All thumbs™.
RogerEbert.com has switched over from the usual four star rating system to a mix of stars and thumbs, which makes for an interesting repurposing of the two digit approval system over which the critic got into a tiff with Disney. The thumbs, which have been sort of replaced by "See It/Skip It/Rent It" on the new incarnation of "At the Movies," weren't going to see air time with Bens Lyons and Mankiewicz -- Ebert and the late Gene Siskel's family share ownership of the trademark -- so I suppose it's good to see them making an appearance somewhere. Still, it raises an issue: The thumbs up/thumbs down were, love them or hate them, supposed to express the most basic breakdown of opinions on a movie: like it, dislike it, or split. Now they've been transformed into a kind of gradated system, in which two thumbs up is better than one...
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