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The Spectator film critic who transformed cinema

Iris Barry's pioneering column began 100 years ago and made the first proper case for the movies to be considered art

One of Britain’s first professional movie critics, Iris Barry, in 1929. Credit: Sasha / Hulton Archive / Getty Images

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