I'm not sure exactly what you're getting at here... But if you're really suggesting that Ozu has only made one or two "good-great" films (it's closer to several dozen) or that "The Damned" is among Visconti's best films or that (the very good) "Antichrist" is better than the great "Dogville" or "Europa" or "Breaking the Waves" or "The Boss of It All", well... You're wrong.
Or you're making some other kind of point that I didn't understand, in which case you should just ignore this post.
Umm... While Ebert's initial review for "The Graduate" (written in 1967 or '68) was quite positive, he revisited it a few years ago and wrote another, mostly lukewarm review. He's certainly never suggested that it was anything close to the "best movie outside of 'Citizen Kane'". In fact, the film isn't even included on his continually updated "Great Movies" list, which currently has some 300 entries.
But thanks for playing.
In other words, you watched two other films by Scorsese ("The Age of Innocence" and "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore", which have few swear words and little bloodshed) and nothing by any of the other directors on the list and are now determined that Shapiro "nailed it". Very good.
"Not a skill in the world"? Sounds like someone hasn't watched :"Badlands". Or "Days of Heaven". Or "The Thin Red Line". Or "The New World". There's nothing wrong with not liking his films, but to deny that he has at least some skill and quite a lot of talent is to deny that there are sometimes clouds in the sky and that the sun is quite hot.
"Sweeney Todd". And "Edward Scissorhands". And "Ed Wood". And "Big Fish" was pretty good. I'm no Tim Burton fanboy (I find about half of his films nigh unto unwatchable after the first viewing) but it's hard to deny that he's made at least a few really good films.
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