My rating system is arbitrary, inconsistent, entirely subjective, and impulsively graded. A rating would change over time, without question. These are solely my feelings on films, and should be regarded as such. I usually, but not always, refrain from giving a full summary. Those are available everywhere, and I provide an Internet Movie Database link to find them. A film with a terrible review should be received as a recommendation as much as one with a glowing review, because your experience will differ even while in total agreement with me over its quality. My own standards for art are at some points consistent with established and widely accepted ones, sometimes utterly contrary. Though I make no effort to align the two, I do not discourage you from appreciating the philosophy of film critics, and art and cultural theorists who make this process of examination their life’s work. These are merely my short, quick impressions, feelings for and reactions to a wide range of movies.
Below are the three separate yet intrinsic criteria on which I judge a film, in order to elaborate on a cross referenced judgment of qualities. I rate them on a scale of 0-5, with -1 and 6 being superlatives for exceeding awfulness or greatness, respectively. I reserve the rating of 7 for a choice few films that mean more to me than most any other, and X is given as a special variable.
(Art) Artistic merit. Whether it edifies one’s being in either its sublime content or form, stirs provocation in your intellect, or skillfully introduces cinematic and narrative devices and structures that cut against convention or capably speak on it.
(Ent) Entertainment value. Whether its excitement keeps you on the edge of your seat, its humor consistently brings laughter and amusement, or its terror takes you for a ride or just scares the shit out of you.
(Worth) Worthiness of time. Whether the time spent watching the film felt worth it, whether I’d consider re-watching it later or not, and if I felt the film was inappropriately contrived of cliches, whether they were artistically utilized or lazily so, and to what degree.
