Hold on tight. Another useless film from somebody else’s adolescence has been declared a classic. We have, in this place, already written about the series of ho-hum 1980s flicks — The Goonies stands out — that have gained underserved protected status in the decades after release.
It seems the urge for popular re-evaluation has now reached the current century. “Did this entirely dreadful film somehow become a classic and nobody told me?” Guy Lodge, critic for Variety and others, writes on the social. The tweet refers to a recent article in Entertainment Weekly. “A holiday diamond in the rough: An oral history of The Family Stone,” the headline above Samantha Highfill’s piece promises.