The Perks Of Being A Wallflower

Cast
Logan Lerman
Emma Watson
Ezra Miller
Mae Whitman
Nina Dobrev
Paul Rudd
Joan Cusack
Screenwriter
Stephen Chbosky
Director
Stephen Chbosky
Running Time
103 minutes

The Perks of Being a Wallflower captures the dizzying highs and crushing lows of growing up. (Summit Entertainment)

Atmospheric with a delightful vitality to the whole thing. However I thought the darkest elements which had happened in the past to the characters seemed at odds with the rest and rang false.

Looper

Cast
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Bruce Willis
Emily Blunt
Paul Dano
Piper Perabo
Jeff Daniels
Screenwriter
Rian Johnson
Director
Rian Johnson
Running Time
118 minutes

In Looper, time travel exists, but it is illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they send their target 30 years into the past, where a “looper” – a hired gun, like Joe – is waiting to mop up. Joe is doing good as a looper until the day the mob decides to “close the loop,” sending back Joe’s future self for assassination. (TriStar Pictures)

Imaginative, gripping and unexpected.

To Rome With Love

Cast
Woody Allen
Alec Baldwin
Roberto Benigni
Penélope Cruz
Judy Davis
Jesse Eisenberg
Greta Gerwig
Ellen Page
Ornella Muti
Flavio Parenti
Alison Pill
Alessandro Tiberi
Pierluigi Marchionne
Screenwriter
Woody Allen
Director
Woody Allen
Running Time
111 minutes

To Rome with Love is a kaleidoscopic comedy movie set in one of the world's most enchanting cities. The film brings us into contact with a well-known American architect reliving his youth; an average middle-class Roman who suddenly finds himself Rome's biggest celebrity; a young provincial couple drawn into separate romantic encounters; and an American opera director endeavoring to put a singing mortician on stage. (Sony Pictures Classic)

I enjoyed it a lot. I couldn't quite figure out Alec Baldwin's character which seemed to change from real to symbolic with no explanation.