My Grading System

A+ = Masterpiece (I hold back on this one.) / A = Great. / A- = Really Good. / B+ = Good. / B = Decent (Serviceable). / B- = Flawed but okay (For those times there's something redeeming about the work). / C+ = Not very good (Skip it). C = Bad. / C- = Awful. / F = Complete Disaster (I hold back on this one too).

Note on Spoilers: I will try to avoid ruining a story by going into too much detail. But if I wish to include some revealing points to my analysis I will try to remember to add a separate spoiler paragraph.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Klute (1971)

Full disclosure: I'm not a Jnae Fonda fan.  She's a good actress and has done some excellent work in a handful of films but there's something about her voice that just annoys me.  So I was completely surprised to find her performance strong enough not to focus on her talking.  Cast her alongside Donal Suthoerland and we have ourselves a tightly constructed thriller about a detective working with a prostitute to locate a business man who has been missing for some time.  Alan J. Pakula directs years before his more famous film, All the President's Men. Grade: A-
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