Gran Torino

Though a fantasy and not a drama, other than Eastwood's hamming it's not bad.

Waltz with Bashir

War is not cool.

Away We Go

Mostly funny, with some shallow serious bits, until the maudlin ending. Kind of like "High Fidelity" with a road trip instead of a record store. But I did guffaw.

Diary of the Dead

Better than his last zombie movie.

It didn't have the deep look into personal ethics of some of the earlier films.

But I thought it still retained some incisive social commentary -- though at times it was a little conflicted.

For example, the idea that when CNN goes offline, it becomes too complicated (according to the narrator) to know what the truthis -- while alternately lauding having many points of view from all the
people online uploading their own "news reports" which help to
communicate about what's really going on, and how it's being "covered
up".

The Reader

Just in case you were waiting on a remake of The English Patient.

Chunking Express

Almost every time Doyle starts his camera, the result is worthy of being printed and framed.