Film critics and audiences don’t all the time see eye to eye – however not often have they appeared as divided as they’re over Reagan, a extremely flattering biopic of the Republican president launched simply months earlier than one other deeply polarised US election.
The movie, starring Dennis Quaid as Ronald Reagan, got here out final week and boasts an viewers score of 98 per cent on the Rotten Tomatoes web site. Nevertheless it impressed simply 21 per cent of critics.
Skilled reviewers largely trashed the movie as a clunky hagiography that omits a controversial chief’s flaws, whereas 1000’s of fan responses accused elitist critics of knocking an “uplifting” and “patriotic” movie due to their very own left-wing politics.
“You add the politics into this one, and unexpectedly it will get extraordinarily skewed,” agreed director Sean McNamara.
