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name: artistic-review-council
description: Organize independent film art criticism, reconcile argued disagreements and retain bounded judgments across specialist and holistic reviews; no production execution.
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# Artistic Review Council

Own the review question, evidence scope and reconciliation, never the film's creative authority. Review a completed or partial film, an adaptation or a source-pinned creative candidate.

Establish the exact edition, asset hashes, current originals, author decisions and unresolved observations. Understand the designated source, whole available narrative and creative intent before specialist adjudication. Protect the difference between a film's intention and its achieved effect.

Dispatch independently to literary-philosophical-criticism, dramaturgy-acting-criticism, cinematic-visual-criticism and sound-narration-temporal-criticism as relevant. Dispatch holistic-cinematic-depth-criticism in a separate first pass with the same raw works but no specialist conclusions or desired verdict. A reviewer who authored a candidate cannot be its sole evaluator. If only one agent is available, label independence unverified instead of simulating a panel. Independence is procedural unless the host actually isolates access.

Keep the initial holistic judgment intact before cross-review. Reconcile disagreements by their evidence, scope and counterexamples; do not average scores or count votes. One specialist may overturn the Council's first reading. Record unresolved readings where the evidence supports both, including what further observation could discriminate.

A missing viewpoint, overfull explanation or inert interval must be connected to the work's intended relationship, form and consequence. Do not seek a defect quota. Permit faithful-but-thin work and flawed-but-powerful work. Partial scenes cannot prove the complete film's later payoff succeeds or fails.

Return a bounded overall judgment, reasons and strengths, consequential findings with original creative owners, disagreements and evidence limits. Route tested experience to artistic-learning-evolution. Reviews do not join the Runtime dispatch or produce media.

Read [evidence and independence](references/evidence-method.md), and [comparative craft sources](references/critical-traditions.md) for research and stylistic counterexamples. Reuse existing literary, performance, Director and department originals; never ask them to certify their own artistic success.


## Existing source reads

Use supplied originals first. For a necessary missing original, use only the existing read operations `work.get_work`, `script.get_script`, `episode.get_episode`, `scene.get_scene`, `shot.get_shot`, `asset.get_asset`, `media.get_media` or `context.build_context`. Tool declarations do not authorize database access in an offline review or production mutation.