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I am not really into the review culture. What do you think is the reason for the disparity?
There is imo freedom not to toe a "company line" when reviewers have their own channel in outlets like YouTube.
Speaking as someone who oversees a news room and who has worked with and talked with many critics, it's just not so that reviewers are asked to toe a company line, even informally or unconsciously. That completely invalidates their role. And in fact a negative review of something like The Last Jedi is actually likely to get more hits and shares than a positive review, though everything Star Wars gets a lot of hits anyway. Which is why there are so many articles and videos etc.
PS I am not in this case speaking of reviewers who work for companies associated with or owned by Disney. 
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I don't know what news room you work for, but it's an imperial fact there are topics and corporations news people cannot speak about.
I assume you mean empirical vs. royal, but given how likely you are to make grand and evidence-free pronouncements, maybe not.
Why does a newsroom need an overseer?....
Well, in part, to protect it from the kinds of unwonted influence that could otherwise compromise their editorial independence. Speaking for public radio at least, we take this kind of thing very seriously. (I can't find an emoji for earnest warmth.)
And let me stress that I am not here launching into any kind of disquisition or debate about journalism, simply saying that in my experience and in what I've read from professional critics, the goal for all of them is independence. It could simply be that all the critics who say they liked Last Jedi actually did.
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Feb 16, 2018 - 11:29 AM
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There are a few non teenage fan boy sounding droolers that reviewed Black Panther
Roger Moore, yeah, not that one;
https://rogersmovienation.com/2018/02/14/movie-review-say-it-loud-hes-black-panther-and-hes-proud/
"But whatever its cultural significance, it’s just passable entertainment, a noble attempt at waxing mythical that never, for one second, delivers that out-of-body giddiness that makes popcorn pictures of its ilk burst to life."
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Slant Keith Uhlich
https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/black-panther
"The tension between commerce and craftsmanship is a key facet of American pop cinema. But as the budgets for blockbuster tentpoles have gotten larger and the projects more risk-averse (with Marvel Studios and its parent company, Walt Disney Pictures, as Exhibit A overlords of the trend) it’s become much too easy to acclaim fleeting inspiration and shallow gesturing toward diversity and goodwill as some kind of apogee. There is no doubt that Coogler makes the most that he can out of this property. And it’s more than certain that Black Panther will give audiences, especially underrepresented ones, a vision of themselves that Hollywood historically denies. And still the film seems, even at its best, like an apex of lowered expectations."
Otherwise, I agree that Last Jedi was incredibly overpraised, baffling really.
I mean, it is nice to see characters you like, and some fine technical production, but the story is so-so, and it does drag on much too long. It is not a fun movie at all.
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Solium, please note that my posts are about movie critics (and all kinds of arts and entertainment commentators really). I'm not getting sucked into a journalism debate.
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Hey I only brought it up to give my position on critics cred, not to 'splain my job description!
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