The Pagan Agenda

I have a somewhat peculiar approach to reviewing films that I should address upfront. My reviews are attempts to qualify my art-experiences (or lack thereof). The hypothetical value of objective analysis that many academic and ‘professional’ reviewers undertake have little interest for me. I am not here to suppose what you might like and then evaluate the film’s value on that merit, rather I am here to state that for at least one person these films resonate in a genuine sense. With my subjective arsenal at my disposal I describe the experience of the film and occasionaly veer off into the assumptions of how and why this may have happened. The only way my reviews may be of any practical use to you is if we share some common ground in our aesthetic tastes, and for a clearer account of my tastes I refer you to my thoughts on the subject here.

Babel Rating:

Blindness Rating:

Children of Men Rating:

Clerks 2 Rating:

Closer Rating:

Control Rating:

Crash Rating:

Day Night Day Night Rating:

Dear Wendy Rating:

The Departed Rating:

Don’t Look Back Rating:

The Five Obstructions Rating:

The Fountain Rating:

Good Night and Good Luck Rating:

Grizzly Man Rating:

Half-Nelson Rating:

Hard Candy Rating:

Hiroshima Mon Amour Rating:

I’m Not There Rating:

Inland Empire Rating:

Jarhead Rating:

The Killer Within Rating:

Kurt Cobain: About A Son Rating:

Last Days Rating:

Little Children Rating:

Manderlay Rating:

Marie Antoinette Rating:

Match Point Rating:

Mindwalk Rating:

Munich Rating:

My Blueberry Nights Rating:

Naked Rating:

New World Rating:

Old Boy Rating:

Once Rating:

Pan’s Labyrinth Rating:

Paradise Now Rating:

Paris Je T’aime Rating:

Pride and Prejudice Rating:

The Proposition Rating:

Red Beard Rating:

Rescue Dawn Rating:

Silent Light Rating:

The Squid and the Whale Rating:

Summertime Rating:

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance Rating:

The Thin Red Line Rating:

Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story Rating:

United 93 Rating:

Unknown White Male Rating:

The Wages of Fear Rating:

When The Levees Broke Rating:

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