Film critics Penny Modra, Dana Linsson, Mel Campbell, Kevin B Lee and Sinead Stubbins question if criticism can still respond to film in the age of clickbait and online distraction.

Penny Modra is editorial director at The Good Copy, a new Melbourne-based writing studio and publisher. She spent seven years as editor of Three Thousand and some of those as editorial director of The Thousands city guides nationally. Penny has written weekly visual arts columns for The Age and The Sunday Age, and copy-edited everything from Head Full of Snakes magazine to PhDs that are due in 12 hours.

Dana Linssen is a film critic (for NRC Handelsblad and Opium Radio), film lecturer at ArtEZ Academy of Theatre Arnhem and editor-in-chief and co-publisher of the independent film magazine de Filmkrant from The Netherlands. She is the recipient of the 2009 Louis Hartlooper Prize for Film Journalism.

Mel Campbell is a Melbourne-based freelance journalist, critic, copywriter and editor. Mel co-founded the award-winning poster-journal Is Not Magazine and online pop-culture digest The Enthusiast. Her first book was Out of Shape: Debunking Myths about Fashion and Fit (Affirm Press, 2013). She is currently a columnist on writing at Overland magazine, a frequent contributor on film, TV and media at Junkee, The Big Issue and Spook Magazine, and a cultural commentator in live panel discussions, on radio and online. She tweets at @incrediblemelk.

Kevin B Lee is Chief Video Essayist at Fandor. He has made over 250 video essays exploring film and media. His award-winning Transformers: The Premake was named one of the best documentaries of 2014 by Sight & Sound magazine and played in several festivals including the Berlin Film Festival Critics' Week. He was supervising producer at Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies, and has written for The New York Times, Sight & Sound, Slate and Indiewire. Follow him on Twitter at @alsolikelife.

Sinead Stubbins is a writer and editor from Melbourne, Australia. She has worked for Vice, Vulture, Pitchfork, frankie, Smith Journal, Junkee, SPOOK, Faint, Svbscription and The Age. She had a regular column in Yen magazine and write TV recaps for TheVine.com. She loves writing about all areas of popular culture, celebrity and feminism. She responds well to praise and food rewards.