Reviewers Should Give Factual Summary of Film

Mr. Black,
    Please ask your film reviewers to give a brief factual summary of the films they review. It seems likely that most if not all of the people who read the film reviews want to know what the films are about more than anything else. That information is rarely found in the Chronicle anymore. In Marc Savlov's review of Three ... Extremes [Film Listings, Oct. 28], he gives it 3.5 stars and is full of flowery praise and bullshit rhetoric that does the typical reader no good whatsoever. It would have been very helpful if he had said that the dreadfully sick and dark film "features a psycho bitch who makes dumplings out of human embryos." He could have saved a lot of people the trouble of wasting their time and money. The fact that such a sick and disgusting film is taken seriously and applauded by your “critic” is a sad commentary on the state of our so-very-f'd-up (so-called) civilization.