Since its launch in 1998 , Paulz­eye has remained com­mit­ted to deliv­er­ing hon­est film crit­i­cism to a wide audi­ence of movie­go­ers from around the globe.

Favorite films

This is one ques­tion I get asked a lot but many peo­ple. It’s impos­si­ble to name each and every film that I admire great­ly. Such a list would be end­less­ly long. Sim­ply put, there are many, many great movies that have been made. A few titles that come to mind: “Mod­ern Times”, “The God­fa­ther”, “Blow Out”, “All the Pres­i­den­t’s Men”, “Mean Streets”, “Pépé Le Moko”, “Dial M for Mur­der”, “Psy­cho”, “Rear Win­dow”, “North by North­west”, “The Mal­tese Fal­con”, “Le Mépris”, “Three Days of the Con­dor”, “Casablan­ca”, “The Shin­ing”, “Dou­ble Indem­ni­ty”, “Star Wars”, “Back to the Future”, “Apoc­a­lypse Now”, “Le Not­ti Biache”, “Por­trait in Black”, “Ser­pi­co”, “Pal Joey”, and the list goes on and on.

 

Thank you

With­out your sup­port, Paulzeye.com would not be pos­si­ble. I’d like to thank all the won­der­ful vis­i­tors who con­tin­ue to turn to Paulz­eye when it comes to movies.

 

The star-rat­ing sys­tem explained

**** —  a film that sur­pass­es all expec­ta­tions, one that is flaw­less, unfor­get­table, and per­fect in every facet of the film­mak­ing process (i.e. direc­tion, screen­writ­ing, cin­e­matog­ra­phy, performance,…)

***1/2 —  a film that is min­i­mal­ly flawed and close to per­fec­tion. One or two ele­ments that don’t quite work are to blame for this rating.

*** — a film that is pass­able because it con­tains a few scenes that are worth see­ing. Films that receive this rat­ing are often fun, enjoy­able, and light.

**1/2 — a film that is mediocre. Noth­ing more, noth­ing less. Films that receive this rat­ing are not nec­es­sar­i­ly bad but they tend to either lack log­ic or coherence.

** — A film that receives a two star rat­ing will most like­ly be a film that either a) is not one bit cre­ative, b) insults the audi­ence’s intel­li­gence, c) goes for cheap laughs or thrills or d) exists for the sole pur­pose of gen­er­at­ing a lot of mon­ey at the box office after hav­ing a suc­cess­ful mar­ket­ing campaign.

* — A one-star rat­ing is the worst, nat­u­ral­ly. A one-star rat­ing is giv­en to a film that does­n’t deserve to be seen. One star equals “look away, and don’t look back for a second.”