Review Archive

Reviews are sorted alphabetically and by year of review. Please click the relevant year heading to see reviews listed chronologically (ie: '2013 Reviews'). Reviews for the current year (2014) will be archived on occasion, so please see the side bar and/or tag 2014 reviews for the most current list of reviews. Short films that received individual reviews are listed here, while short films reviewed in groups (usually at festivals) may be found under the label Shorts.

2020 Reviews



9/11 Kids (at POV)
Afterward (at POV)
Ash (at That Shelf)
The Assistant (at That Shelf)
Becoming (at POV)
Beyond Moving (at POV)
Birds of Prey (at That Shelf)
Botero (at POV)
Castle in the Ground (at That Shelf)
Chasing Einstein (at POV)
Clemency (at That Shelf)
Crip Camp (at POV)
Downhill (at That Shelf)
Dreamland (at That Shelf)
The Eddy (at That Shelf)
Emma (at That Shelf)
The Fight (at POV)
Finding Sally (at POV)
First Cow (at That Shelf)
First Love (at That Shelf)
Guest of Honour (at That Shelf)
Golda (at POV)
Greyhound (at That Shelf)
The High Note (at That Shelf)
Hollywood (at That Shelf)
Invitation (at POV)
The Jesus Rolls (at That Shelf)
The King of Staten Island (at That Shelf)
Les Misérables (at That Shelf)
Lie Exposed (at That Shelf)
Pahokee (at POV)
Resistance (at That Shelf)
Rosie (at That Shelf)
A Secret Love (at POV)
Seberg (at That Shelf)
Sequin in a Blue Room (at That Shelf)
Space and Time (at That Shelf)
Target Number One (at That Shelf)
To Live to Sing (at That Shelf)
The Turning (at That Shelf)
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (at That Shelf)

2019 Reviews


(Reviews at Cinemablographer unless otherwise noted)

The Aeronauts (at That Shelf)
The Aftermath (at That Shelf)
Always in Season (at POV)
American Factory (at POV)
And the Birds Rained Down (at That Shelf)
Apollo 11 (at POV)
Around India with a Movie Camera (at POV)
The Audition (at That Shelf)
Beauty and Decay (at POV)
Blow the Man Down (at That Self)
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (at That Shelf)
Bombshell (at That Shelf)
The Book of the Sea (at POV)
City Dreamers (at POV)
Cold War (at That Shelf)
Dark Waters (at That Shelf)
Diane
The Divided Brain (at POV)
Downton Abbey (at That Shelf)
Echo in the Canyon (at POV)
Everybody Knows (at That Shelf)
Falls Around Her
Fausto
Ferrante Fever
Finding Hygge (at POV)
The Fireflies Are Gone (at That Shelf)
Framing John DeLorean (at POV)
The Friend (at That Shelf)
Genesis
Ghost Town Anthology 
Giant Little Ones
The Goldfinch (at That Shelf)
The Good Liar (at That Shelf)
The Grizzlies
Hal (at POV)
Halston (at POV)
Hi, AI (at POV)
A Hidden Life (at That Shelf)
Highwire (at POV)
Honeyland (at POV)
Hope Frozen (at POV)
I Am Woman (at That Self)
The Impossible Swim (at POV)
In Fabric (at That Shelf)
Into Invisible Light
The Invisibles (at POV)
Jeronimo (at POV)
Judy (at BeatRoute)
Kifaru (at POV)
Killing Patient Zero (at POV)
The Kindness of Strangers (at That Shelf)
The King (at That Shelf)
Knock Down the House (at POV)
The Laundromat (at That Shelf)
Life Without Basketball (at POV)
Lucy in the Sky (at That Shelf)
Marek Edelman...and There Was Love in the Ghetto (at POV)
Matthias & Maxime (at That Shelf)
Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen (at POV)
Modified (at POV)
The Moneychanger (at That Shelf)
Monos (at That Shelf)
Motherless Booklyn (at That Shelf)
Mouthpiece
Mr Jane and Finch (at POV)
My Father the Spy (at POV)
Never-Ending Man (at POV)
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (at POV)
Non-Fiction
Of Love & Law (at POV)
On the Inside of a Military Dictatorship (at POV)
One Child Nation (at POV)
One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk (at POV)
Ordinary Days
Oscar-nominated Animated Shorts
Oscar-nominated Live Action Shorts
Oscar-nominated Short Docs (at POV)
Pain & Glory (at That Shelf)
The Panama Papers (at POV)
Parasite (at That Shelf)
Paris is Burning (at POV)
Pavarotti (at POV)
Photograph
A Place of Tide and Time (at POV)
Prophecy (at POV)

