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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/movies/tiktok-movie-reviews-critics.html

When you read a critics review, it almost sounds like a computer wrote it, said Cameron Kozak, 21, who calls himself a movie reviewer and has 1.5 million followers. But when you have someone on TikTok who you watch every day and you know their voice and what they like, theres something personal that people can connect to.

A lot of us dont trust critics, said Lucious, 31. He was one of many who pointed to the review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes, where the scores of Top Critics often differ widely from those of casual users, as evidence that the critical establishment is out of touch. They watch movies and are just looking for something to critique, he said. Fans watch movies looking for entertainment.

MovieTok creators are not the first in the history of film criticism to rebel against their elders. In the 1950s, Franois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and other writers of the journal Cahiers du Cinma disavowed the nationalism of mainstream French criticism. In the 1960s and 70s, the New Yorker critic Pauline Kael assailed the moralism associated with Bosley Crowther, a longtime movie critic of The New York Times, and others. And movie bloggers in the 2000s charged print critics with indifference or hostility to superhero and fantasy films.

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Juju Green, a 31-year-old former advertising copywriter, sees himself as on a mission to combat film snobbery." Known as Straw Hat Goofy, Green is the most prominent member of MovieTok, with 3.4 million followers and an emerging side career as a correspondent and host. His most popular video, in which he identifies Easter eggs in Pixar movies, has nearly 29 million views. I had a feeling like I was meant to do this, he said. Green quit his advertising job last year. I like to call it professional overthinking, Green said.

wow amazing

Cruz, 34, echoed other MovieTok reviewers who said they dislike doing sharply negative posts and would be unlikely to slam a movie whether they were in business with the studio or not. She said she generally prefers to deliver negative opinions in the form of a compliment sandwich, preceded and followed by more positive remarks. It pains me to say that this movie, by and large, did not work for me, she said, in a review of the horror-comedy Renfield. Cruz then added: There are a lot of individual elements of this film that really do work.

"i like some things but didnt like some other things" incredible work

the new york times should be embarrassed for putting out this puff piece tbh. comparing this shit to pauline kael or cahiers du cinema you gotta be kidding bro

do people really prefer just being told what they want to hear rather than like... engaging with something as art? this isn't criticism obviously but more like being a glorified publicist. "overthinking." lmao. what do you guys think has led to this? please discuss below @blue_inigo