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Here are the percentages of ratings
for all 3,266 movies
Here are the percentages of ratings
for all 3,266 movies
4 ■ superior = These movies are those rare works of art, combining aesthetics and intelligence.
3 ■ excellent = Excellent movies have characteristics of greatness about them—they are very good, and much better than about 9 out of 10 of all other movies.
2 ■ good = Better than average but not great. Sometimes just merely good.
1 ■ average = These are merely watchable movies. Not really good, not really bad. Ho-hum. Meh.
0 ■ junk = These are movies with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. The worst of the worst are ones which are not only junk, but have pretensions to being great, but with the whole mess handled hamhandedly.
I started rating the movies
I started rating the movies
I watched when I moved to Somerville, MA (just north of Boston), in early December 1996. First it was a little notebook I kept, then a basic HTML website, and finally converted to a database by Lapbaby Designs. I stopped updating that database in late April 2025. Now I simply maintain a list of what I call outstanding movies. These are movies that I would have rated 4, and so are the best of the best. There are not many movies like this. In fact, when I do the math on over 27 years of watching, on average only one movie of this quality is released every year.
The first movie I ever rated was Breaking the Waves, which I saw at the Kendall Square Cinema in Cambridge, MA, in early December 1996. The 2,000th one, which I watched at home in Kingston, ON, on New Year’s Eve 2010, was Die, Monster, Die!, which is also the first movie that I have a memory of seeing in any cinema: it was at the old Regent theatre in Corner Brook, NL, likely in the mid- or late 1960s. The 3,000th movie I watched was in my condo in Ottawa, ON, over December 28–29, 2022, called Scarborough.
And the last movie I rated, the 3,266th one, was a made-in-Newfoundland movie called Skeet, which I watched with my friend Gwen in the theatre at the Avalon Mall in St. John’s, NL, on April 15, 2025.
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