How to Critique a Film | feat. Wash Machine

How to Critique a Film? How do we rate a film? What gives a movie a one to five rating? Should we give a movie a 1 to 5 rating? Is is possible to be objective about what makes a film good or bad. This is a great conversation for all you letterboxd cinema nerds. Video artist and filmmaker Wash__Machine discusses his way of evaluating cinema. Join us for a discussion on film critiques, media criticism, film criticism, media education, movie reviews... all that!
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[@andywong9453]

Great discussion! You brought up interesting points with Star Wars. Those movies were made for the sake of profit rather than for creating art, at least for any Star Wars movie not part of the original trilogy. The original movies are good, even on their own. Unfortunately, greed has tainted the IP a bit with the onslaught of new movies and TV shows, so it leaves many with a sour taste in their mouths.
Also found the discussion around ratings interesting. At the end of the day, I feel like ratings don't matter too much because they're arbitrary. Nowadays, I'm more careful, for a lack of a better term, when it comes to doling out 5 stars to certain movies. A movie like Yi Yi is one I gave 5 stars because I loved it for its message and profundity as well as its filmmaking. Basically, if a movie makes me feel giddy about film in general, it'll probably get a 5 or at least 4.5 from me.

[@teaMmMate]

Enjoyed the discussion! Would love to hear your take on "Evil does not exist" by Hamaguchi, specially through the filter of thinking about the intention behind a movie and the importance of a title, which you talked about here in this video

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Great suggestion for a review! I'll check it out!