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djross
Criticker Zealot - 5469 Film Ratings
Member Since: 16 Apr 2006
10 Game Ratings
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Age: 53
Bio: Films receiving a score between 91 and 100 are considered to be a masterpiece. Longer reviews: https://www.criticker.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5869 X: https://x.com/DJRoss70

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50 44% Nitram (2021) - Rated 06 Sep 2024
"It’s not easy to imagine exactly how this person was actually behaving, and the filmmakers have made a fair attempt, although my impression is that he may have been a lot more expressive than is shown here, and what he was expressing may have been a lot more concerning (especially with hindsight obviously). It’s not really clear what the audience is supposed to gain from the experience either in terms of lessons or enjoyments, apart from the obvious pleasure of seeing Judy Davis doing her thing."
55 53% The Show (1927) - Rated 05 Sep 2024
"If God was judging the protagonist, a carnival type, no doubt he’d quote the great theologian Randy Newman: “You ain’t been a good man, you ain’t been a bad man, but you been pretty bad”. Said protagonist eventually learns to keep his business clean. A female consensus forms that it would be worth being locked up alone with him for weeks: a handful of years later, and it’s hard to imagine such a sentiment could be expressed that openly. Beware of Greeks bearing gifts. Or just any Greeks, really."
25 7% The Deliverance (2024) - Rated 03 Sep 2024
"A long build-up that suggests the filmmakers want to have it every which way, offering every possible perspective on the factors that might explain the strange happenings as a way of letting the film function as a Rorschach test for viewers. Once the main event comes, however, all that gets forgotten in a procession of highly standardized scenes familiar to aficionados of this particular sub-genre. If it had been made in the 1970s, presumably the title would have been The Blaxorcist."
45 34% Savage Hunt of King Stakh (1979) - Rated 02 Sep 2024
"Mysterious and spooky goings-on at a castle and thereabouts, for me a bit hard to follow, but I think I saw a truncated version."
55 53% Somewhere (2010) - Rated 02 Sep 2024
"Rehashes LOST IN TRANSLATION but this is a more interesting work, or at least I thought so up until the ending, which seemed to show that the filmmaker had really run out of ideas, in a way that cast a negative light on the earlier scenes. Watching this straight after seeing OPERATION FORTUNE: RUSE DE GUERRE, this viewer found it impossible not to imagine, from the first circulating Ferrari scene, that this could really have been repackaged as a spinoff sequel entitled THE DONNY FRANCESCO STORY."
55 53% Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre (2023) - Rated 31 Aug 2024
"An employee on vacation is called back to the office, only to discover that rivalry with a competing firm is making life difficult. Amusing fantasy about agents, guns and rich folk, which benefits from the presence of Hugh Grant and Aubrey Plaza, and it has to also be acknowledged that even Jason Statham’s acting has progressed since something like DEATH RACE."
50 44% Longlegs (2024) - Rated 30 Aug 2024
"Female FBI agent up against bizarre serial killer; said agent has psychic powers; a child who spends years in a psych hospital without saying a word, only to one day come back to life…yes, plenty of “homage” going on here, but it's quite an atmospheric genre movie that one can imagine created a state of constant tension for certain audiences. Clinton looms over proceedings, as if intended as a satanic occupant of a white house (also Nixon), though probably nothing really means anything too much."
65 71% The Young Savages (1961) - Rated 28 Aug 2024
"Some 1950s melodrama, and the courtroom scenes veer towards absurdity, but this is still a more interesting “social drama” than one might expect, with a fair degree of complexity. Of the three Thunderbirds: Chandler as the cowardly psychopath became an actor; Kristien, who was pretty impressive as Danny, died at the age of 55 of unknown causes; the third, Neil Nephew, but also known as Neil Burstyn, was for a time the third husband of Ellen Burstyn, before committing suicide at the age of 39."
55 53% Secret Lives of Orangutans (2024) - Rated 27 Aug 2024
"David Attenborough still sounds as sprightly as ever, and presumably the digitally synthesised version of his voice is being worked on so that these documentaries can go on forever, though it will probably also be necessary to use digitally synthesised animals too."
30 12% Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018) - Rated 26 Aug 2024
"If only rational but ruthlessly utilitarian scientific concern with the big picture could hold hands with the rebellious but loyal spirit of youth, but no, actually, better just to sacrifice science and the needs of the whole and stick to the commune. One does wonder whether attitudes to the Covid-19 pandemic were shaped by this film’s “philosophy” – but I suppose that would depend on actually remembering the film. For most of the running time, an appropriate title would have been Finding Minho."