Tim Hayes

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Whether or not cultural changes and commercial forces shift the S&S list's retromania this time around, the buffeting dished out to the film criticism trade by the same changes and forces is as modern as it gets. The reasons why hardly anyone who thinks film criticism is worth doing can now be decently paid for their labour or build a career path from it - and the absence of any organised stab at getting those losses back - are as much a hallmark of the 2022 snapshot as the titles of the films.