Simon Dillon
Aug 29, 2023

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Thank you. I've never cared for marks out of ten, star ratings, and so forth, as they are absurdly reductive and lead to idiotic and maddenning circular discussions (why was this film a five, but this one a four, when you obviously prefer the four, etc). All critics worth their salt hate them. For example, Mark Kermode and Robbie Collin both recently laid into them on the Mark Kermode/Simon Mayo podcast, as they hate providing a star rating for their respective papers (the star rating is only online, not in the printed version, which in itself speaks volumes).

Obviously, I don't use them either. :)

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Simon Dillon
Simon Dillon

Written by Simon Dillon

Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com

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