Last Seen Movie - The Latest Movie You Have Seen; ratings

[dreaMaker]

Limbo (1999; John Sayles) 7/10

Starts out as a terrific study of various people in a small Alaska town and a subtle criticism of commercialism...then takes a major turn in the second half, becoming a completely different, and less satisfying, film.

...with a strange ending...

[Penelope]

Limbo (1999; John Sayles) 7/10

Starts out as a terrific study of various people in a small Alaska town and a subtle criticism of commercialism...then takes a major turn in the second half, becoming a completely different, and less satisfying, film.

[Zahveed]

True Romance (Tony Scott) - 6/10

In the hands of a better director and cut to reflect Tarantino's original sequencing, this film would be much better.

[HarryGoldfarb]

In Bruges (2008): 8/10. I enjoyed it so much...

[dreaMaker]

Boy A

9/10

A haunting movie. Andrew Garfield is astonishing.

[Sabin]

Duplicity (Gilroy) - 8/10

Yeah. It's all surfaces. The two leads are fine if not sizzling. And it hides its emotional center a bit too much, and by the end it's a cynical (if dead-on) cop-out. But Duplicity is the kind of lark we don't see too often and it's intoxicating on many different levels. Much better than Michael Clayton. No justice if no nod for James Newton Howard's score.

[anonymous1980]

District 9 (Neil Blompkamp) - 9/10

[dreaMaker]

Up (2009)

9/10

Beautiful.

[Heksagon]

La collectioneuse (Eric Rohmer, 1967) 7.5/10

I Remember Mama (George Stevens, 1948) between 5.5 and 6/10

Tell No One (Guillaume Canet, 2006) 7.5/10

Down and Out in Beverly Hills (Paul Mazursky, 1986) 3/10

A Band Apart (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964) 10/10
--Besides The Contempt and Weekend, this is one of my favourite Godards

Child's Play (Tom Holland, 1988) 2/10

[Precious Doll]

Adam (2009) Max Mayer 6/10

Eden is West (2009) Costa-Gavras 4/10

Young Victoria (2009) Jean-Marc Vallee 6/10

Picture Snatcher (1933) Lloyd Bacon 4/10

L'aimee (2007) Arnaud Desplechin 5/10

Hedy Lamarr - Secrets of a Hollywood Star (2006) 6/10

[anonymous1980]

Niagara (Henry Hathaway) - 7/10
Return of the Secaucus 7 (John Sayles) - 6.5/10

[Hustler]

Another two jewels:
1) Tulpan (Sergei Dvortsevoy) (2008) 8/10 Won Un Certain Regard in Cannes Film Festival
2) Kirschblüten/Hanami (Cherry Blossoms) (2008) 10/10. A subtle and intense love story directed by Doris Dorrie.

[Hustler]

Lars and the Real Girl; dir. Craig Gillespie (2007) 8/10

This film was such a little pleasure. From the way the entire town started to embrace Bianca and adopted her because of their love for Lars to the many costume changes (where was a costume nod for this?) It's difficult to capture an authentic contemporary Midwestern style of dress without veering into parody and I felt like that was achieved here (along with some nice touches, such as the blanket his dead mother had made that Lars used as a scarf).

Ryan Gosling is in that "Heath Ledger" vein of acting. He seems to really get inside the minds of these characters and the performances, therefore, feel really lived in.

Flipp I couldnt´agree more!
Lars is one of those movies with a special intensity that make me vibrate.

[Big Magilla]

Yes, and we could have endless arguments over whether Marlon Brando and Al Pacino were placed in the wrong categories in The Godfather the same year, but rightly or wrongly, star power and billing still counted for something then. Paul Winfield was one of the stars of the film, Kevin Hooks was not despite the size of his role.

[The Original BJ]

The first Mrs. de Winter hovers over most of Rebecca, but I don't think she's a lead.

C'mon, guys. Paul Winfield is absent from Sounder for a good hour. Kevin Hooks is the lead, and you could make a good case for Cicely Tyson, but Winfield? I just can't see it.