Dumb, Meaningless Criticism

I'm sure Gosling's film isn't good, but if I hear this criticism once more I'm going to vomit:

Here he seems to be just imitating stuff he’s seen on the screen, not in life.

When movie work they get called "brilliant homages" to other films.  When they don't, the filmmaker is a imitator, a hack.  People routinely talk about how awful movies are -- what about the criticism -- which is in my opinion, worse.