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How Do You Become a Movie Critic?

Breaking into film criticism sounds like a cinephile’s dream: watching movies, analysing cinema and sharing your opinions with the world.

In Episode 30 of ‘Ask Spling: Reel Talk and Real Life’… Spling answers: “How do you become a film critic?”

In Episode 25 of ‘Ask Spling: Reel Talk and Real Life’… Spling answers: “What made you want to be a

In Episode 4 of ‘Ask Spling: Reel Talk and Real Life’… Spling answers: “What made you choose this path?” –

Having been a film critic for closing in on two decades, you’d think you couldn’t teach an old dog new

When you tell people you’re a film critic, you typically get one of two responses. “You watch movies for a

Stephen ‘Spling’ Aspeling, better known as Spling, has been reviewing film since 2007, but what led him to want to

Spling served on the FIPRESCI jury at the El Gouna Film Festival 2023 over December, where he and his fellow