are hasty, since users of the internet will give their attention to other topics if film critics do not post movie reviews quickly. Community-driven review sites, that allow internet users to submit personal movie reviews, have allowed the common movie goer to express their opinion on films. Many of these sites allow users to rate films on
3400-484: The beam title, which had eluded her the previous year, with a near-perfect exercise. Her winning streak ended in late 1994 at the Goodwill Games , where Dina Kochetkova of Russia, who had finished in third place at the World Championships, defeated her by a narrow margin, 39.325 to 39.268. Miller rebounded by earning gold medals on beam and floor and silver medals on vault and bars. She missed out on medals in
3485-652: The brother of film critic, columnist, actor, and documentary filmmaker Gerald Peary . Peary was born in Philippi, West Virginia , to Laura Chaitan and Joseph Y. Peary, a professor. During his childhood, he moved to South Carolina , and then New Jersey . In 1971, he earned a B.A. in history from the University of Wisconsin in Madison . He also worked as a film critic for the Daily Cardinal student newspaper. In 1975, he earned an M.A. in cinema, with honors, at
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3570-796: The characters, movie plots, and the directors be known in detailed descriptions to influence audience members into deciding if films need to be viewed or be ignored. Some well-known journalistic critics are James Agee ( Time , The Nation ); Vincent Canby ( The New York Times ); Roger Ebert ( Chicago Sun-Times ); Mark Kermode (BBC, The Observer ); James Berardinelli ; Philip French ( The Observer ); Pauline Kael ( The New Yorker ); Manny Farber ( The New Republic , Time , The Nation ); Peter Bradshaw ( The Guardian ); Michael Phillips ( Chicago Tribune ); Andrew Sarris ( The Village Voice ); Joel Siegel ( Good Morning America ); Jonathan Rosenbaum ( Chicago Reader ); and Christy Lemire ( What The Flick?! ). Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel popularised
3655-601: The conversations that were occurring in films. Audience members changed how they behaved in movie theaters, since they would shush people as a way of communicating the messages related to telling other people that they needed to be silent. By keeping themselves in silence, audience members such as film critics were able to make all of their attention be on the movies that they were watching. Film critics working for newspapers , magazines , broadcast media , and online publications mainly review new releases, although they also review older films. An important task for these reviews
3740-413: The critical response to the 2015 film The Intern , which received mixed reviews from critics: The critical response to The Intern was fascinating. There's a subset of male critics that clearly see Nancy Meyers as code for chick flick and react with according bile. What's very interesting, though, is that I think female critics, working in an industry that is coded as very male, if not macho, often feel
3825-779: The different review sites, even though there are certain movies that are well-rated (or poorly-rated) across the board. Research has found that moviegoers are inclined to leave reviews for films that are not available in movie theaters, and the amount of reviews will decrease as the films earn more money each week. When the amount of money that films earn in movie theaters is increasing, the expected quantity of movie reviews that were posted at prior points in time also increases. This ends up making individuals experience increases in their desires to write movie reviews about films that are earning high quantities of money. When movies are given high ratings, those high ratings are able to persuade viewers of movies to watch other films that share aspects of
3910-478: The early 1900s. The first paper to serve as a critique of the film came out of The Optical Lantern and Cinematograph Journal , followed by the Bioscope in 1908. Film is a relatively new form of art, in comparison to music , literature and painting which have existed since ancient times. Early writing on film sought to argue that films could also be considered a form of art. In 1911, Ricciotto Canudo wrote
3995-495: The end, she placed eighth, but she was the highest-ranking American in the competition. She also became the first American to win the balance beam final at the Olympics, as well as the first American woman to win an individual gold medal in a fully attended Olympics. She concluded her career with seven Olympic medals. Following the Olympics, Miller and her teammates participated in a 100-city tour and several exhibitions. She competed in her final international meet in 1997, when she won
4080-476: The existences of movie critics who had respect for films, and those new film critics sought to make film criticism be a respected job. In the 1940s, new forms of criticism emerged. Essays analyzing films were written with a distinctive charm and style, and sought to persuade the reader to accept the critic's argument. This trend brought film criticism into the mainstream, gaining the attention of many popular magazines; this eventually made film reviews and critiques
4165-489: The fact that criticisms cannot communicate messages for forms of artwork, and only the artworks can communicate their messages. The second way in how film critics are able to write criticisms that involve critical discussions containing rationality involves critics analyzing their reasons for not liking specific movies, and critics must discover if they dislike movies for the same criteria that caused them to initially dislike specific movies. That requires utilizing criticism that
