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Our Cole Abaius might be slow on the uptake, but he took some time to mull over Roger Ebert’s recent article about the death of the film critic, and after a few days we find him in the interesting position: disagreeing with Roger Ebert. And disagreeing with most of his colleagues.

Since we’re primarily a film criticism website, we decided to write an editorial on why film critics are obsolete. Daring? Groundbreaking? Iconoclastic? Our vote is for Ridiculously Foolish.

Much has been made of the impending doom faced by print film critics around the country. Now, everyone from the casual film blogger to the tenured film scholar seems to be chiming in with their opinion. We want to know what you have to say about it…