Eliazabethtown: 'Not as Horrible as My Fellow Critics Said'

You sense a theme here?

"Hey, Elizabethtown Isn't That Bad" says Slate's homepage headline to David Edelstein's review

"Cameron Crowe's latest isn't as bad as you've heard, but it's still a desperate mess of a movie" says the Salon headline to Stephanie Zacharek's review

What's funny about these headlines is that they presume that a large number of readers will know that the latest Cameron Crowe picture received a brutal reception at the Toronto Film Festival before being re-cut. Wouldn't it make more sense to focus on whether the critic liked the movie now? Or am I underestimating the number of non-critics who know about the pre-release buzz?