Never Let Me Go

While I am a big fan of science fiction in which there is little speculative technology (eg, Brazil), and while this story is set in a world almost precisely our own, it's really just a heartbreaking metaphor for the ways we treat one another.

Unthinkable

Ugly, unpleasant, unlikely, but not un-interesting.

Wall Steeet: Money Never Sleeps

It's hard not to like a movie that is ripped from the financial headlines, and uses the debate between crystalline silicon and thin film solar energy as a plot device, though the romance and family ties subplot is tacked-on nonsense.

How Do You Know versus The Backup Plan

The right way and the wrong way to build a romantic comedy:  Love your subjects and build in some tension in addition to the romantic machinations (How Do You Know), or get cynical and treat everything as a plastic backdrop (The Backup Plan).

Voyage of the Dawn Treader

I guess they blew the budget on the climactic battle on the volcanic island, which is impressive, since the escape from the Lone Islands looks like a made-for-SyFy movie.

44 Inch Chest

Feels like a poorly adapted stage play.