Mini-Review: A pretty enjoyable directorial debut for Drew Barrymore. The characters are interesting, the drama between mother and daughter compelling and well executed, and the sport is an unconventional one. On a side note, I approve of the use of The Breeders on the soundtrack.

Mini-Review: At first, it's extremely mysterious and compelling, but then somewhere in the middle we are presented with some information that would have been more satisfying if the protagonist had actually figured it out first. Still, it's fully engaging, and has some really great compositions.

Mini-Review: "What's that? Matthew McConaughey is off filming a football movie? Hmm, who else can we get?" The story is worth telling, and that's what keeps it going, but it's a pretty standard sports movie. The sequence where the players deliver punchline after punchline about moving to El Paso is awkwardly terrible and forced.

Mini-Review: Shyamalan tries to correct past mistakes, prove that he can write clever dialogue and make a twisted horror movie again. He tries a little too hard and just buries a deeper hole for himself. I'm not sure why it was filmed with the visual flair of a comedy. Mark Wahlberg knowingly parodies himself, which is actually fun to watch, but doesn't help the film's cause. I knew things were going to be bad when I read about Shyamalan's self-proclaimed "return to form."

Mini-Review: Bunuel does a standard Hollywood adventure film, and his signature is relegated to only a handful of images and scenes, like the one in which Friday questions the logic of Christianity. Worth watching, but not the best.