amerigo

amerigo
Celluloid Junkie - 2770 Film Ratings
Member Since: 07 Jul 2007
Location: USA
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Bio: My film rating scale: if it's over 80--it's a damned good movie; if it's between 80-70 it's either notably flawed or one of those 'different strokes for different folks' movies; if it's between 70-60 it's still enjoyable and/or has some artistic merit; if it's below 50 it's inexcusable, utter crap.

more Recent Ratings

80 69% Far North (2023) - Rated 17 Mar 2024
"Like a delightful mix of Waititi and People Just Do Nothing. A real hiddem gem this."
73 32% Vanskabte Land (2022) - Rated 12 Mar 2024
""I'm full of shit. Pray for me." pretty much sums up the whole movie. While I can't fault the gorgeous cinematography--every shot is a mid 19th century painting come to life, but the narrative (or lack thereof) is plodding and overly self-indulgent. In a way, it is all very Lutheran, repressed, emotionless, jarring, vacuous. Contrast to something like There Will Be Blood, a film of a similar tenor but wildly more compelling, more watchable. Godland was a series of pretty pictures."
74 34% Possum (2018) - Rated 09 Mar 2024
"Not much here besides creepy arthouse vibes, except it's not very creepy when there's nothing relatable about the barebone cast. Like a live-action tool music video with maybe a little too much aimless wandering through woods and marshes."
80 69% Happy Valley (2014) - Rated 08 Mar 2024
"The Wire but in Yorkshire. And unlike the superficial, cartoonishly hyperbolized girl-power-rah-rah of True Detective Season 4, Happy Valley doesn't reduce its strong female lead to a banally one-dimensional superhero nor does it naively embrace toxic masculinity as a stand-in for feminism. Catherine is heroic yet suffers defeats. She keeps her composure at work, but can still express emotion. She's not a Hollywood-buff ubermensch, but is physically strong for her age and commands respect."
81 74% Tin Can (2021) - Rated 03 Mar 2024
66 14% True Detective (2024) - Rated 29 Feb 2024
"Nothing more than activist porn that indulges in the noble savage stereotype so much as to be offensive to both left- and right-leaning audiences. Still its biggest sin is the deus ex machina approach to tying up loose ends--nothing makes sense, nothing is a reasonable explanation for the mystery. The showrunners seem to be making it up as they go along and the poor cast are left trying to contort their characters in a completely-unmoored, emotional pendulum."
79 61% Triangle of Sadness (2022) - Rated 29 Feb 2024
73 32% Trollied (2011) - Rated 26 Feb 2024
71 29% Avenue 5 (2020) - Rated 24 Feb 2024
65 13% Bottom (1991) - Rated 23 Feb 2024