The cancer of the salivary gland that has afflicted Roger Ebert, America's best-known film critic, is a personal tragedy. The illness has left him unable to speak and two years ago he was forced to withdraw from his long-running television show on which, with a sparring partner, he critiqued each week's movies.
But Ebert's illness is symbolic of a greater malaise afflicting the profession of film criticism in the United States.
By Christopher Goodwin
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