On A.S. Hamrah’s Anti-Criticism

In the mid-1990s, when I was in middle school and the film critic A.S. Hamrah was, I presume, about a decade out of college, ABC and FOX ran two seasons of an animated sitcom, The Critic. Jon Lovitz voiced Jay Sherman, a grumpy, pudgy New York movie reviewer and television host, whose catchphrase, after ten-second parodies of the latest Hollywood blockbusters and tearjerkers was, “It stinks!”