Film Critics Are Out-of-Touch Sellouts

By Real Life Fake Wizard

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The split between Michael's (2026) audience score and its critic score is the most recent data point in a phenomenon that has been compounding for over a decade. The Last Jedi, Hook, She-Hulk, Man on Fire, Super Mario 1, Super Mario 2, Captain Marvel, and The Acolyte. The professional critical class consistently grades films and television against a rubric of sentimentality the audience does not share. And those grades are funneled into aggregator platforms owned by the same studios whose movies they’re reviewing, keeping their jobs based on access controlled by, you guessed it, the very same studios they’re reviewing. How are you, a movie ticket-purchasing customer, supposed to take the word of a movie critic as honest when everything about the way they do business is compromised? You can’t. But you know what? I want to explore exactly what film criticism was supposed to be and why the answer to what it has become is not to replace the critic class but to starve the apparatus that p

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