one of the best movies of the year, probably the single best.

Rating: 10/10 (23 January 2006)

Brokeback Mountain was one, if not the single best movie I've seen this year. Now, I know most of you are thinking that I'm simply hopping on the bandwagon, but I truly was blown away by this film. The direction, the cinematography which was beautifully done, the script, the soft-spoken (throughout most of the film, anyway) feelings between the two main characters that spoke a thousand on screen, even the simple, somber score was the perfect touch. The simplicities of this movie are what make it so fantastic. Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal took on their characters with such ease and subtlety, you forget they're even acting. Nowadays, with movies so action-filled or complex with subplots after subplots, such a movie as Brokeback is as refreshing as a cup of lemonade on a summer's day. Kudos to all the great performances, most notably Ledger who hands-down deserves the Oscar (even after seeing each of the other big contenders this year), but also to Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams and Anne Hathaway