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Musings of a mom of 3, freelance copyeditor, voracious reader, and enthusiastic cook.
My Movie Reviews
Akeelah and the Bee
Alfie
All About My Mother
All or Nothing
All the Real Girls
Almost Famous
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Amelie
American Gangster
American Splendor
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Another Day in Paradise
Après Vous
Aquamarine
Argo
The Aristocrats
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
The Astronaut's Wife
Auto Focus
The Aviator
Babel
Back to the Future
Bad Lieutenant
Bad(der) Santa
Bandits
The Bank Job
Basquiat
Batman Begins
The Beat that My Heart Skipped
Beautiful Girls
A Beautiful Mind
Before Night Falls
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Being Julia
Being There
Benny and Joon
Beyond the Sea
Big Fish
The Blind Swordman: Zatoichi
Blood Diamond
Bloody Sunday
The Blue Planet: Seas of Life: Open Oceans / The Deep
Bobby
Bon Voyage
Borat
The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Supremacy
Bowling for Columbine
Breach
Bread and Roses
Breakdown
Bride and Prejudice
Bringing Out the Dead
Brokeback Mountain
Broken Flowers
In Bruges
Bugs!: IMAX
Burn After Reading
The Butterfly Effect
Calendar Girls
Casino Royale
Catch Me If You Can
Celebrity
Cellular
Children of Heaven
Children of Men
The Cider House Rules
Cinderella Man
City of God
A Civil Action
Closer
Coffee and Cigarettes
Cold Mountain
Collateral
Color Me Kubrick
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Confidence
The Constant Gardener
Control Room
A Cool, Dry Place
The Cooler
Crash
Crazy Heart
Croupier
The Cup
Curse of the Golden Flower
The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Dan in Real Life
The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight Rises
The Da Vinci Code
Dead Man
Deep Cover
Deep Sea: IMAX
Defending Your Life
Déjà Vu
De-Lovely
The Departed
Derailed
Desperado/El Mariachi
The Devil Wears Prada
The Dinner Game
Dirty Pretty Things
Dogma
Dogtown and Z-Boys
Don Juan de Marco
Dot the I
Down by Law
Earth
Edward Scissorhands
Ed Wood
Election
11:14
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Entourage
Erin Brockovich
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eve's Bayou
Exotica
Extras
Facing Windows
Fahrenheit 911
The Fall
Far From Heaven
Fast, Cheap and Out of Control
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fearless
Festival Express
Fever Pitch
Fight Club
The Fighter
Finding Neverland
Firewall
Flawless
Flight
Flight of the Conchords
Flushed Away
The Fog of War
(also
here
)
For Your Consideration
The Forbidden Kingdom
Forty Shades of Blue
From Hell
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Frozen River
Gangs of New York
Garden State
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Ghost Town
Ghost World
Glenn Tilbrook: One for the Road
Glengarry Glen Ross
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Gloomy Sunday
Gods and Monsters
Gone Baby Gone
The Good Girl
Good Night, and Good Luck
The Good Shepherd
Goodbye, Lenin!
