Better than it has any right to be
Films audiences rate far above what their emotional shape predicts. The twenty readings can see what a film is about. They cannot see whether it is any good at it, and this is the gap.
Films audiences rate far higher than their emotional shape would suggest. Whatever is doing the work in these -- timing, performance, the cut, whether the joke lands -- is the part no measurement reaches.
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