Born to be Wild

Born to be Wild

★★★★ Director: David Lickley Year: 2011 This was a very enjoyable film, especially after watching Chimpanzee. The amount of care and nurturing these women and group do with ...

50/50

50/50

★★★★ Director: Jonathan Levine Year: 2011 I remember when this came out and didn't think much about it. But when a film gets 93% on Rotten Tomatoes and ...

Urbanized

Urbanized

★★★★ Director: Gary Hustwit Year: 2011 First, I should point out that I supported this film on KickStarter.  Not only because I loved both Helvetica and Objectified, but ...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Girl with the Dr

★★★★ Director: David Fincher Year: 2011 I suppose comparisons would have to be made with the original Swedish version of the film. And I gave them equal ratings. ...

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Extremely Loud and I

★★★★ Director: Stephen Daldry Year: 2011 First off, any film about 9/11 is going to be powerful and emotional and this film redeemed itself in its second half. ...

The Descendents

The Descendents

★★★★ Director: Alexander Payne Year: 2011 What an absolutely f*cked up story. The premise being his wife is brain dead hooked up to machines and he discovers ...

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Tinker Tailor Soldie

★★★★ Director: Tomas Alfredson Year: 2011 I had to watch the first 30 minutes of this film twice in order to understand what was happening. This is ...

Sabrina

Sabrina

★★★★ Director: Billy Wilder Year: 1954 A Billy Wilder film always has such great dialogue. My dream is to develop a modern film but with all of ...

The Secret World of Arrietty

The Secret World of

★★★★ Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi Year: 2010 Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli fims are synonymous with great films, storytelling and animation. And this does not disappoint. Although, this ...

Taken

Taken

★★★★ Director: Pierre Morel Year: 2008 This was the third time I've seen this film. It was on TV and my wife commented she had never seen ...

The Ides of March

The Ides of March

★★★★ Director: George Clooney Year: 2011 This is a terrific film and I get why they released it when they did, just to get on the awards ...

The Help

The Help

★★★★ Director: Tate Taylor Year: 2011 It absolutely blows my mind that the subject and thoughts expressed in this film were actually the norm less than ...

Margin Call

Margin Call

★★★★ Director: J.C. Chandor Year: 2011 I didn't know anything about this film other than the amazing cast. And I gotta say, I really enjoyed it. First, ...

Bill Cunningham New York

Bill Cunningham New

★★★★ Director: Richard Press Year: 2010 If you've ever perused the NYTimes and their style section to see fashion on the streets or even their society pages, then ...

Before Sunset

Before Sunset

★★★★ Director: Richard Linklater Year: 2004 I was in the mood to watch both films after reading how they planned on making a third film, since we're ...

Before Sunrise

Before Sunrise

★★★★ Director: Richard Linklater Year: 1995 This is a film that gets better by age. Maybe because my memory of it is a couple of years before ...

The Notebook

The Notebook

★★★★ Director: Nick Cassavetes Year: 2004 I've seen that segment on the cover so many times thanks to Sprint and their don't talk while watching the film PSA. ...

The Fog of War

The Fog of War

★★★★ Director: Errol Morris Year: 2003 What an incredible documentary on Robert McNamara, who Secretary of Defense during the Kennedy and Johnson administration as well as the first President ...