Gran Torino
Grizzly Man
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Happiness
Happy Accidents
Happy Feet
Happy, Texas
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Head in the Clouds
Heavenly Creatures
Hero
Hidalgo
Hilary and Jackie
Holes
Home on the Range
Hostage
House of Flying Daggers
House of Sand and Fog
The Hudsucker Proxy
The Hunted
The Hurricane
The Hurt Locker
I Heart Huckabees
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
Ice Princess
The Ice Storm
An Ideal Husband
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
The Illusionist
In America
Inception
The Incredibles
In the Mood for Love
In the Shadows
Inside Man
The Insider
Intermission
The Interpreter
Interview
Into the Blue
Intolerable Cruelty
In the Womb
Iron Man
Jack Reacher
Jane Eyre (2006)
Jarhead
Jaws
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Jesus' Son
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Junebug
Juno
Keeping Up with the Steins
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Kill Bill Vol. 2
King Arthur
King Kong
The Kingdom
Kinsey
Kiss of the Dragon
Kissing Jessica Stein
Kitchen Stories
The Knowledge of Healing
Kolya
Kundun
Kung Fu Panda
Lagaan
Lantana
The Last King of Scotland
The Last Samurai
The Last Boy Scout
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
Liam
The Libertine
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Life Is Beautiful
The Limey
Little Children
Little Miss Sunshine
The Lives of Others
Living in Oblivion
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
The Lookout
The Lord of War
Lost
Lost in Translation
Love in the Time of Cholera
A Love Song for Bobby Long
Lovely and Amazing
The Machinist
Mad Hot Ballroom
Made
Magnolia
Man on Fire
Man on Wire
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
March of the Penguins
Maria Full of Grace
Master and Commander
Match Point
Me Myself I
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Melinda and Melinda
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Merchant of Venice
Miami Vice
Michael Clayton
Milk
Million Dollar Baby
Mission Impossible II
Mission Impossible III
Mission Impossible IV
Moneyball
Monsoon Wedding
Monster
Moonrise Kingdom
Mostly Martha
Monument Ave.
The Mother
The Motorcycle Diaries
Moulin Rouge
Mrs. Henderson Presents
Munich
Murderball
Music and Lyrics
The Music Man
My Dinner with Andre
My Neighbor Totoro
Mystic River
My Summer of Love
The Name of the Rose
National Treasure
Nil by Mouth
Nine Queens
No Country for Old Men
Nobody's Fool
The Notebook
Notes on a Scandal
Notting Hill
Ocean's Thirteen
Ocean's Twelve
October Sky
The Office [British]
(also
here
)
The Office [American]
(also
here
)
Office Space
Once
One Hour Photo
Open Range
Open Water
Outfoxed
Overnight
Owning Mahowny
The Painted Veil
Paper Clips
The Parent Trap
The Pink Panther 2
Planet Earth
Pollock
Postmen in the Mountains
The Prestige
Pride and Prejudice (1995)
Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Primer
The Prisoner of Azkaban
Proof
P.S.
Quantum of Solace
The Queen
The Quiet American
Rachel Getting Married
Ratatouille
Ray
Real Genius
The Recruit
Requiem for a Dream
Revolver
The Road Home
The Royal Tenenbaums
Running with Scissors
Saraband
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary
School of Rock
Scoop
The Sea Inside
The Secret Lives of Dentists
Secret Window
Secretary
The Sentinel
Separate Lies
A Serious Man
Seven Samurai
Seven Up/Seven Plus Seven
Seven Years in Tibet
Shattered Glass
Shaun of the Dead
Shooter
Sideways
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Skyfall
Sling Blade
Slumdog Millionaire
The Social Network
Solaris
Songcatcher
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Spellbound
Spider-Man 2
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter . . . and Spring
Stage Beauty
Star Wars
Starsky and Hutch
The Station Agent
The Stepford Wives
The Straight Story
Summer of Sam
Sunshine
Super Size Me!
The Sweet Hereafter
Sweet Sixteen
Swimming with Sharks
Syriana
The Tao of Steve
Tape
Thank You for Smoking
There Will Be Blood
This Is Spinal Tap
3:10 to Yuma
Thumbsucker
To Live
Touching the Void
The Town
Training Day
Trainspotting
(also
here
)
Traitor
Transamerica
Tron: Legacy
Troy
True Grit
24
21 Grams
21-Up
Twin Falls Idaho
Under the Tuscan Sun
Undertow
Unfaithful
United 93
Up
Up in the Air
Vera Drake
Volver
Waitress
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Walk the Line
War of the Worlds
The Weather Man
Wedding Crashers
Weird Science
Welcome to the Dollhouse
What's Cooking?
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Wilde
The Winslow Boy
Withnail and I
The Woodsman
Word Play
Word Wars
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Y Tu Mama Tambien
You Can Count on Me
You Kill Me
Young Adam
Young @ Heart
Yours, Mine, and Ours
Zelary
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