You put a ton of work into this essay without enough pay out from readers.

I have so many tips for you, I can't go through them all. But you deserve to give this essay another 3 passess.

1. Title, I think it'd do better to be specific about the movie you're talking about or mention the actors/director.

Your subtitle gives away the answer your question... you don't want to answer the title's question until people click through.

The title also doesn't pay off, this isn't really #1 lesson.

This is more like, the #1 tip I learned from Sam Levinson's Malcolm & Marrie.

2. All your Sub Headers are descriptive. You want to give actionable advice. Right now, all your subheads add 0 information, and end up being redundant.

(I don't think you used Ai for this article but you should have. But when you do, Ai gives horrible advice about subheads.)

3. Throw this into claude and ask it for advice.

Don't ask it to rewrite instead, "I'm going to publish this on medium. Give me 10 suggestions on how to improve this piece." Once you've finished making the changes you think it was correct about, ask it for headlines and subtitles.

That's my advice. You have tons of good info here, it deserves to be packaged better.