Richard Brody

@tnyfrontrow

I am the movies editor for Goings On About Town and the author of “Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard.”

73 024Followers

3 395Following

46 785Posts total

351.6KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

3 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views23 281this account2 392median for 10K–100K

Reach, %31.88%this account7.18%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.15%this account1.50%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	23 281	2 392	9.73×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	31.88%	7.18%	4.44×
Engagement rate	1.15%	1.50%	0.77×

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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

307.5K28 Aug

23.3K

20.9K

Last 3 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.73%28 Aug

2.01%

1.15%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.50%.

What the audience does

Likes69.6%2 694 in total

Reposts3.2%122 in total

Replies0.9%33 in total

Quotes2.5%98 in total

Bookmarks23.8%922 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.

Latest posts

@tnyfrontrow Well, Richard, I don't disagree, but I do feel that one must account for films that are so overtly laden with winking metaphor and allegories to literature, media, and psychology. If a filmmaker is actively inviting analysis, the curious critic can indulge without me 20.9K views · 238 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 28 Aug 2026 This gets back to what we were talking about a few weeks ago: the drive of critics to validate criticism by assertions of social importance, so the message is both supposed to be a virtuous one and everything in the film is supposed to line up in support of it? Anti-art. 23.3K views · 441 likes · 19 reposts · 3 replies 28 Aug 2026 Not disputing opinions, to each their own, but deep, granular analysis is anti-art—a process that, if our French friends taught us anything, is designed to find the self-contradiction in everything. No theses. As Godard said, don't worry about comprendre, it's enough to prendre. 307.5K views · 2K likes · 102 reposts · 28 replies 28 Aug 2026