*Jackie (Pablo Larrain, 2016): 5/5

*Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan, 2016): 3.5/5

Margaret (extended version) (Kenneth Lonergan, 2011): 4/5

Demon (Marcin Wrona, 2015): 4/5

American Beauty, rw (Sam Mendes, 1999): 2/5

The Executioner (Luis Garcia Berlanga, 1963): 4/5

Train to Busan (Sang-ho Yeon, 2016): 3.5/5

City of Gold (Laura Gabbert, 2015): 3/5

Cafe Society (Woody Allen, 2016): 4/5

I Love Dick (Jill Soloway, 2016): 4/5

Elle (Paul Verhoeven, 2016): 3/5

Kubo and the Two Strings (Travis Knight, 2016): 2.5/5

Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie, 2016): 2.5/5

The Jungle Book (Jon Favreau, 2016): 3/5

De Palma (Baumbach, Paltrow, 2016): 3.5/5

The 39 Steps (Hitchcock, 1935) -- turned it off

11 Minutes (Jerzy Skolimowski, 2016) --  1.5/5

Who Are You, Polly Magoo? (William Klein, 1966) -- turned it off

In Jackson Heights ( Frederick Wiseman, 2015) -- 3/5

The Bonfire of the Vanities (Brian De Palma, 1990) -- 2/5

Cria Cuervos (Carlos Saura, 1976) -- 2/5

Love Exposure (Shio Sono, 2008) -- 2/5

Re-watched Happy Endings (Don Roos, 2005) -- 3/5

Now, Voyager (Irving Rapper, 1942) -- 3/5

A Raisin in the Sun (Daniel Petrie, 1961) -- 5/5

Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders, 1987)-- turned it off

Demolition (Jean Marc Vallee, 2016) -- turned it off

Money Monster (Jodie Foster, 2016) -- turned it off

Maggie's Plan (Rebecca Miller, 2016) -- 3/5

Ghostbusters (Paul Feig, 2016) -- 2/5

Tale of Tales (Matteo Garrone, 2016) -- 4/5

Hellraiser (Clive Barker, 1987) -- 2/5

Humans Season 1 (2015) -- 3/5

*Arrival (Denis Villenueve, 2016): 4/5

Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (Werner Herzog, 2016): 3/5

Clear History (Greg Mottola, 2013): 2.5/5

Adventureland, rw (Greg Mottola, 2009): 4/5

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

Starship Troopers, rw (Paul Verhoeven, 1997): 3.5/5

Madame Bovary, rw (Claude Chabrol, 1991): 3/5

Story of Women, rw (Claude Chabrol, 1988): 4/5

I Love Dick, pilot episode (Jill Soloway, 2016): 5/5

The Crown, season 1 (Peter Morgan, 2016): 5/5

Goliath, season 1 (David E. Kelly & Jonathan Shapiro, 2016): 3/5

Complete Unknown (Joshua Marston, 2016): 2/5

The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino, 2015): 1/5

A Taste of Honey, rw (Tony Richardson, 1961): 2/5

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Elia Kazan, 1945): 3/5

Ass

A Bigger Splash (Luca Guadagnino, 2015): 1/5

Sarah's Key, rw (Gilles Paquet-Brenner, 2010): 2.5/5

Traffic, rw (Steven Soderbergh, 2001): 3.5/5

Schindler's List, rw (Steven Spielberg, 1993): 3.5/5

A Year of the Quiet Sun, rw (Krzysztof Zanussi, 1984): 3/5

The Great Gatsby, rw (Jack Clayton, 1974): 4/5

McCabe & Mrs. Miller, rw (Robert Altman, 1971): 5/5

Florence Foster Jenkins (Stephen Frears, 2016): 2/5

Other People (Chris Kelly, 2016): 3/5

King Jack (Felix Thompson, 2016): 2.5/5

Stolen Kisses (François Truffaut, 1968): 2.5/5

Fleabag (Phoebe Waller-Bridge, 2016): 3.5/5

The Leftovers, Season 2 (Lindelof & Perrotta, 2015): 3.5/5

