Checking in to defend movie critics.
They have an awesome job where they get paid to watch a movie and evaluate it. There is something wrong when people take the average critic score as the be all and end all. I don't think it's any single critics fault and I don't think it's Roger Eberts fault.
Blame sites that collect critic scores and lump them all together as if the average critic score represents how good it is. It doesn't even. Then, blame a world where ratings like those carry water. Don't see any movie because a critic said it was good or bad. Ever.
They have an awesome job where they get paid to watch a movie and evaluate it. There is something wrong when people take the average critic score as the be all and end all. I don't think it's any single critics fault and I don't think it's Roger Eberts fault.
Blame sites that collect critic scores and lump them all together as if the average critic score represents how good it is. It doesn't even. Then, blame a world where ratings like those carry water. Don't see any movie because a critic said it was good or bad. Ever.