This week's Top 10
- Eagle Eye ($29.2 million)
- Nights in Rodanthe ($13.6 million)
- Lakeview Terrace ($7 million)
- Fireproof ($6.5 million)
- Burn After Reading ($6.2 million)
- Igor ($5.5 million)
- Righteous Kill ($3.803 million)
- My Best Friend’s Girl ($3.8 million)
- Miracle at St. Anna ($3.5 million)
- Tyler Perry’s the Family That Preys ($3.2 million)
- The Great McGinty (3 stars): See full review here.
- Cinema Paradiso (3 stars): Netflix sent me the 170-minute director's cut of this 1988 Oscar-winner for Best Foreign Language film, and I think this is the exception to the rule that director's cuts are better than theatrical releases. Having not seen the theatrical, I obviously can't compare, but this movie seemed to go on forever. That being said, it was a sweet story, well-acted and all that jazz, but I was expecting more.
- Eagle Eye (2 ½ stars): I always have trouble rating movies that are obviously not very good but during which I still had a good time. This movie falls into that category. There are huge plot holes, and the script could have used more humor, but I was still entertained. Shia LaBoeuf was better than I expected; I'd anticipated feeling like he was miscast, but he pulled off the character well enough. Still, I miss the days of Louis Stevens when he got to showcase his talent for comedy.
- Then She Found Me (3 ½ stars): Helen Hunt's directorial debut, this movie explores a woman's life as she deals with divorce, meeting her birth mother, a new relationship, and her desire to get pregnant at age 39. The cast as a whole is equal parts funny and touching, but Colin Firth is, as usual, rather brilliant. Bette Midler also shines as Helen Hunt's birth mother. The story suffers a little because of its insistence on tackling so many issues, but all in all it's a solid little movie that deserved better distribution than it got.
- Citizen Kane (3 ½ stars): See full review here.
