Film Critic Banned, Outrage Provoked — Why Do We Care?

“Although the charges and counter-charges in this case are pretty salacious, the furor is only partly about [New York Press critic Armond] White and [‘Greenberg’ director Noah] Baumbach. It’s also about the uneasy symbiosis between film critics and the movie business,” and it manages to suggest, “in the face of all available economic evidence, that what we do still matters.”