Fish Tank. Everyone has heard about it by now, but let me recap: this movie tells the story of kids who never got around to be kids, who were always being knocked down by life and when down, got kicked further. The main character, looking for a father figure, ends up not only disappointed once again, but also taken advantage of. It's well told and directed, well-acted and involving, yet... it's missing an original twist ("Looking For Eric" did that well) and the symbolism felt overdone more than once.
7/10
The Talented Mr. Ripley. Compared to the novel, the beginning is terribly rushed and riddled with some of the blandest exposition I've seen in a while. When the film strays from the original, it does it in a bad way, and it tends to happen in some of the most important parts. It seems to be a teenage movie at points, the depths of the characters missing and the dialogues plain retarded. There's three saving graces though: Cate Blanchett, Philipp Seymour Hoffman and Jack Davenport.
4/10
Arthur. Well, some of the drunk humour
is funny. Especially the lines written for the sarcastic butler Hobson had me giggling. That said, there is nothing else to the movie worth mentioning.
6/10
New York, I Love You. For the most part too pretentious. Brett Rattner's episode is lovely, funny and perfected by Simon & Garfunkel closing it; the Joshua Marston one very cute; Yvan Attal's short(s) had two well-done twists; but a few of the episodes are simply trying way too hard and make this a bit of a disappointment. The cinematography makes up for some of the shortcomings of the plots though.
6/10
Gordos. A view into why people have eating disorders. To cut things short: it's because of other people and the only way out, either by changing or accepting things as they are, is by yourself. The ending was too sappy for my taste, and the whole second half lacked the humour that was the movie's main strength in the beginning.
6/10
