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    Rex Reed, Caustic Film Critic, Dies at 87

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    3. TehOwn on

      > Reed never married. “I don’t have ‘relationships,’ except friends,” he told the Times in 2018. “I don’t know, love is not something that I’ve been really good at. **I think people are intimidated by people with opinions.**”

      He sounds like a Redditor.

    5. cabose7 on

      I get he has a legacy in New Journalism, but he also did a lot of pathetic stuff like wrote that Benicio Del Toro directed Shape of Water and then mispelled Benicio.

      I think I only have room to tolerate one hateful 70s critic and it’s gonna be Pauline Kael, not this guy.

      Hell even Armond White is better at being a dickhead critic.

    6. BunyipPouch on

      I have an anecdote about Rex.

      Three years ago I went a screening of **Daddio** at TIFF. It was a pretty big thing – sold out, Canadian Premiere, Dakota Johnson & Sean Penn were there, etc etc. I’m sitting next to this guy near the front, he’s got a pen and paper out, we have a little bit of small talk before the movie starts. 5 minutes in, my guy is *snoring*, head leaning to the side, completely passed out. He will snap in and out of consciousness throughout the movie, probably seeing 10 minutes of the movie total. He leaves before the Q&A with Dakota and Sean starts, his notepad was still empty.

      I start talking to this other lady next to me after the movie and we laugh about the guy sleeping and she tells me “you know who that was right? that’s Rex Reed”. I had known the name but not the face so I didn’t recognize him. A little bit later he published a review of the movie, it was negative, but he hadn’t really actually seen any of it.

      Rex was infamously known as a bit of a curmudgeon and contrarian critic. And he was also known for getting tons of things wrong in his reviews. This experience explained a lot. Glad I was able to witness that in-person. RIP to a legend.

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