The Taste of Others (Le Goût Des Autres)

This French comedy was a nice film about an industrialist who falls in love with a stage actress/English teacher and sets about entering into her world. Simultaneously, the stories of people adjunct to the primary protagonist and their respective romantic pursuits.
Overall, a touching and funny film, but because it was made by the French, I am taking off half a point- Just kidding.
Actually, it was slow at times and sometimes depressing, which detracted from what is otherwise an excellent film worth seeing.

My Rating:

4 1/2 Arbitrary Shapes

Bagheads

Bagheads is an indie film where a group of 4 people with unrequited relationships go into a cabin to write a film that will propel them to stardom. What follows is a long period of awkward and boring film with a conclusion as disappointing as the character development. Don't waste your time.

My Rating:

1 1/2 Arbitrary Shapes

Election

Reese Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick star in the tale of an ambitious high school students, a washed-up high school civics teacher, and the class president election. Funny movie with each character performing their roles well, the movie flows nicely, and the ending resolves well.
It is for these reasons that I am giving this movie my first five rating. Please note, however, that I find it necessary to use different standards for evaluating comedies and dramas, and so you may find that while this movie would not be called great in the classical sense, it has all the ingredients of a great comedy.

My Rating:

5 Arbitrary Shapes

Inglourious Basterds

If you haven't seen Inglourious Basterds, then you are not any of the following: a Quentin Tarantino fan, someone who enjoys excessively violent movies, or someone who likes the idea of Brad Pitt in a f'awesome mustache. Funny, but slow at parts, and too much protagonist death for my tastes.

If I were to describe this movie in two words, they would be "Godwin's Law".

My Rating:

4 Arbitrary Shapes

The Assassination Bureau

A charming and delightful picture in which a female, feminist, aspiring reporter hires a company that assassinates people to kill their own leader. What follows is a series of escapades in which many people die in the most amusing of fashions during the period preceding WW1.

See it or get assassinated.

My rating:

4 1/2 Arbitrary Shapes

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

John Krasinski's directoral debut is much like John Krasinski's acting- muted. Krasinki gained fame for his role on The Office where he basically plays the straight man to the wackiness of many of the other characters in the show. Signature to this is where some other character says something crazy and Krasinkski looks at the camera as though to tell the viewing audience that he's aware how crazy it all is.

While this technique works for Krasinski in the Office and in his film Away We Go, Brief Interviews suffers from it. While the movie is not devoid of funny moments, all the characters are straight men, so to speak, and without the existence of wacky characters to counterbalance them, the characters fail to inspire the humor for which the movie clearly strives and ends up dull and non-conclusive.

My Rating:

2 1/2 Arbitrary Shapes

Julie And Julia

A delightful picture with Meryl Streep and Amy Adams that parallels the story of Julia Styles writing the Joy of Cooking and a bureaucrat in 2002 blogging about cooking every recipe in the Joy of Cooking in one year. Overall, a very light and enjoyable movie, punctuated by some strife, some unnecessary scenes, and a little too much talk about blogging.

My Rating:

4 1/2 Arbitrary Shapes