The Movie Critic | Quentin Tarantino

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by Just_Discovered_3D

That'd be interesting as I know of her for two reasons: her sensationalized statement about Nixon's election, and her screeds against Hollywood fetishizing hyperviolence.

Another critic who helped form the "rule of thumb" that the more the critics like a film, the more Middle America dislikes it (and vice-versa)?

There's industry scuttlebutt that Warren Beatty intentionally set her up to fail in her studio consulting gig. I think Biskind goes into it in his book, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls , which, while I'll admit is entertaining, came across like a tabloid parade of everyone's dirty laundry.