Reviews In A Nutshell

Because Time Is Scarce

Writing a review is hard; although not when you merely summarize the film or run through a set of pre-determined criteria and evaluate it according to the arithmetic mean of a number of scores that are assigned for various cinematical aspects (e.g. acting, screenplay, soundtrack, entertainment value etc.) No review should be rudimentary, nor mathematically formulated if you really want to do justice to the film you are writing about. Every movie is a whole new world and therefore every single one requires an independent look that will bring out only the most relevant issues about it.

That has been my aim, when writing reviews for films here in The Long Take, since the beginning. How much I have succeeded is not something I can decide, however in the meantime I have realized a bitter truth: I want to score and write a review for every movie I see, yet coming up with an exhaustive piece for every single one of them is impossible due to obvious timing constraints. That's why I wanted to introduce a new feature called 'Reviews In A Nutshell', where every review will be about the length of this article; covering only the most important issues about the films at hand and nothing more. It will be great, I presume, for two reasons: 1) You don't always have that much to say about every film you see and 2) This way, I will be much closer to my aforementioned goal.

Superficiality is what I have to watch out for.