Seriously excellent.

9.5 / 10

Pretty dang good. Loved Marlon Brando.

8 / 10

No. Just no. Look, I knew what would probably happen to the deer, but I feel like there wasn't a SINGLE animal in this entire movie that was unharmed! AND it was 1946, so who knows whether anything was even faked. UGH. HATED this.

1 / 10

Cute! Not so cute that you need to rush out and see it, but I would definitely rent it.

8 / 10

Oh. My. God. What an insufferable piece of shit. I couldn't finish it! Elizabeth Gilbert is a whiny, entitled, pretentious asshole, and I don't give two shits what she eats, prays for, or loves.

0 / 10

Honestly, I've never felt so divided by a movie before. I absolutely hated and loved it at the same time. Ultimately, I'm going to recommend it, because it was fairly brilliant, but I absolutely never, ever want to see it again. If that makes sense.

8 / 10

I had never seen it before, but Chris wants to rent Ghost Protocol, so I thought I ought to try to catch up. (Even when movies can be watched as stand-alones, my OCD won't allow it.) OMG, I LOVED it. I thought it was going to be stupid, but it was actually really fun! And hilarious what passed for "high tech" in 1996.

9 / 10

I don't know why I thought it would be good; I didn't even like the book. Normally, I love Reese Witherspoon, but she was woefully miscast here. As was Christoph Waltz's American accent...

3 / 10

It makes me really, really sad to say this... but I just didn't get it. It was mediocre at best, and probably the most slow-moving "comedy" I've ever seen.

5 / 10

Cute, but not that cute.

7 / 10

Joss, I miss you so hard. I feel like this is one of the most clever movies I've ever seen! It's scary, it's bizarre, it's hilarious, and I loved almost every minute of it.

9.5 / 10

I thought it was a phenomenal adaptation of the book. Some complained about the lack of character development and how the movie felt rushed, but honestly, I never complain about a movie adaptation as long as it captures the essence of the book, which I felt this did. You will never get the passion in a movie that you get from a book's pages, there's just no way. So as long as the movie feels "true", that's all that matters to me! The movie moved me in the same way the book did, which is good enough for me :)

9 / 10

Another movie in the Mighty Quest that I thought was really well done. Supposedly, it's the quintessential courtroom drama, and I can see why. Parts of the trial drag a bit, but overall, it's a pretty intriguing movie.

8 / 10

Daniel Day-Lewis, as always, was a phenom. The movie was really hard to watch at times, but maybe that's just because disabled people make me feel sad inside.

8 / 10

Continuing on the quest... this movie proves once and for all that war movies are not for me. I'd imagine if I were ever going to truly enjoy a war movie, it would be this one, given its esteemed cast and many accolades. Wrong. Don't get me wrong, I didn't wholly dislike it, but man, oh man, do war scenes bore me to tears! Maybe it's because I'm part dirty hippie, I don't know. I liked the plot, I liked the ending, but I snoozed throughout a lot of it. Marginal thumbs up.

7.5 / 10

Nope, I'd never seen it! Watched as part of the Best Pic Quest. Good stuff.

8.5 / 10

The next TCM movie on my Oscar list! Also really good! Chris preferred it to Stagecoach, but I preferred Stagecoach because this movie took a lot longer to find its legs. Once into the meat of the plot, it was really enthralling. This was my first Henry Fonda flick, and I thought he was most excellent.

8 / 10

I'm embarking on a new quest to watch all of the Oscar Best Picture nominees that I haven't seen, so I started by recording anything on TCM that's on the list! I was super nervous about watching this because I'm not a fan of either John Wayne or Westerns in general, but I REALLY liked it. It's more of a character study than a straight up Western, and I thought it was great.

9 / 10

That Michael Shannon didn't get a Best Actor nod for this film is a crime against nature! (Nature, get it?) This movie is a slow burn psychological thriller, and I loved it. Throughout the whole movie, Chris kept saying "This is so good, the ending better not suck!" and it didn't!

9 / 10

Chris and I are trying this new thing where we each pick a film we love that the other hasn't seen and we watch it together. So this week, he chose American History X. At times the dialogue was George Lucas-level bad and I thought the message was overly simplistic, but overall, it was pretty interesting and sometimes even engrossing. Thumbs up.

8.5 / 10