Attention is also given to such individual critics as Edmund Wilson and Alfred Kazin and to current critical schools.
Not having been there, we lack a context for these comments, and Maddy's article does imply that this was more an expression of exasperation at the perceived stasis of the current critical corps than an objective assessment of criticism overall.
Critic Roger Ebert, in his book The Great Movies, has described the current critical consensus as holding that La Strada was the high point of Fellini's career and that, after this film, "his work ran wild through the jungles of Freudian, Christian, sexual and autobiographical excess".
In current, critical circumstances, surely not.
So did the current critical hit "In the Bedroom".
Taylor believes Allen has similarly career-transforming abilities, whatever his current critical and commercial reputation.
Alas, the current critical orthodoxy is that Woody is a spent force.
Sure, the opposition has current critical champ Transparent but House Of Cards blazed that particular Emmy-winning trail.
It will redirect the current critical conversation about sympathy and refocus discussions of late-Victorian fictions of identity.
He has joined the ranks of the myriad egomaniacal artists whose work is lauded thanks to the current critical temperament of the art world.
You can hear the rural inflections in current critical favourites Band of Horses and Fleet Foxes, who have sought inspiration at the foothills of the Appalachian mountains.
