I really liked it. The whole MPD thing is kind of a cheat, I think, and it’s clearly not earned, but 1) I didn’t see it coming at all, and 2) the lead-up is really …

I spent the entire movie cringing.It’s really really good, though, and an accurate depiction of a Jersey subculture without mocking it too much, which is probably a hard temptation to resist.All the acting is wonderful, …

It’s too slow and talky for my taste, too much telling, and it felt like certain characters had real promise but weren’t developed into three dimensions. The acting is good, although George C. Scott lacks …

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 …