Between the (Mutant) Lines

So, the New York Times summer movie preview by Dave Kehr is out and in it the three sentence summary of X-Men:The Last Stand concludes with this:

"The direction is in the sure hands of Brett Ratner ("Red Dragon")."

Is this a snarky diss only available to readers in the know ('he who has eyes to see' and all o that') or is this just a straight up opinion. I'm opting for the former and I love Kehr all the more for it. If I'm wrong I don't want to know.