Reviews

I found the first episode intriguing, but concerned that this will be another "The Slap" where wealthy parents get overly involved with an incident involving a child turning it into lord of the flies.

So far it seems like a good mystery as everyone seems like they could be a suspect or have a potential motive. I just hope the entire story is not as a result of this incident at school.

Such a beautiful and tragic story about a young woman facing her 2nd cancer diagnosis after having beaten breast cancer just a few years back. She is supported by her loving husband and family through this extremely difficult uphill battle. As someone who worked in the film industry she wanted to have her story documented on film by her good friend.

Cristina was the embodiment of all that is good, decent, kind and genuine which was why it was so incredulous that this would happen to someone like her; a runner, who did not drink, use drugs or even take vitamins for fear it might damage her liver. Just more proof that Cancer is terribly cruel and offers little rhyme or reason.

She had the biggest heart and loving spirit.She knew her odds were not good but this never seemed to break her spirit and she never seemed to have any self pity. She had extreme gratitude and love for her family.

I had to watch this twice because I was so awe inspired by this story and uplifted to watch a person like her handle her terrible cards she was dealt with incredible dignity and grace. She was not in denial. She knew what the deal was but she coped with this.

Another spoiler; at the very end she gave what sounded like the most simplistic, tony robbins style advice but from HER I found it incredibly profound; that now is all any of us are guaranteed. There is no assurance any of us will have a tomorrow.

Amazing moving story.

Really enjoyed this movie. Funny, original, and thought provoking. There was a conversation between Josh (Stiller) and his father in law played by the awesome Charles Grodin about how movies (documantaries actually)about how they have many layers and I felt this movie was that way.

The story of a middle aged couple bored with life and each other trying to justify the fact that they don't have kids with the cliché fantasy of being able to fly off to Europe at a moments notice which of course they never do. They encounter a much younger couple who seems to embody everything that is precious, pure and unspoiled about youth. This is exaggerated by the fact that ironically despite the face that they were raised in the age of social media somehow they are completely unaffected by texted, emailing, googling and facebook. They make their own furniture, their own furniture, have an entire wall of vinyl records, appreciate Lionel Richie and seamlessly can tap into all the cool stuff that came far before their time. That's cool!!! Josh and his wife of course are completely mesmerized by their youth, vitality and bohemian lifestyle which seems so much more authentic than that of their close friends who they quickly begin to eschew and alienate because of their new found wisdom/fountain of youth. When Josh's doctor tells him he has arthritis he incredulously laughs this off trying to correct his doctor asking him if perhaps he has a different KIND of arthritis; one that younger people get. The doctors reaction, is stone faced and priceless.

Josh, who is a documentary filmmaker and has been working on the same project for an absurd amount of time (10 years) is reinvigorated by his new friendships with Jamie and Darby, most of all by how they seem to embody truth and profound wisdom. This is sort of the theme of his documentary and he feels that this missing piece can hopefully finally enable to finish his project. There's a great scene when the four of them try to come with a word to describe something and none of them can remember the word. Just whips out his phone to look it up and Jamie says "no! Let's just not know" and smiles and they all resign themselves to be OK with not knowing. Josh is completely hooked. His aha moment of all that is wrong with the world, society, technology, his life...and how he can fix it.

But of course nothing is ever as it seems and slowly but surely he starts to realize that epiphanies no matter how earth shattering they may seem can be fleeting and that no matter how wonderful a new person or influence in your life may seem and how sure you are that they seem to have the keys to the kingdom if you dig a little deeper you might be setting yourself up for an even bigger let down.

Great story. Enjoyed thoroughly.

Only in Hollywood could you get away with calling a smart sweet and yes very pretty and slim girl the fat ugly friend. Maybe she was slightly less glamorous than the other two but truly the height of absurdity to suggest that she's unattractive. Reminded me of similar idiotic TV episodes or movies where some girl has glasses but a knockout otherwise but not until her cliché makeover. Ie removal of the glasses are you able to see her true beauty.

