Are You a Film Critic, Or a Film Reviewer?
If you’ve ever searched the internet for information about a film, then the chances are you have been greeted by pages of search results from a huge variety of websites and blogs. Some of them are well established sites attached to major publications whilst others are the musings from someone who writes about films as a hobby. What I find interesting is that what all these people class themselves as, some refer to themselves as a film critic where as others say they area film reviewer, and yes I have my own film website and I class myself as a film reviewer which will explain why later on. But the question is “is there any difference between a film critic and film reviewer and does it really matter?” What is a Film Critic To my knowledge there is no hard and fast rule who can and can’t call themselves a film critic, there is no degree or course that all critics have to go through to be allowed to refer to themselves as a critic. Although there are a few characteristics which in my opin