4250-433: The fact that the industry related to film even attempted to use intimidation as a way of making movie critics cease with reviewing films. In the year of 1948, a critic named Eileen Arnot Robertson was forcibly removed from her job as a critic. Despite the fact that she filed a lawsuit against the film industry, the film industry said that Robertson's firing did not occur out of maliciousness. These difficult challenges led to
4335-418: The fields of films and cinema have discovered a connection between film critics evaluating films and audience members having interests or no interests in viewing those films. Based in the perspective of an audience member, a review serves as more than an object that is useful for making decisions. Listening to a review from a critic, watching a critic's review, and reading a critic's review are all ways in which
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#17327723907054420-599: The film critics to write film reviews that are influential to other moviegoers. Film critics have access to information regarding the earliest phases of films, unlike the public, and the earliest phases of films are when film critics are the only reliable sources of information pertaining to the movies that will be in theaters. Research has also displayed the fact that film critics desire to give moviegoers encouragement towards viewing films that are worth viewing while they also display innovation, instead of viewing movies that are simplistic. However, in recent years, there has been
4505-595: The film critics were affected by them. The fourth way in how film critics are able to write criticisms that involve critical discussions containing rationality involves critics being less arrogant when they want they perceptions of films to be talked about, and critics must be aware of criticisms that have been published. The critics who want to argue must base their arguments in criticisms that have been stated by other critics. The fourth way in how film critics are able to write criticisms that involve critical discussions containing rationality pertains to critics moving away from
4590-502: The film-criticism industry for its underrepresentation of women. A study of the top critics on Rotten Tomatoes shows that 91 per cent of writers for movie or entertainment magazines and websites are men, as are 90 per cent of those for trade publications, 80 per cent of critics for general interest magazines like Time , and 70 per cent of reviewers for radio formats such as NPR . Writing for The Atlantic , Kate Kilkenny argued that women were better represented in film criticism before
4675-407: The form of a montage, then the films are artwork. The second film theory is that films are related to reality. Bazin 's philosophy involves movies being connected to the real world, which is reality. Green film criticism is defined as eco-cinecriticism. This pertains to the specific film critics who are interested in environmental types of films. The cinematic counterpart to writings about nature
4760-405: The form of a review; instead it is more likely to analyse the film and its place in the history of its genre, the industry and film history as a whole. Film criticism is also labeled as a type of writing that perceives films as possible achievements and wishes to convey their differences, as well as the films being made in a level of quality that is satisfactory or unsatisfactory. Film criticism
4845-406: The highest total score of the American team but walked away without an individual medal. She placed seventh on the uneven bars and fourth on the balance beam, and had to withdraw from the vault and floor finals due to injury. Although struggling with severe tendinitis in her left wrist and a pulled hamstring, Miller won the 1996 National Championships. Once again, though, she was forced to sit out
4930-520: The home of the United States film industry: Hollywood . Some of these colleges include University of California, Davis , University of California, Berkeley , University of California, Los Angeles , Stanford University , as well as many other colleges across the world. Academic criticism is typically divided and taught in the form of many different disciplines that tackle critique in different manors. These can include: Academic film criticism
5015-424: The idea that artwork such as a film shall have clear meanings. Instead, critics must view artwork such as films to be the results of working hard, many hours of thinking, and ideas being compromised for meanings to not be clear. This research concludes that film critics must repeatedly view films as a way of studying them, if they desire to write thorough reviews on those particular films. Secondly, film critics have
5100-408: The majority of the media attention after landing her second vault on an injured foot, which forced her to withdraw from the all-around and event finals. But Miller, who was the team's highest scorer, placed second after the team competition behind Lilia Podkopayeva , qualifying her for her second Olympic all-around final. In the all-around, Miller was ranked second halfway through the competition. In
5185-595: The media are normally commissionaires who affect culture, since the judgments and choices of critics have the effect of influencing what audience members perceive about objects that are supplied to them, and critics are also able to influence how the audience members choose to think about objects that are supplied to them. In the current era of history, film criticism is rich in having digital devices that allow films to be analyzed through visual and auditory methods that involve critical strategies of creativity that allow people to become immersed in film criticism. Film criticism
