...and now for something completely different...

I had a random thought the other day that is just now making it to paper... binary?

Movie critics: What's up with them? For the most part, they are a reasonably reliable lot, but sometimes I wonder about just how they arrive at their findings.

My thought was this: do some critics give bad reviews to good movies and good reviews to bad movies because they think that doing so will make them appear more intelligent? Do they think that by making a review that countermands general thinking that us mortals will assume that we missed something? I'm firing from the hip here...
hmm...
Is this at all related to the phenomenon of those who praise Stalin (rot in hell) for being 'nuanced'?