For each blank select one entry from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text.

Very few veteran critics tend to be (i) ?the recent decade in cinema. Nonetheless, based on movie reviews many could easily come to the conclusion that the last ten years were indeed banner ones. Once the province of lettered intellectuals, a few even household names (Pauline Kael comes to mind), the role of the movie critic has been (ii) by those lacking any notable credentials. With this flood of veritable tyros opining from the rafters, a movie’s overall rating—as compiled and tabulated by popular Internet sites–often times confers a(n) (iii) on a film, an assessment that posterity will most likely deem specious.

Blank (i)

enamored of

condemnatory to

unsympathetic

Blank (ii)

duly appropriated

amply filled

irredeemably disgraced

Blank (iii)

aura of nostalgia

mantle of inviolability

patina of respectability

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