Movie review embargos should not be allowed

Following the daily beasts leaked bad review, I feel that maybe movie review embargos shouldn't be allowed. Its anti consumer.

Maybe Superman is a great film, maybe it sucks. But the one review we have seen says it's bad and in a world with inflated ticket pricing and higher and higher cost of living, I'm glad it leaked because I've cancelled my pre booking.

I understand that we should not allow critica to sway our opinions on films, and there are many films I enjoy and would pay ticket price for that critics don't enjoy. But overall a general critical consensus gives a reasonable idea as to the product you are going to buy.

Superman is a product. It's a big plastic corporate product and the attitude of "just pay to watch the movie and make up your own mind" is anti consumer.

We deserve to have a rough idea as to whether the product we are going to buy is worth the money. We should be allowed to make informed opinions based on feedback from critics as a whole, or even just specific critics we trust. Or we have the right to totally ignore critics and entirely judge ourselves if we are going to spend money on a film.

But we should have the option. We should have the option to ignore critics.