Changing the dialogue: How digital creators are reshaping film criticism

Since the premiere of Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel's movie review talk show At the Movies in 1982, film critics have pondered what the future of film criticism could look like beyond print and text publications and trade journals. In the digital age, the rise of online review aggregators—such as Rotten Tomatoes—has once again brought the question of what the future of film criticism could be to the forefront. This longform article, written as in the inaugural year of the USC Annenberg-Rotten Tomatoes Digital Innovatioon and Entertainment Criticism Fellowship, explores the future of film criticism through interviews with eight video and podcast critics who are changing what criticism means in the digital age.