(I mean, sure, there’s probably a person somewhere with that name, but he didn’t work on The Shape of Water.) Also, the screenplay was co-written by Vanessa Taylor. To be clear, Guillermo del Toro directed The Shape of Water. Benicio del Toro has been in a number of movies, including The Last Jedi. ![]() Because today, The Observer (where Reed presumably works without an editor or any sort of proofreader whatsoever) published his review of The Shape of Water. Or as he calls it, Benecio del Toro’s The Shape of Water. If you were already wondering how this 79-year-old sexist miscreant still has a job, just you wait. He wrote that she was a “female hippo,” “obese and obnoxious,” and “tractor-sized.” You might also know Reed from his review of Identity Thief, which was less a review of the movie that it was of Melissa McCarthy’s weight. When Reed reviewed V/H/S/2 in 2013, his headline called it “Unwatchable From Start To Finish,” despite the fact that he left after 20 minutes. The five kids in the cabin are innocent pawns to test the mechanics of the game.” That is … not the plot of this movie. Worse, in describing the twist of the film, he writes, “It’s all part of an elaborate video game that allows paying customers to watch real people slaughtered according to the horror of choice. He says the characters don’t notice the hidden cameras in the house. First, he described one moment where “vampires circle the moon and suck the hot stud’s blood.” Yeah, that didn’t happen. I don’t know if he skipped it entirely or maybe fell asleep halfway through, but this isn’t a matter of me not agreeing with his opinion of the movie (to which he bestowed just one star) or anything like that. You might remember Reed’s ineptness from a few years ago, when he reviewed Cabin in the Woods, despite definitely not having watched the movie. But Rex Reed of The Observer takes being bad at his job to a whole new level. ![]() Sometimes a critic just wants to be a detractor, sometimes they can’t help writing grossly sexist bullcrap. ![]() There are a lot of bad film critics out there.
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