Harry Knowles Harpooned Film Culture

And the stench still lingers

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Harry Knowles is part of the reason we’re where we’re at right now. He debased film criticism/journalism to such a degree — and was so successful doing it — we may never recover from his influence.

Starting in 1994, Knowles built an empire at Ain’t it Cool dot com. It was a site that trafficked in movie news and poorly written…