Summary

The Last Critic is one of the year’s most fascinating rock documentaries — even though it’s not about a musician. It’s a portrait of the legendary writer Robert Christgau , the self-proclaimed “Dean of American Rock Critics.” He was one of the pioneers who invented pop-music criticism in the Sixties — but six decades later, at 83, he’s still at the top of the game. He began his Consumer Guide column in the Village Voice in 1969, and has kept cranking it out ever since, now on Substack .

AI summaries can be wrong sometimes—always verify important details using the source article.