28 weeks later - 2/10. Boring, predictable, includes the smartest damn zombie in the world who always knows exactly where people are going to try to hide from him and just keeps showing up scene after scene even if there was not time for him to get from point A to point B so fast, as if to say "My contract says i can't die 2/3rds of the way into the film!"
7 pounds - 5/10. Tries to be cathartic, isn't. Character development is contradictory. Tries briefly to set up the lead as a former high-tech sales manager, then 45 minutes later he explains that he went to MIT and then it turns out that he knows how to fix an ancient printing press that nobody knows how to fix. This doesn't make a lot of sense - engineers like that don't end up giving pep talks to sales teams. They just don't. Some salesmen are former engineers, but never former world-class engineers. This interfered with my suspension of disbelief.
A history of violence - 6/10. Action movie tries to be smart. Meh.
Knowing - 3/10. Stupid, with a 'last mimzy' sort of feel to it, but without the camp. Nick Cage dramatically follows clues from the past about the future and dramatically realizes that the research he did before the film that nobody bothered to tell us about leads inescapably to something terrible. Really gratuitous disaster scenes with an almost rob zombie feel to them.
The limits of control - 7/10. Not Jarmusch's best work, probably his least accessible to date. Watched this because a friend in bratislava couldn't figure out what it was about. It's about . . . the limits of control. Also about how Isaach is an awesome actor that Jarmusch hasn't worked with in a while, and how much Jarmusch likes referencing old foreign films in his own films - but this time by just painting titles on things. Slow and weird. Most people won't like it.