Sunday, December 27, 2015

Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015) -- 4.5/5

The Hateful 8 (Quentin Tarantino, 2015) -- 4.5/5

Star Wars: The Force Awakens (JJ Abrams, 2015)-- 2/5

The Revenant (Alejandro G. Inarritu, 2015) -- 4/5

Amy (Asif Kapadia, 2015) -- 4/5

Mala Noche (Gus Van Sant, 1985) -- 2/5

She's Funny That Way (Peter Bogdanovich, 2015) -- Turned it off

Our Beloved Month of August (Miguel Gomes, 2008) -- Turned it off

Hungry Hearts (Saverio Costanzo, 2015) -- 1.5/5

Inside Out (Peter Docter, 2015) -- 3.5/5

Goodnight Mommy (Severin Fiala, 2015) -- 4/5

Doctor Zhivago (David Lean, 1965) -- Turned it off

Fists in the Pocket (Marco Bellochio, 1965) -- Turned it off

Gods and Monsters (Bill Condon, 1998) -- Turned it off

Wednesday, December 23, 2015

With Bob and Dave (David Cross, Bob Odenkirk, 2015): 3.5/5

Inferno (Dario Argento, 1980): 2/5

River of No Return (Otto Preminger, 1954): 2/5

Tangerine (Sean Baker, 2015): 2/5

Ricki and the Flash (Jonathan Demme, 2015): 1/5

Master of None, Season 1 (Aziz Ansari, Eric Wareheim, James Ponsoldt, Lynn Shelton, 2015): 3.5/5

Room (Lenny Abrahamson, 2015): 4.5/5

The Martian (Ridley Scott, 2015): 2/5

Joy (David O. Russell, 2015): 3.5/5

Friday, December 11, 2015

Amy (Asif Kapadia, 2015): 4/5

Tangerine (Sean Baker, 2015): 4/5

Results (Andrew Bujalski, 2015): 2.5/5

True Story (Rupert Goold, 2015): 2/5

Ricki and the Flash (Jonathan Demme, 2015): 1/5

Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt, 2014): 3.5/5

The Square (Nash Edgerton, 2008): 2/5

Mulholland Falls, rw (Lee Tamahori, 1996): 2/5

***

Alice Adams, rw (George Stevens, 1935): 3.5/5

The Letter, rw (William Wyler, 1940): 4/5

The Heiress, rw (William Wyler, 1949): 4/5

A Place in the Sun, rw (George Stevens, 1951): 5/5

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland, 2015): 3.5/5

Olive Kitteridge (Lisa Cholodenko, 2014): 4/5

Mistress America (Noah Baumbach, 2015): 5/5

The End of the Tour (James Ponsoldt, 2015): 2.5/5

Tomorrowland (Brad Bird, 2105): 2/5

The Overnighters (Jesse Moss, 2014): 2/5

Friday, November 20, 2015


Better Call Saul: Season 1 (Vince Gilligan, 2015) -- 4/5

Head On (Ana Kokkinos, 1999) -- 1/5

Kill Your Darlings (John Krokidas, 2013) -- 1.5/5

Serpico (Sidney Lumet, 1973) -- 2.5/5

As Tears Go By (Wong Kar Wai, 1988) -- Turned it off

Insignificance (Nicolas Roeg, 1985) -- Turned it off

Love is the Devil (John Mayburry, 1998) -- Turned it Off

Carlito's Way (Brian De Palma, 1993) -- 2.5/5

Thursday, November 19, 2015

Fargo, season 1 (Noah Hawley, 2014): 5/5

Trainwreck (Judd Apatow, 2015): 3/5

Beyond the Sea (Kevin Spacey, 2004): 2/5

In the Line of Fire, rw (Wolfgang Petersen, 1993): 2.5/5

Awakenings, rw (Penny Marshall, 1990): 4/5

Saturday, November 7, 2015

The End of the Tour (James Ponsoldt, 2015): 4/5

Love & Mercy (Bill Pohlad, 2015): 2.5/5

Tom at the Farm (Xavier Dolan, 2015): 2/5

The Jinx (Andrew Jarecki, 2015): 5/5

August: Osage County (John Wells, 2014): 1.5/5

Masters of Sex, season 2 (2014): 2.5/5

*Let the Fire Burn (Jason Osder, 2013): 4/5

Oh, Saigon (Doan Hoang, 2007): 2.5/5

From Here to Eternity, rw (Fred Zinnemann, 1953): 3/5

I Walk Alone, rw (Byron Haskin, 1948): 3/5

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Lewis Milestone, 1946): 3/5

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Simon Killer (Antonio Campos, 2012): 2/5

