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I certainly do disagree with his opinions, not just with the way he writes.

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In Reply to: Re: Saying they're mass market is meaningless. posted by jamesgarvin on April 3, 2006 at 10:11:20:

You can't look at a few reviews by both of them and conclude they have the same opinion. How many of Rosenbaum's reviews have you actually read? I've read hundreds, perhaps thousands by both of them, and it's overwhelmingly evident that they have very different tastes and attitudes. Which, again, is fine.
Reading the reviews tells the story, not stats for randomly sampled reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. Rosenbaum's reviews give me pleasure and offer insights into the medium, whereas Ebert's reviews do not. It's as simple as that.

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Re: I certainly do disagree with his opinions, not just with the way he writes. - jamesgarvin 15:34:30 04/03/06 (0)
"You can't look at a few reviews by both of them and conclude they have the same opinion."
Opinions and conclusions are two different animals. Their opinions may be different, but their conclusions, which are either to recommend the film or not, are, approximately 70% of the time, the same. Consequently, all three generally recommend the same films, most of the time. So I do not understand how Ebert recommends "mediocrity", and Rosenbaum and Sarris do not, when the latter two critics generally recommend the same films as Ebert.
I do not read Rosenbaum or Sarris with regularity, though I do read them on occasion. I have found that their conclusions generally agree with Ebert's.

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