Jiro Dreams of Sushi
★★★★★ Director: David Gelb Year: 2011 Easily, one of my favorite films this year. Not only because now I'm dying to head to Tokyo and try his sushi ...
The Best Years of Ou
★★★★ Director: William Wyler Year: 1946 A classic film about war and coming back to the reality of life. Feels very similar to what's happening now in the ...
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
★★★★ 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 ...
In Time
★★★ Director: Andrew Niccol Year: 2011 This is a film that pisses you off. Only because it's such a brilliant premise, it's gorgeously shot and yet the editing, ...
G-Force
★★ Director: Hoyt Yeatman Year: 2009 Oh yeah, I saw this with the kids. It's basically Jerry Bruckheimer for kids. This is the film he made for ...
Pickup on South Stre
★★★ Director: Samuel Fuller Year: 1953 I was in the mood for a noir film. But this one played out differently. I'm surprised this got a Criterion treatment ...
The Girl Who Kicked
★★★ Director: Daniel Alfredson Year: 2009 So I finally got around to watching the finale of the Millennium series. Well, it's not as good as the others. I ...
Atlas Shrugged Pt. 1
★★ Director: Paul Johansson Year: 2011 I'm not sure how to describe this awful film adaption of one of my favorite books. It's been rumored for so long ...
Chimpanzee
★★★ Director: Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield Year: 2012 This was a very entertaining family film. The footage is incredible, just couldn't believe how they captured such hi-res footage ...
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 ...
Being Elmo
★★★★★ Director: Constance Marks Year: 2011 This film is absolutely incredible. I used to have a preconceived notion of Elmo, one that it was created out of commercial ...
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 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. ...
Waste Land
★★★★★ Director: Lucy Walker Year: 2010 What an absolutely amazing story. One, I had no idea what this film would be about, I thought it was about the ...
Happy Feet Two
★★★ Director: George Miller Year: 2011 This was obviously with the kids. And it's great to have an excuse to watch a mind-numbing but entertaining film. There's ...
Mission Impossible 4
★★ Director: Brad Bird Year: 2011 I'm a huge Brad Bird fan. And a JJ Abrams fan. So why was it I didn't like this film at ...
The Hunger Games
★★★ Director: Gary Ross Year: 2012 It's difficult to call this a rip-off of Battle Royale, since it's based upon a successful book trilogy, but it's definitely ...