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi, 2016): 2/5

El Topo (Jodorowsky, 1970) -- 1/5

The Way We Were (Sydney Pollack, 1973) -- 1.5/5

Batteries Not Included (Matthew Robbins, 1987) -- 3/5

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Alex Gibney, 2005) -- 3/5

Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1973) -- 5/5

High Tension (Alexandre Aja, 2003) -- 2.5/5

re-watched The X-Files: Fight the Future (Rob Bowman, 1998) -- 5/5

Wiener-Dog (Todd Solondz, 2016) -- 2.5/5

The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2016): 1.5/5

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (Glenn Ficara & John Requa, 2016): 2/5

Sicario, rw (Denis Villenueve, 2015): 3.5/5

The Witness (James Solomon, 2015): 2.5/5

The Last of Robin Hood (Wash Westmoreland & Richard Glatzer, 2014): 2/5

Hitchcock (Sascha Gervasi, 2012): 2/5

Any Given Sunday, rw (Oliver Stone, 1999): 2/5

Titanic, rw (James Cameron, 1997): 3/5

Quiz Show, rw (Robert Redford, 1994): 4/5

The French Lieutenant's Woman, rw (Karel Reisz, 1981): 4/5

Clean (Olivier Assayas, 2004) -- 4/5

Terror's Advocate (Barbet Schroeder, 2007) -- turned it off

Touched with Fire (Paul Dalio, 2016) -- 2/5

Once Upon in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968) -- turned it off

The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel, 2004) -- turned it off

Anomalisa (Charlie Kauffman, 2015) -- 3/5

The Hole Story (Alex Karpovsky, 2005) -- turned it off

What's Up, Doc? (Peter Bogdanovich, 1972) -- 3/5

Epidemic (Lars Von Trier, 1987) -- turned it off

re-watched The X-Files seasons 6 and 7 (Chris Carter, 1998) -- 5/5

re-watched Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994) -- 5/5

The Nice Guys (Shane Black, 2016): 1.5/5

11 Minutes (Jerzy Skolimowski, 2016): 1/5

The Russian Woodpecker (Chad Gracia, 2015): 3/5

When a Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Ana Lily Amirpour, 2014): 3/5

Young Adult, rw (Jason Reitman, 2011): 4/5

A Life Less Ordinary (Danny Boyle, 1997): 1.5/5

Apollo 13 (Ron Howard, 1995): 2/5

A Room With a View (James Ivory, 1985): 3/5

The Leftovers, season 1 (Lindelof & Perrotta, 2014): 4/5

The Leftovers, season 2 (Lindelof & Perrotta, 2015): 2/5

The Nice Guys (Shane Black, 2016): 2/5

Sing Street (John Carney, 2016): 4.5/5

They All Laughed (Peter Bogdanovich, 1981): 2/5

Life in Pieces, Season 1 (Justin Adler et al, 2016): 3/5

Krisha (Trey Edward Shults, 2016): 1.5/5

Zootopia (Byron Howard et al, 2016): 2.5/5

UnReal, Season 2 (Marti Noxon et al, 2016): 2/5

Deadwood, Season 1 (David Milch, 2004): 2.5/5

Grand Budapest Hotel, rw (Wes Anderson, 2014): 3.5/5

Louder Than Bombs (Joachim Trier, 2015): 2/5

Green Room (Jeremy Saulnier, 2015): 2/5

Her, rw (Spike Jonze, 2013): 5/5

American Hustle, rw (David O. Russell, 2013): 3.5/5

Down to the Bone, rw (Debra Granik, 2004): 4/5

Saving Private Ryan, rw (Steven Spielberg, 1998): 3.5/5

Jaws, rw (Steven Spielberg, 1975): 3/5

Halt and Catch Fire, seasons 1-2 (Christopher Cantwell & Christopher C. Rogers, 2014-15): 3.5/5

