Okay, you've refuted my point, now bring it home and illustrate your point: why doesn't it cut it? Reviewers are a totally different animal and orthogonal to m

Okay, you've refuted my point, now bring it home and illustrate your point: why doesn't it cut it? Reviewers are a totally different animal and orthogonal to my point; I'm not arguing that reviews should cease. You're talking to a guy who respects film reviewers individually and recognizes patterns and traits of certain reviewers (like Ebert or Travers or Tom Long, who I dearly miss in retirement -- if I were on the fence for any film in the last decade I read Tom), so I definitely value review as an industry. Hell, Broadway might argue review is an essential part of the industry, I reckon, since there are many people who wait for the Times to review a play before buying tickets.