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Thursday
June 20, 2013

Now Playing
 
Stories We Tell (Reviewed June 18, 2013)
What Maisie Knew (Reviewed June 6, 2013)
Frances Ha (Reviewed June 5, 2013)
The Great Gatsby (Reviewed May 28, 2013)
Love is All You Need (Den skaldede frisřr) (Reviewed May 23, 2013)
Pain & Gain (Reviewed May 3, 2013)
42 (Reviewed April 22, 2013)
Reality (Reviewed April 12, 2013)
56 Up (Reviewed April 12, 2013)
Beyond the Hills (Reviewed March 28, 2013)
Stoker (Reviewed March 25, 2013)
Identity Thief (Reviewed March 24, 2013)
Life of Pi (Reviewed February 24, 2013)
Les Misérables (Reviewed February 19, 2013)
Amour (Reviewed February 14, 2013)
Zero Dark Thirty (Reviewed January 24, 2013)
Anna Karenina (Reviewed January 24, 2013)
Django Unchained (Reviewed January 17, 2013)
Hyde Park on Hudson (Reviewed December 28, 2012)
The Central Park Five (Reviewed December 28, 2012)
Silver Linings Playbook (Reviewed December 12, 2012)
Skyfall (Reviewed December 3, 2012)
Lincoln (Reviewed November 27, 2012)
Argo (Reviewed October 23, 2012)
Sister (L'enfant d'en haut) (Reviewed October 23, 2012)
The Oranges (Reviewed October 17, 2012)
Looper (Reviewed October 11, 2012)
End of Watch (Reviewed October 9, 2012)
The Master (Reviewed October 2, 2012)
The Imposter (Reviewed September 13, 2012)
The Queen of Versailles (Reviewed August 14, 2012)
The Campaign (Reviewed August 14, 2012)
The Dark Knight Rises (Reviewed August 13, 2012)
Take This Waltz (Reviewed July 20, 2012)
The Intouchables (Reviewed July 9, 2012)
Moonrise Kingdom (Reviewed June 22, 2012)
For Greater Glory (Reviewed June 14, 2012)
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Reviewed May 22, 2012)
Margaret (Reviewed May 17, 2012)
Monsieur Lazhar (Reviewed May 3, 2012)
 
 


About the rating system:

Because I think of my readers as busy people whose lives, and even whose leisure time, are not organized around movies, I doubt the need for a finely calibrated, four- or five-star rating system, which could only accentuate the subjectivity of movie-reviewing anyway. Such readers, it seems to me, are likely to want instead to know the following:

  • Is the movie so good that I simply must see it?
  • Is it something that’s worth seeing if I haven’t got anything better to do on a Saturday night?
  • Is it a waste of time?

For those who trust me to answer such questions on their behalf, I give for an affirmative answer to the first question (two stars), to the second, (one star) and to the third, (no stars).

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