Last weekend, I watched the Blu-Ray editions of

Frozen River (2008) – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0978759/

and

Flight Plan (2005) – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408790/

I just love sad, white, cold environments, like those on Frozen River: a woman, living alone with her two sons, tries hard to put food on the table and ends up teaming with a Mohawk young mother, also facing a hard time.  Realistic, touching, with a perfect pace and no special effects. Very, very good!
I rate it 8/10

Flight Plan is nearly 4 years old but I knew nothing about it, except that “Jodie Foster would be losing her daughter inside an airplane”. The movie starts on the wrong foot, with very artificial environments that you just can’t believe: a subway station with no people at all and trains as clean as computer models without dirt texture, plus a snowy city with no cars and all buildings with the lights out… it seems – and maybe that was the point – that the world is nothing but Foster & daughter.
The plot improves a lot at the airplane, up to a *very* involving and emotional level. Quality only retreats at the ending scene, easy way out, via the classic punches, bang bang, explosions…
I rate it 6/10, but it could have been a 8/10 with a better begin and a proper end.