People who say "politics isn't relevant to film criticism" don't understand criticism
It's like if you only evaluated Dr Strangelove by saying "good performances, funny script, loved Kubrick's direction" and you didn't talk extensively about how the film portrays Cold War paranoia to a tee and satirizes the idea of mutually assured destruction. Highlighting a film's cultural and political relevance is actually good.
Yes, but there is a massive difference between observing the political messages a film makes, and condemning a film for containing political messages you don't like. The problem is that most Rotten Tomatos film critics - as evidenced by the content of their reviews - are giving the film bad ratings
because it's politics don't agree with their narrow-minded worldview.
This is again the classic problem with the far left/social justice crowd - they're all for diversity, except for diversity of opinion and intellect. Anything that challenges their identity politics narrative is to be labeled, slandered and shunned in their eyes.
