Emphasis on "Sleeping" as in sleeping-pill... *Yawn*

Despite a committed performance from Rooney Mara and Fincher's typical technical wizardry the film is...antiseptic and sterile. It does succeed in making (overly) familiar material seem fresh. And I'm sure that the totally over the top credit sequence cost more to make than the Swedish version of the film... http://vimeo.com/34699752

I was somehow disappointed. The whole thing felt too stagy and overacted... Polanski had successfully adapted a stage play before with "Death and the Maiden" and is a master at working in confined spaces (i.e "Repulsion") so I don't know what happened here...Maybe sub-par source material...

Skip this and watch Page Eight instead...

Everything that Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy should have been (but sadly wasn't).

Lean, spare, minimalist, brutal and awesome.

Lyrical, elliptical and moving.

Exceeded my fairly high expectations. Structurally very unusual for a summer (OK, late summer) blockbuster: it's on a slow burn the whole way through. James Franco and Freida Pinto are perfectly cast as they have no problem getting staged-up by the best CGI apes you've ever seen.

Has one of the greatest opening sequences in cinema, a masterclass in cross-cutting. A deeply moving and tragic film, that works not because of logic but because of it's emotional power.

Several of Kevin Smith's earlier films clearly indicated that he has plenty of talent and a great understanding of cinema but somehow (for me) he just wasn't able to pull it all together (though he came closest in Chasing Amy). Well he nails it here with Red State in fairly spectacular fashion. It somehow feels influenced by the best of recent Von Trier films - a good thing - and offers a harsh examination of America

(Re)watched it for the first time in a while and enjoyed it as much as every other time. Very inventive and appeals to both the high brow...and the low. Sort of a guilty pleasure but all the more fun because of it.

No one makes films like this anymore. Except a guy who used to run with Godard, Rohmer and the rest of the French New Wave crew...

Inapprropriate to watch on anything other than VHS...or Betamax.

Among the biggest disappointments of all time...

Tedious.

The ultimate HP Lovecraft homage and frankly speaking the only worthwhile film adaptation of his works.

Worth watching only for Tom Cruise's OTT performance.

Underrated and misunderstood.

One of the rare instances when th US remake is superior to the (Swedish) original.

Verhoeven's favorite themes culminate in an orgy of excessive gore and ultra violence. To be clear: this is a good thing.

Re-watched this for the first time in at least 15 years & it really holds up well, including the FX - the sharp satire has lost none of its bite, the dark humor still induces guilty chuckles and the performances, especially by Peter Weller, Miguel Ferrer & Kurtwood Smith were spot on. Verhoeven's best English language film?

The romance between Fonda and Kristofferson is frosty and fairly unconvincingly acted (but perhaps this is in some way the point) in this otherwise taut and prophetic thriller in which Pakula shifts his traditional focus from politics to finance. It eerily presages the 2009 global financial crisis. Pakula fans/completists should give it a look.

The best X-Men movie. 'Nuff said. (And likely to be the best super hero film of the year).

While chatting with a friend recently we agreed that it's a sign of the times that this makes it into the Top 5 of 2011 (so far) but that doesn't mean that it isn't a highly entertaining guilty pleasure, all the more so for the tongue-in-cheek, deeply cynical ending.

This took me two viewings to fully appreciate, one on opening day in the cinema, the next at home of the "extended cut" (which I recommend over the theatrical cut). A wildly inventive mash-up of video game memes: sci-fi, steam-punk, orcs and dragons with musical numbers to boot that coaleces into some kind of teenage boy fever dream.

Evokes nostalgia not just for the films of your childhood but also for your childhood itself. Elle Fanning is amazing in a scene that tops Naomi Watts' stupendous audition scene from "Mulholland Drive".

I'll just quote the Village Voice's Nick Pinkerton - "Better than a masterpiece - whatever that is - The Tree of Life is an eruption of a movie, something to live with, think, and talk about afterward"

An unexpectadly moving sci-fi film that dispense with most of the "sci" and focuses on the human, and philosophical, elements of the "fi".

Utterly pointless.

This one came out of leftfield. Unconventional in every way form the awesome Chemical Bothers' score, to the insane camera angles and editing that's right out of the most inventive of the French New Wave films. It's like Joe Wright has only ever watched action movies and Godard films.