Ten Hundred Per Cent

Rating: 10/10 (4 June 2020)

This movie is flawless. It is also without blemish. It is not possible to think of any way in which it might be improved. Not a lot of films you could say that about. The entertainment value, and the pleasure quotient, rise with each revisit. The narrative consists of a linear series of cameos, or vignettes, strung together like a string of pearls on the tracks of a romantic duo. Arquette and Slater are pitch-poised perfect in these parts: they are both picaresque and picturesque, and will doubtless never shine again with comparable luminosity. Oldman, though dead as Drexl, is immortal.