When I rented movies for the first time, 'round about '82, the sticker price on a VHS tape was $60-80.

For what it's worth, I could barely sit through the Star Wars prequels (even the supposedly bearable Revenge of the Sith), but I enjoyed this film as dumb popcorn spectacle. It's dumb, is what I'm trying to say, but it's not as aggressively dumb as recent Lucas products, and it's targeted at 15-year-olds rather than…

Found everything about this movie way, way too predictable. Except Colin Farrell, because I wasn't expecting to see him and he gives a nice, restrained performance.

The costumes were nice, but I was incredibly bored. I don't think I've seen a movie with this little actual plot since … I don't know when. It might have been interesting had it left Victoria's relatively cossetted (and corseted) existence to show us what was going on in Parliament, in the factories, in the streets,…

I think the training montages were set to blandly upbeat African choral music. Actually, that was most of the film.

He was bad. But my favorite moment is when he's going berserk and Natalie Portman responds with this inappropriately blase little grimace, like she's thinking, "What's your problem?" Or like she's trying not to crack up.

Wide-eyed child actors can succeed as adults. The chubby-cheeked kind who don't lose their baby fat generally cannot. (I hold out hope that Abigail Breslin will either fade into obscurity or learn how to act.)

Having sat through it yesterday, I'm annoyed by the success of Brothers as well.

If Roland Barthes were still around, he would probably describe The Blind Side as one of those movies that "inoculate" people against a critique of society by giving them a very small dose. (Yeah, he was a postmodernist Marxist and shit but I think he had a point there.)

And I thought it fizzled from a reasonably funny movie into a pointless embarrassment, so I hope this is better.

Anna Kendrick is the best part of the Twilight films. Her total screen time amounts to about two minutes. She's the intentional comic relief.

Agreed. Haven't read the book, and the film left me with some appreciation for the Touhys and what they did. But the problem was that Oher remained a big muscle-bound, passive, good-natured blank. The only sense we get of his personality is from a couple of things he writes. When they showed stills of the real Oher…

Movies featuring adorable precocious kids mouthing off until someone has the sense to slap them upside the head get an automatic D from me.

I hoped to see 2012 this weekend and ended up seeing A Serious Man. It was great. I'm still thinking about it. Possibly my favorite movie of the year.

Didn't the terrible TV movie "10.5" also feature a road crumbling under the escaping car?

Comic interludes in "serious" dramas are a hoary old populist tradition that never gets much respect. That's why the French, who maintained a strict unity of tone, held their noses when Shakespeare was mentioned (until Victor Hugo and the Romantic movement came along).

"In retrospect, "The Box" is the true beginning of the US horror phenomenon that has followed it's release."

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I disagree. It's portentous, pretentious, derivative, incoherent and boring. But the library scene is just insane enough to justify a Netflixing.

Rent it. The funny parts work fine on the small screen. The ending fizzles.