Oscar Night: I haven't watched the Oscars in years and have no intention of breaking my streak this year, but if I could nominate or vote, this would be my pick. It was by far the best movie from 2005 that I watched. Gripping, suspenseful, and timely.

And yet, I can't recall reading any reviews of it. Perhaps because its director was Wes Craven, the industry labelled it as a horror flick. It isn't. It's a psychological thriller, with the explicit theme that we should never give in to intimidation. The best line is spoken by the heroine, as she reveals to the villain that a scar on her chest came from a sexual assault:

"Since then I've spent all of my life trying to convince myself of just one thing."

"What?," he says with a smirk, "That it wasn't your fault?"

"No. That it would never happen again," she says as she stabs him in the throat with a pen.


Second best line delivered by the heroine (a hotel manager) to an employee: "None of our clients are assholes, they are just clients with special needs."