Catching up on the Oscar fodder

Had an utterly perfect visit to Albany, including a delicious dinner at Van's Vietnamese restaurant and a TRIPLE feature, all great year-end movies:

The Savages. A very low key movie, a little less than I was expecting, but wonderful performances, especially the always superb Laura Linney, and many good scenes. It slowed down a bit in the middle but the end is worth the wait.

Juno. The movie everyone should see this year. The theater was unexpectedly packed - we couldn't even sit together. Adorable movie, incredible writing and Ellen Page is one to watch.

Atonement. Not a perfect movie (adapted from a similarly imperfect book) but gorgeously filmed, with pitch perfect performances and it really stuck with me - I thought about it a lot after I saw it.