If you're over 20 and still caught up in "the magic of movies," you've been developmentally and politically left behind.
Nothing impresses me more than an ambitious movie. But movies are mostly junk. So is film writing. We are the most over-entertained, hedonist generation that has ever existed. 'Reviews' concentrate on "I like it" or "I didn't like it." These are of little worth, because really Who cares?. Only analysis or insight are revealing or valuable.
Films become interesting when a writer zooms out and includes a consideration of their era and audience, or stays within the film and extracts a codex of ideas, for a richer reading. Only the odd exception to conventional, mass film making are of interest.
Junky reviews say more about the reviewer than the movie's ideas, and bad movie writing is abundant.
