* Schindler's List (Spielberg, 1993)|||||7
Mean Streets (Scorsese, 1973)|||||8
The Hangover Part II (Phillips, 2011)|||||4
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (Craig, 2010) (Incomplete Workprint)|||||4.5
* Dressed to Kill (De Palma, 1978)|||||7.5
* Phantom of the Paradise (De Palma, 1974)|||||7
The Rite (Håfström, 2011)|||||3
A Man Escaped (Bresson, 1956)|||||8
The Dark Night of the Scarecrow (De Filetta, 1981)|||||5
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Murnau, 1927)|||||8.5
Juliet of the Spirits (Fellini, 1965)|||||8
Thor (Branagh, 2011)|||||5.5
Energetic fun with a good sense of wit and irreverence, and also a well-gauged moral-political backbone.
Though I suspect I don't have proper comparison for superhero movies, as the only one I've seen in the last 3-4 years is The Dark Knight.
Love Unto Death (Resnais, 1984)|||||6.5
Ordet (Dreyer, 1955)|||||7.5
Sweet Home (Kurosawa, 1989)|||||6
It's a nifty Japanese horrorfest, a Poltergeist/Evil Dead/House on Haunted Hill-remake mash-up. The material is weak, but Kurosawa's brilliance is still noticeable, both as a horror film director and as a director of beatific emotion. Unfortunately, a solid first half ultimately gives way to the ho-hum climactic act, trafficking in standard (and boring) maternal angst themes, and mostly saved by slam-bang FX.
* I Walked With a Zombie (Tourneur, 1943)|||||8