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (Ken Burns, 2014): 5/5

Midnight Special (Jeff Nichols, 2016) -- 1/5

Hardcore Henry (Illya Naishuller, 2016) -- 3/5

The Fall (Tarsem Singh, 2006) -- turned it off

To Die For (Gus Van Sant) -- 3/5

Requiem for the American Dream (Kelly Nyks, 2016) -- 4.5/5

The Lobster (Giorgos Lanthimos, 2016) -- 2/5

Hail, Caesar! (Cohen Brothers, 2016) -- 2/5

The Party's Over (Donovan Leitch, 2006) -- 3/5

O.J.: Made in America (Ezra Edelman, 2016) -- 5/5

O.J.: Made in America (Ezra Edelman, 2016): 5/5

Silicon Valley, season 3 (Mike Judge, 2016): 4/5

Anomalisa (Duke Johnson & Charlie Kaufman, 2015): 2/5

Breaking Bad, seasons 1-5, rw (Vince Gilligan, 2008-13): 5/5

Directors I've Always Intensely Disliked + Ones I Can No Longer Stand to Watch

A list in no particular order...

Apichatpong W. 

Olivier Assayas 

Ingmar Bergman 

Harmony Korine 

Chantal Ackerman

Tsai Ming Liang 

Jean-Luc Godard

Sofia Coppola

Woody Allen 

Pasolini

John Cassavetes

Terry Gilliam

Jim Jarmusch 

Nicolas Winding Refn

Andrea Buljalski 

Jodorowski 

Claire Denis

Antonioni 

John Waters

Fellini 

Peter Greenaway 

Terence Malick 

Cemetery of Splendor (Joe, 2016) -- turned it off

Primer (Shane Carruth, 2004) -- turned it off

Triple 9 (John Hillcoat, 2016) -- 2/5

By The Sea (Angelina Jolie, 2015) -- 1.5/5

Re-watched Brick (Rian Johnson, 2005) -- 1/5 (Original rating: 3/5)

Deadpool (Tim Miller, 2016) -- 3/5

Lilith (Robert Rossen, 1964) -- 3/5

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes, 1978) -- turned it off

Cafe Lumiere (Hou Hsiao Hsien, 2003) -- turned it off

Ashes and Diamonds (Wajda, 1958) -- turned it off

The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise, 1951) -- 2/5

Fugazi: Instrument (Jem Cohen, 2001) -- 3.5/5

The X-Files: I Still Want to Believe (Chris Carter, 2016) -- 2/5

Coherence (James Ward Bykrit, 2014) -- 3/5

Re-watched Momento (Christopher Nolan, 2000) -- 3/5

Green Room (Jeremy Sauiner, 2016): 4/5

10 Cloverfield Lane (Dan Tractenberg, 2016): 2.5/5

Hardcore Henry (Ilya Naishuller, 2016): 3/5

Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater, 2016): 3.5/5

Stranger Things, Season One (Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer, 2016): 4/5

Midnight Special (Jeff Nichols, 2016): 2/5

Miles Ahead (Don Cheadle, 2016): 3/5

I Saw the Light (Marc Abraham, 2016): 3/5

The Queen of Versailles, rw (Lauren Greenfield, 2012): 4/5

World Trade Center (Oliver Stone, 2006): 1/5

Baseball (Ken Burns, 1993 & 2010): 5/5

The Great Santini, rw (Lewis John Carlino, 1979): 3/5

Network, rw (Sidney Lumet, 1976): 5/5

The Bridge on the River Kwai, rw (David Lean, 1957): 4/5

The Last Command, rw (Josef von Sternberg, 1928): 4/5

Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg, 1928): 2.5/5

Eye in the Sky (Gavin Hood, 2016): 3/5

Hail, Caesar! (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2015): 3/5

The Fool (Yuriy Bykov, 2015): 3.5/5

Olive Kitteridge (Lisa Cholodenko, 2014): 4/5  [winner of Richard Yates Award for Inspired Miserablism]

(T)error (Lyric R. Cabral & David Felix Sutcliffe, 2015): 3.5/5

Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries & Mentors of Ricky Jay (Molly Bernstein, 2012): 5/5

