Star Trek (2009)

A badly acted film, that appears to have not only to have been written for middle school boys, but by them as well. Clearly the white men in this film are VERY IMPORTANT because they speak authoritatively in VERY IMPORTANT voices. The female characters are there mostly as decoration. The script was simply a string of science-fiction-y sounding words, which I doubt even made sense to the writers. The costumes and make-up appear to have been done by some kids getting ready for a Star Trek convention. Our Winona plays Spock's mother. Her screen time can't be more than two minutes, stretched over three scenes. She only speaks in one of these scenes.

A perfectly awful film with nothing to recommend it. Truly a burden for the Noni Complete-ist.
Final Verdict: one croquet ball

Mr. Deeds

When this movie first came out in 2002 we were torn about watching it because as much as we enjoyed watching Winona Ryder films we really didn't like Adam Sandler's early goofball films. Eventually we succumbed, and only vaguely remembered having seen this before when we watched it again over the weekend - a typical rom-com with no surprises. Our Winona plays Babe Bennett, a tabloid television journalist who goes undercover as Pam Dawson (a school nurse) in order to get a story on Longfellow Deeds (Sandler), the unexpected heir to a multi-billion dollar fortune. Babe pretends to woo Deeds, then falls for him, is found out as a fraud, and the usual romantic comedy archetype ensues.

Final verdict: Three croquet balls: