DUDES THIS MOVIE IS SO GOOD. I heard such good things about it that I thought sure it would be overrated, at least a little bit, but: it really isn’t. Terrence Howard is amazing. Nola …

Blech. I remember this being quite a well-regarded movie, and I don’t see why, honestly; it’s so treacly, and several of the main characters are off-putting, primarily by dint of their one-note acting. A lot …

It’s so so so bad, but the music is pretty good, and it’s not very long, and if you go with a group of friends and a few tallboys and heckle it, it’s a good …

Really fizzy and fun; it’s not exactly stark realism, but damn, newspaper reporting in the forties looked like a lot of fun. I don’t know about that hat on Rosalind Russell, though.

Overall, disappointingly dull.   I’ve seen enough Hitchcock to get the jokes, and there were several moments I did like — the bus passing them that has the L.A. Philharmonic playing the dramatic music; “a …

Interesting. The movie puts you in the position of sympathizing with Henry, or at least siding with him, while strongly disliking Otis; the categorization of the sins is interesting. I did have some difficulty believing …

We realized about 10 minutes in that the movie is just not good — the acting is okay (Bale is good, especially given what he has to work with; everyone else is putting in a …

I liked it, although I usually find Annette Bening maddening for some reason; she doesn’t have much range and she’s often too whiny for me. I’d have preferred to see a movie all about the …

I suspect that it’s difficult for a contemporary audience to get as much out of these WWI movies as they should, since we know now what they couldn’t have known then. The whole societal attitude …

Believe it or not, I’d never it  seen before. It could have used tighter cutting, but it’s so ridiculous that it works somehow. (7/12/04)