>>46775794Professional movie critics have never been a thing that exists. People write reviews in publications either as entertainment for those with no intention to ever consume the media in question, or because they were paid to shill it. This was true in 1930 and it's true today.
Film "critics" are just ghouls wearing the skin of literary critics, who were themselves always just philistines that shitpost about how much new thing sucks because it's not as cultured as Virgil or as avant garde as Lost in the Funhouse.
