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Originally posted by: greencapt
The rule of big movies tends to be, at least here in the States, that if the movie is known already to be a stinker there will be NO advance screenings so that the critics will have no time to flame it in advance.
Not always. Since "Psycho" Hitchcock didn't allow advanced screenings of his movies (kinda obvious why on Psycho's case). I think David Lynch didn't allow either, and I've heard of a few good films who also didn't - I can't remember which ones.