Film Criticism

Lists have become one of the most prevalent forms of content creation on the internet. It is one of the easiest and most inexpensive formats to procure, but it is also the shallowest and easiest to consume. The list has also become a mainstay on film blogs and blogs in general, and is indicative of bloggers’ inability to produce more meaningful content.

2013 will see several new domestic theatrical releases directed by prominent South Korean directors. For the last decade, Park Chan-wook, Kim Jee-woon, and Bong Joon-ho have become some of the most prominent filmmakers in their country, and in the American tradition, have been invited to bring their talents to the States.

With the new Sight & Sound poll of critics’ 50 Greatest Films of All Time now published for 2012, the primary discussion has centered around Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo unseating Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane for the first time since 1962.

Rotten tomato movie reviews can be an excellent film aggregation source to help determine the consensus of a film and to decide whether a film is worth your time. However, the site as a whole aggregates reviews from several websites and film critics, as well as individual users.