Aww, adorable! Love is in the air.

quintessential chick flick. i have to say, this movie is SO well-scripted and SO well-executed (by kiera knightly at least, matthrew macfadyen just has to stand there and look dashing, swoon) i'm not ashamed at all to admit that the girly part in me does a little sigh every time mr. darcy comes onscreen. i really liked the cinematography too. and top notch soundtrack by dario marianelli. jane austen is timeless.

Terrific movie about relationships and heartbreaks. I love all aspects of this film, from the Jon Brion soundtrack to the quirky yet beautiful cinematography. Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet have good chemistry, oddly enough.

riotously funny and classic battle of the sexes. my second katharine hepburn film but certainly not my last. she never fails to impress me. i was surprised to see her matched against such an old spencer tracy but she makes it work, and the sexual tension is surprisingly believable! i was singing "farewell amanda" through the day and the next. the ending is fantastic and weirdly enough one of my favorite movie endings of all time. it's light years ahead of its time and fantastically clever. top notch dialogue.

Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor make such a magical pair. I think this may be the best movie I have ever seen in my life. It's so simple yet so perfect.

Visually brilliant biopic about an original directed by an original. Love, love, love.

Some of the lines were so cheesy but I still cried at the end.

Jeez they played that annoying ballade in g minor like 50 times...and it wasn't even that good. And I should know, because even I can play it better than that. But all music aside, this is one heck of a film. Not perfect, indeed, but Judy Davis plays her part with such heart and emotion it totally, totally translates onscreen. And once you get over the fact that Hugh Grant is freaking speaking with a POLISH accent, he makes a pretty good Chopin. Other highlights include Emma Thompson in a very un-Emma Thompsonesque role as a floopy aristocrat and Bernadette Peters as a sometimes boring, but solid, villainess.

Meg Ryan is like the cutest thing ever. She and Billy Crystal make a strange but perfectly wonderful pair.

i LOVED it. shirley maclaine is endearing in her vulnerable position. the chemistry between nicholson and maclaine is smoldering. winger captures the more tender scenes. love love.

Aww, Myrna Loy and William Powell are so cute together! The plot was messy but seeing those two together was amaazing.

Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn evoke that old-school Hollywood glamour that just charms the pants off this movie. Jane Fonda didn't impress me but I read somewhere that there were a lot of parallels between the father-daughter relationship of her character and her own life. Which was kind of interesting. Yay for Henry Fonda winning a well-deserved Oscar! Old poop.

This totally deserved to win over Saving Private Ryan. Gwyneth and Joseph Fiennes make Shakespeare sexy! mannn I wish Shakespeare were my lover.

Um, this movie is freaking amazing. I wish I were idealistic and sexy. Then maybe I could meet Ethan Hawke on a train and talk with him allll night long.

Oh gosh, it's so hard to get all my thoughts into something coherent. Um, well, this was brilliant. We're living in real time, and every second these characters spend together counts. They've grown up and matured, become more jaded with things like love and life, but the connection between them is still as strong as ever before. What I love about these two films is that we've only known these characters for as long as they have. We've listened to their conversations like they were our known, we know about their insecurities, and their hopes and dreams, but still both characters remain as elusive as they are to each other. But we want them to be together, and surely as they do. What's beautiful about this movie is not what is said, but what is left unsaid. We feel the palpable pain each has gone through these nine years even though they try not to talk about it. Gone is the passionate heart-pouring when they were 20, only to be superseded by the trite adult-talk about "how have you been doing" and so on. It was so short, and I wanted more. It was complete, but not really.

YES! It's been a while since I've seen a truly, truly good screwball comedy worthy enough to be added to my favorite movies. Gosh if only I could snag an adorable man like Henry Fonda had I possessed Barbara's Stanwyck's gift of seduction.

Aging James Stewart and Princess Grace. Mm, a deliciously carnal romance.

At first I thought this was really weird because the titles were a little frightening, but now I adore their whimsical-ness. I LOVE how versatile Stanley Donen is. From Singin' in the Rain and Funny Face to this is truly a remarkable feat, and he still manages to incorporate his signature style into something as different as this. It's classy, smooth, and riveting; what more could one want? However, as much as I liked the film, I am forced to conclude that Audrey Hepburn is gorgeous but not a particularly good actress...

