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