This movie has been done to death and way funnier and better story. The mean girl was off the charts ridiculously mean so much so that it didn't seem at all believable. Clearly from the beginning you were certain shed end up with the guy. You knew there would be some big speech at the homecoming dance where she wins everyone over after lecturing the mean girl about how being mean sucks while demonstrating how she can not only be herself but also be socially accepted and get the guy.

I could go on but won't. I read a magazine review telling me to see this movie.in the future I'll just go with my gutt. The trailer looked lame but I went and saw anyway.

A few similar movies that may not win any awards but I found far more entertaining; can't buy me love. Never been kissed, muriels wedding, valley girl, 16 candles, pretty in pink. Some kind of wonderful (aka pretty in pink in reverse)...

Everyone reviews everything today. You can research 50000 varying opinions on toothpicks before you buy them for a dollar. But in this day and age of yelp, ratings, stars and everyone's opinions being weighed scrutinized and measured can take a lot of the fun out of doing anything, including going to the movies whereas sometimes you say screw the ratings and go with your gut.

I wanted to see Wild after first hearing about it and thought it looked very interesting, but then did exactly what I'm advising against; searched for reviews, rating, pros, cons...before I plunked down my money. I had someone actually talk me out of seeing this movie because they heard it wasn't good, but then another friend told me she did want to see it and hadn't really paid any attention to reviews. I thought good. I will go see with this person instead since they haven't been influenced by outside opinions.

Saw this today and absolutely loved it. Thought it was an incredible story of courage, bravery and redemption. Thought Reese was incredible and the flashback scenes with her mom touching and heartbreaking. There are so many beautiful scenes that will touch your heart including the little boy who sings to her. There are also hilarious scenes such as the man who rights for Hobo Magazine and insists on calling her a hobo. Her encounters with other hikers and people on her journey reminded me of the movie "into the wild" though she actually survives. Don't think that's a spoiler since obviously she had to live to write the book.

Maybe this movie isn't for everyone, but I and my friend both truly enjoyed it thoroughly.

It is rare that I will watch a bad movie from beginning to end if i'm in my home (if i'm in the theater I figured I paid my money and should see it through).

I watched the first few minutes and thought it was extremely boring and unfunny, uninteresting but gave it a chance to get batter even though I knew it wouldn't. I have a 5 minute rule for movies; if they don't draw you in in the first 5 minutes (which one would think the creators of the story would pay closest attention to) what are the odds the rest of the film will get better? This rule has pretty much held true for every good/bad film I've ever seen. IMHO rarely does a film start out bad and then get good.

First; I'm stumped as to why they used songs from the 80's (REO speedwagon...) to create a sort of theme of this time period? If they wanted to make this film in a different time period then they should have done that. It seems like they wanted it to have that feel but have it take place in present day.

I also sensed that the man the boy befriended (forget his name) was supposed to be a sort of Bill Murray/Meatballs type; slacker, but heart of gold with lots of wisdom to teach a nerdy kid who doesn't fit in. Meatballs was far more effective and an infinitely better movie.

I also hated the Steve Carrell character. I suppose that was intended. He plays a very convincing ahole which makes me wonder if he really is. I felt extremely uncomfortable watching him be so cruel towards his girlfriends son; calling him a "3" and then calling him "buddy" as he ordered him around like a slave and demoralized him. I'm not suggesting this doesn't happen in the real world, but I could not understand why the boys mom did nothing about it. It made no sense. She was smart, educated, had a career...so how could she be so clueless about her own son and allow him to be treated with such blatant disrespect?

The story was predictable and you knew that his new friendship with the Bill Murray dude and the others at the water park was going to enable him for the first time in his life to feel like he was part of something and give him a sense of pride and then in the very end his mom would finally SEE him and be proud and finally be on his side.

I liked the idea of this story. i just didn't like the story. It wasn't funny, touching or interesting.

I watched this on cable last night. My friend who suggested we watch it told me she'd heard from many that it was very funny. I did not think it was funny at all. We watched about half of it (maybe the good parts were in the second half?) Doubtful.