This is fun. Errol Flynn is delightfully roguish and oh-so-charming.

it's SO hard to rate movies like this because even though i don't enjoy the movie i understand the art behind it. like the acting was absolutely fantastic. dame judi dench's acting goes beyond skill; she has a visceral understanding of the art of acting and executes brilliantly. kate winslet is a bubbly mass of energy, mysterious and flamboyant. jim broadbent so completely absorbs his character it's like i'm watching 100% john bayley. jim broadbent has disappeared for those 90 minutes and john bayley has superseded him. undeniably the acting is top-notch and the movie, although i didn't like it, was "good". so in the end it just boils down to preference. i can't completely denigrate the movie just because i personally didn't like it. i recognize and appreciate the acting and directing. it's just that...it didn't strike me at the right chords. i wasn't particularly sad when iris started slowly deteriorating, and, especially during the end, it just seemed like a game of cat-and-mouse between iris's insane and sane moments. this made the movie seem 10 times longer than it was. maybe it was the subject that didn't interest me - i'm more a dialogue person, and movie exuded more of an atmosphere. and fabulous acting sort of helped me get to the atmosphere, but it didn't keep me there the whole way.

DARREN ARONOFSKY I ADORE YOU. best film of 2006 hands down. terribly terribly mindblowing and all-around amazing. this is the first darren aronofsky movie i have seen but it certainly won't be the last. i expect great things from this incredibly talented man.

This is an exquisite, exquisite gem of a movie. It gripped me from the start and held me there until the end. My only complaint is that I don't think Fernando Meirelles captured the emotional value very well. At times it seemed a little maudlin.

it was quite cute if not exceedingly cliche. but who minds a little cliche if you can churn out a cute movie like this one? about the torment that is your first love! this kid is absolutely adorable.

a compilation of short little vignettes that all capture a moment of love: seeking love, losing love, loving others, and above all, loving paris. this is a perfect little gem of a film featuring a huge number of directors each with their own interpretation of love.

SO romantic. very cuuute and the screen crackles with wit. and omg shirley maclaine is so cuuuute here! for someone who's used to seeing maclaine as old women like in terms of endearment, this was refreshing.

It wasn't what I expected, but in a good way. MUCH more beautiful than I thought it would be, probably THE most beautiful movie I've seen in my LIFE, hands down. Flawless acting by newcomer Saoirse Ronan...seriously where in the world did they find this gal? She is a find. Slightly disappointed in Knightley and McAvoy's performances. The guy is hot but he doesn't belong in a leading actor role. But the true star of the movie was the guy who strung it all together, and beautifully too, might I add - Joe Wright, you magnificent genius, you. Every action and scene had some sort of significance, but with no details omitted, and the ending provided the perfect amount of closure - I still hate Briony, but maybe not as much.

Definitely felt that the dialogue was forced at times but this movie is so awesome it doesn't even matter. It's this year's happy Little Miss Sunshine that genuinely ends on a positive note...I think the happy yellow color of LMS deceives us into thinking it ends happily but on hindsight it really doesn't. Now, THIS...does.

I am really glad I saw this. Ellen Page brings a perfect contrast of acerb and cute to the table. Heck, the entire cast is great - perfectly indie, yet oddly relatable.

The scene where Juno and Bleeker are sleeping together (but not sexing together) speaks volumes that all the witty repartee in the world couldn't. That is what I call good writing. Diablo Cody knows when to turn it on and when to shut it, and for that I am officially advocating her for a Best Screenplay win. Bring it on, Oscar!

Words cannot describe how much I love this movie. The scenes between Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway crackle with electricity. Glamorous x 1000. I want to BE one of the members of their gang. Backed up by a stellar supporting cast, it also boasts a catchy score, magnificent camerawork, and one HECK of an ending.

One of the few movies that captures Faye Dunaway's ephemeral glamour to the fullest. I'm so glad I saw it.

officially one of the most hilarious and FUN movies ever! if before i thought i loved woody allen, it does not even compare to how much i totally, totally idolize him now. this is the first mockumentary i've ever seen and allen pulls it off with extreme panache. i love his choices of music, always have. the dialogue crackles with one-liners and mia farrow fits perfectly with the 1920s surroundings. the idea is brilliant and omg woody allen should win every oscar he is nominated for because he is truly the greatest screenplayer to EVER live.

This is the most perfectly cast movie I've seen in my life. The word that comes to mind is "scintillating". Scintillating script, scintillating actors, scintillating Cukor, scintillating humor. I read that Hepburn wanted to have Spencer Tracy as Dexter and Clark Gable as Mike, but I gotta say I think I prefer this version. Cary Grant adds a bit of adorable roguishness that Spencer Tracy could not have mirrored.

If only I hadn't seen High Society first! Hepburn trumps Kelly anyday. And James Stewart, can you say H-O-T?

This is an actor's film. Julie Christie and Gordon Pinsent each give mesmerizing performances and inhabit their characters in such a way I was like...wow, these two have a history together. Sarah Polley guides events along in a seamless manner, letting the actors shine individually while restraining these moments to make the movie more cohesive. Out of the three movies recently made about Alzheimer's (The Notebook, Iris, and this), Away From Her is by far the best. And I really dig those Canadian accents.

this is SO CUUUUTE and funny and SAD! i know the ending was supposed to be happyish but i was BEYOND sad. roberto benigni's oscar was 100 percent deserved. watch it with subtitles. dubbed kills the spirit.

fabulous chemistry with vivien leigh and gable. if anything is gonna make you cry, this will. first part amazing, second part quite good, but not as.