Lost in La Mancha, rw (Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe, 2002): 2.5/5

Casino, rw (Martin Scorsese, 1995): 1/5

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

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, rw (Michael Cimino, 1974): 4.5/5

Deliverance, rw (John Boorman, 1972): 5/5

Dr. Strangelove, rw (Stanley Kubrick, 1964): 5/5

*Port of Shadows, rw (Marcel Carne, 1938): 3.5/5

The Blue Angel, rw (Josef von Sternberg, 1930): 5/5

The Witch (Robert Eggers, 2016): 2/5

Meru (Chin, Vasarhelyl, 2015): 3/5

Jaco (Kijak, Marchand, 2015): 3.5/5

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (Shaffer, Taccone, 2016): 3.5/5

I Am Love, rw (Luca Guadagnino, 2009): 5/5

A Bigger Splash (Luca Guadagnino, 2015): 2/5

Sex, Lies, and Videotapes (Soderbergh, 1989) -- 4/5

Regarding Henry (Mike Nichols, 1991) -- 3.5/5

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Chris Columbus, 1991) -- 3/5

Joy (David O'Russell, 2015) -- 2/5

Sister (Ursula Meier, 2012) -- 2/5

Intimate Strangers (Patrice Leconte, 2004) -- 2/5

The World of Kanako (Tetsuya Nakashima, 2015) -- turned it off

Everything Will Be Fine (Wim Wenders, 2015) -- turned it off

Orange is the New Black Season 4 -- 5/5

Summer Interlude (Ingmar Bergman, 1951) -- 2/5

Experimenter (Michael Almereyda, 2015): 3.5/5

Are You Here (Matthew Weiner, 2013): 2/5

The Ides of March, rw (George Clooney, 2011): 3/5

W. (Oliver Stone, 2008): 3.5/5

Jaco (Paul Marchand & Stephen Kijak, 2015): 4/5

I am Chris Farley (Brent Hodge & Derik Murray, 2015): 4/5

The Birth of the Tramp (Serge Bromberg & Eric Lange, 2013): 4/5

Gideon's Army (Dawn Porter, 2013): 3.5/5

Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940): 2/5

Norwegian Wood (Tran Anh Hung, 2010) -- 2/5

Prisoners (Denis Villeneuve, 2013) -- 4.5/5

Where To Invade Next (Michael Moore, 2015) -- 3/5

Re-watched Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas, 2007) -- 4/5

Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, 1980) -- 3/5

Re-watched The Witch (Robert Eggers, 2016) -- 5/5

Re-Watched Taxi Driver (Martin Scorcese, 1976) -- 5/5

The IT Crowd Season 1 (2004) -- turned it off

The House I Live In (Eugene Jarecki, 2012) -- 3/5

Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzman, 2010) -- 2/5

The Peanuts Movie (Steve Martino, 2015) -- 3/5

Mustang (Deniz Gamze, 2015) -- 3/5

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

Caligula (Tinto Brass, 1979) -- 1/5

Creed (Ryan Coogler, 2015): 2/5

Boom! (Joseph Losey, 1968): 4/5

Beyoncé: Lemonade (Knowles, et al., 2016): 3.5/5

Girls, Season 5 (Lena Dunham, et al. 2016): 3/5

Welcome to Leith (Michael Nichols, Christopher Walker, 2105): 2.5/5

L'il Quinquin (Bruno Dumont, 2014): 4/5

Leftovers, Season 1 (Damon Lindelof, Tom Perrotta, 2014): 4/5

Tale of Tales (Matteo Garrone, 2015): 4.5/5

*The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2015): 1/5

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

The Witch: A New England Folktale (Robert Eggars, 2015): 3/5

The Revenant (Alejandro G. Irritatingu, 2015): 2/5
 
God's Pocket (John Slattery, 2014): 1/5

A Girl in Every Port, rw (Howard Hawks, 1928): 2.5/5

Because life is too long

True Detective, season 2 (Vince Pizzolatto, 2015): 2/5

