question: Despite its promising pedigree and a titillating premise, Chloe ultimately fails to deliver the heat -- or the thrills -- expected of a sexual thriller.

numbered reviews: 1. Yeah, it's kinda kinky. But given that Moore and Seyfried are terribly attractive women, watching their little dance of desire has its pleasures.
2. This is a high-toned erotic thriller, handled with style and some emotionally raw scenes, aiming for an effect that's pleasingly unnerving, if not outright arousing.
3. The only Verhoeven element that's missing is deliberate camp, a healthy ladling of which might have made Chloe worth watching for some reason other than the prospect of glimpsing Seyfried's and Moore's admirably formed torsos.
4. A seductive and mostly intriguing erotic thriller that eventually loses steam and veers toward silliness while failing to trust the audience's intelligence. Amanda Seyfried sizzles.
5. There are certainly moments in the film where you won't want to make eye contact with anybody else in the theater. But that may be because your eyes are glued to the screen, kept there by a film so seductive and profound.
6. Nearly too stupid to be considered misogynistic (although not quite), Chloe would be straight-to-video if it starred lesser actors and bore the name of a director considered trashier like Paul Verhoeven or Adrian Lyne.
7. This sleazy and cheap imitation of the original takes a silly and ridiculous turn in the third act. It becomes a kinky lesbian imitation of "Fatal Attraction." The tawdry sexploitation will be titillating for dirty old men.
8. The movie is entertaining and undeniably sexy, filled with an atmosphere charged by lust and desire.
9. Chloe's aesthetic is both distancing and, largely on the strength of Moore's translucent performance and Seyfried's boldness, forcibly intimate.
10. A mature, adult experience.


question: An affectionate portrait created with visual flair, Diana Vreeland is entertaining, informative, and stylish, due in large part to its charismatic subject.

numbered reviews: 1. Remember Vreeland's red living room, recreated in Infamous? You get to see the real one here, with the real Truman Capote, as well, and it fully lives up to Vreeland's stated desire that it "look like a garden, but a garden in hell."
2. Dizzily enjoyable ...
3. The film captures Vreeland's perhaps unwitting philosophical integrity just as much as it drowns us in the exuberance of her work.
4. "I think your imagination is your reality," she once said. And so hers proved.
5. Shows what the world saw in Vreeland: a fairy godmother determined to dress up a world of Cinderellas.
6. For Vreeland reality was merely the starting point on a far more delicious journey, the best of which is captured here in this excellent documentary.
7. In an age where documentaries are becoming the place to go for those interested in investing their time & money in the company of thoughtful and watchable subjects, The Eye Has to Travel is yet another welcome addition to that list.
8. It's informative and not uncritical, touching as it does in an affectionate manner on her authoritarian personality and her somewhat cavalier attitude towards matters of fact and the history of fashion.
9. The movie is saved from feeling like a promotional puff piece by the legitimate fabulousness of Vreeland herself ...
10. Fashion aficionados aren't the only viewers who can appreciate this energetic documentary about the life of Vreeland.


question: Hitchcock's first American film (and his only Best Picture winner), Rebecca is a masterpiece of haunting atmosphere, Gothic thrills, and gripping suspense.

numbered reviews: 1. Gorgeously mounted, but overlong Hitchcock film.
2. An altogether brilliant film, haunting, suspenseful, handsome and handsomely played.
3. A gothic moody piece, there's an overwhelming sense that anything can happen in this film, and anything does. The plot is twisting, unpredictable and even unclear.
4. A gorgeous treat from one of cinema's masters. Not to be missed.
5. Alfred Hitchcock's first American film is an atmospheric triumph of suspense.
6. Hitchcock's only Best Picture winner is a moody thriller about a past murder
7. Hitchcock shows superb technical control and attends to his trademark motifs, from monstrous mother figures to the fetishisation of clothing.
8. Remains one of the Master's most overrated and underrated movies at the same time.
9. Hitchcock's first American film is a superbly mounted Gothic thriller, starring Joan Fontaine as the timid wife and Olivier as the tormented husband.
10. Judith Anderson dominates every scene she's in.


question: Anchored by Sean Penn's powerhouse performance, Milk is a triumphant account of America's first openly gay man elected to public office.

numbered reviews:
1. Sean Penn gives a meticulously detailed performance as the cagey and charismatic pol, but credit should also go to Dustin Lance Black, whose script squarely locates Milk at the center of his community, his city, and his cause.
2. An involving portrait of the courage of one man standing up against hatred and bigotry.
3. With a commercially agreeable directorial style, Gus Van Sant continues his foray into provocative cinema with what is quite possibly his best film yet.
4. A solid film with clear intentions -- to thoughtfully entertain. If you walk out of Milk and not be moved then you are missing a little soul.
5. Ultimatelt resembles less the man than the titular white liquid -- warm, nourishing, somewhat sleep-inducing
6. The film is not only the story of Harvey Milk but the galvanization of the gay community in San Francisco and while Milk would have been quick to point out that there are very few lesbians in this film - something that Van Sant seems to miss - he would ha
7. A lively biopic of slain gay politician Harvey Milk, one that mostly avoids the "this happened, then that happened" routineness of many of its ilk.
8. Milk tackles serious issues about equal treatment under the law and the power of a minority community to determine its standing in the larger world through political activism.
9. The best film of 2008; engrossing no matter what one's sexual orientation.
10. Penn's comments at the 2008 Oscars might have been needed if it weren't for a previous statement by Dustin Lance Black who sensitively and appealingly, made an acceptance speech in which he spoke very personally about the pain of being gay as a youth.