That is annoying that the text is always truncated. It sounds like another example of an Apple design philosophy I call, “deliberate oversimplification” that violates Einstein’s quote (“Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler”) for the sake of a clean look and the perception of simplicity, at the expense of true simplicity.

Apart from that small point, I very much liked your article. One of the things that particularly irritates me about Front Row is the way that the “movie poster” is large for a brief moment then scales back over the blurb that explains about the movie. This text is almost always curtailed due to the restricted amount of space it appears in. Perhaps, holding (PLAY/PAUSE) would get you a side-by-side view, where you could look at the poster and read the full details of the movie. (+) or (UP) and (-) or (DOWN) would scroll the details side, revealing reviews. There is no reason to force the user to exit Front Row to research opinion on the movie via a conventional web browser. Apple could quite easily cache summaries of reviews from respected sources. Clicking (PLAY/PAUSE) again could go even deeper to the full review. So, at one level you would have comparative ratings and the next you would have the text of the review itself. It could conceivably include “talking head” video reviews.