Danny Collins (Dan Fogelman, 2015): 3/5

The Great Escape (John Sturges, 1963): 2.5/5

Knock Knock (Eli Roth, 2015): 1.5/5

Infinitely Polar Bear (Maya Forbes, 2014): 3/5

An Officer and a Gentleman, rw (Taylor Hackford, 1982): 2.5/5

Monday, October 26, 2015

re-watched Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore, 2002) -- 4.5/5

Chaplin: The Movie (Richard Attenborough, 1992) -- 3/5

Equus (Sidney Lumet, 1977) -- 1.5/5

re-watched I Stand Alone (Gaspar Noe, 1998) -- 2/5

Going Clear (Alex Gibney, 2015) -- 4/5

Love & Mercy (Bill Pohlad, 2015) -- 2.5/5

Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki, 2003) -- 4/5

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Masters of Sex, season 1 (Michelle Ashford, 2013): 3/5

Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (Alex Gibney, 2015): 4/5

Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief (Alex Gibney, 2015): 4/5

White Bird in a Blizzard (Gregg Araki, 2014): 2/5

Berberian Sound Studio (Peter Strickland, 2013): 2/5

All Good Things (Andrew Jarecki, 2011): 2/5

Man on Wire, rw (James Marsh, 2008): 5/5

Lianna (John Sayles, 1983): 3/5

Night Nurse (William Wellman, 1931): 2/5

Queen Kelly, rw (Erich von Stroheim, 1929): 5/5

Monday, October 5, 2015

The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland, 2014): 5/5  [Best film of 2015]

Far From the Madding Crowd (Thomas Vinterberg, 2015): 3.5/5

Madame Bovary (Sophie Barthes, 2015): 2.5/5

Heaven Knows What (Ben & Joshua Safdie, 2014): 1.5/5

Beautiful Darling (James Rasin, 2010): 3/5

Anywhere But Here (Wayne Wang, 1999): 3/5

The Man Who Wasn't There, rw (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2001): 3.5/5

Lenny, rw (Bob Fosse, 1974): 3.5/5

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

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

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, rw (Woody Allen, 1982): 4/5

2001: A Space Odyssey, rw (Stanley Kubrick, 1968): 5/5

Jurassic World (Colin Trevorrow, 2015): 1.5/5

Snow on Tha Bluff (Damon Russell, 2011): 4/5

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, 2015): 2.5/5

Mr. Robot, Season One (Sam Esmail, et al, 2015): 3.5/5

Sunday, September 27, 2015

Friday, September 25, 2015

Heaven Knows What (Joshua Safdie, 2015) -- 2.5/5

The White Diamond (Werner Herzog, 2004) -- 2/5

White God (Kornel Mundruczo, 2015) -- Turned it off

Anna Karenina (Julien Duvivier, 1948) -- Turned it off

Ballroom (Patrick Mario Bernard, 2003) -- 1/5

Blind Mountain (Yang Li, 2007) -- Turned it off

The Oath (Laura Poitras, 2010) -- 2.5/5

Carnal Knowledge (Mike Nichols, 1971) -- Turned it off

Late August, Early September (Olivier Assayas, 1999) -- Turned it off

My Country, My Country (Laura Poitras, 2006) -- Turned it off

Thursday, September 10, 2015

*Mistress America (Noah Baumbach, 2015): 2/5

Aloha (Cameron Crowe, 2015): 1.5/5

The Salt of the Earth (Wim Wenders, 2014): 4/5

Up in the Air, rw (Jason Reitman, 2009): 2.5/5

Jesus' Son, rw (Alison Maclean, 1999): 3/5

To Die For, rw (Gus Van Sant, 1995): 4/5

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Aloha (Cameron Crowe, 2015) -- 0/5

The Insider (Michael Mann, 1999) -- 2/5

Grimm (Alex Van Warmerdam, 2003) -- Turned it off

A Simple Life (Ann Hui, 2011) -- 3.5/5

CITIZENFOUR (Laura Poitras, 2014) -- 4.5/5

Two Days, One Night (Dardenne brothers, 2014) -- 2.5/5

Mr. Death: Fred A. Leuchter Jr. (Errol Morris, 1999) -- 3/5

The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko, 2010) -- 1/5
*Inside Out (Pete Doctor, Ronaldo Del Carmen, 2015): 4/5

