Sir,-Your correspondent, L. WallerEdward, is not on quite the right track when he accuses G.M. of "not reviewing" | films. According to the Oxford Diction-
ary a review is, among other things, "a critique of a book or periodical in which , . . new books, etc., are discussed." This, I venture to suggest, is the function G.M. performs. He criticises and discusses the films he sees-from his own point of view, of course: whose else could he take? No opinion can coincide in every mind. What Mr. L. Waller-Edwards wants is a laudatory précis of each film. This can be obtained through the advertisement pages of the daily papers. Surely it is refreshing to find G.M.’s honest reviews in The Listener week by week, whether or not One agrees with all he savs.
N.J.
R.
(Miramar;)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 180, 4 December 1942, Page 3
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