If they are the “Ratatouille” kind of critic, knowing what they like, or what is good and serving as a “bar”, that can be a good reference if you are informed about their tastes.
But there is also a bunch of “high art film” that’s just boring, so if they insist that that is art or film or cinema and something more mundane but fun isn’t, because it doesn’t fulfill some arbitrary condition, that’s bad.
A horror movie critic after watching thousands of horror movies saying “The overall movie was meh, but that one thing about the monster or the way they did their camera work was cool and that’s why the movie was worth watching and if you are just watching for entertainment, not so much”. And the same person can judge a different horror movie to be “completely unoriginal and derivative”.
But if it’s a movie about someone watching paint dry and it’s “super interesting because it reveals something deep about our human nature and our relationship with the passage of time” then that’s… that’s not my thing.
Also I pay zero attention to movie critics. I don’t care about movies. That’s just what I think about them.
Depends.
If they are the “Ratatouille” kind of critic, knowing what they like, or what is good and serving as a “bar”, that can be a good reference if you are informed about their tastes.
But there is also a bunch of “high art film” that’s just boring, so if they insist that that is art or film or cinema and something more mundane but fun isn’t, because it doesn’t fulfill some arbitrary condition, that’s bad.
A horror movie critic after watching thousands of horror movies saying “The overall movie was meh, but that one thing about the monster or the way they did their camera work was cool and that’s why the movie was worth watching and if you are just watching for entertainment, not so much”. And the same person can judge a different horror movie to be “completely unoriginal and derivative”.
But if it’s a movie about someone watching paint dry and it’s “super interesting because it reveals something deep about our human nature and our relationship with the passage of time” then that’s… that’s not my thing.
Also I pay zero attention to movie critics. I don’t care about movies. That’s just what I think about them.