Paul Goscicki

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March, 2010
Up in the Air (2009/I) 4/5
2010-03-10 22:17

Decent, decent.
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Five Minutes of Heaven (2009) 4/5
2010-03-08 23:53

Decent character study.
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Creation (2009/I) 4/5
2010-03-08 00:20

Good story about an extraordinary man.
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Balibo (2009) 3/5
2010-03-07 01:17

Yet another sad story written on the pages of human history. Fifth of the East Timor population killed. Too bad that the film was not good enough to capture my full attention. I found myself reading the wikipedia more than watching the movie.
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The Stoning of Soraya M. (2008) 4.5/5
2010-03-06 00:48

Brutal truth about the middle-age practices around the world when it comes to basic human rights. This time it's about Iran.
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Sin nombre (2009) 4.5/5
2010-03-05 01:07

Many, many movies I've seen dealing with this subject. The story's always the same. Only the characters change. Still this one's quite unique. Very good watch.
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The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) 2.5/5
2010-03-04 01:28

Quite poor, actually. Only momentarily funny.
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The Man from Earth (2007) 5/5
2010-03-03 01:26

Truly a mind blowing experience. What if there IS a man like this walking the earth?
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Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009) 4.5/5
2010-03-02 01:25

...
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February, 2010
Forever Strong (2008) 4.5/5
2010-02-26 01:12

Very decent high-school ~~football~~ rugby movie. Just when I thought I was over those kind of movies...
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Nothing But the Truth (2008) 5/5
2010-02-25 01:25

Love, love, just LOVE political thrillers. 'specially ones like this one. It has even made me cry. LOVED IT.
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The Box (2009/I) 4.5/5
2010-02-24 01:12

Love the work of Richard Kelly. Each of his movies is a tough mind-bending experience. And so is this one.
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The Informant! (2009) 4.5/5
2010-02-22 01:14

Excellent!
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Nobel Son (2007) 4/5
2010-02-21 01:23

Excellent premises. First half is a very enjoyable joyride. Nice twits, action keeping you on your toes. Excellent dialogues. Exquisite music! All ruined by the closing act. Totally unnecessary twists, too complicated, just poor. Overally it was a good movie that could have been great.
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Black Dynamite (2009) 3/5
2010-02-17 01:11

Decent spoof of 70s black gangster movies. Few good laughs.
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Dorian Gray (2009) 3.5/5
2010-02-15 20:13

Decent, decent.
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Whip It (2009) 2.5/5
2010-02-14 23:38

So-so. It seems I'm really getting too old for those teenage movies.
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Assassination of a High School President (2008) 4/5
2010-02-02 01:20

Very good noir high school story. Defintely not like your usual high school movie.
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January, 2010
Restul e tacere (2007) 5/5
2010-01-31 23:58

Romanian masterpiece about another 1910s cinematic masterpiece.
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Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis (2008) 3.5/5
2010-01-25 23:51

Funny enough, even despite the fact that lots of humour is based on local French accent.
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Keith (2008/I) 4/5
2010-01-24 22:12

Decent.
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Goodbye Solo (2008) 4.5/5
2010-01-24 10:27

Very engaging. Maybe a little bit unsatisfying at the end as we are not given any explanations.
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Sonbahar (2008) 4/5
2010-01-23 00:11

Sad. Very sad story.
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The Invention of Lying (2009) 3.5/5
2010-01-21 00:05

Funny enough. Not great, but good.
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Wojna polsko-ruska (2009) 3.5/5
2010-01-20 00:05

Polish urban low-life love story. More like an experiment in cinematography than a movie. Enjoyable mostlby because of Borys Szyc's role.
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Big Fan (2009) 3.5/5
2010-01-18 00:53

Quite funny. Not all the time, but often enough.
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Kader (2006) 4.5/5
2010-01-17 00:21

Love story more tragic than Romeo & Juliet.
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Yi ge dou bu neng shao (1999) 5/5
2010-01-14 00:50

Poignant. Powerful.
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Avatar (2009) 5/5
2010-01-12 14:31

In 1993 there was Jurrasic Park. In 2010 there is Avatar. Same mind-blowing experience.
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December, 2009
Nafaka (2006) 4.5/5
2009-12-27 00:45

Very good.
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2 Days in Paris (2007) 3.5/5
2009-12-26 01:10

Decent. Enjoyable dialogue. Tiring momentarily too.
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Un conte de Noël (2008) 4.5/5
2009-12-09 01:14

A very powerful piece of French drama. Very, very good.
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Extract (2009) 2/5
2009-12-07 00:36