Son of Saul (Laszlo Nemes, 2015): 4/5

Ida, rw (Pawel Pawlikowski, 2013): 5/5

Game Change (Jay Roach, 2012): 3/5

You Can Count on Me, rw (Kenneth Lonergan, 2000): 5/5

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

Permanent Midnight, rw (David Veloz, 1998): 2.5/5

Bound, rw (The Wachowskis, 1996): 3/5

La Piscine, rw (Jacques Deray, 1969): 3/5

It's the Old Army Game (Edward Sutherland, 1926): 3.5/5

Because life is too short

Berberian Sound Studio (Peter Strickland, 2012) -- turned it off

The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (Helene Cattet, 2014) -- turned it off

Room 237 (Rodney Ascher, 2012) -- turned it off

Antiviral (Brandon Cronenberg, 2012)-- turned it off

The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper, 2015) -- turned it off

Amer (Helene Cattet, 2009) -- turned it off

Belle de Jour, rw (Luis Buñuel, 1967): 4.5/5

Basic Instinct, rw (Paul Verhoven, 1992): 3.5/5

Love, season one (Judd Apatow et al, 2016): 2.5/5

The Invitation (Karyn Kusama, 2016): 3.5/5

Catastrophe, season two (Ben Taylor, 2016): 4.5/5

Better Call Saul, season two (Vince Gilligan et al): 4.5/5

Janis: Little Girl Blue (Amy Berg, 2015): 4/5

Trumbo (Jay Roach, 2015): 3.5/5

Mystic River, rw (Clint Eastwood, 2003): 3.5/5

Deep Impact (Mimi Leder, 1998): 2/5

Red Rock West, rw (John Dahl, 1993): 4/5

The Right Stuff, rw (Philip Kaufman, 1983): 5/5

Starting Over, rw (Alan J. Pakula, 1979): 4.5/5

A Man for All Seasons (Fred Zinnemann, 1966): 2/5

Silicon Valley, season 2 (Mike Judge, 2015): 4/5

True Detective Season 2 -- 2/5

I Smile Back (Adam Salky, 2015) -- 2/5

10,000 km (Carlos Marques-Marcet, 2015) -- 3/5

Last Holiday (Wayne Wang, 2006) -- 3/5

Re-watched The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973) -- 5/5

The Host (Bong Joon-Ho, 2006) -- 2.5/5

"Lemonade" Visual Album (Beyonce, 2016) -- 4/5

Broad City, season 1 (2014): 2/5

*American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs (Grace Lee, 2013): 3/5

Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy, 2010): 4/5

Burn After Reading (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2008): 2/5

The Yards (James Gray, 2000): 2/5

Striptease, rw (Andrew Bergman, 1995): 2/5

Flesh and Bone (Steve Kloves, 1993): 3.5/5

Homicide (David Mamet, 1991): 2/5

All the President's Men, rw (Alan J. Pakula, 1976): 3.5/5

Harlow (Gordon Douglas, 1965): 1/5

Baby Doll (Elia Kazan, 1956): 2/5

Todd Haynes, rw: Carol 5/5; I'm Not There 4/5; Far From Heaven 3.5/5; Safe 4.5/5

Eden (Mia Hansen-love, 2015) -- turned it off

99 Homes (Ramin Bahrani, 2015) -- 2.5/5

The Lady in the Car With Glasses and a Gun (Joann Sfar, 2015) -- turned it off

Burn After Reading (Joel Cohen, 2008) -- 5/5

In the Cut (Jane Campion, 2003) -- 1/5

Dirty Dancing (Emile Ardolino, 1987) -- 2/5

Re-Watched: 

Sex and Lucia (Julio Medem, 2001) -- 2/5 (original rating: 4/5)

There Will Be Blood (PTA, 2007) -- 5/5

 Titanic (James Cameron, 1997) -- 4/5

The Godfather (Coppola, 1972) -- 5/5

The Godfather Part II (Coppola, 1974) -- 5/5

Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, 2008) - 3/5

The Barkley Marathons (Annika Iltis, Timothy Kane, 2014): 4/5

Punch Drunk Love, rw (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002): 5/5

