Smug New Yorker Critic Somehow Manages to Compel Sympathy For Scott Rudin

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This kind of silly public skirmish seems a little too convenient to just naturally occur in a week when The Artist and War Horse are dominating awards chatter, but either way, stroppy megaproducer Scott Rudin is furious with The New Yorker for breaking a review embargo on The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Who can blame him, especially since critic David Denby — along with the rest of the members of the New York Film Critics Circle who saw the film before voting last week — signed an agreement assenting to hold his review until Dec. 13 at the earliest? Or maybe the more important question is: Why should you care? I can think of a few reasons, chief among them being that Denby’s excuse for breaking his word is hilarious.

The Playlist got a hold of an e-mail exchange between Rudin and Denby, which really must be read to be believed — particularly this passage from Denby (who, incidentally, gave the film a rave):

The system is destructive: Grown-ups are ignored for much of the year, cast out like downsized workers, and then given eight good movies all at once in the last five weeks of the year. A magazine like The New Yorker has to cope as best as it can with a nutty release schedule. It was not my intention to break the embargo, and I never would have done it with a negative review.

[T]he early [NYFCC] vote forced the early screening of Dragon Tattoo. So we had a

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