December 2011
Top 10 Films Of 2011
Here we go. My 10 favorite films of 2011. Do with this what you will.
10. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Simply put, Fincher doing what Fincher does best. Brooding and obsessive thriller fare. The film does seem to have a rather oddly paced third and final act (or better described as almost a fourth act), but it’s perfectly performed, brilliantly crafted, and beyond atmospheric. Great...
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#532-536 - The Santa Clause / Mission: Impossible...
Grades - D / B+ / F / F / B
#530/531 - Weekend / Senna
Grades - A / B-
#529 - The Adventures Of Tin Tin: The Secret Of...
Grade - A-
#528 - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Fincher,... →
My thoughts on Fincher’s new film…
#526/527 - Young Adult / Sherlock Holmes: A Game...
Grades - A- / C
#525 - The Hit (Frears, 1984)
Grade - B+
#524 - The First Grader (Chadwick, 2011)
Grade - C-
#521-523 - Way Down East / Nothing Sacred /...
Grades - B / B / B
#520 - The Future (July, 2011)
Grade - B-
#519 - Birth Of A Nation (Griffith, 1915)
Grade - Review of Kino’s Blu-ray coming mid-week…That’s all I’ll say now…
#518 - What! No Beer? (Sedgwick, 1933)
Grade - B
#517 - Sidewalks Of New York (Myers/White, 1931)
Grade - B+
#516 - A Christmas Carol (Marin, 1938)
Grade - B-
#514/515 - The Help / Wild Man Blues
Grades - D / B+
#513 - The Debt (Madden, 2011)
Grade - C
#512 - Blithe Spirit (Lean, 1945)
Grade - B-
#511 - The Circus (Chaplin, 1928)
Grades - A
#510 - The Descendants (Payne, 2011)
Grade - B+
#509 - Design For Living (Lubitsch, 1933)
Grade - B
Full review will hit sometime (hopefully next week) over at GeeksOfDoom. Briefly, the film itself is a perfect cleanser following a few months of very (brilliant) emotionally and intellectually moving films. For those looking for some really fun and entertaining comedy, this is your film. The film itself is absolutely fantastic (if a bit oddly paced), and while the release is fine,...
#508 - If A Tree Falls: A Story Of The Earth...
Grade - C
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My thoughts on The Arbor (since my review has...
Rating: 5/5
Director: Clio Barnard
Cast: Kate Rutter, Christine Bottomley, George Costigan
Within the world of film, the documentary is often considered something of an outsider. Often fueled by talking heads and simple archival footage, the world of the documentary is either relatively stale, full of uninteresting slogs through uninteresting life stories or events, or wholly biased, with...
#506-507 Pearl Jam 20 / Under The Roofs Of Paris
Grades - B / A
Bruno Mars is quite possibly one of the worst...
Factually correct.
#505 - Aliens (Cameron, 1986)
Grade - A+