This is just a quick housekeeping post. If you follow the blog, you might have noticed I have switched from giving stars to giving letter grades. The reason for this is that I have come to feel that letter grades better capture the subjective nature of rating movies. It doesn't make sense to compare Bringing Up Baby to Spotlight because they are doing completely unrelated things in every single sense. Instead, I am trying to rate them not just on how much I like them (which is still admittedly the biggest criteria) but take into consideration how well they do what they are trying to do. Spotlight is not trying to make you laugh until your sides hurt and it would be a complete failure if it did that. But it is not a failure but rather a triumph when Bringing Up Baby does this. Each of these would have gotten a 5 star rating from me but that would make it seem like they are on equal footing somehow. They would still both get top marks with an A+. But hopefully it will be more obvious that they are in completely different subjects.
Merry Christmas!
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