2014

59 films seen.
★★★★½
• Boyhood (Richard Linklater) [x2]
• The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
• The LEGO Movie (Phil Lord/Christopher Miller) [x2]
• Mommy (Xavier Dolan)
• Starred Up (David Mackenzie)

★★★★
• Belle (Amma Asante)
• Black Coal, Thin Ice (Yi'nan Dao)
• Calvary (John Michael McDonagh)
• The Drop (Michaël R. Roskam)
• Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (Chiemi Karasawa)
• Gone Girl (David Fincher)
• Guardians of the Galaxy (James Gunn) [x2]
• How to Train Your Dragon 2 (Dean DeBlois)
• Love Is Strange (Ira Sachs)
• Lucy (Luc Besson) [x2]
• Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy)
• Obvious Child (Gillian Robespierre)
• Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)

★★★½
• Bad Words (Jason Bateman)
• Begin Again (John Carney)
• Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman)
• Enemy (Denis Villeneuve)
• The Fault in Our Stars (Josh Boone)
• G.B.F. (Darren Stein)
• Get on Up (Tate Taylor)
• Godzilla (Gareth Edwards)
• A Most Wanted Man (Anton Corbijn)
• Muppets Most Wanted (James Bobin)
• Neighbors (Nicholas Stoller)
• Noah (Darren Aronofsky)
• 22 Jump Street (Phil Lord/Christopher Miller)
• Tammy (Ben Falcone)
• 300: Rise of an Empire (Noam Murro)
• What If (Michael Dowse)
• X-Men: Days of Future Past (Bryan Singer)

★★★
• Big Hero 6 (Don Hall/Chris Williams)
• Divergent (Neil Burger)
• Frank (Frank Abrahamson)
• Jersey Boys (Clint Eastwood)
• Let's Be Cops (Luke Greenfield)
• Locke (Steven Knight)
• Maleficent (Robert Stromberg)
• Million Dollar Arm (Craig Gillespie)
• Non-Stop (Jaume Collet-Serra)
• The Other Woman (Nick Cassavetes)
• Palo Alto (Gia Coppola)
• Sex Tape (Jake Kasdan)
• St. Vincent (Theodore Melfi)

★★½
• And So It Goes (Rob Reiner)
• Fading Gigolo (John Tuturro)

★★
• Fury (David Ayer)
• Magic in the Moonlight (Woody Allen)

★½
• No Good Deed (Sam Miller)

★
• Exodus: Gods and King (Ridley Scott)

2013

59 films seen.
★★★★½
• Before Midnight (Richard Linklater)
• Her (Spike Jonze)
• In Bloom (Nana Ekvtimishvili/Simon Groß)
• Short Term 12 (Destin Cretton)
• Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho)
• 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)
• The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki)
• The World's End (Edgar Wright)

★★★★
• The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola)
• Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen)
• Child's Pose (Călin Peter Netzer)
• Cutie and the Boxer (Zachary Heinzerling)
• Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
• Frozen (Chris Buck/Jennifer Lee)
• Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)
• The Heat (Paul Feig)
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Francis Lawrence)
• Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski)
• Prisoners (Denis Villeneuve)
• The Spectacular Now (James Ponsoldt)
• Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine)
• Stoker (Park Chan-wook)
• Wadjda (Haifaa Al-Monsour)

★★★½
• American Hustle (David O. Russell)
• August: Osage County (John Wells)
• Captain Phillips (Paul Greengrass)
• The Congress (Ari Folman)
• Don Jon (Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
• Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen)
• Iron Man 3 (Shane Black)
• It's a Disaster (Todd Berger)
• Mud (Jeff Nichols)
• Nebraska (Alexander Payne)
• Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch)
• Philomena (Stephen Frears)
• Prince Avalanche (David Gordon Green)
• Side Effects (Steven Soderbergh)
• The To Do List (Maggie Carey)
• Venus in Fur (Roman Polanski)
• We're the Millers (Rawson Marshall Thurber)
• The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)

★★★
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (Cody Cameron/Kris Pearn)
• C.O.G. (Kyle Patrick Alvarez)
• Dallas Buyers Club (Jean-Marc Vallée)
• Dom Hemingway (Richard Shepard)
• Drinking Buddies (Joe Swanberg)
• Monsters University (Don Scanlan)
• Omar (Hany Abu-Assaid)
• The Railway Man (Jonathan Teplitzky)
• This Is the End (Seth Rogen/Evan Goldberg)
• Thor: The Dark World (Alan Taylor)

★★½
• The English Teacher (Craig Zisk)
• Girl Most Likely (Shari Springer Berman/Robert Pulcini)
• Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn)
• Rapture-Palooza (Paul Middleditch)

