Good feedback is rare. It can take a long time to find people who know how to provide useful criticism, instead of simply telling you all the things they think are wrong with you or whatever youve made. A good critic spends as much energy describing what something is, as well as what it isnt. Good criticism serves one purpose: to give the creator of the work more perspective and help make their next set of choices. Bad criticism uses the opportunity provided by someone elses work to make the critic feel smart, superior or better about themselves: things that have nothing to do with helping the recipient of the critique (Or in the case of movie reviews, the reader of the critique): hence the conflict. Given the difficultly of creative work, giving and receiving useful feedback should be an important part of what designers, writers, programmers and others are taught to do. So who are you? Think about this. And what is with all the conflict?