Fear and Desire (Stanley Kubrick, 1953): 3/5

Weekend (Andrew Haigh, 2011): 3/5

Cedar Rapids (Miguel Arteta, 2011): 2/5

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (Marshall Curry, 2011): 2/5

Ossos (Pedro Costa, 1997): 3/5

Tuesday, After Christmas (Radu Muntean, 2010): 2/5

Attack the Block (Joe Cornish, 2011): 2/5

The Help (Tate Taylor, 2011)-- 2/5

Birth (Jonathan Glazer, 2004)-- 5/5

Blindness (Fernando Meirelles, 2008)-- 1/5

Wagon Master (John Ford, 1950): 3/5

L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934): 4/5

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920): 3/5

Frankenstein, rw (James Whale, 1931): 4/5

The Old Dark House, rw (James Whale, 1932): 4/5

The Invisible Man, rw (James Whale, 1933): 3/5

The Shining, rw (Stanley Kubrick, 1980): 5/5

The Wave (Dennis Gansel, 2008): 2/5

The Future (Miranda July, 2011): 5/5

"Have you ever been outside? I mean, not temporarily. I mean born outside, never been inside, never been petted, not even once. Yes? Then you know about the darkness that is not appropriate to talk about."

-Paw Paw

Beginners (Mike Mills, 2010): 4/5

Taking Woodstock (Ang Lee, 2009): 2/5

After the Wedding (Susanne Bier, 2006): 2/5

The Edge of Heaven, rw (Fatih Akin, 2007): 4/5

Bad Education, rw (Pedro Almodovar, 2004): 3/5

The Unknown (Tod Browning, 1927): 3/5

And Everything is Going Fine (Steven Soderbergh, 2010): 3/5

The Future (Miranda July, 2011): 2/5

Hugo 3D (Martin Scorsese, 2011): 1/5

À Propos de Nice, 25 min (Jean Vigo, 1930): 3/5

Dirty Money/Un Flic (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1972): 3/5

Straight Time (Ulu Grosbard, 1978): 4/5

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (Göran Olsson, 2011): 3/5

The Descendents (Alexander Payne, 2011): 4/5

Breaking Bad: Season 3 (Vince Gilligan, 2010): 4/5

Jack Goes Boating (Philip Seymour Hoffman, 2010): 3/5

Objectified (Gary Hustwit, 2009): 3/5

The Coca-Cola Kid (Dusan Makavejev, 1985): 2/5

A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg, 2011): 3/5

Harvest Time (Marina Razbezhkina, 2004): 4/5

Fight Club, rw (David Fincher, 1999): 2/5 [orig: 4/5]

Control, rw (Anton Corbijn, 2007): 4/5

Zero de Conduite (Jean Vigo, 1933): 4/5

Taris, 10m (Jean Vigo, 1931): 3/5

Election, rw (Alexander Payne, 1999): 5/5

Foxy Brown, rw (Jack Hill, 1974): 3/5

Jackass 3D (Jeff Tremaine, 2010): 3/5

A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg, 2011): 3/5

Beginners (Mike Mills, 2011): 4/5

The Muppets (James Bobin, 2011): 3/5

Breaking Bad, Season 1 (Vince Gilligan, 2008): 4/5

Reservoir Dogs, rw (Quentin Tarantino, 1992): 5/5

Raging Bull, rw (Martin Scorsese, 1980): 6/5

Europa Europa (Agniezska Holland, 1990)-- 3/5

The Vanishing (George Sluizer, 1988)-- 4/5

The Lover (Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1992)-- 2/5

Querelle (Fassbinder, 1982)-- 1/5

Southland Tales (Richard Kelly, 2006)-- holy fucking shit.

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls (Kenneth Bowser, 2003)-- 3/5

The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford, 1940)-- 5/5

Let It Be (Michael Lindsay-Hogg, 1970)-- 5/5

Nanook of the North (Robert J. Flaherty, 1922): 4/5

Louisiana Story (Robert J. Flaherty, 1948): 5/5

Both poetic and authentic, Flaherty's movies express not the cruelty of the environment, but the joy of being "in place." The people in his movies are shaped by -- are the same material as -- their environment.

Breaking Bad: Season 2 (Vince Gilligan, 2009): 5/5

Antichrist (Lars von Trier, 2009): 2/5

Cargo 200, rw (Alexsey Balabanov, 2007): 4/5

Burnt by the Sun, rw (Nikita Mikhalkov, 1994): 1/5

Dillinger, rw (John Milius, 1973): 4/5

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Philip Kaufmann, 1988)-- 2/5

THX 1138 (George Lucas, 1971)-- 2/5

All About Lily Chou-Chou (Shunji Iwai, 2001)-- 2/5