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"Audiences are dumber." Says the filmmaker Paul Schrader.

Schrader's last half dozen films were rated across the spectrum by critics on RT, middling by audiences, and barely broke even in aggregate. The idea that this is done combination of RT and dumber audiences' fault is a possibility but equally possible is that he just doesn't know how to make movies for modern audiences.



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