Very best movie i ever watch

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Not something you havnt seen before, but a good movie.

This was a tough movie to watch in some ways, but Julianne Moore's performance was mesmerizing. I think it was one of her best roles. Samuel L. Jackson was also wonderful, as was Edie Falco and William Forsythe. This was a crime drama with heart. It was far beyond a police procedural. The characters were real, complex and multi-layered. The story was relevant and powerful. It's one of my favorite films with Samuel L. Jackson. Yes, he was a tough guy, but his character had so much wisdom, and you could be sure that wisdom came from hard lessons learned. Julianne Moore's character was, in many ways, not admirable. But, in spite of, or maybe because of, her flaws, she was relatable. The movie made me care about all involved, and the neighborhood became one of those tragic characters, broken and mistreated. Jackson's character Lorenzo was sort of a bridge between two worlds.

I just sat through this film and feel very cheated. I had the task of bringing home a good thriller for my family and they gave up and went to bed 20 minutes in. I decided to watch till the end in hope that I could justify the rental money, unfortunately I lost out.Julian Moore plays a mother who loses her 4 your old son in a car hijacking and the rest of the film deals with her and Samuel L Jackson searching for him in a ghetto with race rioting going on around them. This film frustrated me. The actors didn't have a good rapport and often the story was incoherent. Julian Moore, who I'll admit is already one of my least favorite actresses,manages to look haggard and flaky but her acting is grinding and really annoying. Save yourself an hour and a half of your life and bi-pass this really really bad film

This is a curious name for what used to be a reform school were children were mistreated .The place plays a minor role in the movie anyway but it adds some mystery to the scenes where people are looking for the disappeared child.The screenplay is terribly derivative ,and only the two actors 'performance make it a passably watchable work.Particularly Julianne Moore,an extremely ambitious actress who shines when she is given decent material to work with ("the hours" "far from heaven").Her performance as a confused distraught mum is really impressive; Samuel L .Jackson's character avoids the clichés: he is not really a superhero,his son is not the brilliant kid at the university,and we are spared the usual divorce from a wife who's sick and tired of waiting for an always absent cop.The big problem of the movie is that the writers could not (or would not) properly connect the two stories (the mother ,her child and her friends is one thing,the black community is another one ,the latter serving as a very vague and thin background ).