Hereafter. The ending is way too cute and coincidental, but the journey there is decent and it has a good premise treated seriously. The opening tsunami scenes are rightfully praised, but the cooking scenes were the real stand-outs for me. Excellent acting and directing there. The two boys are a little wooden, but I probably shouldn’t pick on kids. I recognized that Clint Eastwood did the score within about 4 seconds. Speaking of, it’s been a while since I last saw an Eastwood film. Updated rankings for stuff he’s directed:
- Unforgiven
- Gran Torino
- Million Dollar Baby
- Mystic River
- The Outlaw Josey Wales
- Changeling
- Play Misty for Me
- Hereafter (or maybe one rank higher)
- The Gauntlet
- High Plains Drifter
- Bird
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Mark Larson 