The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Grand Budapest H

★★★★ Director: Wes Anderson Year: 2014 Wes Anderson is back with his most hyped film. Which I believe is also his most commercially successful film. Now, it's no ...

Exam

Exam

★★★★ Director: Stuart Hazeldine Year: 2009 Pretentious, yes. But I'm loving these single location films. Ever since I realized it was a theme, they're quite tedious for the ...

Sign Painters

Sign Painters

★★★★ Director: Faythe Levine, Sam Macon Year: 2014 More documentaries since that's my obsession and this one is worth checking out on iTunes. Pretty cool art form, or not ...

Mud

Mud

★★★★ Director: Jeff Nichols Year: 2012 If it wasn't for Dallas Buyer's Club, this is by far Matthew McConaughey's best performance. The film is beautifully paced and makes ...

About Time

About Time

★★★★ Director: Richard Curtis Year: 2013 So I'm not a big RomCom fan, but somehow, anything having to do with time travel just kicks ass. And I really ...

Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins

★★★★ Director: Robert Stevenson Year: 1964 After watching Saving Mr. Banks, I had to finally watch Mary Poppins. Never have my entire life. And you know what, the ...

Inside Llewyn Davis

Inside Llewyn Davis

★★★★ Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen Year: 2013 This is such the non-Coen Brother's film. Granted, it has the same speed as their films but the limited subject ...

Blue Jasmine

Blue Jasmine

★★★★ Director: Woody Allen Year: 2013 I wasn't sure what to expect out of this, but wow, Cate Blanchett definitely deserves the Oscar. She's neurotic, but not in ...

The Lego Movie

The Lego Movie

★★★★ Director: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller Year: 2014 Everything is Awesome! That's all that needs to be said. I watched a 90 minute ad and liked it. It's ...

Saving Mr. Banks

Saving Mr. Banks

★★★★ Director: John Lee Hancock Year: 2013 What's with me and Tom Hanks films? And what's with him with two films in release at the same time. This one ...

Dallas Buyers Club

Dallas Buyers Club

★★★★ Director: Jean-Marc Vallée Year: 2013 An incredible story that's unfamiliar to most people, including myself. It was amazing to see the AIDS epidemic shown in macho Texas ...

Her

Her

★★★★ Director: Spike Jonze Year: 2013 I really wanted to love this film. But it just wasn't there. It's still an amazingly smart film but I think I ...

Pruitt-Igoe Myth

Pruitt-Igoe Myth

★★★★ Director: Chad Freidrichs Year: 2011 Having gone to school, let alone architecture school, in St. Louis, I've always known about Pruitt-Igoe, the housing project that won a ...

Fast & Furious 6

Fast & Furious

★★★★ Director: Justin Lin Year: 2013 I quite enjoyed the 6th reincarnation of this film. Granted, maybe I got sentimental watching it after Paul Walker's passing. But I ...

Frances Ha

Frances Ha

★★★★ Director: Noah Baumbach Year: 2013 One of the few films I've been wanting to watch for a long time. As you know, I love New York films, ...

12 Years a Slave

12 Years a Slave

★★★★ Director: Steve McQueen Year: 2013 This is one of the most original stories I had read/scene and it's even more surprising (although not so much) that it's ...

Chasing Ice

Chasing Ice

★★★★ Director: Jeff Orlowski Year: 2012 Fascinating documentary that follows National Geographic photographer James Balog and his documentation of the collapse of glaciers. It's more photography focused and ...

Gravity

Gravity

★★★★ Director: Alfonso Cuarón Year: 2013 You've all read and heard how brilliant this film is. How it's one of the best space films of all time. Well, ...