Toy Story 3, rw (Lee Unkrich, 2010): 3/5

Love & Mercy (Bill Pohlad, 2015): 2/5

Casque d'Or, rw (Jacques Becker, 1952): 3/5

Thursday, August 27, 2015

*Phoenix (Christian Petzold, 2015): 2.5/5

Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2014): 2.5/5

A Film Unfinished (Yael Hersonski, 2010): 4/5

Glass Chin (Noah Buschel, 2015): 2/5

Lambert & Stamp (James D. Cooper, 2015): 3/5

Drugstore Cowboy, rw (Gus Van Sant, 1989): 5/5

Miracle Mile (Steve De Jarnatt, 1988): 1/5

Citizenfour (Laura Poitras, 2014): We're totally fucked

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Shattered Glass (Billy Ray, 2003) -- 2.5/5

The Castle (Michael Haneke, 1997) -- Turned it off

Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2015) -- 2.5/5

Some Kind of Wonderful (Howard Deutch, 1987) -- 1/5

Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin, 2005) -- Turned it off

Dark Victory (Edmund Goulding, 1937) -- 1/5

The End of the Tour (James Ponsoldt, 2015)-- 4/5 (Jason Segel as DFW= 5. Jesse Eisenberg in general= 1)

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Prometheus (Ridley Scott, 2012): 1.5/5

Les dames du Bois de Boulogne (Robert Bresson, 1945): 3/5

A Nos Amours (Maurice Pialat, 1983): 4.5/5

Renoir (Gilles Bourdos, 2012): 2/5

L'amour Existe, 20 mins (Maurice Pialat, 1983): 2.5/5

Le Beau Serge (Claude Chabrol, 1958): 2.5/5

Trainwreck (Judd Apatow, 2015): 2.5/5

Aloha (Cameron Crowe, 2015): 3/5

Sunday, August 2, 2015

Woman in Gold (Simon Curtis, 2015): 1/5

Wild Tales (Damian Szifron, 2014): 3/5

Blackhat (Michael Mann, 2014): 1.5/5

Cake (Daniel Barnz, 2014): 2/5

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller, 2013): 2.5/5

Behind the Candelabra, rw (Steven Soderbergh, 2013): 4/5

House of Tolerance, rw (Bertrand Bonello, 2011): 4/5

The Missing Person (Noah Buschel, 2009): 2.5/5 

Docs:

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Doctor Moreau (David Greogory, 2014): 4.5/5

Beware of Mr. Baker (Jay Bulger, 2012): 4/5

Dig!, rw (Ondi Timoner, 2004): 2/5

Sunday, July 26, 2015

Calvary (John McDonagh, 2014) -- Turned it off

Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas, 2014) -- 1.5/5

While We're Young (Noah Baumbach, 2015) -- 2.5/5

Wild (Jean Marc Vallee, 2014) -- Turned it off

Selma (Ava DuVernay, 2014) -- Turned it off

Side Effects (Steven Soderbergh, 2013) -- 2/5

It Follows (David Robert Mitchell, 2015) -- 1/5


Thursday, July 16, 2015

Cake (Daniel Barnz, 2014) -- 2/5

Last Days in Vietnam (Rory Kennedy, 2014) -- 1.5/5

Lucy (Luc Besson, 2014) -- 1/5

Homeland Season 1 -- 4/5

Homeland Season 2 -- 4/5

Homeland Season 3 -- 3.5/5


Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako, 2014): 3/5

American Sniper (Clint Eastwood, 2014): 2/5

La silence de la mer (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1949): 2.5/5

Diary of a Country Priest, rw (Robert Bresson, 1951): 4.5/5

Children of the Revolution, rw (Peter Duncan, 1996): 3.5/5

Red Army (Gabe Polsky, 2014): 3/5

The Wrecking Crew (Denny Tedesco, 2015): 3/5

Monday, July 13, 2015

The Killer, rw (John Woo, 1989): 2/5

Paper Moon, rw (Peter Bogdanovich, 1973): 5/5

There Will Be Blood, rw (P.T. Anderson, 2007): 5/5

It Follows (David Robert Mitchell, 2015): 2/5

Kingsman: The Secret Service (Matthew Vaughn, 2015): 3.5/5

Better Call Saul, Season One (Vince Gilligan, et. al., 2015): 4.5/5

While We're Young (Noah Baumbach, 2014): 3.5/5

Game of Thrones, Season One (David Benioff, et. al., 2011): 3/5

Friday, July 3, 2015

Homeland, season 1 (Alex Gansa & Howard Gordon, 2011): 5/5

Homeland, season 2 (2012): 4/5

Homeland, season 3 (2013): 2/5

Nightcrawler, rw (Dan Gilroy, 2014): 3.5/5

Sunday, June 21, 2015

Inherent Vice (PTA, 2014) -- Turned it off

Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh, 2014) -- Turned it off

God Help The Girl (Stuart Murdoch, 2014) -- Turned it off

American Sniper (Clint Eastwood, 2014) -- 1/5

Rewatched Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Joe, 2010) -- 1.5/5  (Original rating: 4/5)

