My Sister's Keeper (2009)

My Sister's Keeper
Grade: B+ (Watch it)
Review: A nicely done tearjerker. Original take on a family dealing with chronic sickness and death without getting overshadowed by religious overtones or fake miracles. Movie deals with serious moral dilemma of using one child as a donor to save another child. The simple depiction of this reality combined with good acting makes this movie a powerful life drama.

Precious (2009)

Precious
Grade: A- (Watch it)
Review: This is an exceptional sociodrama about the life of a teenage girl living through urban "hell" - poverty, sexual abuse, teen pregnancy, domestic violence, verbal abuse, illiteracy and more. This is not a Hollywood feel good happy ending, or a gangsta movie that glorifies crime and romanticizes backward values - this movie is a simple and powerful depiction of a tragic reality. This sad reality on the other hand is a deafening call for change. A serious Oscar contender.

The Ugly Truth (2009)

The Ugly Truth
Grade: D+ (Skip it)
Review: Predictable and not funny.

2012 (2009)

2012
Grade: B- (Watch it)
Review: Grab the popcorn and enjoy this cinematic roller-coaster joy ride. BTW you can leave your brain at home, cause there isn't much to think about. This was a fun movie.
PS: Civilizations that couldn't figure out how to survive, cannot predict the future; otherwise surviving would have been easy. :)

Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)

Capitalism: A Love Story
Grade: A- (Watch it)
Review: Michael Moore documentary about things that everyone knows are wrong in our financial system; but nobody does anything about it. Like him or hate him, he was right in this and the rest of his movies.
Interesting readings: Citigroup analyst reports about wealth inequality written few months before the meltdown started:
Citigroup-Oct-16-2005-Plutonomy-Report-Part-1
Citigroup-Mar-5-2006-Plutonomy-Report-Part-2
Report summary analysis by senior writer of WSJ: Plutonomics