> So much of this culture war jockeying exists purely online, to sustain an infrastructure of monetized outrage that is increasingly preoccupied with Western chauvinism, racism, and just plain antisocial weirdness.

It's still Nolan. He is still a very respected director with amazing movies. I think people don't trust the media anymore and are starting to feel forced to check things for themselves, and I think that's what's happening here.

In my humble opinion, what's going to say whether the "backslash failed" or not is the numbers and reviews after a few weeks. We shall see

Edit: After reading the entire article (Thanks, user with the archive link), there is a lot of unrealistic exaggerations used as arguments, like tickets being sold for 1K USD, which is just absurd, and writing like "I myself travelled about an hour-and-change round-trip only to not see it." which makes no sense. Honestly, that makes me question the actual truthfulness of the things written in this article as facts. That said, from a reasonable perspective, I think my original point is still valid.