Buena Vista Pictures

• Charly directed by Ralph Nelson (1968)

  [6/10]

  "Cliff Robertson does an excellent job portraying the various aspects of Charly's personality, for which he earned an Oscar, but overall the heavy-handed anti-science themes and now anachronistic presentation style overburden the story line for a less-than-pleasing effect."

• March of the Penguins directed by Luc Jacquet (2005)

  [5/10]

  "I thought the pacing of the film dragged a bit with the Freeman monologue, and I could have used some comic relief through personified voices."

• Straight Story, The directed by David Lynch (1999)

  [4/10]

  "Imagine how bored would you get driving a riding lawn mower across Iowa? Now imagine watching a movie about a 73-year-old man driving a riding lawn mower across Iowa -- a serious movie, not a comedy. Now add a folksy violin ditty on an endless 30-second loop for 110 minutes of 5 mile-per-hour lawn mower adventures and you have The Straight Story."

  Average score: 5.00