I don't think there's any dishonesty. The reviewers and readership symbiosis of the biggest conglomerates follow a certain group-think. Many of them hate QTE and cinematics, so to me, there's zero surprise about the spread of review scores, nor which publications have staff reviewers who started very early on that bandwagon. I did set that expectation very early in this thread.
The suspense is killing me, I can't wait to play it and see what all the fuss is about. I expect an average game, but hey, I really loved Knack and it has 54 on metacritic, so anything is possible.
I think we'll have a lot of this: The reviewers who disagree with my opinions are biased or shills, the reviewers who agree are honest and professional.