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Last night I watched The Door in the Floor and, while I thought it was a pretty good film, it really didn't do much for me, either. And it was yet another failed attempt to put John Irving on the screen, for I don't think it adapted very successfully. Which has pretty much been the case since Garp. The most redeeming quality of the film was the performance by Jeff Bridges.

I'll give it a 7.5/10 for good performances and not making me roll my eyes even once.

Other movies I've seen recently...sorry if I've already reviewed some of these, I'm just going down my Netflix rental history.

The US vs. John Lennon - meh, wasn't particularly illuminating, but I did learn that Tommy Smothers was there for the recording of Give Peace a Chance. Love trivia like that. 7/10

A Mighty Wind - Not as good as Guffman (really though, what is?), but that's still better than most of the crap being passed along as movies these days. 8/10

Time Code - I made it through about 10 minutes and said to myself 'I don't give a fuck about these people, I'd rather do crosswords.' So I did. I won't rate a movie I didn't finish, though.

Everything Is Illuminated - I enjoyed this film very much. It gave me one of those fleeting moments of pride rarely associated with being a human. I have not read the book, yet, but I own it and have moved it up in the limitless queue of 'books I want to read.' It was written and directed by the actor, Liev Schreiber (The Manchurian Candidate). It was his first film, I believe, and an excellent one to boot. 9/10

Broken Flowers - Very enjoyable and I so, so love Bill Murray. Fun and poignant film by perennial favorite, Jim Jarmusch. 9/10

Well, the next one on the list is the Da Vinci Code and I think I reviewed that one already...it's been a slow movie period because I got sucked into watching the first two seasons of Lost. Kind of glad that's over. It was an uncomfortable addiction...kind of like watching soap operas on the sly.

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