Here's an excerpt from a movie review: "A masterpiece of humanist cinema, forming a magnificant diptych."
Here's another excerpt from a movie review: "A sprawling, shapeless film...doesn't hold back on cliched characters."
The people behind the first movie must be celebrating and the ones behind the second must be depressed, right?
No, because these are reviews for the same film ("Letters from Iwo Jima"). The rave was from the Observer, the knock from the Independent on Sunday.
Here's another one, this time reviews for a performance by Nelly Furtado: "She packs a mighty and beautifully accurate live vocal punch," says the Daily Telegraph; "A unimaginative yawnfest," says the Guardian.
A good lesson for us: good or bad, it's only an opinion.