Edvard Munch, rw (Peter Watkins, 1974; streaming 112 min. version): 4/5

My Own Private Idaho, rw (Gus Van Sant, 1991):  4.5/5

Midnight Special (Jeff Nichols, 2016): 3/5

The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, 2015): 2.5/5

Strangers on a Train, rw (Alfred Hitchcock, 1951): 4/5

All the King's Men, rw (Robert Rossen, 1949): 3/5

Current Event Docudramas:

The Big Short (Adam McKay, 2015): 3/5

Spotlight (Tom McCarthy, 2015): 3/5

99 Homes (Ramin Bahrani, 2015): 2.5/5

Truth (James Vanderbilt, 2015): 2.5/5

Spotlight (Tom McCarthy, 2015) -- 2.5/5

Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle, 2015)-- 2.5/5

The Big Short (Adam McKay, 2015) -- 3/5

Deliver Us From Evil (Amy Berg, 2006) -- 2/5

Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (Alex Gibney, 2015) -- 2/5

Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (Christopher McQuarrie, 2015) -- 1.5/5

Zootopia (Byron Howard, 2016) -- 5/5

The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, 2015) -- 2.5/5

Room (Lenny Abrahamson, 2015) -- turned it off

Re-watched Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore, 2004) -- 3/5

Pigsty (Pasolini, 1969) -- turned it off

Mozart in the Jungle Season 1 (2015) -- 3/5

Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick, 2016) -- walked out

Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra, 2016)-- 4/5

Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1958) -- 5/5

The Wrecking Crew (Denny Tedesco, 2015) -- 2.5/5

Jafar Panahi's Taxi (Jafar Panahi, 2015) -- 2.5/5

Fargo, season 2 (Noah Hawley, 2015): 3/5

Room (Lenny Abrahamson, 2015): 2/5

I Smile Back (Adam Salky, 2015): 1.5/5

Mississippi Damned (Tina Mabry, 2009): 2/5

Edvard Munch, rw (Peter Watkins, 1974; streaming 112 min. version): 5/5

All That Jazz, rw (Bob Fosse, 1979): 4.5/5

The Visitor (Giulio Paradisi, 1979): 2/5

What Happened, Miss Simone? (Liz Garbus, 2015): 3.5/5

Cartel Land (Matthew Heineman, 2015): 3.5/5

Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle, 1958): 5/5

Finding Vivian Maier (John Maloof, 2013): her photos: 5/5, the movie: 3/5

...And God Created Woman (Roger Vadim, 1956): 3/5

Transparent, season 2 (Jill Soloway, 2016): 2.5/5

The Martian (Ridley Scott, 2015) -- turned it off

Straight Outta Compton (F. Gary Gray, 2015) -- turned it off

All Things Must Pass (Colin Hanks, 2015) -- 2.5/5

The Witch (Robert Eggers, 2016) -- 5/5

Love (Gaspar Noe, 2015) -- 1.5/5

Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (Brett Morgen, 2015) -- 2.5/5

The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Marielle Heller, 2015) -- 1/5

