It starts slowly, but this coming-of-age tale of four orphaned brothers in western Australia is good.
Daniel Radcliffe especially; it's great to see him not as Harry Potter, and he really does a fine job.
No Country For Old Men
This latest Coen Brothers movie reminds me of their first, Blood Simple, but with everything they've learned about making movies in a quarter century. And it's quite brutal and bloody. I still haven't quite figured out how the Mexican drug runners found Moss before Chugah. The ending was disappointing; still, it's a great movie; I want to see it again.
Death At A Funeral
Alan Tudyk (the pilot of Serenity (Firefly) has some good moments as a guy unwittingly dosed with LSD at a funeral, but overall the movie had very few laughs
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
This movie is slooooow. They could have cut at least 30 minutes out. Casey Affleck is perfect as Robert Ford, outshining Brad Pitt as Jesse James. Really great cinematography.
Blind Dating
This was a pretty enjoyable movie, about a blind guy who falls in love with an (East) Indian girl but not before his brother, played by the shit-brick guy from American Pie tries to set him up with prostitutes from his escort service.
Weirdsville
This is a weird, original, indie stoner-buddy comedy with a dark side. It would have been better if it dropped its obsession with death, it makes for jarring transitions from the funny bits, which are quite funny and surreal.
The Heartbreak Kid
With Ben Stiller again, the Farelly Brothers take obscene humor a few notches lower. But this time out, the result has very few of the endearing qualities that There's Something About Mary did.
The Invasion
Okay, I must admit that I haven't seen any of the previous versions of Body Snatchers. This was actually pretty good, with the exception of a quick everything-turns-out-okay ending.
Black Book
A Dutch tale of WWII by the director of Starship Troopers and various other action/sci-fi blockbusters (that I really like). Uneven pacing mars what is otherwise an exceptional movie. It edges into the must-see category.
Flyboys
WW1 gets the full Hollywood treatment. Move along, nothing worth seeing here.
Mr. Bean's Holiday
Only one scene is uproariously funny, but a marvelous ending definitely makes up for it, an ending that merges Mr. Bean's physical comedy with a movie-within-a-movie (in a French cinema, in Cannes). Willem Dafoe is great as a pretentious American film-maker.
Bagdad ER
From HBO Films, a documentary looks at Army medics in Iraq. Supposedly the first television documentary filmed in HD, which I'm sure must be sickening with the buckets of blood and severed limbs. Actually the gore that is shown is very infrequent, and very brief.
