March 2015

March 2015

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (Gibney, 2015)|||||5.5
Shock Treatment (Sharman, 1981)|||||6
Listen Up Philip (Perry, 2014)|||||6.5
* Wes Craven's New Nightmare (Craven, 1994)|||||5.5
Interior. Leather Bar. (Mathews, Franco, 2013)|||||4
An Honest Liar (Measom, Weinstein, 2014)|||||5
John Wick (Stahelski, 2014)|||||4.5
Scream 3 (Craven, 2000)|||||5
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (Ford, 1949)|||||6.5
* Magnolia (Anderson, 1999)|||||5.5
Citizenfour (Poitras, 2014)|||||6
Cymbeline (Almereyda, 2014)|||||5.5
* Anatomy of a Murder (Preminger, 1959)|||||6
* Rabid Dogs (Kidnapped Edit) (Bava, 1974)|||||5.5
The Purge: Anarchy (DeMonaco, 2014)|||||4
The Purge (DeMonaco, 2013)|||||4
... And God Spoke (The Making Of) (Borman, 1993)|||||5
Capote (Miller, 2005)|||||5
The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Apatow, 2005)|||||3.5
Crank (Neveldine/Taylor, 2006)|||||5.5
The Thoughts That Once We Had (Andersen, 2015)|||||7.5
Where is the Friend's Home? (Kiarostami, 1987)|||||7
* AVP: Alien vs. Predator (Anderson, 2004)|||||3.5
Cinderfella (Tashlin, 1960)|||||6
The Parallax View (Pakula, 1974)|||||6.5
Timecrimes (Vigalondo, 2007)|||||5.5

February 2015

February 2015

Sex Tape (Kasdan, 2014)|||||2.5
Tomboy (Sciamma, 2011)|||||6.5
Elena and Her Men (Renoir, 1956)|||||7.5
Thief (Mann, 1981)|||||7
Manhattan Baby (Fulci, 1982)|||||5.5
Art School Confidential (Zwigoff, 2006)|||||6
* Bullitt (Yates, 1968)|||||6
Girlhood (Sciamma, 2014)|||||6.5
Djinn (Hooper, 2013)|||||6.5
Matador (Almodóvar, 1986)|||||6.5
The Cyclist (Makhmalbaf, 1987)|||||6.5
Jupiter Ascending (Wachowskis, 2015)|||||5
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Naruse, 1960)|||||7.5
* Two-Lane Blacktop (Hellman, 1971)|||||7
* The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)|||||7
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (Richter, 1984)|||||4.5
Whiplash (Chazelle, 2014)|||||5.5
Bully (Clark, 2001)|||||7

January 2015

January 2015

Universal Soldier (Emmerich, 1990)|||||4.5
Winter Sleep (Ceylan, 2014)|||||7
Mr. Majestyk (Fleischer, 1974)|||||5
The Don is Dead (Fleischer, 1973)|||||5.5
The Girl (Jarrold, 2013) (TV)|||||5
Goodbye to Language 3D (Godard, 2014)|||||6.5
Election (Payne, 1999)|||||6.5
Capturing the Friedmans (Jarecki, 2003)|||||6
The Last Run (Fleischer, 1971)|||||6
The New Centurions (Fleischer, 1972)|||||7
The Thing (Heijningen, Jr., 2011)|||||3.5
* The Thing (Carpenter, 1982)|||||7
The Emerald Forest (Boorman, 1985)|||||6.5
* Doppelgänger (Kurosawa, 2003)|||||7.5
* Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Gilliam, 1998)|||||5.5
* Exorcist II: The Heretic (Boorman, 1977)|||||6.5
The River (Tsai, 1998)|||||7
* The House on the Edge of the Park (Deodato, 1980)|||||5.5
Late August, Early September (Assayas, 1998)|||||7
The Producers (Stroman, 2005)|||||4.5
Mr. Turner (Leigh, 2014)|||||6.5
* Scanners (Cronenberg, 1981)|||||6.5
Lisztomania (Russell, 1975)|||||5.5
* Inherent Vice (Anderson, 2014)|||||5.5
Female Trouble (Waters, 1974)|||||6
See No Evil (Fleischer, 1971)|||||5.5
10 Rillington Place (Fleischer, 1971)|||||7
Monkey On My Back (De Toth, 1957)|||||6
Force Majeure (Östlund, 2014)|||||5
The Nomi Song (Horn, 2004)|||||5.5
The Assassination of Richard Nixon (Mueller, 2004)|||||4.5
* Stuck (Gordon, 2006)|||||6
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (Newland, 1973) (TV)|||||4.5

