Thanks for the ping. I have suspected for a time now that the vehemence with which certain critics dismiss Rand is an indication that they don't want to put in the work to try to actually read her. I suspected that (and still do) about Whittaker Chambers, who I otherwise admire greatly.
In the defense of those critics, however, I will say only that it was supposed to be fiction, not the documentary it looks like these days. That isn't Rand's fault, or that of the critics either.