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Movies under ‘Drama’

The Other Women (2011)

I saw this at the Toronto Film Festival. I go to university in Toronto, and I decided on impulse to watch one of the movies in between my classes, and this one fit so I wouldn’t have to be late for my next class. I’m very glad I saw it.

The film is about Emilia (Natalie Portman), who lives with her husband John (Scott Cohen), and her stepson William (Charlie Tahan). We watch as her story is told through flashbacks and we learn that John was married (to Carolyne, played by Lisa Kudrow) and had an affair with Emilia. He soon divorces Carolyne and marries Emilia. We watch as Emilia struggles to keep her life together with her marriage strained by the death of their 3-day-old daughter Isabel, and William’s resentment towards her.

I really liked the acting in this movie. Natalie Portman is really natural in this role. Scott Cohen and the young Charlie Tahan were very good too, and Lisa Kudrow too, even though she didn’t have a lot of scenes.

I liked the story, and I didn’t find the pace of the film to be dragging. The characters were well written too- I was always able to see their side of the story and could sympathize and understand them, even when they contradicted with other characters.

To me, The Other Women was a very good film overall.

By Sal D’Souza from Ontario, Canada (IMDB)

The Roommate (2011)

I consider myself someone who judges films rather harshly. I feel like most of the people who are bashing this film are people who went into the theater close minded and not even willing to give this film a chance. I’m not a fan of Single White Female, as I found every single one of the characters to get on my last nerve. I’m not saying they’re acting was bad, I’m saying that I didn’t think the characters were likable.

The Roommate is a fresh take on Single White Female. I liked the college setting better than the apartment setting because it gave Sara and the viewer a more confined feeling. In an apartment there are doors you can lock and places to hide, whereas in a dorm room there’s you and there’s the psycho.

Leighton Meester’s performance of Rebecca was very good. She did a really good job of portraying the psycho. And a lot of people are bashing Minka Kelly for her portrayal of Sara and to be honest Leighton did outshine her, only because the character of Rebecca is much more complex and interesting. Sara isn’t supposed to be an interesting character. She’s a typical college girl who doesn’t have much of a back story because she doesn’t really need a backstory. We’re introduced to Sara as a college freshman who drinks, cusses, and has sex just like the next college freshman on film, but somehow Rebecca sees something in her she wants and will do anything to get.

I appreciated that they didn’t just make Rebecca a psycho and left it at that, then I would have been angry, but I think they spent a perfect amount of time explaining Rebecca and her past. We don’t know the specifics on Maria because we don’t need to, she has two minutes of screen time and in that two minutes of screen time we see that whatever happened between her and Rebecca it definitely left her scarred.

I liked that other than Rebecca and Sara we didn’t have a lot of interaction between other characters and that’s the way it should’ve been, as that was Rebecca’s goal. She wanted to isolate Sara and by doing that, isolating the viewers.

It’s not a horror film. Not at all. Not at all. Not at all. It does have its scares and jump scenes and is filled to the brim with chilling moments though. And a part of me even agrees with those are saying it should have been a TV movie. I think it would have been judged a bit more fairly. But I have to say believe it or not, unlike most Screen Gems it does have depth.

Watch it once. And then watch it again. And THEN make your final judgement because in my opinion most of the people that are insulting the writers/actors/director are just stubborn SWF fans.

My rating 8/10. For a fun, creepy thriller with good acting and a pretty good story.

By prince9111995 from United States (IMDB)

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Cold Weather (2010)

Cold Weather Movies Review

Both written and Directed by Aaron Katz (Dance Party USA, Quiet City) Cold Weather tells the story of an underachieving forensics graduate, Doug (Cris Lankenau), who upon moving in with his sister, Gail (Trieste Kelly Dunn), quickly finds himself thrust into a real life who-done-it when his ex-girlfriend suddenly vanishes.

Being an admittedly big fan of Sherlock Holmes, Doug, along with his his sister and his new bestie, Carlos (Raul Castillo), set out to play real life detectives in a case that just might be a little over their heads.

The film is described as a thriller, which I though I was going to see. To be honest, the film wasn’t that thrilling at all, at least when compared to good thrillers. I mean, it’s no Polanski. My first impression upon leaving my seat was actually that of disappointment. It wasn’t until I was on the bus heading home when it suddenly hit me.

The point of the movie had little to do with the thriller aspects and everything to do with the brother and sister relationship. It’s like one of those 3-D puzzles that were popular in the mid-90′s. You know, the ones where in order to see the complete picture you had to let your eyes relax, otherwise all you would see would be squiggly lines and repetitive shapes.

Here the squiggly lines were clearly the missing girlfriend subplot masquerading itself as the film’s main design. The full picture however, was Aaron Katz’s beautiful portrait of one sibling’s bond at a particular moment in time.

I recommend this film to anyone who likes to laugh just as much, if not more than they liked to be thrilled, or just simply anyone who has a lot of love their sibling.

by Adam Cuttler from United States

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