As soon as the girl projectile vomited I just sorta knew it was going to be awful. NOT because I don't like silly humor. Actually I love it...when it's done right. But this in my opinion was just done wrong and I did not laugh once whereas clearly this was meant to be a comedy. I loved Rebel Wilson in Bridesmaids. She was hilarious. I was hoping she would make this more entertaining but that was not the case.

I don't know what it is with Hollywood lately. It's either vampires or glee club. Its a little too much already. I would have liked to have watched this movie with people who claimed it was hilarious and have them explain to me what about it was funny. I just did not see it at all.

I was thrilled to have a chance to be at the NYC premiere screening. It was so exciting. We got to see the whole cast and lotsa celebs. Was amazing.

But imo the best thing about the night was the actual movie. I did NOT go in expecting to like this movie at all! I just honestly wanted to gawk at some stars. The movie far surpassed the first one (which I thought was very good too, but not nearly as good as the 2nd). This movie was total campy fun. Gorgeous men, great story lines, hilarious jokes. We literally laughed throughout almost the entire thing. I had thought the trip to Abu Dahbi (sp?) would be silly, ala any t.v. show when they take a trip somewhere always strikes me as hokey and desperate, but this was just a total blast and great juxtaposition of how THEIR American/New York lifestyle compared with a whole other world of culture and traditions, namely modesty.

The movie again dealt with some serious themes however it was told with humor and entertainment. The whole Samantha "menapause" thing was just hysterically funny without giving anything away.

I won't say much more as it's not necessary. If you've followed the show and the series you know what you're in for. If you are at all a fan and even if you're not I feel women AND men would find this movie to be wildly entertaining and a ton of fun.

Always liked Catherine Keener. There's something very real and endearing about her. I read in the paper that this was an "Allen-esque NY tale". which is what made me want to see it. I agree. Like older Woody Allen movies; this movie was very clever, funny, good characters and a slice of NY life.

This was the story of a married couple who collects "vintage" furniture from families who are clearing out the apartments of their deceased relatives. They then resell all this stuff in their shop in Manhattan for an elevated price. Naturally there's a certain amount of guilt involved in this sort of "ambulance chasing" practice and the wife/mother (keener) feels a lot of guilt and torn between making a nice living and wanting to give back to poor, homeless or unfortunate people in return possibly to assuage her feelings.

In addition to this they have purchased the apartment of an elderly woman in the building and basically just waiting for HER to kick the bucket so that they can begin renovation on their new, larger apartment when they take it over and break through the walls.

It's a really interesting story about how different people feel about things that they want, how they get it, and what they are ashamed of and how this manifests. Everyone WANTS to be good (that is except Mary, the sister played brilliantly and narcissistically by Amanda Peet)and the old lady, Edra who pretty much stole the movie and every scene she was in! All together a very enjoyable film.

I didn't know what to expect from this movie. I knew the basic premise, but wondered if they could pull it off. In my opinion they did very well.

I also found this to be a unique story. A woman who just learns her husband has decided to leave her absolutely refuses to accept this even though he is very clear that he is not only not in love with her anymore, but has a girlfriend who he is planning a new life with. He is very specific about his reasons and the only thing left for him to do is leave. Not so simple when your wife decides that she's NOT going to let you leave her and holds you captive until she convinces you that you are wrong and that despite what you think you DO actually still love her.

Ryan plays this role to perfection and she vacillates between heartbroken wife to complete sociopath and is remarkably convincing at portraying both. This movie is a bit similar to "Misery". Knowing Ryans movies for many years where she's the good, sweet girl, love interest, adorable girlfriend.....it's fun to see her in such a dark role and in my opinion perfectly cast because she's still cute as a button, but juxtaposed against the diabolical nature of her character was brilliant.

There's lots more I could say but don't wanna spoil anything.

Entertaining film. Nice story about a man who fires people for a living. THIS we all know.

He has no real home or home life. His entire life is his job and literally being "up in the air" because he flies constantly. In the midst of an economic crisis not just OUT THERE, but within his OWN company a sharp young woman comes in to help HIS company by being more efficient and trim the fat on firing people and find a much more cost effective way to get this done efficiently. Hooray for modern technology. Clooney's character being an old dog and not interested in new tricks is offended by her presence and even though it's his new position to show her the ropes he feels this is absurd and that HE will show HER how it's really done and the reason their company even has a business, that you cannot trim the fat on firing people. It's bad enough you are destroying their lives. The very least you can do is spare them an ounce of dignity.

