Tuesday
March 9, 2010

Now Playing

Crazy Heart (Reviewed February 23, 2010)

Creation (Reviewed February 3, 2010)

The Young Victoria (Reviewed January 19, 2010)

It's Complicated (Reviewed January 13, 2010)

The White Ribbon (Reviewed January 12, 2010)

Up in the Air (Reviewed December 30, 2009)

We Live in Public (Reviewed December 30, 2009)

2012 (Reviewed November 23, 2009)

The Messenger (Reviewed November 23, 2009)

Antichrist (Reviewed November 10, 2009)

The Damned United (Reviewed October 19, 2009)

An Education (Reviewed October 19, 2009)

A Serious Man (Reviewed October 19, 2009)

The Invention of Lying (Reviewed October 9, 2009)

Capitalism: A Love Story (Reviewed October 4, 2009)

The Baader Meinhof Complex (Reviewed September 29, 2009)

Bright Star (Reviewed September 21, 2009)

My One and Only (Reviewed September 18, 2009)

Extract (Reviewed September 11, 2009)

Inglorious Bastards [QT, note SP] (Reviewed August 21, 2009)

Julie & Julia (Reviewed August 20, 2009)

District 9 (Reviewed August 14, 2009)

Bruno (Reviewed July 30, 2009)

The Hurt Locker (Reviewed July 30, 2009)

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).