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The author reflects on the job market for film critics since 2008, focusing specifically on their employment by British newspapers. He notes that while many American publications reduced their staffs or focused more on online content, the British press initially did not follow this trend. The importance of the retirement of critic Philip French is discussed as well as the replacement of other critics such as Christopher Tookey, Sukhdev Sandhu, and Derek Malcolm.

The article presents the author's views on the apparently declining role of film critics in the press, as seen in the number of such reviewers who have been laid off in the U.S. without being replaces. The status of movie writers in Great Britain is discussed, and the author sees them as pressured to write only about British film, even at international festivals like Cannes.