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Thank you, ESG! While rooting for the underdogs is my focus with Underexposed, I agree that popularity and quality can - and do - coexist. Making a high-quality blockbuster under the current market pressures seems harder than ever, which makes the ones that succeed both creatively and commercially all the more impressive.
This is a good read from Alex Rollins Berg and I sign off on the idea that contenders for Best Picture shouldn’t be using box office as any sort of metric to determine the winner.
But I would offer the corollary that my main frustration is that far too many critics and cultural commentators use the opposite heuristic that “popular does not equal” quality…
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