Also gives critics more timeto review performance.
Mr. Ogletree gives critics of reparations a fair hearing, though he ultimately rejects their arguments.
Originality, or novelty, gives critics something to write about and for many George Lloyd's work was not thought of as original.
A major element of the Booker's continued relevance, however, is that it always gives critics and commentators an opportunity to hold forth on what is and isn't worthy of this most prestigious honor.
This is a canny strategy, one that gives critics something to argue about and ensures a measure of publicity-generating controversy, even as it provides a ready-made, thoroughly bogus retort to potential detractors.
Where the auteur theory let us know that movie directors were artists as fully and identifiably as are writers, its latter-day decadent phase gives critics rope with which to tie filmmakers to their earlier work and reproach them for giving it the slip — as Allen has done.