December 2014

December 2014

The Dead Zone (Cronenberg, 1983)|||||7
Into the Woods (Marshall, 2014)|||||5
Pitfall (De Toth, 1948)|||||7.5
HealtH (Altman, 1980)|||||6.5
Nine to Five (Higgins, 1980)|||||5
Blissfully Yours (Weerasethakul, 2002)|||||7.5
The Interview (Rogen, Goldberg, 2014)|||||4
The Day of the Jackal (Zinnemann, 1973)|||||6.5
The Homesman (Jones, 2014)|||||6.5
Inherent Vice (Anderson, 2014)|||||5.5
The Babadook (Kent, 2014)|||||5.5
Maps to the Stars (Cronenberg, 2014)|||||7
Meet the Feebles (Jackson, 1989)|||||5.5
United 93 (Greengrass, 2006)|||||5
The Wiz (Lumet, 1978)|||||3
American Movie (Smith, 1999)|||||5.5

November 2014

November 2014

Hamlet 2 (Fleming, 2008)|||||4.5
* Videodrome (Cronenberg, 1983)|||||7
A Midwinter's Tale (Branagh, 1995)|||||5.5
Hair (Forman, 1979)|||||5.5
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Parajanov, 1964)|||||7.5
Floating Clouds (Naruse, 1955)|||||7.5
* Day of the Dead (Romero, 1985)|||||7
Total Recall (Verhoeven, 1990)|||||7
Satan's Cheerleaders (Clark, 1977)|||||3
From What is Before (Diaz, 2014)|||||6
Tora! Tora! Tora! (Fleischer, et al., 1970)|||||7.5
Interstellar (Nolan, 2014)|||||6.5
Fantastic Voyage (Fleischer, 1966)|||||6
Dracula (Melford, 1931)|||||4.5
More polished, but Browning's version is better. 
Birdman (Iñárritu, 2014)|||||6
Guyver (Wang, 'Screaming Mad' George, 1991)|||||3.5

October 2014

October 2014

Violent Saturday (Fleischer, 1955)|||||7.5
* Snowpiercer (Bong, 2013)|||||6.5
The Loved One (Richardson, 1965)|||||6
The Aviator (Scorsese, 2004)|||||6.5
* Noah (Aronofsky, 2014)|||||5.5
Giuseppe Makes a Movie (Rifkin, 2014)|||||5.5
* The House by the Cemetery (Fulci, 1981)|||||4
A Million Ways to Die in the West (MacFarlane, 2014)|||||3.5
Basic Instinct (Verhoeven, 1992)|||||6.5
The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) (Six, 2011)|||||4.5
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Mitchell, 2001)|||||7
The Dark Backward (Rifkin, 1991)|||||5.5
The Cobweb (Minnelli, 1955)|||||7
Gone Girl (Fincher, 2014)|||||7
Night of the Ghouls (Wood, 1959)|||||2
Killer Joe (Friedkin, 2011)|||||6
* Breakfast at Tiffany's (Edwards, 1961)|||||5.5
Heaven's Gate (Cimino, 1980)|||||6.5

September 2014

September 2014

Hard Eight (Anderson, 1996)|||||4.5
The Zero Theorem (Gilliam, 2013)|||||6
The Sacrament (West, 2013)|||||5.5
Roger & Me (Moore, 1989)|||||6
India: Matri Buhmi (Rossellini, 1959)|||||7
The Green Prince (Schirman, 2014)|||||5
Restless (Van Sant, 2011)|||||6
Proving trope, cliche, and a willful playing into formula can be to good ends.  Van Sant simply saying a pure, affirmative story can be told purely - indie corrective to all the Walk to Remembers (conceived as an Harold and Maude remake), a contraband silent version of the film filmed in tandem a corrective to trendy-indie-film sound and fury and lack of good sense.
Breakfast of Champions (Parker, 1999)|||||3.5
The Usual Suspects (Singer, 1995)|||||5.5
To what ends is this romanticism, I don't know, but Singer showcases an impressively baroque style, infusing this tale with an oneirism quite appropriate for the neo-noir, making him seem like the even halfway point between Fassbinder and Brett Ratner.
God Bless America (Goldthwait, 2011)|||||5
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (Winterbottom, 2005)|||||5
The Trip to Italy (Winterbottom, 2014)|||||4.5
Sense and Sensibility (Lee, 1995)|||||6.5
Jodorowsky's Dune (Pavich, 2013)|||||5
* The Serpent and the Rainbow (Craven, 1988)|||||5