Meanwhile, here's the latest edition.
| Lady in the Water | 76 | Engaging myth, cool characters you can care about. And surprises enough. I liked it more the second time around. |
| Milk | 73 | This was all happening when I was in high school. I remember Anita, and the “Twinkie Defense.” Shameful to see what was happening. I don’t have to think Milk was a saint to appreciate what he did. Oh, and I respect James Franco’s acting abilities far more than I did when he was just Harry Osborne. |
| Once | 65 | “It was like they took a camera into someone’s life.” Yep, and he was a musician, so the music (which was good) made sense. The realism was entertaining. The pacing will not please the action-oriented. |
| The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor | 55 | An OK, soft-serve, treat. Not luscious, not substantial, but enjoyable. Fraser is not old enough to have a kid that old, but the story needed it. Cool use of the Terracotta army. Loved the Yetis. |
| Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | 66 | Better than the original, for me. More story. I liked the supernatural elements (very Japanese). And the kids took me for Father’s Day, so that helped. Not so good: visually confusing – too much motion, hard to tell good robots from bad; too rude/crude in parts. |
| 7 Pounds | 72 | Initially reviewed in Edition 26. Rosario Dawson is the best actor we see too infrequently. She moved this into the “70s” for my ratings. |
| Pride and Prejudice | 74 | It took a while to get used to the formal, structured personal interactions of the British aristocracy, but once I did, I saw the walls they built. The “pride” was clear, the “prejudice” was limiting. And, oh, the things we do for love. |
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