If you want to cry...

The second best musical ever for me. Everything is magical and splendid, from the performances of the entire cast, not just Nicole Kidman's and Ewan McGregor's who are seen at the best roles of their careers, but even the secondary characters are beautifully constructed and none of them is one-dimensional. The direction is above grand and magnificent, the storyline complete and circular among other things and the soundtrack...well, the soundtrack IS the movie. And what makes this movie so exhilarating is the ending itself.

This is my favorite documentary -if not favorite movie- of all times. The best elaboration possible someone could ask both on the tragic Columbine massacre and the obsession of contemporary America with guns. Michael Moore harshly criticizes the corporate controlling of today and offers a thrill of emotions.

This documentary is capable of changing a person's entire point of view on life. Not many movies can succeed in that, so for that reason only it is one of the greatest documentaries I have ever seen. It's an emotional roller-coaster.

Edward Norton delivers in the most stunning way the greatest script I ever had to witness in a movie. Challenges the power structure and fights racism through the eyes of a racist. Rages and screams from inside its walled jail cell.

What an honest, clear, true film. Right from the heart. Amazing performances, exciting plot twists, not in the tiniest bit predictable, althought does fall in some "americanized" cliches. But alltoghether, an absolute masterpiece with a rewarding ending.

Absolutely my favorite movie so far this year. Adam Elliot just delivered something so sublime not even the greatest auteurs can beat - I'm sure Tim Burton will watch this and think, "ah, damn it, why didn't I think of it first?!"

I wish words could explain how truly marvelous it is. A story of an unlikely friendship, of torture, depression, love, loneliness - an appraisal of the different and the most unique. So beautiful and larger-than-life. Wonderful animation, the most gracefully disconsolate ending, one of the truest and most human stories I've ever had the pleasure to seeing. Just...wondrous.

This is probably one of the greatest films of the last years. It's so human, from-the-heart, full of tragedy and pain, fearless, emotional, powerful with an amazing ending and a dynamite soundtrack. Russia proves that its cinema beats a lot of other countries' cinema.

The reason I'm rating this film with a 5 isn't just because the entire cast -from the extraordinary Sean Penn to the refreshingly wonderful Emile Hirsh to the surprisingly good James Franco and Diego Luna to the realistic Josh Brolin- did a marvelous job. Neither just because Gus Van Sant is one of my most favorite directors or because I'm a hand-to-heart fanatic gay rights supporter. This movie receives my 5 stars for all these reasons, but mainly because of its content, its humanity, its pulse. A film that makes you want to explode, to shout and cry. A film that shows you how one man with enough drive and will may not be able to change the world but he can change many other things. Maybe seemingly the lives of gay people have improved since the 1970's. Maybe someone responsible for a double homicide would receive something more than 5 years today. All I know is that maybe today we're all so comfortable in the puffy chair of inertia that if there was a Harvey Milk in 2009, nobody would really pay attention to him.

Probably the best movie of 2008. Hirsch proves he's a great actor. McCandless's life was a true inspiration.

What an amazing, soul-captivating film. Throws you in the deepness of human patterns and tragedies from the first moment. Sam Rockwell gives a poignant, powerful performance. With the background of a snowy town, its citizens are destroyed piece by piece every moment, in what is for me, one of the most soul-stirring movies I have watched in my life. A movie that could not have a different ending but the one it had.

Going way too far with the rating, I know...but truth is I loved this film. I was just postponing watching it because I highly doubted its greatness, but finally seeing it made me think otherwise.

Kate Winslet is wonderful - she deserved the Globe truly and absolutely so - maybe she could grab an Oscar on her way out. Ralph Fiennes for his relatively short part was also fantastic; the scene where he records his voice incessantly was simply brilliant. And David Kross doesn't/didn't receive enough credit, I actually thought he was co-equal to Winslet's performance.

This film is an ode to love, truth, trust and betrayal. It was a bit emotionally over-the-top at times, but the theme required so. It's inspiring, powerful and heartbreaking. It surpasses lots of this year's films.

This film is one of the most beautifully made and dramatic films ever

Congratulations for giving us such movies

A movie-gem that got lost in the process of making blockbusters.

