Four Movies, Slouching Toward Bethlehem

[bcholmes]

Catch and Release: 1 star. Boooooring.

Breaking and Entering: 3 stars. I really enjoy its script. The dialog between Jude Law and Robin Wright Penn is amazing stuff. I suspect that the film won't work for a lot of people, but I so enjoyed seeing a very different kind of relationship breakdown than is usually trotted out in this kind of film.

A Crude Awakening: 2 stars. The category of "Peak Oil" documentary needs to get out of 101 territory.

Land of the Blind: 2.5 stars. I enjoyed this film, while being well-aware of its flaws. It's cartoonish and over-the-top, but I enjoyed its literate script. I'm a bit suspicious of films that seem to say, as this one does, that it doesn't matter what you do to try to change the system -- every replacement system is just going to be as bad.