Title: Maltin's Movie Guide
Review: If your taste in movies runs to the safe, the predictable, the formulaic, the mainstream, the unadventurous, the commercial, then this is definitely the movie guide for you. Maltin is the kind of conservative movie "critic"--I use the word for lack of another--who thinks dreadful big budget trash like Titanic constitutes great movie-making. He likes his movies to do good box office, and to be heartwarmingly decent and uplifting (that is, banal) in the good old Hollywood tradition. Any hint of the subversive--well, forget about it! Bottom line is, if you want intelligent, perceptive assessments of contemporary films, then I suggest you look elsewhere.
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