In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience.

I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.

When I go to a great movie, I can live somebody else's life a little bit for a while. I can walk in somebody else's shoes. I can see what it feels like to be a member of a different gender, a different race, a different economic class, to live in a different time, to have a different belief.

Here's a notion: Peace in the Middle East would come about more easily if the region were governed by women.

And the sexes eyeing each other uneasily, for nothing is easier for a teenager to imagine than rejection.

Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.

When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to new places, meet new people, have new experiences. When I see Hollywood formulas mindlessly repeated, a little something dies inside of me: I have lost two hours to boors who insist on telling me stories I have heard before.