I haven't been seeing a lot of movies this year and I'm just pretty grouchy every time I walk out and don't feel like spending too much time responding/reacting to them so the reviews haven't been that great. But there have to be other voices on the web that I can share so I thought I would start looking for other reviews to link to.

So behold "Blood Has Been Shed, Jerry" and the review for "The Girlfriend Experience". The views expressed on that blog are not held by SoulHonky.com and there's really no connection at all with SoulHonky.com besides the fact that Blood Has Been Shed, Jerry is written by a friend of a friend. But the reviews are thoughtful, well-written, and... well, isn't thoughtful and well-written enough?

"So I was all prepared to dismiss The Girlfriend Experience as another one of Soderbergh's little formalist experimentations and Grey as an interesting but not all that promising mainstream actress. But then -- just as I was checking out -- they sank the hooks in. I have to give them credit. They were one step ahead of me the whole time..."