Gorgeous Puerto Rican backdrop, a handsome as always Johnny Depp and an incredibly sexual Amber Heard make for an amazing looking movie. Reviews in aggregate have this sitting at 50% which makes sense. Some viewers will dig this movie. Others will think it's a waste of 120 minutes. The ending doesn't give you the type of payoff that most run of the mill films do (and that could be why half the critics disliked it), but the film has a…

American Beauty won Best Picture for its year, but has started to have a little bit of a backlash recently. Sure it might feel a bit forced in places, especially 13 years on (looking at you plastic bag scene). Sometimes though films are meant to be a time capsule and the feelings you had for them on initial viewing are the most important. In that respect, American Beauty retains the same significance it had back then and its conclusion still…