★★
• Identity Thief (Seth Gordon)

★½
• 21 & Over (Joshua Lucas/Scott Moore)

★
• Movie 43 (a lot of people who should've known better)

2012

34 films seen.
★★★★½
• Looper (Rian Johnson)
• Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)
• Seven Psychopaths (Martin McDonagh)
• Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley)
• Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow)

★★★★
• Anna Karenina (Joe Wright)
• Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin)
• Brave (Mark Andrews/Brenda Chapman)
• Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino)
• Goon (Michael Dowse)
• Lincoln (Steven Spielberg)
• Magic Mike (Steven Soderbergh)
• No (Pablo Larraín)
• Rust and Bone (Jacques Audiard)
• Sleepwalk with Me (Mike Birbiglia)

★★★½
• Argo (Ben Affleck)
• The Avengers (Joss Whedon)
• Bachelorette (Leslye Headland)
• Gayby (Jonathan Lisecki)
• Haywire (Steven Soderbergh)
• The Hunger Games (Gary Ross)
• Jeff, Who Lives at Home (Jay Duplass/Mark Duplass)
• Life of Pi (Ang Lee)
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)
• Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell)
• Skyfall (Sam Mendes)
• 21 Jump Street (Phil Lord/Christopher Miller)
• Wreck-It Ralph (Rich Moore)

★★★
• Butter (Jim Field Smith)
• The Dark Knight Rises (Christopher Nolan)
• Mirror Mirror (Tarsem)
• Pitch Perfect (Jason Moore)
• Ted (Seth MacFarlane)
• 28 Hotel Rooms (Matt Ross)

★★½
• Flight (Robert Zemeckis)

2011

38 films seen.
★★★★½
• The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius)
• Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn)
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher) [x2]
• Hanna (Joe Wright) [x2]
• Hugo (Martin Scorsese)
• Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
• A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
• Shame (Steve McQueen)
• The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodóvar)
• The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)

★★★★
• Beginners (Mike Mills)
• Bridesmaids (Paul Feig) [x3]
• Contagion (Steven Soderbergh)
• Declaration of War (Valérie Donzelli)
• 50/50 (Jonathan Levine)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (David Yates)
• Jane Eyre (Cary Fukunaga)
• Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin)
• Moneyball (Bennett Miller)
• The Muppets (James Bobin) [x2]
• Rango (Gore Verbinski)

★★★½
• Captain America: The First Avenger (Joe Johnston)
• The Debt (John Madden)
• The Devil's Double (Lee Tamahori)
• From Up on Poppy Hill (Goro Miyazaki)
• The Ides of March (George Clooney)
• Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
• Our Idiot Brother (Jesse Peretz)
• Source Code (Duncan Jones)
• Super 8 (J.J. Abrams)
• Thor (Kenneth Branagh)
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Tomas Alfredson)
• X-Men: First Class (Matthew Vaughn)
• Young Adult (Jason Reitman)

★★★
• The Help (Tate Taylor)
• Puss in Boots (Chris Miller)

★★½
• The Descendants (Alexander Payne)

★★
• Albert Nobbs (Rodrigo García)

Shorts:
• Small Fry (Angus MacLane)

2010

55 films seen.
★★★★★
• Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky)
• The Social Network (David Fincher) [x3]

★★★★½
• Another Year (Mike Leigh)
• Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
• Inception (Christopher Nolan) [x3]
• 127 Hours (Danny Boyle)
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Edgar Wright) [x2]
• Toy Story 3 [3D] (Lee Unkrich) [x2]
• True Grit (Joel & Ethan Coen)

★★★★
• Animal Kingdom (David Michôd)
• Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (Craig McCall)
• Easy A (Will Gluck) [x3]
• The Fighter (David O. Russell)
• A Film Unfinished (Yael Hersonski)
• The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
• How to Train Your Dragon (Dean DeBlois/Chris Sanders) [x2]
• I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino)
• Incendies (Denis Villeneuve)
• It's Kind of a Funny Story (Anna Boden/Ryan Fleck)
• The King's Speech (Tom Hooper)
• Never Let Me Go (Mark Romanek)
• Rabbit Hole (John Cameron Mitchell)
• Romantics Anonymous (Jean-Pierre Améris)
• Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese) [x2]
• Somewhere (Sofia Coppola)
• Waking Sleeping Beauty (Don Hahn)
• Winter's Bone (Debra Granik)

