Jay Maurer Bio

Jay Maurer is a long-term film buff and former college teacher of The Film as Literature. He wrote movie reviews for The Good News, a publication of West Side Presbyterian Church in Seattle, WA, from 2002 to 2010 and has continued writing reviews on his website since then. 

Ratings are expressed in increments of ¼ star. A rating of 2 ½ stars or higher is generally meant to be a recommendation.
1 star=poor. 2 stars=average. 3 stars=quite good. 4 stars=superb. 

Criteria for determining the ratings: 
• Reflection, either explicit or implicit, of Christian values, including suitability of language and lack of gratuitous violence.
• Quality of the acting.
• Originality.
• Unity of the entire picture.
• Substance, or in the words of C.S. Lewis, weight.

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