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#17327723907055270-404: The medium caused major newspapers to start hiring film critics. In the 1930s, the film industry saw audiences grow increasingly silent as films were now accompanied by sound. However, in the late 1930s audiences became influenced by print news sources reporting on movies and criticism became largely centered around audience reactions within the theaters. In the decades of the 1930s and the 1940s,
5355-404: The more male-dominated jobs at major newspapers survived better. The Internet also encouraged a growth in niche review websites that were even more male-dominated than older media. Kilkenny also suggested that the shortage of female critics was related to the shortage of female opinion columnists. Clem Bastow, culture writer at The Guardian Australia , discussed the possible effects of this on
5440-811: The movies that viewers prefer to see. The explanations for why movies are given high ratings are able to reach online groups of people who watch movies, and the explanations for movies having high ratings are explained through the usage of reviews that are posted in those online groups. More often known as film theory or film studies , academic critique explores cinema beyond journalistic film reviews. These film critics try to examine why film works, how it works aesthetically or politically, what it means, and what effects it has on people. Rather than write for mass-market publications their articles are usually published in scholarly journals and texts which tend to be affiliated with university presses; or sometimes in up-market magazines. Most academic criticism of film often follows
5525-498: The need to go hard on certain films for women, presumably because they worry that they'll be dismissed, critically speaking, if they praise a film like The Intern as though they're only reviewing it favorably because they're women. Matt Reynolds of Wired pointed out that "men tend to look much more favorably on films with more masculine themes, or male leading actors." On online review sites such as IMDb , this leads to skewed, imbalanced review results as 70 per cent of reviewers on
5610-459: The new Code of Points . She won the all-around title, followed by gold medals on bars and floor. However, she fell three times in the beam final and withdrew from the vault final due to illness. At the 1994 World Championships in Brisbane , Miller again took the all-around title, beating Miloşovici and becoming the first American gymnast to win back-to-back world all-around titles. She also won
5695-458: The opinions of the general public on films produced. Research says that academic studies pertaining to films had a thorough histiography pertaining to films, which also included different styles of films throughout history. However, the academic studies almost made film criticism reach its end. The academic type of writing pertaining to films had created knowledge, which ended up appearing in areas that had been useful for writing film criticisms in
5780-807: The practice of reviewing films via a television program, in the show Siskel & Ebert At the Movies , which became syndicated in the 1980s. Both critics had established their careers in print media, and continued to write reviews for newspapers during the run of their television show. Research says that there are ways in how film critics are able to write criticisms that involve critical discussions containing rationality. When critics are looking for film criticisms that are factual, they must not behave with excessive optimism or be too demanding. Creations and criticisms are activities that humans participate in, and these activities cannot be substituted out for an objective list of morals to be utilized. Humans are restrained by
5865-458: The review is useful to an audience member. The critic's review is able to be referenced in conversations where audience members communicate with other individuals, and audience members can communicate messages about the artistic film that was critically examined or connect the criticism to problems that occur in society. Websites such as Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic seek to improve the usefulness of film reviews by compiling them and assigning
5950-722: The rise of the Internet. In the past, when film was considered less prestigious than visual art and literature, it was easier for women to break into film criticism. In the year 1929, Iris Barry was a female film critic from Britain. When Barry lived in London, she earned money from being a writer for magazines, a newspaper, and periodical articles. Barry wrote film criticisms that discussed films that were made in Britain, films that were made in America, and Barry only wrote film criticisms on
6035-548: The site are men. A study using Johanson analysis was used evaluate the representation of women in 270 films. Johanson complied statistics for the year 2015 on how having a female protagonist affected a movie, with the following results: James Harris, writing for The Critic , argued that "Previously engaging review sites such as Vox , The Guardian and The Onion AV Club have all become The World Social Justice Website , and they are now assessing works in all disciplines in line with wider social justice criteria. Does
6120-420: The site in order to submit reviews. This means that they are a form of open access poll , and have the same advantages and disadvantages; notably, there is no guarantee that they will be a representative sample of the film's audience. In some cases, online review sites have produced wildly differing results to scientific polling of audiences. Likewise, reviews and ratings for many movies can greatly differ between
