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djross
Criticker Zealot - 5330 Film Ratings
Member Since: 16 Apr 2006
10 Game Ratings
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Age: 53
TCI: not enough ratings
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Bio: Films receiving a score between 91 and 100 are considered to be a masterpiece.
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See also: https://www.academia.edu/94550175/Moving_Images_A_Personal_Record

more Recent Ratings

45 34% The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) - Rated 23 Apr 2024
"Looking back at this twenty-five years later, it really seems like a parade of young stars who would all stick around for a long time to come, but Matt Damon, Jude Law and Philip Seymour Hoffman undoubtedly leave stronger impressions than Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett. The general thrust of the narrative seems predictable from the get go, but the particulars of how it unfolds still more or less hold the viewer’s interest, although it does lose a bit of steam as it winds down."
55 53% Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) - Rated 21 Apr 2024
"Structured around the cycle of the seasons and more particularly punctuated by Halloween and Christmas, this is a simple and rather syrupy piece of engineered Americana that is ultimately about accepting that New York, New York is not a wonderful town. Has its charms and moments, but that it was a massive success does not mean that Garland was wrong to question the quality of the screenplay. Most memorable: the unusual Halloween episode; the ambiguity of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”."
65 71% Lola Montès (1955) - Rated 20 Apr 2024
"Looks incredible. The themes concerning the consequences for a woman of deciding to live according to the imperatives of love and freedom are worthwhile, but somehow it also seems to have been mishandled. Has similarities with THE GOLDEN COACH, but seems lifeless by comparison. But the ending, showing that she has lived by in a way giving herself to every male human being in the world, has something remarkable about it, a way of affirming that what matters goes beyond the price of any exchange."
30 12% The Flash (2023) - Rated 20 Apr 2024
"It’s somewhat disconcerting watching this immediately after seeing SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME, given the way that both films use magical explanations as a way to bring together and have fun with previous incarnations of characters from their respective lineages. This one does have two or three pretty good laughs, but it's not enough to avoid the feeling that everything is rather laboured, has been done too many times and owes too much to precursors and rivals. Attempts at sentiment are ineffective."
50 44% Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) - Rated 17 Apr 2024
"A young man comes to terms with the tragic character of human existence as perpetually dislocated, and this viewer has to admit that when the themes of loss and forgetting hit home midway, he did find himself affected. The surprise that occurs at a certain point in the story is really pretty funny and enjoyable, and the fact that the plot doesn’t concern vanquishing villains is indeed a refreshing change, which means that the whole thing is a bit more involving than other artifacts of this kind."
40 26% Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019) - Rated 16 Apr 2024
"Boy goes on vacation. Boy likes girl. Boy gets girl. Well I got my Zendaya spinoff, so who am I to complain? Humour is fairly successful, though slightly weaker than in HOMECOMING. As always, the battle scenes are boring, but here, if anything, they are even duller, and it’s simply a matter of waiting until each one finishes so that there’s a chance for something at least slightly interesting to happen."
50 44% One More Time with Feeling (2016) - Rated 15 Apr 2024
"Fans of the music of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis will get much more out of this than I did. Even though it’s true, as everyone says, that Cave is clearly still grappling with what happened and his feelings about it, somehow I also have the impression, which others don’t seem to have, that there is a significant element of performance going on in the expression of and rumination about those feelings, and I don’t find this element totally pleasant to sit through. But it does have something."
45 34% Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) - Rated 12 Apr 2024
"With the two Marc Webb movies fresh in mind, it’s quickly apparent that here the jokes and the physical comedy are significantly funnier. On the down side, everything is very episodic, without enough consistency to really keep the viewer involved. Still, it’s breezy enough to almost stave off boredom, although it could not have pulled off a final song by Alicia Keys and Kendrick Lamar. Were it up to me, the sequel would have been a spinoff centred around Zendaya’s “Michelle”."
35 19% The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) - Rated 10 Apr 2024
"A young man struggles to come to terms with the deaths of his parents, his uncle, his girlfriend’s father, and eventually and especially his girlfriend, this last loss being so devastating that he really becomes totally incapable of going on with his life for a period of at least three minutes of onscreen time. After which it’s all good and the movie ends. Despite quite a confused and messy storyline, somehow this generally works a little better than the preceding instalment. Stone is appealing."
35 19% The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) - Rated 09 Apr 2024
"A young man is infected with DNA from a biotechnologically mutated spider (one wonders if now-popular unscientific ideas such as that promiscuous women become “contaminated” by male DNA might have received a boost from this kind of nonsensical blockbuster-movie setup) and finds himself at war with a man infected both with DNA from a biotechnologically mutated lizard and with transhumanist ideology and its notions of eliminating weakness and escaping human limitations. The second half drags."