In Bruges (Martin McDonagh, 2008) -- 1.5/5

Rosewater (Jon Stewart, 2014) -- 1.5/5

Leviathan (Andrey Zyvagintsev, 2014) -- 1.5/5

The Imitation Game (Morten Tyldum, 2014) -- 2/5

Appropriate Behavior (Desiree Akhavan, 2015) -- 3.5/5

Wild Tales (Damian Szifron, 2014) -- 4/5

Thursday, June 4, 2015

Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015): 3.5/5

Mad Men, Season 7 (Matthew Weiner, 2014-2015): 4/5

Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Goddard, 2014): 4/5

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014): 1.5/5

Nowhere Boy (Sam Taylor-Wood, 2009): 3/5

Mademoiselle Chambon (Stephan Brize, 2009): 2/5

The Aviator, rw (Martin Scorsese, 2004): 3/5

Mad Men, season 7 (Matthew Weiner, 2014-2015): 3.5/5

Thursday, May 28, 2015

Cut Bank (Matt Shakman, 2015) -- 2/5

The Embalmer (Matteo Garrone, 2002) -- Didn't Finish It; Turned It Off

Blue Caprice (Alexandre Moors, 2013) -- 2/5

Still Alice (Richard Glatzer, 2014) -- 4/5

The Punk Singer (Sini Anderson, 2014) -- 4/5

Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg, 2015) -- 2/5

The Better Angels (A.J. Edwards, 2014) -- 2.5/5

The Fault in Our Stars (Josh Boone, 2014) -- Didn't Finish It; Turned It Off

Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? (Michel Gondry, 2013) -- Didn't Finish It; Turned It Off

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Ana Lily Amirpour, 2014) -- 2.5/5

Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015) -- 3.5/5






Monday, May 18, 2015

Europa Report (Sebastian Cordero, 2013): 2.5/5

Perfect Film, 22 mins (Ken Jacobs, 1986): 2/5

Jimi: All Is By My Side (John Ridley, 2013): 2/5

Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2015): 3/5

Sunday, May 17, 2015

*Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2015): 4/5

No No: A Dockumentary (Jeff Radice, 2014): 3/5

Tracks (John Curran, 2013): 3/5

Welcome (Philippe Lioret, 2009): 2/5

The Kids Are All Right, rw (Lisa Cholodenko, 2010): 3.5/5

In Bruges, rw (Martin McDonagh, 2008): 5/5

Rush, rw (Lili Fini Zanuck, 1991): 2/5

Odd Man Out, rw (Carol Reed, 1947): 3/5

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

A Most Violent Year (J.C. Chandor, 2014) -- 1/5

Finding Vivian Maier (John Maloof, 2013) -- 3/5

The Congress (Ari Folman, 2013) -- Didn't Finish It; Turned It Off

Paradise Lost: Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky, 1996) -- 4/5

Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (Berlinger & Sinofsky, 2000) -- 4/5

Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (Berlinger & Sinofsky, 2011)-- 3/5

Saving Mr. Banks (John Lee Hancock, 2013) -- Didn't Finish It; Turned It Off

Jealousy (Philippe Garrel, 2013 ) -- 1/5

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Sorcerer, rw (William Friedkin, 1977): 4/5

Spirited Away, rw (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001): 4/5

Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi, 1964): 3.5/5

Wild Tales (Damian Szifron, 2014): 2.5/5

Intentions of Murder (Shohei Imamura, 1964): 3/5

Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller, 2014): 4/5

Monday, April 27, 2015

*While We're Young (Noah Baumbach, 2015): 3/5

Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg, 2014): 2/5

Big Eyes (Tim Burton, 2014): 2/5

Yves Saint Laurent (Jalil Lespert, 2014): 3/5

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her (Ned Benson, 2014): 3/5

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him (Ned Benson, 2014): 2/5

Monday, April 20, 2015

Fury (David Ayer, 2014) -- 2/5

The Babadook (Jennifer Kent, 2014) -- 3.5/5

Museum Hours (Jem Cohen, 2013) -- 2/5

Cannibal (Manuel Martin Cuenca, 2014) -- 3/5

Mauvais Sang (Leo Carax, 2001) -- Didn't Finish It; Turned It Off

A Most Wanted Man (Anton Corbijn, 2014) -- 2.5/5

XXY (Lucia Puenzo, 2007) -- 2/5

Re-watched The Matrix (Andy Wachowski, 1999) -- 5/5

What If (Michael Dowse, 2014) -- 2/5

Mood Indigo (Michel Gondry, 2013) --  Didn't Finish It; Turned It Off

Monday, April 13, 2015

Interstellar (Christopher Nolan, 2014): 2.5/5

The Imitation Game (Morten Tyldum, 2014): 2.5/5

A Most Violent Year (J.C. Chandor, 2014): 2/5

Top Five (Chris Rock, 2014): 2/5

The Good Girl, rw (Miguel Arteta, 2002): 3/5

Too Late Blues (John Cassavetes, 1962): 2/5

Man of the West (Anthony Mann, 1958): 2/5

Destry Rides Again (George Marshall, 1939): 3.5/5

Morocco, rw (Josef von Sternberg, 1930): 5/5

Monday, April 6, 2015

Interstellar (Christopher Nolan, 2014) -- 3/5

Obvious Child (Gillian Robespierre, 2014) -- 3/5

I Origins (Mike Cahill, 2014) -- Didn't Finish It;Turned It Off

Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger, 1958) -- 3/5

Top Five (Chris Rock, 2014) -- 2/5

Dear White People (Justin Simien, 2014)-- 2/5

Birdman (Alejandro G. Inaritu, 2014) -- 3.5/5

Whiplash (Damien Chazelle, 2014) -- 2.5/5

Siberiade (Andrei Konchalovsky, 1979) -- Didn't Finish It; Turned It Off

Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy, 2014) -- 3/5

Listen Up Philip (Alex Ross Perry, 2014) -- 2/5


Thursday, March 19, 2015

Zazie Dans Metro (Louis Malle, 1960): 1.5/5

The Rover (David Michod, 2014): 2/5

How to Train Your Dragon 2 (Dean DeBlois): 2/5

Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964): 2.5/5

The Imitation Game (Morten Tyldum, 2014): 3/5

Flirting With Disaster, rw (David O. Russell, 1996): 5/5

Friday, March 13, 2015

Listen Up Philip (Alex Ross Perry, 2014): 4/5

The Drop (Michael R. Roskam, 2014): 3/5

Lucy (Luc Besson, 2014): 1/5

Whiplash (Damien Chazelle, 2014): 1/5

Gloomy Sunday (Rolf Schubel, 1999): 2/5

A Summer's Tale (Eric Rohmer, 1996): 3.5/5

The Loveless (Kathryn Bigelow, 1982): 1/5

The Best of Everything (Jean Negulesco, 1959): 2/5

Daisy Kenyon, rw (Otto Preminger, 1947): 3/5

House of Cards, season 3 (2015): 3/5

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014) -- 4/5

Gone Girl (David Fincher, 2014) -- 2/5

The Red Chapel (Mads Brugger, 2009) -- 2.5/5

Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller, 2014) -- 2/5

Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming Liang, 2014) -- 2/5

Enemy (Denis Villenueve, 2013) -- 2/5

Sundays and Cybele (Serge Bourguignon, 1962) -- 2/5

Bay of Angels (Jacques Demy, 1963) -- 4/5

Girls Season 3 -- 4/5

Mad Men Season 7 Part 1 -- 5/5

The Office Seasons 1-9 -- 4.5/5

The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland, 2015) -- 2/5

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

True Detective, season 1 (Vince Pizzolatto & Cary Fukunaga, 2014): 4.5/5

Gone Girl (David Fincher, 2014): 1/5

Finding Vivian Maier (John Maloof, 2014): 3/5

Blood Ties (Guillaume Canet, 2013): 2/5

The White Meadows (Mohammed Rasoulof, 2009): 4/5

*The Duellists, rw (Ridley Scott, 1978): 4/5

Thursday, February 19, 2015

Starred Up (David Mackenzie, 2013): 3.5/5

