Raye Shows '25

Rating Guide

This venue features a casual selection of shows and industry names that residents considered rating. Being listed is not a recommendation in itself. Shows and names that advance the cabbalist or another underhanded agenda are not usually considered. With exceptions, these include most of the larger productions and promoted names, especially from the US and from recent decades, which Raye-Shows recommends avoiding or, at least, not financing.
The maximum rating score is 10 and the minimum is -5, as the rating (upper bar) and the rating (mid bar) range from 0 to 5, and the rating (lower bar) ranges from Yes (blank) to -5.

❮

The "" rating may reflect the absence (blank rating) or presence (negative rating) of an agenda for misrepresenting current or historical reality, for culture or science appropriation, for nation-undermining, miscegenation and race-denying, feminism, egalitarianism, religious submission, tribalism and self-entitlement, and for other subversive aspects of that sort, whether intentional or perpetuated. The rating does not reflect intellectual debates or activism that are transparent and honest (factual or statedly hypothetical), and neither the veracity of technological or comic depictions in fictional work, unless such aspects are exaggerated beyond the limit of maintaining viewing interest.

Submit Rating and Review

Residents can submit ratings and reviews via the contact form or by direct email, if established. Please write "Shows" atop the message body and provide the show's or stars & makers' name, year of release or identifying information, and the 3 ratings. Include your review, if any, of 50 to 150 words (excess may be placed in optional view). Reviews may be compensated for and excepted from the minimum content length specified for work contributions in Raye (see the Office).

2025 releases (in alphabetical order)

-5

5.5

3 ratings

Financing discretionary

Ballerina

Lead: Ana de Armas, Keanu Reeves, Ian McShane, Gabriel Byrne • Director: Len Wiseman • Writers: S. Hatten, D. Kolstad • Production: Lionsgate & others • R

Reviews

The top-notch cast does a wonderful job and Ana de Armas, in spite of her feminine aura, is credible in the stunning action scenes. In line with the John Wick series, those action scenes draw a fine line between reality and video games with scores of fancy killings, but remain entertaining through the end. However, what nearly killed it for me was (you guessed it) the usual, wily racial mixing you expect from the "owned" studios and their subordinates, which results in an offensive cacophony of people and places - and a dangerous one to the typical uneducated young viewer who's a prime subject for the gaslighting. The Ruska-Roma, an impenetrable community, have an African as a mentor. A clearly Germanic actor-character is made the father of an African girl, who's further supposed to pass as a gypsy. A similar blue-eyed actor is supposed to be a gipsy himself, and lead a whole such tribe who have their own, quaint European town named... Hallstatt. Pfeew. I regret giving my money to this, but I do wish I could pay those honest cast and crew directly. The ending is whole-rounded but underwhelms a little.
Kieran J. 8/25

close reviews