Ranting to /dev/null

A good rule of thumb

Mr. Sullivan currently has a few people besides himself writing for his blog - not sure why - but one of them who goes by "Ross" wrote what should be a truism of movie reviews:

"Anytime a critic praises a director for pushing any movie -- let alone a low-budget thriller -- "into the abstract," you know you've entered the realm of the lousy-but-pretentious, which is not a particularly fun place to spend a Saturday night."