2018 Reviews


(Reviews at Cinemablographer unless otherwise noted)

Adrift
Les affamés (The Ravenous)
All I See Is You
All You Can Eat Buddha
Almost Almost Famous (at POV)
American Animals (at POV)
The American Meme (at POV)
Andy Irons: Kissed by God (at POV)
Angel
Angels are Made of Light (at POV)
Anote's Ark (at POV)
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (at POV)
At Eternity's Gate
Ava
Bathtubs Over Broadway (at POV)
Beautiful Boy
Belle-Ile-en-Mer (at POV)
Ben is Back
The Biggest Little Farm (at POV)
Birds of Passage (at POV)
Blind Spot
Boost
Boy Erased
Breath
Burning
Call Her Ganda (at POV)
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Capernaum (at POV)
Cardinals
Carmine Street Guitars (at POV)
Catwalk: Tales from the Catshow Circuit (at POV)
Chien de garde
The Child Remains
Climax
The Commuter
Constructing Albert (at POV)
Darken
The Death (and Life) of Carl Naardlinger
The Death and Life of John F. Donovan (at POV)
Design Canada (at POV)
Disobedience
Dolphin Man (at POV)
Don't Be Nice (at POV)
The Drawer Boy
Eternity Never Surrendered (at POV)
Fahrenheit 11/9 (at POV)
Fake Blood (at POV)
Fake Tattoos
Fail to Appear
The Fall of the American Empire
A Fantastic Woman
The Favourite
Filmworker (at POV)
The Final Year (at POV)
First Man
First Reformed
Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oulof (at POV)
Float Like a Butterfly
Freaks
Free Solo (at POV)
The Gentle Indifference of the World
Gloria Bell (at BeatRoute)
The Go-Getters
God Straightens Legs (at POV)
The Great Buster: A Celebration (at POV)
Grit (at POV)
Harvest Moon (at POV)
The Heart is What Dies Last
Heartbound (at POV)
The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution (at POV)
High Fantasy
Hitler's Hollywood (at POV)
Hostiles (at BeatRoute)
Hugh Hefner's After Dark: Speaking Out in America (at POV)
Hurley (at POV)
I Am Not a Witch
I Used to Be Normal (at POV)
Icarus (At POV)
In Between
In the Intense Now (At POV)
The Insult
Isle of Dogs
The Issue of Mr. O'Dell (at POV)
Kayak to Klemtu
A Kid from Somewhere (POV)
The King (at POV)
Knuckleball
Les Salopes or the Wanton Pleasure of Skin (at POV)
Letter from Masanjia (at POV)
Life is Fruity (at POV)
Lifechanger (at That Shelf)
Love, Gilda (at POV)
Maker of Monsters: The Extraordinary Life of Beau Dick (at POV)
Mankiller (at POV)
Manto
Maria By Callas (at POV)
Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts
Mary Goes Round
Mary Poppins Returns
Mary Queen of Scots
Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. (at POV)
McQueen (at POV)
Meeting Gorbachev (at POV)
Michelin Stars: Tales from the Kitchen (at POV)
Mid90s
Midnight Return: The Story of Billy Hayes and Turkey (at POV)
Mile 22
Minding the Gap (at POV)
Molly's Game (at BeatRoute)
Mom and Dad
Mountain (at POV)
My Generation (at POV)
My Mother's Letters (at POV)
Netizens (at POV)
Never Saw It Coming
Never Steady, Never Still
New Homeland (at POV)
Omnipresent
On Her Shoulders (at POV)
On the Basis of Sex
Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts
Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts
The Oslo Diaries (at POV)
Paper Year
Permission
Phoenix
Pick of the Litter (at POV)
Playing Hard (at POV)
The Price of Everything (at POV)
A Private War
Prodigals
Rams (at POV)
The Rankin File: Legacy of a Radical (at POV)
RBG (at POV)
The Reckoning: Hollywood's Worst Kept Secret (at POV)
Regarding Gravity (at POV)
Restoring Tomorrow (at POV)
Retrospekt
Roma (at BeatRoute)
Room for Rent
Rubén Blades is Not My Name (at POV)
Science Fair (at POV)
Screwball (at POV)
Searching for Ingmar Bergman (at POV)
Seeing Allred (at POV)
Sharkwater Extinction (at POV)
Shock and Awe
Silvana (at POV)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 
The Song and the Sorrow (at POV)
Snowbirds (at POV)
A Star is Born (at BeatRoute)
The Strange Sound of Happiness (at POV)
A Suitable Girl (at POV)
Suspiria
This Changes Everything (at BeatRoute)
This is Congo (at POV)
Touched
Two Trains Runnin' (at POV)
Ulrike Ottinger: Nomad from the Lake (POV)
Unrest (at POV)
The Unseen
Vice
Vox Lux
Walking on Water (at POV)
Wall (at POV)
When Arabs Danced (at POV)
Where is Kyra?
White Ravens: A Legacy of Resurgence (at POV)
Whitney (at POV)
The Wife
Witkin & Witkin (at POV)
Won't You Be My Neighbor? (at POV)
You Are Here: A Come From Away Story (at POV)