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

Whiplash, rw (Damien Chazelle, 2014): 4.5/5

Birdman, rw (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, 2014): 4/5

Bay of Angels (Jacques Demy, 1963): 4/5

Friday, February 13, 2015

Get On Up (Tate Taylor, 2014): 2.5/5

Jimi: All Is By My Side (John Ridley, 2013): 3/5

The Two Faces of January (Hossein Amini, 2014): 2/5

Men, Women & Children (Jason Reitman, 2014): 2/5

Joe (David Gordon Green, 2013): 3/5

Chef (Jon Favreau, 2014): 1.5/5

Transparent, season 1 (Jill Soloway, 2014): 3.5/5

Mozart in the Jungle, season 1 (2014): 3/5

*Badlands, rw (Terrence Malick, 1973): 5/5

Casablanca, rw (Michael Curtiz, 1942): 5/5

Thursday, January 29, 2015

Frank (Lenny Abrahamson, 2014): 3/5

Selma (Ava DuVernay, 2014): 3/5

Mozart in the Jungle, Season 1 (Roman Coppola, et al., 2014): 3.5/5

Sopranos, Season 2 (David Chase, 2000): 5/5

Lucy (Luc Besson, 2014): 3.5/5

The Theory of Everything (James Marsh, 2014): 3/5

Interstellar (Christopher Nolan, 2014): 4/5

Transparent, Season 1 (Jill Soloway, 2014): 4/5

Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014): 3/5

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

Museum Hours (Jem Cohen, 2012): 4/5

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Black Mirror, seasons 1-2 (Charlie Brooker, 2011-2013): 4/5

Calvary (John Michael McDonagh, 2014): 4.5/5

In the Land of Blood and Honey (Angelina Jolie, 2011): 1.5/5

The Kid with a Bike, rw (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2011): 4/5

In the Loop (Armando Iannucci, 2009): 3.5/5

Import/Export, rw (Ulrich Seidl, 2007): 2/5

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

*Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh, 2014): 5/5

*Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller, 2014): 3/5

Frank (Lenny Abrahamson, 2014): 4/5

A Life in Dirty Movies (Wiktor Ericsson, 2013): 3/5

Flanders, rw (Bruno Dumont, 2006): 4/5

The Life of Jesus, rw (Bruno Dumont, 1997): 4/5

The Dreamlife of Angels, rw (Erick Zonca, 1998): 3/5

Twilight (Robert Benton, 1998): 3/5

Get Shorty, rw (Barry Sonnenfeld, 1995): 3/5

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Gone Girl (David Fincher, 2014): 2/5

The Interview (Evan Goldberg & Seth Rogen, 2014): 3/5

The Babadook (Jennifer Kent, 2014): 3.5/5

*Big Hero 6 (Don Hall & Chris Williams, 2014): 3/5

Coherence (James Ward Byrkit, 2014): 2.5/5

Calvary (John Michael McDonagh, 2014): 4.5/5

*Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014): 2/5

Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2014): 2.5/5

It's Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt, 2012): 4/5

Blue Velvet, rw (David Lynch, 1986): 5/5

The Raid 2 (Gareth Evans, 2014): 4/5

Begin Again (John Carney, 2013): 2/5

Sunday, January 4, 2015

Force Majeure (Ruben Ostlund, 2014): 4/5

The Interview (Evan Goldberg & Seth Rogen, 2014): 2/5

Insomnia, rw (Erik Skoldbjaerg, 1997): 4/5

Breaking the Waves, rw (Lars von Trier, 1996): 5/5

Dead Man, rw (Jim Jarmusch, 1996): 4/5

Stranger Than Paradise, rw (Jim Jarmusch, 1984): 5/5

Three Women, rw (Robert Altman, 1977): 5/5

Two Men in Manhattan, rw (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1959): 3.5/5

Thursday, January 1, 2015

Saint Joan (Otto Preminger, 1957) -- 2.5/5

Wild Field (Mikheil Kalatozishvili, 2008) -- 1/5

Arizona Dream (Emir Kusturica, 1992) -- 2/5

Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story (Patty Kim & Chris Sheridan, 2006) -- 4/5

Gaslight (George Cukor, 1944) -- 2.5/5

Control (Anton Corbjin, 2007) -- 3/5

Fahrenheit 451 (Francois Truffaut, 1966) -- 2/5

Venus in Fur (Roman Polanski, 2013) -- 2/5

Osama (Siddiq Barmak, 2003) -- 4/5

Rewatched Diabolique (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1954) -- 5/5

Women in Love (Ken Russell, 1969) -- 2/5

Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski, 2014) -- 3/5