Movie Reviews

2023
Rye Lane mini-review

2018
My Oscar picks of 2018

2017
Top movies of 2017
Battle of the Sexes
Breathe
Jackie
Hacksaw Ridge
Lion
Hidden Figures
Silence

2016
Top movies of 2016
La La Land
A United Kingdom
Arrival
Free Fire
Nocturnal Animals
Manchester by the Sea
Sully
The Nice Guys mini-review
High Rise mini-review
Midnight Special
Eddie the Eagle
Disorder (Maryland)
Mini-reviews of Hail, Caesar! and Rams
My 2016 Oscar picks
Trumbo
Spotlight
The Big Short
Room
The Revenant
The Danish Girl
Joy

2015
Top movies of 2015
The Lobster
Black Mass
Bridge of Spies
Carol
Steve Jobs
Brooklyn
Youth
Queen of Earth
The Martian
Everest
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
The Diary of a Teenage Girl and Inside Out
The Gift (2015)
Slow West
The Overnight
Listen Up Philip
Bande de filles (Girlhood)
Dark Horse
A Little Chaos
The Tale of Princess Kaguya
Suite française
My 2015 Oscar picks
Still Alice
Ex Machina
A Most Violent Year
Selma
American Sniper
Whiplash
Foxcatcher
Testament of Youth
The Theory of Everything

2014
Top movies of 2014
Horrible Bosses 2
The Imitation Game
Interstellar
Mr Turner
Nightcrawler
Birdman
The Drop
The Maze Runner
Gone Girl
Maps to the Stars
The Riot Club
Pride
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Before I Go to Sleep
What If
Lilting
Boyhood
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Begin Again
Belle
The Two Faces of January
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Locke
The Monuments Men
The Book Thief
Dallas Buyers Club
Inside Llewyn Davis
The Wolf of Wall Street
Out of the Furnace
12 Years a Slave

2013
Top movies of 2013
American Hustle
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Gravity
Drinking Buddies
The Grandmaster
Don Jon
Blue Jasmine
Rush
What Maisie Knew
The Way Way Back
About Time
Breathe In
The Bling Ring
The Internship
Man of Steel
Before Midnight
Behind the Candelabra
Mud
The Great Gatsby
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Los amantes pasajeros (I'm So Excited)
Star Trek into Darkness
Dans la maison (In the House)
A Late Quartet
Trance
Compliance
Side Effects
Welcome to the Punch
Broken City
Stoker
To the Wonder
No
Hitchcock
I Give It a Year
Hyde Park on Hudson
Flight
Zero Dark Thirty
Lincoln
Django Unchained
Les Misérables
The Impossible

2012
Top movies of 2012
Silver Linings Playbook
The Life of Pi
The Master
Skyfall
Seven Psychopaths
Argo
De rouille et d'os (Rust and Bone)
Looper
Liberal Arts
Killing Them Softly
On the Road
Now Is Good
Anna Karenina
The Imposter
Lawless
Shadow Dancer
Take This Waltz
The Bourne Legacy
Magic Mike
Ted
The Amazing Spider-Man
A Royal Affair
Your Sister's Sister
Prometheus
Two Days in New York
Moonrise Kingdom
The Dictator
Café de Flore
Cabin in the Woods
Headhunters
Contraband
Trishna
We Bought a Zoo
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
The Hunger Games
Man on a Ledge
The Woman in the Fifth
The Woman in Black
This Means War
Chronicle
Young Adult
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Haywire
Carnage
J. Edgar
Coriolanus
Margin Call
The Iron Lady
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

2011
Top movies of 2011
A Dangerous Method
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Shame
In Time
Margaret
Moneyball
My Week with Marilyn
The Deep Blue Sea
The Awakening
Miss Bala
Contagion
Anonymous
Damsels in Distress
We Need to Talk About Kevin
The Descendants
The Ides of March
The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
Like Crazy
The Help
Red State
Warrior
Drive
Last Night (plane)
Jane Eyre
One Day
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Project Nim
The Tree of Life
Beginners
The Big Picture (L'homme qui voulait vivre sa vie)
La Princesse de Montpensier
Trust
A Separation
Bridesmaids
Incendies
Senna
Angels of Evil (Vallanzasca: Gli angeli del male)
Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)
Water for Elephants
Oranges and Sunshine
Scream 4
Source Code
The Lincoln Lawyer
Route Irish
Another Year (DVD)
Archipelago
The Adjustment Bureau
Rabbit Hole
The Mechanic
Bob, le flambeur
The Fighter and True Grit
Morning Glory
127 Hours
The Children's Hour (1961)
The Next Three Days

2010
Mini reviews of The Social Network and Monsters and top movies of 2010
Catfish
The American
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
Brighton Rock (2010)
Black Swan
Blue Valentine
Little White Lies (Les petits mouchoirs)
Conviction
Never Let Me Go
Buried
The Town
Crime d'amour (Love Crime)
Toy Story 3D
Gainsbourg
Mini reviews of Inception, Hard Candy and Partir (Leaving)
L'arnacoeur (Heartbreaker) and Please Give
The Ghost
I Am Love (Io sono l'amore)
Les diaboliques (1955)
The Blind Side
Shutter Island, Alice in Wonderland (2010) and Green Zone
Gentlemen Prefer Blonds (1953)
Crazy Heart
Invictus
Brothers and Un prophète (A Prophet)
The Road
Up in the Air
Nowhere Boy
Sherlock Holmes (2009)

2009
Top movies of 2009
Avatar
Cracks
The White Ribbon (Das weiße Band)
Bright Star
Glorious 39
An Education
Capitalism: A Love Story
Chloe
The Boys Are Back
The Informant!
Bellamy
Away We Go
Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 (L'ennemi public n°1)
Adam
Mesrine: Killer Instinct (L'instinct de mort)
Coco before Chanel (Coco avant Chanel)
Brüno
Point Break (DVD)
Sunshine Cleaning and Rudo y Cursi
Fireflies in the Garden
A Girl Cut in Two (La fille coupée en deux)
Synecdoche, New York
Sounds Like Teen Spirit
State of Play
Scream retrospective (1996)
Fifty Dead Men Walking
Two Lovers
Duplicity
The International
Entre les murs (The Class) and Anvil!
The Wrestler
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Notorious (1946)
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
The Machinist (DVD)
The Reader
The Wild Bunch (1969)

2008
Top movies of 2008
Australia
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Easy Virtue
Changeling
Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona
Keira special: The Duchess and The Edge of Love
The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
Female Agents (Les femmes de l'ombre)
The Visitor
In Search of a Midnight Kiss
Un Secret
Sex, Lies and Videotape (DVD)
Crash (2004)
Funny Games US
Street Kings (I totally don't remember seeing this, even though Keanu is in it)
21
El orfanato (The Orphanage)
The Other Boleyn Girl
Belle de Jour (DVD)
American Psycho (DVD)
My Blueberry Nights
Breaking and Entering (DVD)
There Will Be Blood
Le scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
Juno
4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days)
Elephant
Se, Jie (Lust, Caution)
Les chansons d'amour (Love Songs)

2007
The Last Kiss (DVD)
Elizabeth
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Atonement
Ne le dis à personne (Tell No One)
True Romance (DVD)

Years in parentheses are given either for films that are not new releases or when there are multiple films with the same title. And in case it's not obvious, I reviewed the films that have DVD in parentheses after watching them on DVD.

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