On writing
a film review…
Student: I’d like to review
The Swimmer. Good movie. It got a 100 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Tutor: How many reviewers?
Student: Twenty.
Tutor: Can’t use Rotten
Tomatoes as a reference. Everybody does, it’s ubiquitous, but a global ballpark
percentage isn’t de rigueur, academically.
Student: So how do you
justify a movie as good?
Tutor: Cite the view of
respected critic: Pauline Kael, Roger Ebert, Joe Morgenstern.
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Voice-over
The Swimmer (1968) traces Ned Merrill's swim home through the pools of a suburb in Connecticut. It is a backward journey through space and time, through neighborhoods he knew, and his past. Although it is a structured succession
of satirical scenes, it is as much a geographical and temporal narrative as a picaresque portrayal.
Other movies to score 100%
on Rotten Tomatoes include The Godfather (1972), Citizen Kane (1941), Taxi to
the Dark Side (2007), Toy Story (1995), Rear Window (1954)… There are quite a
few listed here.
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