★★★½
• Biutiful (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
• Casino Jack and the United States of Money (Alex Gibney)
• Chloe (Atom Egoyan)
• The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie! (Greg Franklin)
• Get Low (Aaron Schneider)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (David Yates) [x2]
• The Illusionist (Sylvain Chomet)
• Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (Ricki Stern/Anne Sundberg)
• Kaboom (Gregg Araki)
• The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko)
• Love Crime (Alain Corneau)
• Mother and Child (Rodrigo García)
• Please Give (Nicole Holofcener)
• Potiche (François Ozon)
• Red (Robert Schwentke)
• Splice (Vincenzo Natali)
• Tangled (Nathan Greno/Byron Howard)
• The Town (Ben Affleck)
• TRON: Legacy [3D] (Joseph Kosinski)

★★★
• Date Night (Shawn Levy)
• Iron Man 2 (Jon Favreau)
• Love and Other Drugs (Edward Zwick)
• Morning Glory (Roger Michell)

★★½
• Burlesque (Steve Antin)
• Despicable Me (Pierre Coffin/some other guy who cares)
• You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (Woody Allen)

★★
• Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton)
• Robin Hood (Ridley Scott)

Shorts:
• Day & Night (Teddy Newton)

2009

83 films seen.
★★★★½
• Bright Star (Jane Campion)
• Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodóvar) [x2]
• Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson) [x2]
• Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold)
• Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino) [x3]
• A Prophet (Jacques Audiard)
• A Serious Man (Joel & Ethan Coen)
• A Single Man (Tom Ford)

★★★★
• Antichrist (Lars von Trier)
• The Brothers Bloom (Rian Johnson)
• Drag Me to Hell (Sam Raimi) [x3]
• (500) Days of Summer (Marc Webb)
• The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Terry Gilliam)
• In the Loop (Armando Iannucci) [x3]
• Lebanon (Samuel Maoz)
• The Messenger (Oren Moverman)
• Precious (Lee Daniels)
• Sin Nombre (Cary Fukunaga)
• Thirst (Park Chan-wook)
• Up in the Air (Jason Reitman)
• Vincere (Marco Bellocchio)
• Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze) [x2]
• The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)

★★★½
• Adoration (Atom Egoyan)
• Adventureland (Greg Mottola)
• Avatar [3D] (James Cameron)
• Bronson (Nicolas Winding Refn)
• Capitalism: A Love Story (Michael Moore)
• Confessions of a Shopaholic (P.J. Hogan) [x2]
• Coraline [3D] (Henry Selick)
• District 9 (Neill Blomkamp)
• An Education (Lone Scherfig)
• Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder (Peter Avanzino) [x3]
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (David Yates) [x2]
• Jennifer's Body (Karyn Kusama)
• The Last Station (Michael Hoffman)
• Me and Orson Welles (Richard Linklater)
• Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu)
• The Princess and the Frog (Ron Clements/John Musker)
• Public Enemies (Michael Mann)
• The Secret of Kells (Tomm Moore)
• The September Issue (R.J. Cutler)
• Sophie's Revenge (Eva Jin)
• Star Trek (J.J. Abrams)
• Taking Woodstock (Ang Lee)
• Three Blind Mice (Matthew Newton)
• A Town Called Panic (Stéphane Aubier/Vincent Patar)
• Two Lovers (James Gray)
• Up [3D] (Pete Docter) [x2]
• Whip It (Drew Barrymore)
• Wild Grass (Alain Resnais)
• The Young Victoria (Jean-Marc Vallée)
• Zombieland (Ruben Fleischer)

★★★
• Adam (Max Mayer)
• Angels & Demons (Ron Howard)
• Chéri (Stephen Frears)
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Phil Lord/Chris Miller)
• Coco Before Chanel (Anne Fontaine)
• Duplicity (Tony Gilroy)
• Everybody's Fine (Kirk Jones)
• Extract (Mike Judge)
• The Hangover (Todd Phillips)
• I Love You, Man (John Hamburg)
• Julie & Julia (Nora Ephron)
• Making Plans for Lena (Christophe Honoré)
• Observe and Report (Jody Hill)
• The Proposal (Anne Fletcher)
• Ricky (François Ozon)
• The Secret in Their Eyes (Juan José Campanella)
• Sherlock Holmes (Guy Ritchie)
• Sunshine Cleaning (Christine Jeffs)
• 17 Again (Burr Steers)
• Whatever Works (Woody Allen)

★★½
• Away We Go (Sam Mendes)
• Crazy Heart (Scott Cooper)
• It's Complicated (Nancy Meyers)
• Monsters vs. Aliens [3D] (Conrad Vernon/Rob Letterman)
• Mother (Bong Joon-ho)
• Nine (Rob Marshall)

★★
• The Lovely Bones (Peter Jackson)

★½
• The Blind Side (John Lee Hancock)

OMFG I LOVE THIS BUT IT'S SO BAD
• Obsessed (Steve Shill)

Shorts:
• Partly Cloudy (Peter Sohn)