This story runs side by side with a woman he meets who seemingly is his perfect match; another heavy duty business traveller who also is detached from any kind of home life and completely at peace with this. While finding HER would seem to be the perfect antidote for what ails him and enable to guiltlessly continue his life as it is while ALSO having a sort of partner in crime.

Ironically the younger girl who he felt knew nothing due to her age and lack of maturity shines a light on him and forces him to question his lonely life, which previously he'd seemed fairly content with.

I lived this movie as it pointed out A LOT of issues, and questions we ask ourselves all the time; what is the point of life? Is work life? Without the traditional office job which possibly "holds us back from our real dreams or purpose" are we then freed of all the things that hold us back from pursuing a more authentic life"? What is the point of marriage? Is ANYONE who gets married really happier than non married people? What's the point of collecting a whole bunch of stuff; a house, a car, furniture.....when one 5 minute meeting with H.R. can yank that all away in an instant? His case is to live without; without a home, baggage, family.....because what's the point? He seems fairly content, although the majority of those he fires cry about their home, their family, keeping things together.....and from HIS point of view; if you have nothing than you never really have to worry about losing anything.

I liked, didn't love, but it was entertaining for sure.

I liked this movie a lot. I thought Lauren Ambrose was great in the role of Leah, an orthodox Jewish woman living in brooklyn who's husband dies leaving her a widow, and according to tradition, which I've NEVER heard of that she should be encouraged to marry the brother of her dead husband so she can have children and carry on the family name.

The catch is that the living brother is extremely reformed in his ways while the deceased was extremely devout. They decide to marry, but both agree it's for convenience only and she moves to DC to live with him while he works on his medical fellowship.

She's a free spirit and is happy for the opportunity to renew herself and wants to pursue a college degree against the wishes of her mother who believes a womans role is to serve her husband and children.

What happens next is largely predictable, but it didn't bother me becuause the development of their relationship seemed to come very naturally and honestly.

What struck me most about this movie was the charming childlike innocence of Leah as she was learning this whole new life. It was as if she was an amish person who moved to the big city and had to adapt to the pace and modern ways of life in addition to trying to maintain her OWN way of life through the way she decorated her room to her cooking traditional meals and taking on wifely duties....It was like she was trying to figure out how she could merge two worlds into one.

It was a typical Hollywood ending no surprise. After all this was a hallmark hall of fame movie, but I really liked it.

Whenever I meet people who seem to be happy all the time I wonder if they are crazy or if they just know something I don't. While I don't get them I'm still fascinated by people like this, which is why I went to see this film.

I found this film to be disappointing. I read great reviews and from the trailer it looked like it would be lots of fun. While I thought Hawkins did a good job in the role, and in fact all the acting was good in my opinion I failed to see the point of the story. Yes, Poppy is always happy, giggly, and positive and feels it's her duty to brighten the days of others and allow them to see life from her point of view. This doesn't really seem to work very well, from the clerk in the book store to the homeless man, to her sister to Scott the belligerent driving instructor. All she seemed to do was irritate these people for being so insanely chipper and wanting to force her cheeriness onto others and fault them for not seeing life the same way. I found HER annoying in this respect.

I honestly felt if she DID have a real effect on those people and DID somehow brighten their lives by just being around then the story would have made more sense. I felt Poppy was genuinely kind, sweet, and childlike, however she WAS selfish, as Scott pointed out and did "have a real need to be adored". She was immature and disrespectful during all her lessons which angered Scott while feeling that she was just being happy and sweet. There are times for jokes and there are times to be a bit serious. If you're mocking another person and what they do don't expect them to be happy with you.

In the movie "Closer" Jude Law's character tells Clive Owens character that "everyone wants to be happy" to which Clive Owen's character responds "depressed people don't want to be happy. They WANT to be depressed". I kept thinking of that scene after leaving "happy go lucky". Poppy's view of life works for HER, but doesn't work for everyone, and is not everyones (or most people's) true nature. While someone who IS so happy might want to impart their wisdom onto others maybe these people don't want to be educted as to how to see things differently.

