Sean Burns
@SeanMBurns · Boston, MA · joined 22 Oct 2008
Film Critic. Projectionalist. “Snide gatekeeper.”
10 131Followers
619Following
882Posts total
192.8KViews on collected posts
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See you next Tuesday! https://t.co/CDpXDWE5PI
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Happy LOVE AND THEFT Day. https://t.co/YItJJYY3c5
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Free to all at the Spliced Personality Substack this week is my review of FILIPIÑANA. Rafael Manuel’s extraordinary debut won the Narrative Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Independent Film Festival Boston and opens today at the Brattle. https://t.co/zaGtBNLN9u https://t.co/YckRqR
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September 10th, 2001 was the first night I spent alone in a new apartment I’d moved into over the weekend. I stayed up way too late watching MAGNOLIA for the millionth time and when I woke up the world had changed.
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Watch it the way it was made to be seen: while folding laundry and checking your phone.
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THE WEIGHT (2026, McKinley, ***1/2) Depression-era gold heist movie with Ethan Hawke giving a Clint Eastwood performance and Russell Crowe as a crooked warden. Yeah, pretty much designed for me in a lab.
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“I never knew the old Vienna before the war with its Strauss music, its glamour and easy charm. Constantinople suited me better…”
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I also wrote about going to see KATY PERRY: PART OF ME back in the summer of 2012. https://t.co/qR1SbIpRjs
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At WBUR this week I wrote about the witty wonders of THE THIRD MAN, which screens this weekend on a gorgeous new 35mm print at the Harvard Film Archive. https://t.co/8sxHT9h93m
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Over at the Spliced Personality Substack this week I wrote about Katy Perry's new IMAX concert movie and why I wish Frederick Wiseman could have gone on tour with a pop star. https://t.co/xQYos2glVQ https://t.co/M9uSMWaVGw
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@SeanMBurns Sean Fennessey is notably the first ever employee to not agree 100% with 100% of his boss’s decisions
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@SeanMBurns Easy explanation: Looking at the name of the guy whose name is even higher on the masthead
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@SeanMBurns You guys love getting in your high horse over this but what exactly is he supposed to do?
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“How else do you explain a guy whose name is near the tippy top of The Ringer's masthead saying, ‘it's not my decision,’ when asked why he doesn't prevent a chatbot from puppeteering Roger Ebert's corpse on a podcast he co-hosts?” https://t.co/AV44ZXfEBO
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So I'm hanging out a shingle in newsletter land. Two reviews a week. Seven bucks a month. As Alfred E. Neuman would say, "Cheap!" Details below. https://t.co/QogZzTIC3x https://t.co/PdgLZuyxVS
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Against accounts of the same size
14 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.
Median views1 506this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %14.86%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %1.60%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 1 506 | 924 | 1.63× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 14.86% | 3.62% | 4.11× |
| Engagement rate | 1.60% | 1.52% | 1.05× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
114.8K1 Sep
3.4K
7K
5.8K
1.5K2 Sep
1.5K
863
1K
7943 Sep
531
16.8K10 Sep
80811 Sep
1.6K
69713 Sep
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.54%1 Sep
1.66%
1.80%
1.54%
0.40%2 Sep
0.53%
0.58%
1.27%
3.65%3 Sep
3.39%
5.51%10 Sep
0.37%11 Sep
9.43%
1.72%13 Sep
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
Likes81.6%2 008 in total
Reposts2.8%69 in total
Replies1.8%44 in total
Quotes0.5%12 in total
Bookmarks13.3%327 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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