“If your average rating of a film is 57 out of 100... you’re not having a good time at the movies.”

Actually, the average rating should be 50. I mean, look up average in the dictionary. 

I won’t be seeing Afterlife, because everything about it smacks of tedious pandering and I’m over winsome Amblin aping as a psuedo-genre, but a lot of these angry people don’t seem like fans on the 1984 film Ghostbusters, but people who have nostalgic memories of the toys and (admittedly better than they could have…

Movie critics have to go see a lot of movies - even movies they wouldn’t see out of personal interest - and give subjective grades. That’s the job. You go see movies you (presumably) already have a decent idea you might enjoy.

No, it’s obvious that NFT bros continue to chalk all criticism up to misunderstanding. We get that you’re not buying art, you’re buying a receipt. There’s no value in that transaction no matter how scarce or secure you make the token, trading (or showing off) irrefutable proof that someone paid $1000 for a shitty…

Having to “write” the “reshoot material” doesn’t inspire confidence that this is just COVID related catchup. If it were, why would things need to be written at all? I guess maybe if certain actors were no longer available, okay sure fine... 

I honestly don’t know why they just didn’t make Doctor Strange a brit living in America.  Cummberbatches accent is just not great and giving him a post English accent would only enhance the characters personality of kinda being a super douche 

Reshoots are normal, but not every MCU movie gets a “significant reshoots” report from THR. Insider talks about this movie has been bubbling up for a while, so there might be more than meets the eye here.

But you can create a vibrant color palette without doing a shot-for-shot remake.

>far left

Love when one tweet from a dipshit trillionaire can tank my Monopoly money-based economy

I love Creed, and it’s shocking to me, how well it builds on the other films, considering that several of the movies it draws upon mostly heavily are some of the worst of the series! But the Rocky movies are intended, at their core, as drama, even when they get kinda silly/“fun.” So there’s something to build on…

Ahh, see, knowing you think that about Last Jedi and Irishman makes me *very* disdainful of you! ;)

I’m kidding, but I think what you’re picking up on in this review is that this movie is fairly desperate to please, and has very specific ideas of what pleasing its audience will entail—ideas that I found tedious and, in…

These crazy patterns you’re seeing can be explained the existence of a much greater number of movies than you seem to understand.

Logan Lucky was a $30 million movie with an ensemble cast full of stars that went out on 2,000+ screens. Tully was a $13 million movie—low-budget by superhero standards, but not compared to actual indies—with an Oscar-winning and internationally known star that went out on 1,400 screens. Sleeping with Other People was…

C by definition is an average grade...

The Guardian straight up ripped it to shreds:

I’m generally disinclined to get into it with people who talk about how critics need to be “objective” and refer to movies as “content,” but I do like talking about myself so I’m going to humor you, User Named Mark.

You’re correct -- there IS an agenda afoot. It’s all part of a nefarious plot to tell you my opinions about movies!!!

I mean, I’m sort of with you in theory, in that I think it’s truly bizarre that there’s a dedicated and vocal fandom over a 1984 comedy that was kind of a delightful fluke—but I do find it to be a delightful fluke and think it’s one of the best movies of its kind, where “its kind” includes both fantasy-comedy and…

I’m a freelancer and have pretty minimal contact with any so-called corporate overlords, but this isn’t a decision unique to the AVC. For movie reviews to not drop whenever the studio lifts an embargo, it would either have to be a movie generating little publicity (and therefore unlikely to be read ASAP), or…