I am a huge Gervais fan so maybe I'm a little biased, but even if you don't know who he is or aren't a fan this movie was really good and very funny. I laughed out loud many times. You will too.

While the plot is not really unique or innovative, the cast, and the delivery of the jokes throughout is what makes this a great movie. Gervais, Leoni, Kinnear, and Kristin Wig were just great. The man who worked with Wig at the hospital (don't know his name) was also hysterical.

To me what made this such a nice film was the very honest portrayal of a successful man who lives in a very fancy apartment, but hates himself and his life in spite of this. (Anyone can relate to that). He thinks he has everything figured out. He hates people so he distances himself from them, although living in Manhattan doesn't really seem like an ideal place to move if you hate being around people. He has his sheltered little life and regimen and figures this is an OK way to get through life, but clearly he's miserable, but stubbornly refuses to acknowledge that he has the slightest role in his own misery.

Well obviously since this is a romantic comedy we KNOW that is destined to change, but go see the movie and enjoy it. I promise you will laugh. I rarely laugh in the movies anymore and this one I was laughing so loud i had to check myself ; )

Why do humans seem to get pleasure in hurting others, or in this case torturing and then murdering? While "pleasure" may not be completely accurate; those who perpertrated the brutal acts and then murder of this young girl got SOMETHING out of doing this, otherwise why do it? So the question is why? What was it they got out of watching a living human being suffer repeatedly at their hands? I cannot and won't ever know exactly what happened in this story, and what truly lead Gertrude and her wicked little children to unleash merciless cruelty upon another, but no matter WHAT Sylvia might have done to provoke them (if anything) it could NOT have fit the punishment she received. I suppose she COULD have acted promiscuous, or stolen, or acted fresh or who knows what OR she could have just been a normal, healthy, well behaved child who fell victim to a sadistic caregiver with major self esteem problems.

This was a shocking story I felt very well done. Why this happened, who knows? People can be vicious for all kinds of reasons. In the movie it seems Gertrude was lead to believe that Sylvia was mistreating her daughter, and this was her revenge, although the way the story was told it was Paula (the daughter) who retaliated at Sylvia for revealing her pregnancy, even though she was trying to protect her from a beating from her boyfriend. In any case; it was a brutal, horrific attack that begs the question why. The only answer I can come up with after watching this horror was that Gertrude was very ill, highly medicated, and had 8 children to care for with very little money to do it. She was clearly at her breaking point and these 2 childen as additions to her househould and family income were the straw that broke the camels back.

I have a 5 minute rule (sometimes I'll leave leway for 10). If a movie is not good in the first 5 or 10 minutes it's probably not going to ever get better. I have yet to experience any movie that has proved to contest this theory. Dan in Real Life is definitely no exception. I was watching this turkey and thought; wow, this is not funny, not touching, not sad, and I don't like any of the characters at all.

The story of an advice columnist/widower raising three young daughters, who falls in love with his brothers girlfriend. I suppose the tagline would be "advice columnist who could USE advice"? I don't know. Dans character in no way struck me as someone qualified to give advice. I guess THAT'S the irony? I don't know. He goes to see his parents, brothers, sisters and their kids at some sort of anual family retreat, which seems very sweet, and potential fodder for good comedy, story lines...none which ever emerge. The central story is basically how he loves this woman, but can't have her. Anyone with a pulse will realise that eventually he WILL get her, but you have to suffer through painfully unfunny, trite, lifetime movie network dialogue "murderer of love" to get to the inevitable happy ending.

This is truly one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

Read the book about 6 years ago and loved it. It was one of my favorites. The movie was a very literal adaptation of the book. If you've read the book you've seen the movie, not that this is a bad thing.

