Mesmerizing and sad, All About My Mother follows the tale of a single mother who loses her son on his birthday. It's about love, sickness, prostitution, and death, and about acting and appearances and the face we put forth to face the world. An uncomfortable heart-wrenching story that, while very well done, has too many men-who-look-like-women for my tastes.
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Well done movie about 1950s McCarthy-ism. Using black-and-white film, appropriate costumes, and many cigarettes, effectively capture the feel of the time. Good acting. Only flaws were that one side-story felt irrelevant and some camera movements felt too modern.
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Hugh Grant's premier movie. Decent romantic (?) comedy. To me, felt like a dark movie about the difficulty in finding true love and committing, but with a happy ending tacked on at the end.
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The story of a boy with a dying mother, an absent father, some nervous problems, and a dog that no one else seems to like. Follows the boy's coming of age, his changing relationships, and his marginalization. A good artsy film.
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Good but not exceptional pun-filled Wallace and Gromit movie. I think I'm just getting used to all the amazing things one can do with claymation.
A movie with two separate cops exploring how they deal with the ending of a relationship: one eats lots of pineapple; the other has his home invaded by a girl from the local fast food restaurant. Relatively boring, with little forward momentum or appearance of a point. Yet, I did sit through it all and it does have occasional moments.
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Pretty good movie that is unpredictable in the long-term (i.e., you don't know what will happen more than ten minutes in the future) with forward momentum (i.e., despite lack of knowledge of the larger plot, it kept moving forward). About an ad-executive, 25-year-old VPs, multinational corporate shenanigans, work-life balance, family life, and letting go.
Also, while I know it is a movie about advertising, there is just too much product placement: Domino's, Porsche, Starbucks, United, MasterCard, Target, ... I don't mind a little, but there was just too much.
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