November 5, 2010

The Dwight Dekeyser Rating System

Movies are stories and most stories have three parts: a beginning, middle, and end.  This is the basis of my rating system: I rate the beginning, middle, and end of each movie.  In this way, as the reviewer I need not balance competing or conflicting qualities of a movie to create a single mark.  The three-letter rating can give the reader more information than any single thumbs-up/thumbs-down or five-star seal of  approval possibly could.  One can see at an instant the trajectory of the films progress.  In any case, a review by its very nature is subjective  As a result, my ratings are merely a reflection of my personal reaction to a motion picture. Caveat emptor. 

© 2010 Dwight Dekeyser, Esq.  All rights reserved.

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