Tuesday, January 8, 2008

MATILDA told such Dreadful Lies,
It made one Gasp and Stretch one's Eyes.

atonement - 7.5/10. the first half when she's a child is pretty enthralling, but the second half hides flimsy melodrama behind long, drawn-out scenes that add little, with an older actress who can't seem to carry her weight, when the whole movie is about her carrying around the weight of a lie. it brings it back at the end.

the ten - 7/10. the guys from the state. ten segments telling stories based off of the ten commandments. that's just a gimmick which holds a bunch of sketches together, but it helps that most of them are pretty hilarious.

solyaris - 8/10. a 3-hour russian science fiction epic about the nature of reality and what we choose to believe? i'm there! at once terrifying and sad.

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