Seems like they need to work on marketing, since critics really do like it! (90% on rotten tomatoes) This is the second time I've heard good things about this movie, but I still couldn't even google it easily (the first hits for Tar are about a 2020 Horror Movie about the La Brea Tar Pits).
Seems like they need to work on marketing, since critics really do like it! (90% on rotten tomatoes) This is the second time I've heard good things about this movie, but I still couldn't even google it easily (the first hits for Tar are about a 2020 Horror Movie about the La Brea Tar Pits).
Were movie critics always this insufferable? I feel like they always had different tastes but they used to at least treat going out to the theater like it was something that could maybe be fun
Tar is probably the first mainstream-ish film where the main characters are lesbians, yet the fact that they are lesbians is not the subject matter of the film. It would be a bit off to say that *this* film is unacceptably right-wing, wouldn't it?
The New Yorker reviewer actually called Tar "regressive" and "relentlessly conservative." He at least is being honest. The other reviewers are just embarrassed by the fact that they secretly agree with the film's implied politics.
But politics really aren't the center of the film, the critics just don't know of any other way to write about it.
Seems like they need to work on marketing, since critics really do like it! (90% on rotten tomatoes) This is the second time I've heard good things about this movie, but I still couldn't even google it easily (the first hits for Tar are about a 2020 Horror Movie about the La Brea Tar Pits).
It is a weird case- the critics all get that it is a masterpiece but describe it in a way that makes it sound tedious
Were movie critics always this insufferable? I feel like they always had different tastes but they used to at least treat going out to the theater like it was something that could maybe be fun
They seem to like a combination of acrid and "gotcha": e.g. "The Phantom Thread". This bears similar hallmarks.
Lol, that certainly describes the first review on rottentomatoes from the Atlantic:
"The film does tell its story in an elliptical, at times confounding way, but that stylistic choice shouldnтАЩt be mistaken for moral indecision."
^ and that's from a positive review!
Tar is probably the first mainstream-ish film where the main characters are lesbians, yet the fact that they are lesbians is not the subject matter of the film. It would be a bit off to say that *this* film is unacceptably right-wing, wouldn't it?
The New Yorker reviewer actually called Tar "regressive" and "relentlessly conservative." He at least is being honest. The other reviewers are just embarrassed by the fact that they secretly agree with the film's implied politics.
But politics really aren't the center of the film, the critics just don't know of any other way to write about it.