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No Country For Old Men, at the cinema => It was very good but I don't think I'd call it the best movie of the year. Out of the top of my head Atonement, Le Scaphandre Et Le Papillon, The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford, Zodiac, Lust Caution, Eastern Promises, and sevral others were better 2007 movies in my opinion. I wasn't very happy with this year's Oscar Best Movie nominees anyway. That being said, once again, it's a very good film, which also happens to look amazing thanks to awesome cinematographer Roger Deakins.

The Dead Girl, at the cinema => Despite having the cast of the year or something this is one really lame movie. Basically a dead girl is found and through five segments we have the "pleasure" of witnessing how that discovery affects several people's lives... The quality of the segment varies, with the first one with Toni Collette and Giovanni Ribisi being horribly annoying and the second one with Rose Byrne, James Franco and Bruce Davison being the best...Maybe the film could have been interesting by expanding this story and getting rid of the rest. I doubt it though, as the whole affair reeks of undeserving self-satisfaction and you can almost hear the director/screenwriter (a female, unsurprisingly) screaming at you: "Ooh! Ooh! Look at how intellectual I am!!! Ain't I great?!"

Crash, at home => Now this is a great movie. My third or fourth time watching it and it still gets me in exactly the same way. Sorry Brokeback fanatics, but Crash really is the superior movie, a marvel in directing, screenwriting, acting, truly moving and powerful, and has one of the most incredible scenes I've ever seen in a motion picture. Truly one of the very best movies of all time.

Zathura: A Space Adventure, at home => I had a very good time watching this Jumanji sequel. Jon Favreau and screenwriters David Koepp and John Kamps did a great job at adapting Chris Van Allsburg's book, providing a thoroughly entertaining ride, full of fun, fun and more fun. A great family film.

Mad Detective, at the cinema => The title pretty much says it all. This is the story of a mad detective. Mad as in crazy, that is. And he solves crimes thanks to his madness, which I'd say is some sort of schizophrenia. It was pretty good, and Johnnie To is one of my favorite directors. However, if you're unfamiliar with his work this one might be a bit too weird to start. Try out PTU, The Mission, Exiled, the Election duology, Triangle, Fulltime Killer and/or Breaking News first

The Bucket List, at the cinema => It wasn't amazing but it was good enough. And the end is rather moving (if predictably so). The real question is though...just how many movies does Morgan Freeman provide a voice-over to? Damn.