Introduction : Critical questions / Mattias Frey

Part 1. Critic and the audience : Thumbs in the crowd: artists and audiences in the postvanguard world / Greg Taylor

Critics through authors: dialogues, similarities, and the sense of a crisis / Cecilia Sayad

"The last honest film critic in America": Armond White and the children of James Baldwin / Daniel McNeil

Part II. New forms and activities : The new democracy?: Rotten tomatoes, metacritic, Twitter, and IMDb / Mattias Frey

The price of conservation: online video criticism of film in Italy / Giacomo Manzoli and Paolo Noto

Before and after AfterEllen: online queer cinephile communities as critical counterpublics / Maria San Filippo

Elevating the "amateur": Nollywood critics and the politics of diasporic film criticism / Noah Tsika

Part III. Institutions and the profession : American nationwide associations of film critics in the Internet era / Anne Hurault-Paupe

Finnish film critics and the uncertainties of the profession in the digital age / Outi Hakola

The social function of criticism; or, why does the cinema have (to have) a soul? / Thomas Elsaesser

Part VI. Critics speak : The critic is dead ... / Jasmina Kallay

What we don't talk about when we talk about movies / Armond White

Who needs critics? / Nick James

Excerpts from Cineaste's "Film criticism in the age of the Internet: a critical symposium" / Theodoros Panayides, Kevin B. Lee, Karina Longworth, The Self-Styled Siren (Farran Smith Nehme), and Stephanie Zacharek

Afterword / Cecilia Sayad.