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‘Kong: Skull Island’ Director Fires a Shot at Negativity-for-Clicks Movie Criticism

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“I love film criticism and I love reading negative reviews if the author makes compelling and well written arguments.”

You’ve probably noticed that a good deal of internet movie criticism leans heavily on negativity, which seems to get a lot more attention and encourage a whole lot more clicks than positivity these days. Negative film articles and videos get shared all over the internet and rack up the views, while positive ones often fall by the wayside.

If you’re unsure what I mean, just check the numbers on any of those “everything wrong with…” videos that hit YouTube every time a new movie comes out. The videos come courtesy of CinemaSins, and Kong: Skull Island was recently the subject of its own “everything wrong with” video.

Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts doesn’t mind his movie being criticized, but he did take to Twitter today in the wake of the video hitting to address something that very much needs to be addressed about modern film criticism. Too many people on the internet, Vogt-Roberts feels, are just “trolling the art form we love and profiting from it while dumbing the conversation.”

“I just wanted to point out why these videos are infuriating,” Vogt-Roberts tweeted. “They’re often just wrong or think they’re smarter than you. It just makes me sad they get so many views / contribute to the dumbing down of cinema as they syphon other people’s work for their own gain.”

In order to illustrate his gripe with this kind of reductive criticism, Vogt-Roberts highlighted a handful of specific points made about Kong: Skull Island by the CinemaSins video. In doing so, he perfectly showed just how idiotic, misinformed and foolishly nitpicky those types of videos are in their quest to be as negative as possible.

We wanted to share the thread with you because we think it’s a very important one.

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Intense New ‘The Dog Stars’ Trailer Warns to Fear the Survivors Post-Apocalypse

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The new trailer for epic survival thriller The Dog Stars warns to fear the survivors of the apocalypse.

Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein), Josh Brolin (Weapons), and Margaret Qualley (The Substance) try to maintain their humanity in the intense new trailer for Ridley Scott‘s survival thriller, releasing in theaters on August 28, 2026.

The film is “set in a world where survival is instinct, but humanity is a choice.

“Ridley Scott tells the story of Hig, a young pilot who, together with a military survivalist, Bangley, has carved out an efficient but isolated homestead in a brutal post-apocalyptic world until a mysterious radio transmission spurs Hig to venture into the unknown in search of the hope and humanity he still believes exists.”

Guy Pearce, Benedict Wong, and Allison Janney also star.

The film is based on Peter Heller’s bestselling novel and written by Mark L. Smith (Overlord, The Revenant) and produced by Ridley Scott, Michael Pruss, Mark L. Smith, and Cliff Roberts.

Check out the new trailer and poster below, which emphasize the thrills in the upcoming survival thriller. But it’s one that’s also filled with hope.

“I think people will be surprised and engaged, actually. I would say, hmm… charmed as well,” Scott says of the film. “Although, there is some violence.”

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