i saw a thing abt how that film mother! was called “the worst film of the century” and got curious, so i went to rotten tomatoes only to discover that review was by rex reed and the film is actually majority fresh and y’all i rlly don’t give two shits abt that film but i am just rolling that somebody decided to take that man seriously 

like a) you were in myra breckinridge how did that not just fuckin instakill your career as a film critic. how could anyone take your opinion seriously after that. might as well hire tommy wiseau to write reviews for you 

b) he once wrote a review that suggested that south koreans make bad films bc they eat kimchi (?????) (like honest to god y’all that’s such a weird racist take i’m not even mad i’m just fucking puzzled) 

c) the last time he was relevant was when he complained abt melissa mccarthy being fat and everybdy with a shred of decency said “man, fuck that guy”

d) he has multiple times been called on the carpet for literally not knowing what happened in a film he reviewed. i don’t mean “he didn’t get it” i mean he couldn’t even write an accurate synopsis, presumably bc he was too busy reading his own reviews while jackin it (his mother! review actually starts out by quoting what he apparently thought was a super sick burn from his review of black swan). he once walked out of a film 20min in and then proceeded to inaccurately review the rest of it anyway (even tho it was an anthology of short films packed together) 

e) he calls other reviewers “pretentious” for trying to analyze the film (which for those of you keeping score at home is literally their jobs) 

f) his own review is basically completely bereft of all substance. he complains that aronofsky is pretentious and stealing from fellini/polanski/kubrick (to which i’m just gonna point to that jean-luc godard quote abt originality and call it a day here). he complains abt other reviewers being pretentious by actually uhhhh reviewing the fucking film. he doesn’t like the film bc it’s bad, except for the cinematography (the only like...actual thing of substance he mentions abt the film at all) 

tl;dr i have 0 interest in the film but i have a theory rex reed is actually a disgruntled filmmaker’s strawman critic made flesh