5-Star Films
The Shape of Water...
★★★★★ Director: Guillermo del Toro Year: 2017 > More Info
Coco...
★★★★★ Director: Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina Year: 2017 > More Info
I, Tonya...
★★★★★ Director: Craig Gillespie Year: 2017 > More Info
Lady Bird...
★★★★★ Director: Greta Gerwig Year: 2017 > More Info
Oldboy...
★★★★★ Director: Chan-wook Park Year: 2003 One of the sickest and greatest movies ever. Absolutely disgusting but wow, what an imagination. And it would only work in ...
Carlos...
★★★★★ Director: Olivier Assayas Year: 2010 Wow. Just wow. I could watch 10 hours of this. Gorgeously shot, acted. I felt transported to the 70's. Amazing portrayal ...
Predestination...
★★★★★ Director: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig (as The Spierig Brothers) Year: 2014 A completely under-rated film that was missed. It's absolutely genius. One of my favorite time ...
Julieta...
★★★★★ Director: Pedro Almodóvar Year: 2016 I'm always a sucker for an Almodovar film. This one was thoughtful and bizarrely Spanish soap crazy but still fun. It ...
Sicario...
★★★★★ Director: Denis Villeneuve Year: 2015 Amazing sound. Incredible pacing. And shot incredibly well. It's almost a perfect film. I was on the edge of my seat ...
Moonlight...
★★★★★ Director: Barry Jenkins Year: 2016 I can't believe a film like this could ever be made and for that, I'm amazed and in awe. Incredible film ...
Kubo and the Two Str...
★★★★★ Director: Travis Knight Year: 2016 > More Info
The Jungle Book...
★★★★★ Director: Jon Favreau Year: 2016 This film cemented the brilliance of Jon Favreau. I am officially jealous of him. I still don't get how he ...
Deadpool...
★★★★★ Director: Tim Miller Year: 2016 This is close to perfection. Breaks and creates a new genre. Fun and watchable again and again. > More Info
Beasts of No Nation...
★★★★★ Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga Year: 2015 What an incredibly powerful film and the performance was amazing. Abraham Attah should have been nominated for best actor, let alone supporting ...
The Seven Five...
★★★★★ Director: Tiller Russell Year: 2014 > More Info
Southpaw...
★★★★★ Director: Antoine Fuqua Year: 2015 I had no idea this was an Antoine Fuqua film. I think it's up there as boxing films go with Raging ...
Lucky Number Slevin...
★★★★★ Director: Paul McGuigan Year: 2006 So I watched this again because I loved it the first time. Now, I realize just what a brilliant and ...
Blow Up...
★★★★★ Director: Michelangelo Antonioni Year: 1966 Not sure why it took me so long to watch this film. I've always wanted to. Absolutely loved the formalities of ...
Homicide...
★★★★★ Director: David Mamet Year: 1991 I'm not sure how I never saw nor heard of this film. It's brilliant and everything I love about New York ...
Ex Machina...
★★★★★ Director: Alex Garland Year: 2015 This is the Blade Runner of this generation. Amazing story, pacing and directing of what the future holds for us and ...
The Imitation Game...
★★★★★ Director: Morten Tyldum Year: 2014 > More Info
Birdman...
★★★★★ Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu Year: 2014 > More Info
The Internet’s...
★★★★★ Director: Brian Knappenberger Year: 2014 > More Info
Locke...
★★★★★ Director: Steven Knight Year: 2013 Continuing my viewing habits of single location films, this was is not only simple but amazing dramatic. Tom Hardy is just brilliant as ...
Death of a President...
★★★★★ Director: Gabriel Range Year: 2006 First, let me say this isn't my typical 5-star film. I think the last quarter of the film got a little ...
Life Itself...
★★★★★ Director: Steve James Year: 2014 I think we all take for granted the impact and role models that Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel had ...
Finding Vivian Maier...
★★★★★ Director: John Maloof, Charlie Siskel Year: 2013 What an absolutely amazing story. The documentarian finds all of these amazing negatives at a storage locker auction. ...
Tale of Desperaux...
★★★★★ Director: Sam Fell, Robert Stevenhagen Year: 2008 Wow, just plain wow. This is a gorgeous film. And not just for kids. It's stacked with talent: Matthew ...
Ernest & Celest...
★★★★★ Directors: Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner Year: 2012 I got this for the flight for the kids based on the solid reviews. Never read the ...
Lone Survivor...
★★★★★ Director: Peter Berg Year: 2013 I remember seeing endless trailors and behind the scenes interviews about this film and had no desire to watch ...
20 Feet from Stardom...
★★★★★ Director: Morgan Neville Year: 2013 It's easy to see why this film won Best Documentary. It has a great premise, famous stars, great music ...
Cutie and the Boxer...
★★★★★ Director: Zachary Heinzerling Year: 2013 It's easy to understand why this film won at Sundance and just how incredible the story and editing of ...
The Act of Killing...
★★★★★ Director: Joshua Oppenheimer, Year: 2012 Everyone knows how much I love documentaries and well, not only is this the best documentary of the year ...
Rush...
★★★★★ Director: Ron Howard Year: 2013 I don't understand how this film DIDN'T get an Oscar nomination! I think it was brilliant. Not only in ...