Brooklyn

Aww, Jim is a good catch for someone.
One and a half thumbs up, and can't believe I cried when she says goodbye to her mother instead of the homesick letters scene this time around.

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

Justin Timberlake cutting carrots quietly was funny.
Zero thumbs up - I see where you are going with this, but it could have been a lot shorter.

12 Angry Men

I was riveted from the get go - no time wasting, we dive right in straight away, and just marvel at how beautifully the case gets untangled.
Just a fingernail shy of two thumbs up - that was amazing, but I am hesitant to give it two full thumbs up until it stands the test of repeated viewing.

8 1/2

He should have just done a Coleridge and gotten himself underneath a Bower tree,
One thumbs down - I didn't find it engaging, and am torn about feeling that way - I feel good that I can form my own opinion and am not swayed by how critics regard it, but then I also feel bad because perhaps I am not intellectual/cultured enough?

John Wick

I know your wife is dead and all, but this really is too much revenge for a car and dog.
One thumbs down - if you like watching Keanu Reeves shoot up loads of Mafia men and not say much, then this is the movie for you. Otherwise just watch the first 10 minutes to squeal at the beagle puppy's cuteness and then stop.

Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them

I always imagined Grindelwald to look Swedish - basically not blonde Johnny Depp (just no).
One and a half thumbs up! I felt exactly like Mr. NoMag walking into that suitcase - so full of enchantment in this fantastical world! And I could not decide what was cuter - the thieving platypus or Queenie and Kowalski!

Hell or Highwater

The man a few rows behind us laughed raucously at: 1. when the third getaway car was revealed, 2. when the tip was $200.
Half a thumbs up, it was simple but still intriguing enough.

You've Got Mail

"Don't you just love New York in the fall?" Why yes, yes I do!
Two thumbs up!

Cafe Society

I guess sometimes we are just left to ponder and dream about the other person.
One thumbs up, it was nice in the end if not a bit distracted at times, but personal thumbs up to Kristen Stewart who was so beautiful and nuanced!

Doctor Strange

Could there be any more kaleidoscope effects?!
One thumbs down for special effects overload and for George St cinemas being too cold and uncomfortable.

Bend It Like Beckham

It's funny how Keira Knightley does much more glamorous or period pieces, but she started so humbly in this movie. 

One and a half thumbs up - I always like it, and especially as an ethnic person, it is very relateable. 

Bridget Jones' Diary

Haha I accidentally wrote "Dairy" at first. Haha imagine her dairy farm and cow dramas.
Two thumbs up, and three hours to go!!

In Bruges

Harry: It's a fairytale town, isn't it? How's a fairytale town not somebody's fucking thing? How can all those canals and bridges and cobbled streets and those churches, all that beautiful fucking fairytale stuff, how can that not be somebody's fucking thing, eh?

Ken: What I think I meant to say was...

Harry: [Interrupts] Is the swans still there?

One and a half thumbs up!

Secret Life of Pets

New York! in Fall! And a dog voiced by Louis C.K. that kind of has the same colouring as Schnitzel!
One and a quarter thumbs up!

Bad Moms

Everything about the PTA part is so stupid:

*How do they even have that much power to determine school days and hours, and who can be fired etc.?

*That is so sexist that they assume it is all females in the PTA

Two thumbs down - this is the WORST movie I have seen in ages. It is absolute tripe scum and possibly knocks off "Sugar and Spice" the crap cheerleading robbery movie as my worst movie ever. Even The Human Centipede had more redeeming features (and that was disgusting!)

Two Weeks Notice

I thought channel E! was just entertainment "news", but they had this movie.
Zero thumbs up, inoffensive viewing just to pass the time, because this is going to be a long painful journey home.

Juno

I am always taken by Jennifer Garner in this.
One and a half thumbs up.

The Danish Girl

Alicia Vikander is so much more beautiful in film, than she is in Golden Globe photos etc.
Half a thumbs up, it was very beautiful but I don't think I could be as strong and supportive as Gerda was.

Empire Records

I have zero care for this silly ragtag bunch of teenagers:
*Smarmy boy who just gambles $9000 away with no punishment
*Silly naive Liv Tyler who is a total hypocrite
*That ridiculous punk thief kid who is so annoying, and what a dumbass way is that to get a job
*Stones deluded people who just decide to start a band based on a name
*Bald girl who is just so cliched and attention seeking
*Even dumber boss who just lets everyone get away with never working and stripping and grinding and not monitoring the store. And also has his name way overused ("Joe" must have been said 100 times)
*Cannot believe Renee Zellweger was the least sufferable of the group
Two thumbs down - that was awful. Terribly overrated and unbelieveable, with zero likeable characters. Cannot believe I used to confuse this with High Fidelity.

Ex Machina

Remember when Josh/Brad said the title was "Machinist" and I said "No, it is Ex Machina" and I was correct? :p
One and three quarters thumbs up - that was amazing and thought provoking and all the cast were magnificent new young things.