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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0357110/
This is one of the most aesthetically beautiful movies I’ve ever watched. Each sequence fells planned with extreme care: the light, the colours, the paths the camera takes, the clothes the actors and actresses wear, every little detail shows up naturally, hence genuinely beautiful.
On the other hand, the story is very limited. One family – [...]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327084/
What a superb animation movie! This is a simple, rich & fun & musical piece of entertainment! The quality of the computer graphics is top notch, but what does matter is not (only) its technical quality, but – as in any other movie – the whole bundle, mainly “the basics”, like the characters…
In “Over the [...]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425253/
Don’t believe IMDB’s tags: this is not a comedy and this is not an easy movie. Indeed, I was expecting to have some fun, but the few moments when Mini could have made me laugh, were so rough with bad language and low attitudes, that the high spirits vanished.
Nevertheless, instead of a comedy, Mini does [...]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382625/
I read the book, some time before it became a mass phenomenon, but I quit reading when the plot twisted to present Sir Leigh Teabing as the one who was orchestrating the finding of the Grail. That is near the end. By then, it became so obvious that the book had been written aiming a Hollywood [...]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0389860/
What a superb movie! I never expected Click to be so great! This was because of my Adam Sandler preconception. Whenever I know Adam Sandler is in the cast, I expect comedy, never beyond the “entertaining 90 minutes” level. Straight to the point, this level already is “quality” on my scale, but Sandler somehow got [...]

I watched it on 2006–08–10, very late on the night.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465203/
This is the most intense strictly suspense movie I have ever watched!Strictly suspense means there is no explicit violence on screen. There is no punching, stabbing or shooting. In fact, this movie is so minimalist that there are only two real characters: Clémentine Sauveur and Lucas Medvec. The [...]

http://imdb.com/title/tt0421994/
Where to start? This is a very simple movie, about an unexpected lesbian love. There is absolutely nothing new about the theme, but “Imagine Me and You”, is very well executed: beautiful actresses, great acting, effective music, the right pace and a constant show of fine aesthetics.
My rating: 6/10
Imagine Me & You via amazon.com [for [...]

http://imdb.com/title/tt0408985/
Surprisingly fresh movie with a relatively exotic cast and no special effects!
The plot is about Georgia Byrd (Queen Latifah), a saleswoman who loves cooking. Georgia learns that she is about to die, due to a rare disease, so she decides to burn all her savings, in a few days. While doing so, she travels and [...]

http://imdb.com/title/tt0382810/
Little Fish’s first minutes are promising: splendid photography, appropriate music and Cate Blanchett playing Tracy Heart – an ex-drug (ab)user, now wanting to run her own “Internet cafe” business, but having big trouble financing it.
Sam Neill is in, and the film endures for nearly two hours… somehow, all this mix made me expect a very [...]

http://imdb.com/title/tt0375912/
Complicated plot, cliché crammed, and yet “interesting”.
I have misc feelings regarding Layer Cake: if there were fewer, but better developed, characters; fewer and more original killings; and less underlying sub-plots, then this could have been a huge achiever.
Let me start at the end: in order to build the characters as the time line goes on, [...]