Faced with many questions (i.e.: insults), we wanted to answer the big question: can critics really “kill” films?
Why do so many people hate film critics? When they don’t really care (and frankly that’s their right), a good portion of people on the internet like to explain in the comments of articles and videos, and on social networks, how much they don’t like criticism. For what ? Small sample of what we have the opportunity to read, on a daily basis, on Ecran Large:
- criticism is useless
- the critics say anything
- critics never like anything and when they prove us wrong with a ton of examples, they are lying
- the reviews are too mean (“You don’t like anything, you bitter people!”)
- except when they are too nice (“We know very well that we are paying you to say that!”)
- critics are disconnected from the real audience
- no one cares about the criticism, the proof: people come to tell us 1 to 35 times a week
It only takes a few big films that are a hit at the box office despite very negative reviews (randomly: Super Mario Galaxy et Michaelhuge success in 2026) or a small Cannes Festival (“look at all these boring arthouse films on which the critics are touching while normal people will never go see a Hungarian silent film of 3h45!”), to put a coin back in the machine.
And very often, an argument emerges: critics would harm the films and could outright “kill” themby preventing them from going to theaters. Can we seriously defend this idea? We talk about it in video, to share our little opinion on the issue.
