Reviews by doudouce55

Vincent Lindon plays a man who, one evening, decides to shave his moustache. His wife (Emmanuelle Devos) does not notice, nor do his friends. After he tells his wife that he shaved it, she claims he never had a moustache. Is he crazy? Or is she playing a game with him?

Problems right from the beginning. When he asks her "How would you like it if I shaved my moustache" his wife replies "I've never seen you without it, it'd be different" - obviously the script does not work after that, since right after he shaves it, she then claims that he's never had a moustache.
Ridiculous.
The acting was bad too. And I adore Lindon as an actor. Usually brilliant in his performances, he was bland here.
I ended up fast forwarding the movie and found the ending stupider than the beginning, not to mention predictable.

Jos is dead. It is his funeral, and New Year's Day. Jos' family attends the ceremony, during which his daughter will discover a secret. A big one.

Quite predictable. Too many flashbacks which lead to a certain degree of confusion about who's who, in the younger and later years.

Not the comedy of the year.
Acceptable acting, but not the greatest performances from any of those wonderful actors so loved in Quebec.

Indeed, life is messy for Jennifer Garner's character in this film. She plays Gray Wheeler, who just lost her fiancé and is surrounded by his friends Fritz (Timothy Oliphant), Dennis (Sam Jaeger) and Sam (Kevin Smith). As she tries to overcome her sense of loss, her life is disturbed by her fiancé's alleged 4-year-old son and his mother (Juliette Lewis).

Nice cast. Especially all the guys. It is nice to see Garner in romantic and dramatic roles (as opposed to her Alias performance).
The ending yet remains too predictable. Too Hollywood for my taste.

Life is messy. Love is messier.
I couldn't summarize this movie better.
Worth watching. Rent it.

Dot (Camilla Belle) is a young deaf and mute woman, who is sent to live with her godparents (Edie Falco and Martin Donovan) and their daughter Nina (Elisha Cuthbert). Nina will soon start to divulge secrets to Dot, and others will follow. Everyone has secrets and needs someone to tell them too... eventually. But is Dot really deaf and mute?

The cast, well-directed, was great. It is regrettable that the script was so predictable.

I've certainly seen my share of bad thrillers, but I can't say whether this is good or bad. It's one of those "it's ok" movie. But I don't think I'd watch it again.

Lost on the road, a young couple (Kate Beckinsale and Luke Wilson) is stuck in an unknown town with a gas station and a horrible motel, where they check-in to avoid spending the night in their car.
Having nothing to do, David pops in a video only to realise that the room in the movie is the very same room where he and his wife are now. He will try everything to get his wife to safety.

I know that there wouldn't be a movie if this had been done, but the first thing to do is to unhook the cameras so they do not film anything, so the bad guys so to speak do not know what you're doing.
First script mistake. And there were many, many more.

Yes, it is an interesting plot, but the not-credible script made it hard to watch. The characters were not credible either. The dialogue was lousy.

It is a film filled with action, no matter how horrible it was.

There are better horror pictures out there.

In this film, Morgan Freeman is an actor prepping for an upcoming role as a grocery store manager. He is left in a local grocery store to study his character, and meets the quirky grocery clerk (Paz Vega). The two of them hit the road to show one another their respective worlds.

Freeman's character is not credible. And his acting is one of the worst ever - obviously he was badly directed. It all comes down to the film director. Which leads me to write about the directing... What can I say except the words lousy and bad come to mind.

A total waste of time.
And I had high expectations for this independent film.

One full star is a very generous rating for this crap.

Halle Berry plays a journalist, who, recently fired, decides to go undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill (Bruce Willis) as her best friend's killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online cat-and-mouse investigation.

All through the film, I was hoping the ending wouldn't be as predictable as I thought... Unfortunately, it was.

Moreover, the script was lousy, lousy, lousy. Too many things didn't make any sense. Bad thriller.

If you're watching for the story, look for another thriller. If you're watching for action, you'll get plenty of it.

Erin Gruwell, a newly appointed English teacher (Hilary Swank), tries to educate her at-risk students.

While I do agree that this film has been done 500 times before, this is one of those films that deserves to be seen. The actors playing the students were well-directed and there are some gems in there - including Weeds' actor Hunter Parrish.
I've never much cared for Hilary Swank but in this film, she is quite all right - although at times she seems a little snobby and stuck-up.
Patrick Dempsey, as her husband, is a great cast.

Not an original story. But still good to see, despite the typical Hollywood story and ending.

One night, Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins), a brilliant and rich structural engineer in Los Angeles, shoots his wife and entraps her lover, a lieutenant in the police force (Billy Burke). Crawford signs a confession; at the arraignment, he represents himself and asks the court to move immediately to trial.
Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling), is the prosecutor, and a hotshot who soon joins a fancy civil-law firm, told by everyone it's an open and shut case.
But is it?

Hopkins is and has always been a great actor. Unfortunately it hasn't much changed since his role of Hannibal Lecter. Gosling is refreshing to see, and has much more talent than many of his colleagues. Great cast in general.

A well-directed movie, it's too bad the script didn't measure to the rest of the film.

A little predictable for my taste. And I love thrillers.
Watch if you really must. Or if you have nothing else.

Turning her back on her wealthy, established family, Diane Arbus (Nicole Kidman) falls in love with her neighbour, Lionel Sweeney (Robert Downey Jr.). He soon will introduce Diane to the marginalized people who help her become one of the most revered photographers of the 20th century.

Downey is not believable in his character, and it seems that he believes he's more important than anyone else. Kidman seems wan and vague. I doubt that Diane Arbus was that way. But since this is just "an imaginary portrait"...

Some compare this movie to Cocteau's "La Belle et la Bête" - perhaps in a way, yet I maintain that this is an insult. Cocteau's film was brilliant and should not be compared to anything. Other reviewers mention Kubrick, Hitchcock. I fail to see this comparison.

I wasted my time on this film, and will certainly not watch it again. Ever. No matter how much I enjoy the actors.