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[Mister Tee]

To Kill a Mockingbird
9/10

One of the strangest film i ve ever seen, and yet so brilliant.

Strangest? In what way strange? I see it as a very traditional movie, albeit an extremely moving one.



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[Reza]

Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme, 2008) 4/10

[Sabin]

Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder - 7/10

This is not a great capper to the series. When it hits the sentimentality it aims for, it doesn't feel climactic but instead rushed. The characters deserve a little better than this. But like the best Futurama movie The Beast with a Billion Backs, it feels paced like a very strong episode. The motifs are pretty easy (feminism, conspiracy theorists) but the movie grooves on the show's very special wavelength very nicely.

Very clearly, this franchise is not done.

[Zahveed]

Futurama: Into The Wild Green Yonder - 8/10

Choke - 7/10

Pineapple Express - 6/10

[mlrg]

Afterglow (1997)

Dreadfull directing and cinematography. Only worth to watch for Julie Christie's performance

3/10

[dreaMaker]

Valkyrie

7.5/10

A pleasant surprise. Great cast!

[dreaMaker]

To Kill a Mockingbird
9/10

One of the strangest film i ve ever seen, and yet so brilliant.

[Sabin]

/The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford/ (dir. Andrew Dominick) - 10/10

One of the ten best films of the decade. I am so utterly dwarfed by this film's daring. To watch this film is to launch between centuries. Brad Pitt's death wish is pretty prominent and it may be the actor's finest moment. Affleck, brilliant; Paul Schneider and Sam Rockwell are at their absolute best. Epilogue = some of the strongest filmmaking I've ever seen. Question asked a decade from now? "Why wasn't this film nominated for everything?" Answer: "Why wasn't Badlands, Mean Streets, McCabe & Mrs. Miller..."


/WALL*E/ (dir. Andrew Stanton) - 10/10

Again: one of the ten best. Kate Winslet could only win the Oscar for doing something that at least looked different. It's a shame then that Thomas Newman, a composer I find trying at times (especially in Finding Nemo), was passed over this year. Like the film itself, the music is to swoon to.

[Penelope]

Entre les murs (aka, The Class; 2008; Laurent Cantet) 8/10

[Damien]

Finding Nemo

10/10

Perfect.

Oh, sweet Jesus.



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[Big Magilla]

Australia (Baz Luhrmann) 6/10

Better than I expected, but far from great. Hugh Jackman, the supporting cast and the production values are fine but Nicole Kidman doesn't have the acting chops of a Vivien Leigh or Deborah Kerr to bring off her "great lady" role. And it goes on too long with a rather blah ending, a last minute add-on for the original one in which Jackman's character dies.

[Damien]

Man On Wire (James Marsh 2008) 2/10

The acclaim for this drivel astonishes me. I was hoping he'd fall.

[dreaMaker]

Finding Nemo

10/10

Perfect.

[Sabin]

Black Rain (dir. Ridley Scott) - 4/10

I'm doing research for a rewrite. This movie's fucking dumb. There's a nice sense of atmosphere but it's pretty base stuff.

[Sabin]

Burn After Reading

So my new found fandom of the Coens lasted exactly one movie. Thinking No Country For Old Men might represent new direction for the brothers, whose work I had avoided since their misanthropic and hateful The Man Who Wasn't There, I was really looking forward to this. Unfortunately it turns out to be the same old crap, smug and mean-spirited. Frances McDormand gives another variation on the performance she always gives, just louder and even less modulated than normal, and George Clooney is an embarrassment.

Huh. I don't think I agree with a single word here.


Unforgiven - 10/10

I think that the best of Eastwood's 90's output (White Hunter, Black Heart, Unforgiven, A Perfect World, The Bridges of Madison County) is far more interesting than the best of his 00's output, Letters from Iwo Jima aside. Is there anything that doesn't work in this film? Will it age a day in the coming years? It's such great classic Hollywood screenwriting.