1. Sherlock Holmes - 5
2. Up in the Air - 9
3. Inglorious Basterds - 9
4. The U - 5
5. Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny - 4
6. Julie & Julia - 7.5
7. The Informant! - 6
8. Youth in Revolt -
6.5What was already a weird story just turned extraordinarily weird during the final act. Still worth a view, if only for Michael Cera playing the same role he has played a dozen times already... but this time with an alter ego.
9. The Business of Being Born -
4AKA, "Midwives a-go-go". Far too much Ricki Lake nipple in this movie, not near enough alternate opinion. Supposedly a film that rails against the traditional system of maternity in the USA, which seems to be OB/GYN care for the first several months, ending with a hospital birth that is unnecessarily hurried along by greedy hospitals who want to get you in and out as quickly as possible, instead of allowing the birth process to occur naturally. Which is fine, I think we all know the health care system is broken in some way and is pretty much run by big insurance. The problem with the movie comes in when it preaches things like (and I'm paraphrasing here) "if you don't deliver the baby naturally (and vaginally as opposed to C-section), then you won't have as much of a maternal bond with it". One guy interviewed even goes so far as to say the mother just won't love it as much. Um, yeah. Whatever, dude. Up until that point it was a pretty good look at midwives and the advantages to having one and the drawbacks of the regular maternity system. After that, I just kind of rolled my eyes at the rest of it.
