Disclosure Day

There’s more flaws than I could possibly speak to here, so I’m going to use this film as a means of discussing another pervasive problem plaguing movies right now: the movie equivalent of “poptimism” in film criticism. Serious Paid Critics, I am begging you to review movies honestly again. We do not need you to give Stevey a gold star for trying to speak to the moment. This was an abject failure at nearly every phase of the process. It is okay to say that. We do not need to give every post-prime director a cookie for making another one. We do not need to pretend to like Project Hail Mary because it made money at the box office. You saying you like these films will NOT save movies. What will save movies is honest criticism and movement towards younger, in-touch filmmakers accurately reflecting our times. Your job is not to preserve relationships so you can get big Steve to sit down for an interview or do a podcast; your job is to contextualize these films for the audience and help fuel the discourse/dialogue around an art-form we all love. You are all disrespecting and cheapening it by doing it the way you’re doing it.