I thought the movie was done very well from start to finish and the story translated well to film, however I simply did not find it as poignant or touching as the book. Maybe it's just because my imagination did it more justice than a visual image. Don't know for sure. The book actually made me weep. The movie did not. It just felt like there was an emotional element that was missing. The crucial seen with Hassan and the boys didn't come across to me as pivotal, even though I know that it was, ever seen "the accused"? THAT was pivotal, gut wrenching, and caused a physical reaction in the viewer. It's not that I WANT to see violence on screen, but the way the scene was done did not cause me to really feel what I was supposed to.

When I had read this years back and discussed it with others we all agreed that there was a part towards the end that was extremely implausible. If you read the book or saw the movie I think you'll know what I'm referring to.

All in all it was an enjoyable film. I just didn't think it was great.

I admit I did not watch the entire thing. I'll finish it tonight when I get home. From what I saw thus far it was very silly. I LIKED the premise; a woman who was the victim of a violent crime fights back with vigilante justice. I LOVED the commercial where she said "I want my dog back"! I thought that was great ; ).

I think this COULD potentially be a good story, like "Falling Down" or others where a seemingly good, upstanding citizen loses their faith in humanity and goes nuts, however I just thought this movie wasn't done well at all. In fact it was pretty cheesy, the 45 minutes of it I watched.

The attack of her and her fiancé was sad, brutal, and vicious, but just a few weeks after Fosters character recovers, leaves the hospital, and finally musters the courage to leave her apartment she finds herself in a convenience store in the middle of a robbery. The gunman blows away the clerk and apparently THIS is what sends her off the deep edge. While I can see HOW this would deeply disturb anyone it simply makes zero sense and is ludicrous that this would happen. The odds are against it which takes you out of the story for it's shear incredulity.

After that she's primed and ready to rid this city of all the bad guys.

Yeesh. Not good.

After the credits rolled a woman in front of me said "it wasn't what I expected". I swear she took the words right out of my mouth. Not sure exactly what I WAS expecting but it wasn't that.

That being said; although I did not love this film, it was very well done and a good story. Without spoiling too much; it was about two brothers who are both having financial problems and pretty unhappy with their lives so the older brother (the "brains" of the operation) has an idea that they will rob a jewelry store, but the jewelry store just happens to belong to their parents. While it seems like a brilliant plan (they both know the layout of the store and where everything is)and a "victimless crime" since the store is insured; what could possibly go wrong? Of course mayhem ensues; after all what kind of complete piece of garbage would even THINK of robbing his own parents. That being said; it reminded me a lot of the movie "very bad things" in that when you do something wretched and reprehensible you then are faced with the repercussions of this one action which you then have to systematically cover up in the most unholly of ways and watch your life unravel in the process. Hope I haven't said "too much".

I always love Philip Semour Hoffman. No one plays "smarmy" as well as he does. The rest of the cast was very good as well. The story was told in flashbacks and I felt this was an effective way of telling this rather disturbing tale.

I think if there had to be a tagline for this movie; it would have been said best by the elderly jewler who said something like "you can never be surprised when you see how far someone will go for money". Paraphrasing aside; I think that line captures the essence of this film.

Visually and creatively this was a beautiful film. The costumes, sets, and images were very impressive, but it felt like the creators of this film spent too much time making it look good and forgot to work on this story.

I happen to like movie/musicals, or whatever you call them, when the characters sing their lines. Being a HUGE Beatles fan this was a no brainer. I was 100% positive I'd love this movie. I didn't. I actually felt bored. The story supposedly was to capture the feel of that era and use song to tell the story. The songs one after the other just didn't seem to make sense. It felt just completely plugged in there serving no purpose; "dear prudence" and the obligatory "hey jude" (which of course was the title characters name).

The story itself; the rich family with the passionate daughter protesting the war after her boyfriend is killed and her drop out brother is drafted and her English boyfriend who is a man without a country, and lacks purpose or direction. It all just seems extremely tired. If you want to see (in my opinion) an amazing, fun, and interesting Movie/musical about this time rent "Hair". It's fun, it tells a great story, and the soundtrack is amazing and moves the story forward. The songs are placed appropriately and seem necessary to tell the story and move it forward.

I give credit to Taymar for creating a beautiful film, but it just wasn't a great film.