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Instead, the formerly registered security guard has stuck to spewing dunderheaded damnations.

Clive’s appreciations, in that book, ranged from the filmmaker Michael Mann to the Austrian aphorist Alfred Polgar, alongside damnations of his devils, including, controversially but persuasively, one on Walter Benjamin.

I’d had my share of successes and disappointments, compliments and damnations.

He too is a man of walls and damnations.

The critical damnations and dismissals of earlier masterworks loom large as a fear today, a fear that great films are now being disdained—or, perhaps even worse, being simply ignored.