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djross

djross
Criticker Zealot - 5326 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

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."
70 77% A Geisha (1953) - Rated 04 Apr 2024
"Really quite an interesting portrait of the way the geisha system works and an affecting depiction of three generations of geisha women, and in particular of the friendship between two of them, with good performances and carefully composed images."
25 7% Moonfall (2022) - Rated 30 Mar 2024
"Two divorced families work it out, and another guy (with a mother suffering from dementia and a cat) undergoes an indeterminate fate. Things seem to have gone wrong with this production: successive lines of dialogue don’t quite match, frequently the intonation isn’t quite right, scenes seem to advance in a jerky way, the sense of scale it relies on fails really to be generated, and so on. Still, one does wonder where the narrative would have gone, had the intended sequels ever come to fruition."
60 62% The Daughters of Fire (2023) - Rated 24 Mar 2024
"Impressive cinematography, as to be expected from this filmmaker. Perhaps best used as an opening short prior to a viewing of THE DEATH OF EMPEDOCLES, together forming a double feature about suffering and volcanos."
50 44% The Outreau Case: A French Nightmare (2024) - Rated 21 Mar 2024
"On the catastrophe that can occur when group hysteria invades powerful institutions. Jonathan Delay asserts that all of the ridiculous accusations made at the time were true, but is never asked about evidence for and against their ever having occurred. Remarkable that Burgaud agreed to be interviewed, but, again, being so evasive meant the interview was only of limited value. Hard not to feel that the French judicial system is founded on some very strange notions about the role of magistrates."