Assignment Six - Critiquing a Media Critic

 Everyone's a Critic

When you and you family gather around the television at night, scrolling through the channels, trying to pick a movie, how do you decide what to watch? I know my family's go to is the movie review tool, Rotten Tomatoes. This is the first thing that popped into my mind when I read the word critic. Rotten tomatoes is a site that reviews, or critiques, movies and gives viewers their opinion on what to or not to watch. Therefore, I started thinking about who writes these reviews, and thought it would be a perfect example of a media critic. That brings us to the critic I will be discussing today, Jacqueline Coley. 

Before her time with Rotten Tomatoes, Jacqueline worked as a freelance journalist and critic for film, often working with festivals. This background led her o her position within Rotten Tomatoes. She "is an Editor at Rotten Tomatoes primarily covering independent films, festivals, and the awards season." She has a passion for film and it is displayed through her work as she covers all things entertainment for the website. Her input has most recently been used with the awards season, casting her predictions and reviewing the nominations the are up for each award. She is also seen writing about movies that celebrate "Black Joy" and what to expect at upcoming film festivals. Scrolling through her online portfolio, I am seeing there isn't much she won't write about, and this makes her great!

The video above shows some work she did for Black History Month, and you can just see her passion for her work in this video. She looks at EVERYTHING. By this, I mean that you can tell she has all the facts when she is writing about her topics.