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My own opinion is that when a bunch of critics pan a film - but several defy the trend and praise it, there may be something very interesting at hand. In the case of this film, which I thought was wonderful (obviously), I think there will be a backlash toward the positive. But if I hadn't seen the
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Hi there. I saw your corrections for the critical response page. I'm fine with keeping the references to metacritic and rottentomatoes and thank you for respecting my inclusion of the positive quotes. If people want the negative reviews, they are unfortunately, all too easy to find. This was a good
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ignore what has been said about the film. If it were only one bad review in a sea of praise, perhaps - but look at the comments from the major press that we didn't use:
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