Piss poor, unfortunately. Too bad the Mike Judge is a man of one movie (Office Space).
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Inglourious Basterds (2009) 4.5/5
2009-12-05 00:04

Inglourious indeed. Slowly getting to the right pace, but rewarding in the end. Oh, very rewarding.
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The Limits of Control (2009) 3/5
2009-12-03 23:27

Very, very, very slow (read: poetic) crime/drama. No dialogue, almost no story. Artsy.
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November, 2009
World's Greatest Dad (2009) 3/5
2009-11-30 23:49

Dark comedy. Not sure what to make of it. Enjoyable monetarily, but confusing a little bit.
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Ink (2009/I) 3.5/5
2009-11-27 21:54

Completely independent Sci-Fi thriller and quite decent too.
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Shrink (2009) 4.5/5
2009-11-25 23:15

Very, very good!
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Crossing Over (2009) 4.5/5
2009-11-22 23:22

Powerful. +1 for borderless civilisation. -1 for America.
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The Hangover (2009) 4/5
2009-11-21 21:13

Really good comedy! Very surprising for a Hollywod one.
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Moon (2009) 5/5
2009-11-20 00:19

Simply put: incredible. And terrifying. Really terrifying. The presented scenario is way too plausible. Just not yet. Loved the 2001 references, especially how Gerty was the exact oppsite of HAL.
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Disgrace (2008) 4/5
2009-11-18 23:50

Very difficult and uncomfortable, even to the point of being unpleasant to watch. Not to mention that I was expecting a political drama, not family tragedies. As usual, some posts on imdb board were very helpful in understanding better the ending and the motives of both main character and his daughter.
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Food, Inc. (2008) 4/5
2009-11-18 22:34

Not really an eye-opener, as I knew already about most of the corporate business behind food. Still, very interesting watch.
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9 (2009/I) 4/5
2009-11-17 00:07

Definitely imaginative. Maybe not a masterpiece, but strong, quite strong.
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District 9 (2009) 5/5
2009-11-15 23:27

Amazing, brilliant and wonderful.
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Mary and Max (2009) 5/5
2009-11-15 00:07

Brilliant. Just that.
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Julie & Julia (2009) 4.5/5
2009-11-14 00:30

Movies about cooking are almost always magical. There's just something special about them.
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Ballast (2008) 3.5/5
2009-11-13 00:13

Minimalistic. That's the right word to describe it.
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Dean Spanley (2008) 4/5
2009-11-12 00:01

Intriguing. And quite absurd too.
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My Sister's Keeper (2009) 3/5
2009-11-10 23:40

OK sunday TV movie.
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Antichrist (2009) 4.5/5
2009-11-09 23:59

...
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(500) Days of Summer (2009) 4/5
2009-11-08 21:35

Good. Maybe even very good. Certainly not that good as the hype would have you believe.
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City of Life and Death (2009) 2.5/5
2009-11-08 00:07

Felt more like a fictionalized documentary rather than drama. Much less worse than John Rabe, which was extraordinary.
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) 1/5
2009-11-06 23:20

So bad, it's unbelievable.
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Up (2009) 4.5/5
2009-11-06 00:23

Very good.
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Choke (2008) 5/5
2009-11-05 00:36

Brilliant, to be honest.
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Looking for Eric (2009) 5/5
2009-11-03 23:27

Fucking excellent!
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Qie ting feng yun (2009) 4/5
2009-11-03 00:44

Good watch. Complicated too.
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Terminator Salvation (2009) 3.5/5
2009-11-02 22:34

Decent.
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Adoration (2008) 5/5
2009-11-02 00:28

Love Atom Egoyan. Always did, always will.
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Good (2008) 4/5
2009-11-01 21:58

"Thought-provoking morality play". Yes, that's what I should've said.
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October, 2009
Orphan (2009) 3.5/5
2009-10-31 22:54

Decent, decent.
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Trick 'r Treat (2008) 4/5
2009-10-31 20:49

Very decent indeed.
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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) 4.5/5
2009-10-30 23:15

Excellent in every possible way. Almost blew me away.
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Tatarak (2009) 4/5
2009-10-25 00:32

Very personal film for Wajda and, even more, for Janda. Difficult and demanding movie, but definitely important in Polish cinematography.
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Public Enemies (2009) 3/5
2009-10-15 00:26

So-so. Decent story, yet technically awfully bad. Weird sound issues, shaky camera work and everything looks theatrical.
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Drag Me to Hell (2009) 4.5/5
2009-10-13 22:56

Very, very decent horror flick.
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The Soviet Story (2008) 4.5/5
2009-10-13 16:31