I savor the moments when Fred and Ginger dance together. Their chemistry is unforgettable. This cannot get any classier. Unexpectedly hilarious as well.

this movie affirms why i love jane austen so much. every little piece of information is an exceptionally juicy piece of gossip. marriage proposals are quickly offered and accepted/rejected. one can dwell on a rejection for many years and never get over it. because the time periods restricts and frowns upon blatant displays of affection, feelings of love must be identified with subtle nuances, such as a look, a word, or a letter. this movie is exceedingly romantic and i lived vicariously through anne. i felt the little heartaches she went through as wentworth callously ignored her. i felt the little jolt of shock as she discovered mr. elliot's true intentions. and my heart caught in my throat as she read the all-revealing letter from wentworth. this movie is a beautiful work of art that both pokes fun at the pretensions of nobility and also contains one of the most heartbreakingly beautiful love stories of all time. (my one complaint: all the characters are not very attractive. i thought mr. elliot was the only decently goodlooking person in the entire movie. anne's sisters were also quite pretty, but i quite disliked them so they don't matter.)

MY GOD this film is beautiful. it's a romance to the highest degree, a romance about a city, THE city to be in and love in and live in. with his lush gershwin soundtrack (then again, i ADORE woody allen's taste in music; he never has failed me), woody allen matches the atmosphere of high-class arty manhattan to a t. and the characters, wow, the characters! never have i seen a more intellectual and high-strung bunch, who can talk of a diverse number of topics and use words like "pseudu-intellectual" and "pithy yet degenerate" and discuss the works of fellini and sentimental education by flaubert. they dress up every day and go to fancy parties; it's what i dream of doing all day. manhattan is a very romanticized picture of nyc, and while perhaps not the most truthful movie depicting the city, it certainly is the most breathtaking. complaints: mariel hemingway, what the heck is that? and oscar nom, wtf? i think the academy just really, really liked the movie and decided to award some completely RANDOM actress, and, since diane keaton already won one, chose to nominate mariel hemingway. at least she didn't win. second complaint: its lack of a cohesive plot, but then again, the movie isn't really about storylines, it's about the PLACE as a conglomerate of mish-mashed completely fabulous people SO RIGHT and SO IN LOVE with new york it hurts.

everytime i watch this movie it gets better. i suppose that's a good thing.

I usually don't like this type of film - what with the relative lack of plot and everything - but the idea of those two lost souls hanging on to each other is just too gorgeous for words.

Lubitsch's delightfully elegant rom-com (if one could call it that) is drastically different from the screwball comedies of the era. His style is undeniably lighter, and he uses gentle verbal comedy and almost angelic imagery to tell the story. The way Lubitsch insinuates sex is done so tastefully, so sublimely, but still in no way prudish.

Gene Tierney plays Martha, Henry's 25-year-long love interest, and I can't imagine her in a more perfect role, while Don Ameche, who I hadn't heard of before, plays the lovably vacillating Henry. You can definitely tell it's aged, but it's a good kind of aging, and you know there'll never be a film made like this ever again.

it's SO wickedly amaazing. i was like rolling with desire for john malkovich, and i generally think he's a creepy man. michelle pfeiffer is beauutiful. unfortunately i think i would have enjoyed this movie more had i not seen the vastly inferior cruel intentions first.

the chemistry between roux and vianne is smokin.

Contrary to majority opinion, I do NOT find this an inferior movie to The Shop Around the Corner. I like Meg Ryan a good deal more than Margaret Sullavan, and Tom Hanks a good deal less than Jimmy Stewart. (No offense to Tom's acting abilities or anything, but...it's Jimmy Stewart!) To be honest I think the enmity between these two is much more believable and the sharing of the emails is quite clever, brings it to the twenty first century. I don't know, they actually have reason to "hate" each other as opposed to Margaret Sullavan's completely random, bitchy taunting of Stewart. And when they finally do get together it's all cute and sweet and sugary and everything it's meant to be. It's a saccharine movie! It's forgettable, but enjoyable!!

I mean, I do get the feeling it's trying too hard when Tom Hanks is being all cynical, especially in his Starbucks homogenization "rant" that I still do not exactly understand, but, what do you expect? It's a Hollywood romcom. And Nora Ephorn is probably very limited with what she can do in the midest of these difficult restrictions. I am very fond of Nora Ephron; don't mess.

But When Harry Met Sally trumps both movies by miles. Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan make a cute pair to be sure, but Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan make maaagic. They've got the EDGE.