If the critics didn’t want anyone to see it then they all should have praised it. That’s a sure way to keep me away from a film.
Critics don’t write to either get people to go to movies, or to stay away from them.
They write to impress those within their social circles with their insight, taste and pithy commentary. IOW, it’s just a big circle jerk where their like-minded friends at tony social gatherings stroke their egos about how “brilliant” their most recent critique was.
Keen insight and I feel and do the same.
Anytime my wife and I see leftist movie reviews, I say "We have to see/get that.
FMCDH(BITS)