Stranger with a Blog. Salary: $0 

You get busted at the screening room for trying to impersonate a "real critic." You're tenderly shown out before the lights even dim.

Film Lover Plus. Salary: $12,000 

You flaunt your press pass as you saunter into a complete days screening at the New York Film Festival. On the way out, you grumble about having to now write three film reviews in one night. But don't worry, your car was towed for unpaid parking tickets so you won't get home in time to write any of them anyway. Yay...?

Constructive Critic. Salary: $27,000 

You revel in the emotional email you just got from a producer, griping about your vicious pan of his latest film. This is the same producer who turned you down for a job just a few years ago. Revenge is sweet.

Film "Journalist." Salary: $42,000 

You emerge from a screening of an amazing film—the best you've seen in years. You excitedly whip up a glowing review of the film in hopes of convincing people to run out and see it. Looking around you, you see the other film goers doing it too. Everybody's a critic...literally.

Cream of the Crop. Salary: $60,000 

A major publishing company wants to buy the rights to the film reviews on your blog and assemble them into a bestselling book for you. The book's a hit and they want to make a movie out of your life story as one of the world's most famous film critics. The best part? You get to pick the lead actor who plays you. (Please don't pick Benedict Cumberbatch.)