re: America (Dinesh DSouza) has a 0% from top critics on RT

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I can see the entertainment value in that, but that's usually not my cup of tea. I tend to rank that up there with watching skateboarders bust their asses on stairs. At some point it's just too much, regardless of how funny.

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Fair enough.

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Again...the difference in ratings should not be a surprise. The vast majority of people working in entertainment and media lean left, so work which leans left will be more likely to be viewed positively than work that leans right.

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But if the job of the critic is to be unbiased and only judge the movie based on it as a film experience, and we have ratings like this, then we can call into question to whole of the practice itself. At least that's a partial victory.

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So when I see ratings like this (IC Truth so high, Dinesh's thing so low) I assume the truth is somewhere in the middle with numbers being skewed because of the message of both.

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Probably. But still this

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so work which leans left will be more likely to be viewed positively than work that leans right.

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should at least continually be brought up. And that seems to be the premise of thread.

But what does this mean or film as a whole. Can we trust an honest assessment of critics? (In most cases, maybe).

Is there such a thing as "right leaning" cinema and what does it look like? Maybe too big for this thread, maybe not interesting for the board, but still a good place to go while keeping politics involved. As much as political discussion becomes problematic/chaotic, the only way to shape better discourse is to shape the discussion rather than shying away from it.