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[3rtful]

I saw Julia (horrible waste of film and time) and 95% of Female Perversions (it doesn't end with them on a rock does it?).

[Conrado]

I recently watched We Need to Talk About Kevin. I remember you not liking it and that being the reason why I didn't see it until about a month ago. I found it very entertaining if not all that great. Care to elaborate on why you didn't care for it?

[Jerome]

One of these days, I'm going to click down to the comment section and 3rtful will be there to let me know that feline AIDS is the number one killer of domesticated cats,

[catbaskets]

I find the sometimes bizarre but always interesting or challenging posts by 3rtful to be one of the highlights of the comments.

[Beau]

Brilliant performance.

But it's her, so that goes without saying.

[Robert G]

I didn't like We Need to Talk About Kevin. I don't think it had much to say about the subject matter. The acting was excellent. The film just wandered and lingered too much for me. The last third was the strongest but only because the simplicity of just watching worked for the shocking visuals more than it worked for the character dynamics.

[Jake D]

I don't remember too much about ...Kevin but thought the use of red and red objects was totally blunt and amateurish. Led to some great individual shots (like this one) but visually, it was so watered down by the end...

Of course that same description could refer to Tilda's character...how much can she invest in the shooting when she's known her son was capable of awful stuff all along? But that's reaching.

[Mingy]

Swinton's Julia is still one of my all time favourite performances by an actress.

I enjoyed We Need to Talk About Kevin but didn't like it as much as I wanted to. I felt all the characters in that movie were extremely one noted. It could also be that my surper high expectation of the collaboration of Ramsay and Swinton led to an easy disappointment.

[Aaron]

I thought We Need to Talk About Kevin was excellent--there's such an unsettling and eerie mood that permeates the whole piece and that has a lot to do with Ramsay's claustrophobic and tight direction, as well as Tilda's brilliantly repressed performance. She trounced the five women nominated for Best Actress that year.

Julia (2009), I Am Love (2010), We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011). 'Nuff said. This woman is God.

[JA]

I'll take this opportunity to tell everyone for the billionth time to read Lionel Shriver's book, which is about ten thousand times better than the movie. Tilda excepted, natch.

[Peggy Sue]

Miraculously awarded in 2007, inexplicably dismissed in 2009.

[Kurtis O]

Seriously 3rtful? JULIA was a waste of time?!? It's Tilda's best work. KEVIN on the other hand, talk about an arrow in the head. (Or tomato...pick your poison.)

[CMG]

"...talk about an arrow in the head."

I wonder how many negative reviews for the movie had this kind of on-the-nose derision.

Anyway, brilliant performance. St. Tilda and Miller robbed of nominations. Seriously, Branagh and Williams are thrown off the lifeboat to make room for these two.

Still need to read the book. I first came across it when John Waters talked about how great it was in his book Role Models. I really should've read it then.

[3rtful]

I saw KEVIN first and fell in love with Swinton's performance that led me to watch BURN AFTER READING which is a horrible movie. I hated JULIA not because Swinton wasn't excellent but the film's length and its go nowhere narrative enraged me by the end. Movies should never be endurance test.

[W.J.]

We Need to Talk about Kevin was the best bad movie of 2012. It was visually arresting and boasted two great performances. Unfortunately, Ramsay's heavy-handed direction killed any momentum that was building with that odd editing style. There didn't seem to be a point to the whole exercise, as heartbreaking as Swinton's character was. And the less said about John C. Reilly, the better. Seriously, did he walk onto the wrong sound stage?

[Brittani]

I think Tilda Swinton really nailed the character of Eva, who I think is one of the most complex and interesting characters I've ever read.

[Nathaniel R]

W.J. Exactly -- god the direction in that movie. although it's weird because Ramsay has been brilliant elsewhere. Didn't like this movie but always worth watching Tilda.

and, yes, Julia is possibly maybe her best performance which is ssaying a lot given how genius she is every other time.

[W.J.]

It was stunning how badly Ramsay miscalculated this film after her first two features. Morvern Callar is among my favorite films and one of the best from the last decade. I remember feeling my heart sink watching her last film, despite the elements she got right.

After the Jane Got a Gun fiasco, I worry it may be another decade before we see another film from her and that's a damn shame.

[Mark The First]

Tough movie, tough role, tough performance. But my goodness, St. Tilda shines.

[Manuel]

Tilda is incredible and so is Miller. I really liked the movie

[Clara]

what? burn after reading is fucking brilliant!!!