You're Not Imagining What's Happening on Rotten Tomatoes

You're Not Imagining What's Happening on Rotten Tomatoes

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Most of you may already know this, but film criticism is dying. The Chicago Tribune , where Siskel and Ebert originated, fired its chief film critic over the summer, and Vanity Fair did, too. For a lot of folks, Richard Lawson was the only reason left to read Vanity Fair , unless you’re into getting inside info on Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump from Vanity Fair ’s inside sources, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.

But on the other hand, film criticism … is not dying? There were 389 critic reviews for Jurassic World this summer. There are 3,500 Tomatometer-approved critics! When I started writing reviews back in 2000 dickity-dick, there were only 140 critics on Rotten Tomatoes. You could