There are a million and a half of them out there.
Of course I'm talking about entertainment reviews, talking heads weighing in on this new Ariana Grande album and that "Crazy Rich Asians" movie. You publish your take and enter the fray.
When we sat down with Detroit-based music journalist Gary Graff in October and asked him about his work, having the confidence to be yourself in your review writing was a big takeaway.
Honoring that, we don't want put any pressure on you to change the way you write your criticisms, but we thought a lot of what he said could help you get even better and applied to writing beyond just music reviews.
"You need to dig even deeper than you have. Yeah, you know what happened in the 90s, but you need to know what happened in the 1890s — or when we're talking about music, the 50s and 60s. Go listen to all those Beatles albums. Know who the Rolling Stones were. Know who Chuck Berry was.