Roger Ebert wrote an essay [0] in 1992 reflecting on his career as a critic. He writes >In the past 25 years I have probably seen 10,000 movies and reviewed 6,

Roger Ebert wrote an essay [0] in 1992 reflecting on his career as a critic. He writes >In the past 25 years I have probably seen 10,000 movies and reviewed 6,000 of them. I have forgotten most of those films, I hope, but I remember those worth remembering, and they are all on the same shelf in my mind. Overall, he seems never to have lost the joy of watching movies. A relevant quote: >When you go to the movies every day, it sometimes seems as if the movies are more mediocre than ever, more craven and cowardly, more skillfully manufactured to pander to the lowest tastes, instead of educating them. Then you see something absolutely miraculous. Something like "Wings of Desire," or "Do the Right Thing," or "Drugstore Cowboy," or "Gates of Heaven," or "Beauty and the Beast," or "Life Is Sweet," and on your way home through the White Hen Pantry you look distracted, as if you had just experienced some kind of a vision. [0]: https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/reflections-after-25-years-at-the-movies https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/reflections-after-25-...