You wouldn't know what he is reviewing since you haven't read the review. He is not "reviewing a culture view" of anything, he is putting the film in a context (sounding like a broken record here.) Reviewers do this all the time. He didn't spend the entire movie talking about the...
Why not? The reviewer is establishing a context, and like it or not, that is an accurate description of the context of this release for a lot of people. I read the entire review, which is rather short and shallow actually, and doesn't give me a good sense of the picture. But the opening...