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Here are my brief (but probably opinionated ;-)) and hastily-written reviews of 7 of the movies I've seen most recently:

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Here's the um, "long-awaited" seventh movie. :-)

The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
This is an extremely engrossing thriller/mystery. I don't want to give away the plot, so I'll only say that it has to do with a man who is given a list of other seemingly unconnected men, and told only to find out if those men are "still living at those addresses"... it turns out, they're all meeting their ends in mysterious ways, one by one. Anyway, there's much more to it, the plot and pacing are excellent, the actors who are given a chance to act do fine (there are at least 4 major actors in disguise), and I liked the script as well. It isn't exactly family-friendly as there is some non-gory (but rather gruesome) , and a couple instances of very minor language. But, I really loved this movie! :-)

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Pride & Prejudice (2005)
I loved this remake of my all-time favorite fiction story! I don't believe it should be compared to the last (6 hour) version, but to the last Hollywood version of the story (from 1940), since I think it's unfair to compare a mini-series and a movie, and it's like two hundred and twenty-three times better than the 1940 one! If I were comparing this one to the mini-series this would be a much longer 'article'... so anyway!

Family Jewels
This is a cute movie in which Jerry Lewis plays 7 (?) different roles. A wealthy little orphan must decide which of her six uncles she will choose as her new father. There is a scene maybe half-way through the movie involving an airplane, and an inept pilot that is absolutely hysterical!

The Errand Boy
This movie (starring Jerry Lewis) is a very random collection of mostly funny scenes, held together loosely by a so-called "plot". It was fun, but the lack of plot and extreme randomness of some scenes, was a little odd.

Lifeboat
This movie (directed by Hitchcock) is an intensely engrossing look at a group of diverse people under "extreme duress", namely being stranded in a lifeboat during World War II without a compass and with a man rescued from the U-boat that sunk their ship.

Inspector General
This ("comedy") movie has got to be one of the most boring things I've watched in a long time. Starring Danny Kaye and centering around the story of an illiterate con-man who gets mistaken for a government official and must perpetuate the deception. This *may* have been more fun if it weren't for the approximately three super-long super-boring songs, and relentlessly unfunny script.

The Trouble With Harry
This film is a very 0ffbeat Hitchcock comedy-mystery. Despite it's un-typicalness (?) it was extremely entertaining, and there were many typical 'Hitchcockian' camera angles and such.
The plot revolves around a man discovered in the woods... d.ead. Practically everyone in town thinks they are responsible for his d.eath, and hilarious complications ensue.

And YES, I realize that that is only 6 movies, but I intend to watch a seventh tonight and review it later. ;-)