Scorsese Is Wrong: Rotten Tomatoes Isn’t Ruining Movies, And Film Criticism Is ‘Better Than Ever’

Richard Brody, responding to the great director’s dyspeptic guest column in The Hollywood Reporter, argues that the Internet has made criticism more democratic and often better-informed, that the aggregated critical scores on Rotten Tomatoes really do help identify good new films, the best of which rival anything from Scorsese’s heyday, and that Scorsese’s unhappiness arises from a major generational shift.