6205-505: The sound effects or images from the other films to be used in criticizing the sounds or images that pertain to the YouTube clips that are being criticized. Film critics are also reviewers who are amateurs on websites such as IMDb. Also, many postings from amateur film critics are on IMDb. Some websites specialize in narrow aspects of film reviewing. For instance, there are sites that focus on specific content advisories for parents to judge
6290-610: The storages are able to help people find reliable film criticisms that can be used as readings for students. Blogs are a good example to view in relation to how the internet has grown to where social networks and live chats exist alongside websites such as YouTube where people can post their own content. That is because blogging has created new ways for people to make themselves engage with cinematic movies. People who engage themselves with movies choose to participate in various forms of film criticism by using video or DVD clips from YouTube that are placed alongside parts of other films for
6375-505: The task of making sure that they are highly informed about the film and film critics are also responsible for initiating the discussions about the films. Film critics are also responsible for knowing the creators of the films. Thirdly, film critics must blatantly state their own biases and preferences without associating them with any theories. Fourthly, film critics must appreciate the films that are given positive criticisms and film critics must not be ungrateful towards those films. Finally,
6460-510: The team competition and the mixed team competition, both of which saw fourth-place finishes for the United States. Two weeks later, Miller competed at the 1994 National Championships, where she won five silver medals, placing second to Dominique Dawes each time. Although she won the 1995 American Classic, Miller lost the 1995 National Championships to 13-year-old Dominique Moceanu . At the 1995 World Championships in Sabae, Japan , she amassed
6545-545: The team competition. She placed second to Soviet Svetlana Boginskaya during the compulsory portion of the competition. Due to injury, Miller missed the 1992 World Championships in Paris . Not quite back up to speed with her more difficult skills, she pulled out of the optionals competition at the National Championships and petitioned to the Olympic Trials. Although the result was controversial, Miller won
6630-453: The type of criticism pertaining to films had to overcome some difficult challenges. The first difficult challenge involves how film criticism in the 1930s decade did not have any stable foundations to reside on, and film criticism also involved critics having vocabularies that were limited. During the 1930s, the jobs of critics weren't perceived to be great and critics did not earn high wages for their work. The next difficult challenge involves
6715-568: The world, while New York Film Critics Online members handle reviews in the New York tri-state area. Online film criticism has provided online film critics with challenges related to journalism's purpose changing on the internet. For example, critics must contend with the drawback of too many critics being online to the extent of preventing critics from writing original statements. Critics can write original statements online, but there are websites that will steal their ideas and not give credit to
6800-512: The years between 2002 and 2006 had written reviews pertaining to the fact that they disapproved of modern films that were in the horror genre. In the year 2002, a critic named Reynold Humphries made his own discussion in The American Horror Film reach its end when he said that the horror genre's films were not good, and Humphries also stated that films in the horror genre weren't enjoyable. A critic named Kendall Phillips wrote
6885-547: Was a bank vice president, and her father was a professor at the University of Central Oklahoma . For most of her career, Miller was coached by Steve Nunno and Peggy Liddick , who went on to become the national coach of the Australian women's gymnastics team. As a 12-year-old, she finished third at the 1989 Olympic Festival, a competition designed to showcase up-and-coming talent. She travelled to Europe in 1990 and 1991 for international meets and scored perfect 10s on
6970-477: Was a writer for the nationally syndicated sports-interview TV show The Tim McCarver Show Peary was interviewed for the 2010 documentary Machete Maidens Unleashed! . The director of the film, Mark Hartley , has said that, "I'd worn my copies of Cult Movies 1 , 2 and 3 into the ground from constant re-reading so meeting author Danny Peary was a pleasure." He appears in James Westby's documentary At
7055-476: Was born in Rolla, Missouri , but she and her family moved to Edmond, Oklahoma , when she was six months old. She began gymnastics when she was five and travelled to Moscow with her mother at the age of nine to participate in a gymnastics camp. As a teenager, Miller attended Edmond North High School , working with a flexible program that accommodated her training, travel and competition schedule. Miller's mother
7140-475: Was finalized in 2006. While Phillips accused Miller of infidelity with a married male athlete, Miller denied the claim, and it did not figure into the divorce grounds. In August 2007, Miller announced her engagement to John Falconetti, the president of Drummond Press and former chairman of the Republican executive committee of Duval County, Florida . They married on August 25, 2008, and have two children:
7225-456: Was robbed of the gold medal by unfair judging. In event finals, she captured three more individual medals: a silver on balance beam and bronzes on uneven bars and floor exercise . Her haul of five Olympic medals was more than that of any other American athlete in Barcelona. She was one of only two female gymnasts, along with Lavinia Miloşovici of Romania, to compete in every event final at
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