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Bridesmaids 2011
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I guess I was hoping for more, the way this film had been positioned as a kind of milestone for women in Hollywood. I found it so-so. I was disappointed that the plot was driven so much by the bride's two friends fighting over her (because women be crazy bitches geddit?); by Kristin Wiig's character being generally hopeless (guess it's harder to get audiences to like/sympathise with a woman who actually has her shit together); and that Kristin Wiig had to end up with a bloke (because it wouldn't be a happy ending otherwise). Meh.
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Young Adult 2011
Loved it. Extremely clever and subversive. I was especially impressed that a film about a thirty-something woman returning to her home town didn't rely on flashbacks for exposition and/or cheap laughs. Young Adult seems to have been marketed as a kind of indie rom com but it is much more than that.
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We Need to Talk About Kevin 2011
Inevitably lacked the subtlety and complexity of Lionel Shriver's novel. That said, it's a gripping, tense and emotionally relentless film. Tilda Swinton is astonishingly good, even by her own very high standards.
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Hugo 2011
Context: I'll watch anything Scorcese makes; on the other hand I don't get the appeal of 3D. Let those two things cancel each other out. Hugo begins as a sweet adventure story about a likeable orphan who lives in a Parisian train station. In the second half Scorcese hijacks his own film and veers off into a messy, ham-fisted and--this is the really annoying bit--utterly boring love letter to cinema. There are some great performances but honestly, this film is interminable for children and adults alike. One star for the romantic subplot involving two dachshunds.
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