Worth noting: the atomic review and a meta-rejoinder (Ellen)

Since it seems vaguely but irresistibly pertinent to this week's conversation, I thought I should flag for our consideration Pete Wells's brutal review of Guy Fieri's new restaurant:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/dining/reviews/restaurant-review-guys-american-kitchen-bar-in-times-square.html

as well as Margaret Sullivan's reflection on the genre of the flaming review (she is the NYT public editor):

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/opinion/sunday/reviews-by-times-critics-with-all-guns-blazing.html?_r=0

Also worth noting, and invoked in the comments re: Sullivan's article, is Manohla Dargis's recent review of "The Central Park Five." It seems relevant to our discussion of The Exonerated and to Cody's demand for political and social contextualization in arts reviews.

http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/11/22/movies/the-documentary-the-central-park-five.html?_r=0