I understand that, but Xiayun seemed to be implying that people had changed their reviews after it came out. While the overall score might not be as reliable as newer films, you can still compare specific reviewers. It won't help in a quantitative analysis but can help get a sense of how certain reviewers see each. And it's still fascinating how many major reviewers gave Titanic a marginal or moderate thumbs up and not a rave.

Not an official review, but:


"I'm not going to josh you and say my holy-mother-of-God comment could have meant I hated The New World, but I can't tell a lie. The film is outstanding. Also a difficult film but insanely rewarding if you give yourself over to it. Everyone I know who's seen it either loves it through and through (like Nick and I) or loves only the beginning and the end. They seem to have problems with the middle stretch, probably because the film loses a little bit of its aesthetic elasticity during this part, but it makes sense given the cultural vice Pocahontas is put in."

From Ed at Slant, apparently...

Munich, Kong and The Producers are all Universal (well... Munich is Universal/Dreamworks). The Producers may make $100 million, but it won't do that until after it is released on Jan 13th (right?) and I believe the ballots are due the most week (and most are turned in even earlier. So box office can't really have too much of an effect on Producers.

Kong + Producers won't happen on the same ballot, so I think it boils down to getting two "musical/comedy" films nominated vs a larger box office movie. Two "remakes" and two both fantasy and musical has been awarded in the last few years pretty well... I dunno.

Personally, I think the Memoirs spot is the weak one at this particular moment and I feel that would be replaced by a bigger production, not a musical.

Since Memoirs isn't dead at the moment, it's an uphill battle for both movies.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/new_world/

67%. Same number of reviews as Munich has right now (6) and very similar grades.

Looks good. Dissention often means good things for a movie when looking at the tomatometer, as far as I'm concerned. I'm more wary of the movies that maintain over 90%, like the overrated Spiderman 2, Hero and Million Dollar Baby. In fact, those King Kong raves are starting to worry me .

82% now with a 7.7 average rating. Pretty good, and it also shares another similarity with Munich in that Variety gave both negative reviews.

So true!!

Its Metacritic score is 73, with 6 reviews... not bad at all, so far (better than I expected at least)..