(OK so it's now June but I got a bit behind...)
I think I peaked too soon in January. The average rating per film, like our economy, continues to slide and is now 58.5% although that is still equivalent to a high three stars so I'm not panicking about my choice of films/quality of offer just yet.
The usually showery month also picked up the lowest scoring film of the year so far: Beastly which I rated 35%. I don't want to predict that it won't have the dubious honour of being my worst film of the year but it is going to take some beating. Although I was a lot kinder than the critics as it got an aggregated review rating of 16% on Rotten Tomatoes. Ouch.
But enough of the bad, there were still some highlights in April namely the Colin Morgan-starring film Island, proving once again that you don't need a big budget to make an interesting and enjoyable film. Of course big budget films can be enjoyable too and Thor took second place. So here are my top three (or four as there is a tie for third place):
1. Island 79%
2. Thor 62%
=3.Essential Killing 59%
=3. Source Code 59%
Quite a few of the films I've seen haven't been rated on Metacritic yet so I'm going by Rotten Tomatoes only for the average critics rating of the films I've seen:
1. Thor 94%
2. Source Code 90%
3. Essential Killing 89%
The critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes gave Red Riding Hood the lowest rating which surprises me as it's a much more rounded film than Beastly. The average for the month was on a par with mine at 59.86%
I can already tell you that May was an interesting month with one film getting equivalent to a five star review but I still got one film to review so I won't say any more for now.
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