The article is right about the gulf between reviewer and movie-goer, though. I remember when Star Wars came out. The reviewer, obviously not a teenage boy, nor someone who could even identify with them (a mid-20's or even early 30's female!), panned the movie as only something passable to drop the kids off at the mall cinaplex while Mom shopped.
True, and yet it still was the best of the six!
I remember seeing Prizzi's Honor in 1985. It got critical raves and I spent most of the movie counting ceiling panels and praying for a power outage. Still for the most part I tend to go more with professional critics than I do the public at large. I guess I'm a bit of a movie snob but I am what I am.