I'm Hearing Reports That F9 Might Actually Be Good
Filed to:allison willmore It used to be very important to have a movie critic, or a set of movie critics, that you trusted. Because, at heart, movie reviews are service journalism, in that I need to know if paying $20 and spending two hours in a theatre is a good use of money or time. It’s looking like F9 is going to clear that threshold. The critics I trusted in the old days were A.O. Scott and Manohla Dargis at the The New York Times, Anthony Lane at The New Yorker, and the late, great Roger Ebert. It is not that I thought that any of them were particularly right or smart about movies, th...