Not really an eye opener, as most of those revelations were known to me, but it was definitely a good movie sorting and suming it all up.
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Whatever Works (2009) 4.5/5
2009-10-12 23:44

Woody Allen, Woody Allen. How could I not love you if you keep making those films again and again?
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The Brothers Bloom (2008) 3/5
2009-10-11 23:12

Good, but the ending was kind of senseless.
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The Proposal (2009/I) 3.5/5
2009-10-10 01:05

Good. Stereotypical, yet enjoyable.
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Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006) 4/5
2009-10-09 22:55

Great film. A little bit one sided, without saying much about the problems associated with electric cars (like how to produce the requireed electricity and how much more does the clean energy cost or the problems with wearing of the batteries). EV1 was really pioneer. No doubt about that. Shame they killed it. Good that electric cars are now being taken more seriously.
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Up the Yangtze (2007) 1.5/5
2009-10-09 17:20

Ultimately boring.
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) 1/5
2009-10-04 23:51

Bad. Really bad. Two stars for the effects.
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Hunger (2008) 4/5
2009-10-03 23:59

Painfully realistic.
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Star Trek (2009) 4.5/5
2009-10-02 23:51

Entertaining.
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September, 2009
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) 3/5
2009-09-27 23:53

Just ok. Few laughs and that's basically it.
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John Rabe (2009) 5/5
2009-09-24 21:34

Extraordinary man. Similarities to Oscar Schindler are natural.
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Loft (2008/I) 4/5
2009-09-22 23:35

Complicated and maybe just a little bit too unmotivated plot. Stiil, rewarding and very good.
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Away We Go (2009) 4/5
2009-09-22 00:32

Good. Very good, me thinks.
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Jerry Maguire (1996) 5/5
2009-09-20 23:15

It's 2009 and a 1996 movie still got me going. It's still one of the best movies of all times, for me. Top 5. Easily. Still made me cry. American Dream all the way. Yes, it had me at the hello.
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Lymelife (2008) 4.5/5
2009-09-19 23:24

The American Dream Sucks. Lyme disease sucks much much more.
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Eldorado (2008) 1.5/5
2009-09-19 18:21

Boring. Just that, simply boring.
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Is Anybody There? (2008) 3.5/5
2009-09-18 22:36

Nice, warm movie.
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The White Diamond (2004) 4/5
2009-09-18 20:51

One extraordinary man making a movie about another extraordinary man.
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Observe and Report (2009) 3/5
2009-09-18 00:09

Yes, that was very much retarted thank you very much.
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Monsters vs Aliens (2009) 3/5
2009-09-13 23:17

Way too childish and too stupid. Few funny laughs. Average.
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Ile wazy kon trojanski? (2008) 4.5/5
2009-09-12 11:14

Very good! Nice little comedy, maybe not an instant cult-classic like some of the other Machulski's movies, but still very good.
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Sennosc (2008) 4/5
2009-09-11 00:03

Good. Very good in fact.
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General - zamach na Gibraltarze (2009) 4.5/5
2009-09-09 23:21

Excellent topic. So controversial, so many hypothesizes as to the real reason of Sikorski's death. Piss poor quality, as is usual for Polish productions, fortunately it did not have too big of an impact on the movie.
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The Damned United (2009) 4.5/5
2009-09-07 23:37

Damn good.
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L'ennemi public n°1 (2008) 4/5
2009-09-05 23:04

Part two. Brutal as well. Enjoyable. Lil' bit longer and lots of the same.
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Chasseurs de dragons (2008) 3/5
2009-09-04 23:35

Incredibly beautiful. Much, much too family type of movie.
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L'instinct de mort (2008) 4.5/5
2009-09-03 23:14

Brutal. But good. Oh so good.
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August, 2009
Angels & Demons (2009) 4.5/5
2009-08-30 23:44

Decent, very decent.
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State of Play (2009) 5/5
2009-08-29 23:15

Political/crime thriller that keeps you on your toes for full two hours and then some. Perfect, perfect, perfect.
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Rudo y Cursi (2008) 3/5
2009-08-28 23:47

So-so.
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Crank: High Voltage (2009) 1/5
2009-08-26 23:07

As bad as it gets. Video game straight to the cinema.
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Sunshine Cleaning (2008) 3/5
2009-08-24 23:21

Watchable. Nothing exceptional, yet not too bad either.
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The Informers (2009) 4.5/5
2009-08-23 23:21

Totally incoherent and chaotic. Lots of interconnected stories with AIDS in the background. It was hard to really feel any kind of emotional attachment to any of the characters, as they were all really rotten.
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