In the modern world, professional movie critics have become more and more detached from their audience. Rather than critique a movie or TV series from the perspective of the people, they are in an increasing manner doing it from their own personal political bias.
Two quite telling examples have been pointed out. Consider, for instance, the movie Death Wish, and its Rotten Tomatoes scores (Rotten Tomatoes is a review score aggregation site for movies and TV shows):
Why such a big disparity between the average professional critic score, and the user scores? Because professional critics are not giving their scores based on the merits of the movie alone, and how good of a story it tells, from the perspective of the average viewer. Instead, the critics are giving it a low score because of their own political bias. They don't care how good of a movie it is. They only care whether the story of the movie clashes with their own personal political beliefs.
A good example of the same bias working in the other direction is the Season 11 of Doctor Who:
This season of the TV series is infamous for its open and hamfisted identity politics, which of course automatically makes it resonate well with critics, and quite badly with the average viewer. Again, critics are not giving a score based on the actual quality of the series, but based on their own personal political bias.
In fact, if you just browse the highest-rated TV series on Rotten Tomatoes (from 90% or so up), chances are that the user score will be significantly lower, and when that's the case, the TV series has something to do with identity politics in one way or another.
Movie critics are not your friends. Do not listen to them. They are only projecting their own politics into their scores and do not care about whether you will like the movie or not.
Two quite telling examples have been pointed out. Consider, for instance, the movie Death Wish, and its Rotten Tomatoes scores (Rotten Tomatoes is a review score aggregation site for movies and TV shows):
Why such a big disparity between the average professional critic score, and the user scores? Because professional critics are not giving their scores based on the merits of the movie alone, and how good of a story it tells, from the perspective of the average viewer. Instead, the critics are giving it a low score because of their own political bias. They don't care how good of a movie it is. They only care whether the story of the movie clashes with their own personal political beliefs.
A good example of the same bias working in the other direction is the Season 11 of Doctor Who:
This season of the TV series is infamous for its open and hamfisted identity politics, which of course automatically makes it resonate well with critics, and quite badly with the average viewer. Again, critics are not giving a score based on the actual quality of the series, but based on their own personal political bias.
In fact, if you just browse the highest-rated TV series on Rotten Tomatoes (from 90% or so up), chances are that the user score will be significantly lower, and when that's the case, the TV series has something to do with identity politics in one way or another.
Movie critics are not your friends. Do not listen to them. They are only projecting their own politics into their scores and do not care about whether you will like the movie or not.
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