This Oscar-winning documentary is beautifully extraordinary. It's tragic and simply wonderful. Accurately symbolizes the generation that was changed by the political service of the first openly gay elected official. Harvey Milk was, is and always will be one of the most tragic figures in the political history of the United States. His murderer, Dan White, also responsible for the murder of Mayor George Moscone, served only 5 years in jail for double homicide, simply because he was rich and white.

Truly great movie -I'm very happy to have seen it. Filled with beauty and colors and magic and miracles. A movie that studies a family and the relationship between its members through time; a family so ordinary and familiar, a family that could be anyone's.

Majestic subtlety, blazing soundtrack, and even though you may not always sympathize with the characters, at the end, you can't help but love each and every one of them; with their quirks and their uniqueness and struggles.

A movie pulsing with Life - and a wonderful and most human ending.

Some movies even if they're not masterpieces, I just award them close to the 5 stars because of their wonder-making, powerful content.

I don't have many things to say about this movie really. Sigourney Weaver was as great as always and it's very refreshing watching Ryan Kelley escaping his Dust Factory days. All other technical things are...tolerable.

This film made me insane with anger and brimmed my eyes with tears and repeated a lesson nobody hears. A masterpiece in my books. And like this movie teaches, you only appreciate what you have after you've lost it. If only wisdom came earlier for some people.

Spanish cinema at its best. Amazing film

I love this movie and have it in my heart. It's a very tragic drama film about a family that is torn apart by the lack of a father and the difficulties they have to overcome in the process. It is also based on true events- the life of Dawn Anna- a mother of four and a high school teacher whose life changed after her 18-year-old daughter, Lauren Townsend, became one of the 12 random murder victims of the Columbine massacre in 1999.

It's a tremendous blow of honesty and pain, filled with the tragedy that only a few films successfully capture and deliver. Wonderful and stunning, a true heart-breaker.

An absolute favorite - hands down. Great performances by everyone: Denzel Washington and Forest Whitaker typically phenomenal, and I loved the performances of the three who were in the debate team.

The movie may started off slow, and paced at the same rhythm for quite a while, but midway through, it is fully engaging, emotional and you get very invested in the story and characters.

Not as Hollywood-like as everyone would wish it to be, and Denzel Washington's direction is refreshing. A film I enjoyed greatly and hope everyone else will too.

This movie is, in a way, mine and my sister's movie. We watched it when we were younger and both fell in love with it and I'm glad to have seen it as an adult as well.

The sweetness and tragedy of it are in great amounts, but in many ways you feel rewarded by the end. The performances are great and entirely believable and the chemistry between Jena Malone and Mary Stuart Masterson is unbelievably honest. A movie about kindness, our purpose and journey through life.

And yes, it might be tiring and repetitive, it might be over-bearing, but for once I'm personally setting those drawbacks aside, and just rejoicing in its humanity.

Powerful in its simplicity

Christensen and Kline have a wonderful chemistry. And although it lacked originality, it's a fine film.

The combination of a Jodi Pilcout (best-selling, cheesy) novel and a Cameron Diaz leading role is unforgivable. Nick Cassavetes is very known for the over-dramatic movies he makes, but this one definitely exceeds all imaginations. I like movies that say: "you know, I'm not a masterpiece by any chance, but you can bet I'll make you cry." And I have to admit that out of the 109 minutes of its duration, I was crying at the 100.

I loved Sofia Vassilieva's performance most of all -she's an actress I had never encountered before and she was great. All others do an okay job -although refraining from mentioning Cameron Diaz. Not Cassavetes' best direction, but decent enough for his standards.

A mediocre-to-good film about humanity, family, love and the choices we have to make in life.

More than anything else, this movie about love and the struggles that people face and rise above them - time travelling is the last thing concerning it.

Eric Bana is not an actor I ever appreciated, and his performance here doesn't help change that. Rachel McAdams is typically pleasing, while the two McCann sisters are endearing. Bearable direction, forgettable soundtrack.

I won't dwell on the technicalities of the film, neither on whether it was accurately portraying time travelling or not. I wasn't greatly impressed with the book, and the same happened with the film. It's sweet, makes time fly by, worth a watch, but it wasn't made nor does it escape mediocrity.

Watch it, like it, cry a little, and then forget about it.