Breach

Overall Rating: # # # # (4 Buckets o' Popcorn)
Merlin's Grade: # # # # (4 Buckets o' Popcorn)
Michele's Grade: (? Buckets o' Popcorn)

Comments:
(Merlin) An intense drama based on real events, this movie's excellence is based on Oscar-worthy performances by Chris Cooper and Ryan Phillippe. Chris Cooper excells as the Cold War Soldier gone bad, and Ryan does a great job of portraying the stress and angst of "betraying" the idolized-yet-undeniably-bad pivotal figure of Robert Hannsen.

Children of Men

Overall Rating: # # # # (4 Buckets o' Popcorn)
Merlin's Grade: # # # # (4 Buckets o' Popcorn)
Michele's Grade: (? Buckets o' Popcorn)

Comments:
(Merlin) An incredibly intriguing concept movie with great acting. Clive Owen is incredible, as is Julianna Moore. Michael Caine plays a delightfully different role for him as a total hippy dude, and pulls it off with pinache. Well worth watching.