IT SHOULDN’T HAPPEN TO A FILM JOURNALIST
Sep 20, 2019
2 minutes
Rating movies with a symbol, usually stars, goes all the way back to July 1928, when New York Daily film critic Irene Thirer began grading pictures on a scale of zero to three stars. Three meant ‘Excellent’, two ‘Good’, one ‘Mediocre’ and no stars at all signalled “the picture’s right bad”, wrote Thirer, seemingly peering into the future to 9 February 2018 and the release of .
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