On the phone, Elvis Mitchell's imposing physicality doesn't affect me. His over six-foot frame and two-foot-long dreads are washed out by the soft voice of a well-spoken and thoughtful man. A former film critic for the New York Times, Mitchell has been hosting the public radio program The Treatment for over ten years and is currently an editor-at-large for Interview magazine. A Visiting Lecturer at Harvard, Mitchell recently co-conceived and executive produced The Black List, a documentary film which premiered at Sundance and will air on HBO beginning August 24. Mitchell is known for his stream-of-consciousness writing, but when I spoke with him, he couldn't have been more direct about the death of the film critic, our box office obsession, and the draw of Will Smith.