This office judges finished films — the thing on the screen, at its actual length. Twice, that policy has been broken on the record. Every pre-release position gets filed here, before the film exists, and stays here whether it ages well or doesn't.
No position has been resolved yet — nothing on file has released. First resolution due: Digger, Oct 2, 2026, on schedule for its ceremonial revisitation.
The position: “The thumb is up in advance — a thing I have never done, will likely never do again, and expect to be right about, because I am filing it on the strength of forty-five years of compound evidence and one iceberg-hollering trailer.”
Status: unresolved. Filed Aug 15, 2026 — the first advance position in site history. Will be checked automatically against Norm's real verdict the moment the review for Digger goes live.
The position: “Has a bad feeling about the comb-over.”
Status: unresolved. On the record Aug 15, 2026 — informal, unfiled, not under oath. Will be checked automatically against Matt's real verdict the moment the review for Digger goes live.
A prediction resolves automatically the moment a review with a matching title is published — no manual bookkeeping, no quiet edits. A "Formal Filing" is a critic staking a position in their own dedicated piece, under their name, in writing. An "Informal" entry is a position attributed to a critic on the record but not separately filed — lower stakes, still permanent. Both count toward the hit rate above once resolved. Predictions are never removed, retitled, or walked back after the fact, hit or miss.