February Micro Review Round-up

Juno
Last night was Juno.  It’s at least as sugary sweet and screaming I’m an independent film as Little Miss Sunshine.  To it’s credit it’s a far more enjoyable movie.  It’s less juvenile than last years Knocked Up and has it’s own story to follow.  The script takes about 20 minutes to settle (some of the dialogue is unnecessarily awkward) but there’s a pleasant enough film at it’s core.  The dialogue tries desperately hard to be the wittiest you’ve ever heard.  It’s snappy and sarcastic but gets on your nerves in the early parts of the film.  Thankfully, it chills a bit over it’s course.
7.5/10

Cloverfield
It’s basically Blair Witch with a monster.  Visceral is about the only way to describe it.  I mean you feel enough for the characters (though once again get fed up of their stupidity), but there’s no intellectual core to the film whatsoever.  It is a fairground ride pure and simple, you never have more to think about than what’s in front of you.  Assuming you don’t get motion sickness though this is entertaining while it lasts.
6/10

Killer of Sheep
A beautiful little film that reminds me a lot of the Bicycle Thief, pleasingly wikipedia tells me that’s the right answer

Twins of Evil
Classic Hammer with Peter Cushing and the lovely Collinson twins.  Great stuff though the witch burning zealots kept making me think of Monty Python and the Holy Grail..
Burn Her!!!
8/10

All That Jazz
I was absolutely certain I was going to hate this, I’ve been caught out before by highly recommended musicals (Chicago angry).  This was mostly great though, it devolved a bit in it’s climax into full on musical spectacular but until that point this was an interesting one.
7/10