Freeheld (Peter Sollett, 2015) -- 2/5

Mad Men Season 7 Part 2 -- 5/5

About Elly (Asghar Fahardi, 2015) -- turned it off

Re-watched The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012) -- 4/5

Inequality for All (Robert Reich, 2013) -- 3.5/5

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

Straight Outta Compton (F. Gary Gray, 2015): 2/5

Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (Brett Morgen, 2015): 3/5

Pawn Sacrifice (Edward Zwick, 2015): 3/5

Bobby Fischer Against the World (Liz Garbus, 2011): 3/5

Grey Gardens (Michael Sucsy, 2009): 3.5/5

Silicon Valley, season 1 (Mike Judge et al, 2014): 3/5

Love, season 1 (Judd Apatow et al, 2015): 2/5

Mr. Robot, season 1 (Sam Esmail, 2015): 2.5/5

The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2015): 4/5

*Frame By Frame (Alexandria Bombach & Mo Scarpelli, 2015): 3/5

Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello, 2015): 2/5

Basquiat, rw (Julian Schnabel, 1996): 4/5

L.A. Confidential, rw (Curtis Hanson, 1997): 3/5

The River Wild (Curtis Hanson, 1994): 2/5

Scarface, rw (Brian DePalma, 1983): 1/5

The Whole Town's Talking, rw (John Ford, 1935): 4/5

Catastrophe, Season 1 (Delaney, Horgan, 2015): 3/5

Mozart in the Jungle, Season 2 (Roman Coppola, et al, 2015): 3/5

Slow West (John Maclean, 2015): 3/5

Sicario (Denis Villenueve, 2015): 2.5/5

From Here to Eternity, rw (Fred Zinnemann, 1953): 3.5.5

Fargo, Season 2 (Noah Hawley, 2015): 4/5

Bone Tomahawk (S. Craig Zahler, 2015): 2/5

Godfather: Part II, rw (Francis Ford Coppola, 2015): 5/5

Yves Saint Laurent (Jalil Lespert, 2014): 2.5/5

Orange is the New Black Seasons 2 and 3 -- 5/5

Experimenter (Michael Almereyda, 2015) -- 2/5

Best of Enemies (Morgan Neville, 2015) -- 3/5

The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2015) -- 4/5

Mistress America (Noah Baumbach, 2015) -- 3/5

Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2013) -- turned it off

Tangerine (Sean Baker, 2015) -- turned it off

Partisan (Ariel Kleiman, 2015) -- 2/5

Dark Places (Gilles Pacquet-Brenner, 2015) -- turned it off

A Star is Born (George Cukor, 1954) -- turned it off

Making a Murderer (Laura Ricciardi & Moira Demos, 2015): 2/5

Sicario (Denis Villenueve, 2015): 3/5

American Ultra (Nima Nourizadeh, 2015): 1/5

CBGB (Randall Miller, 2013): 1/5

Rock Star (Stephen Herek, 2001): 1/5

Madame Bovary (Tim Fywell, 2000): 3/5

***

Little Caesar, rw (Mervyn LeRoy, 1930): 3/5

Scarface, rw (Howard Hawks, 1932): 4/5

An American Tragedy, rw (Josef von Sternberg, 1931): 2/5

Shanghai Express, rw (Josef von Sternberg, 1932): 5/5

Crime and Punishment, rw (Josef von Sternberg, 1935): 2/5

The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino, 2015): 2/5

Mission: Impossible - Rouge Nation (Christopher McQuarrie, 2015): 3/5

Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg, 2015): 3.5/5

Anomalisa (Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman, 2015): 2.5/5

Victoria (Sebastian Schipper. 2015): 4/5

The Godfather, rw (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972): 5/5

Magic Mike XXL (Gregory Jacobs, 2015): 2.5/5

Pitch Perfect 2 (Elizabeth Banks, 2015): 2/5

*The Revenant (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, 2015): 4.5/5

Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle, 2015): 1.5/5

The Intern (Nancy Meyers, 2105): 2.5/5

*Carol (Todd Haynes 2015): 5/5

*Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg, 2015): 3.5/5

Catch Me If You Can, rw (Steven Spielberg, 2002): 4/5

Selma (Ana DuVernay, 2014): 3/5

12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013): 3/5

Happy Christmas (Joe Swanberg, 2014): 3/5

Drinking Buddies (Joe Swanberg, 2013): 3/5

No Country For Old Men, rw (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2007): 4/5

The Squid and the Whale, rw (Noah Baumbach, 2005): 5/5

Soylent Green (Richard Fleischer, 1973): 2/5

Letter From an Unknown Woman, rw (Max Ophuls, 1948): 4/5

Spotlight (Tom McCarthy, 2015): 3.5/5

* Star Wars: The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams, 2015): 4/5

Brooklyn (John Crowley, 2015): 3/5

The Big Short (Adam McKay, 2015): 3.5/5

World of Tomorrow, 17 mins (Don Hertzfeldt, 2015): 4/5

The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2015): 3/5

Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015): 3/5