2017 Reviews


1:54
20th Century Women
47 Meters Down
Alias Grace 
All the Money in the World
Amerika Square 
Bad Seeds (Les mauvaises herbes)
Battle of the Sexes
Before the Streets (Avant les rues)
The Beguiled 
The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales
Blade Runner 2049
Borg/McEnroe 
BPM (Beats Per Minute)
Brad's Status
The Breadwinner 
Catfight  
C'est la vie!
The Commune
Darkest Hour
Detroit 
The Divine Order
Don't Talk to Irene
Dunkirk 
Faces Places
The Foreigner
God's Own Country 
Goodbye Christopher Robin 
Graduation
Hannah 
Happy End
Hochelaga, Land of Souls 
Infinity Baby
Jane 
Journey's End 
Kati Kati
Lady Bird
The Limehouse Golem
The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches 
The Lovers 
A Man Called Ove
A Monster Calls
Old Stone 
On Body and Soul
Oscar Animated Shorts
Oscar Live Action Shorts
Our Souls at Night
Porcupine Lake 
The Post
The Queen of Spain
Racer and the Jailbird
The Red Turtle 
Saint George
The Salesman
Sieranevada
Silence 
Small Talk
Soldiers. Story from Ferentari
The Space Between Us
The Square
Sundowners
Thelma
This Time Tomorrow
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Three Peaks 
Turah 
A United Kingdom 
A War 
Who We Are Now 
Wilson 
Wind River
Wonderstruck

At POV


3/4
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail 
Azmaish: Journey Through the Subcontinent
Babe, I Hate to Go
Becoming Bond 
Becoming Who I Was 
Bending the Arc
Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened
Birth of a Family 
Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World
Bobbi Jene
Bosch: The Garden of Dreams
Bowhead Whale Hunting with My Ancestors 
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
California Typewriter
Chaplin in Bali 
Chavela
Complicit
Dancer 
David Lynch: The Art Life
Dawson City: Frozen Time 
The Departure 
Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas
Exit: Music
Flames
Floyd Norman: An Animated Life 
Gaga: Five Foot Two
The Genius and the Opera Singer 
Ginger Nation 
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami 
Holy Angels 
Human Flow
Kedi
Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web
I, Tonya
In Search of Israeli Cuisine
In the Name of All Canadians
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power 
Jim and Andy: The Great Beyond...
Little India: Village of Dreams
Long Strange Trip 
Long Time Running
Lots of Kids, a Monkey, and a Castle
Made in Vietnam
Manifesto
Mansfield 66/67
Mommy Dead and Dearest
Motel 
My Piece of the City
Night School
Obit 
Of Sheep and Men 
On Putin's Blacklist
One of Us 
Oscar Short Docs 
Our People Will Be Healed
Pecking Order
PTSD: Beyond Trauma
Rebels on Pointe 
Reset
Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me 
School Life
Score: A Film Music Documentary 
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Silas
Song of Granite
Spookers
Step
Still Tomorrow
Susanne Bartsch: On Top
The Tesla World Light
Thank You for the Rain
There is a House Here
Things Arab Men Say
Tickling Giants
Unarmed Verses 
Where You're Meant to Be
White Walls Say Nothing
Whose Streets?
Wormwood
You're Soaking in It

2016 Reviews

2 Nights Till Morning
2 Nights Till Morning
13th
À la vie
Absolutely Fabulous
Across the Line
American Hero  
American Honey
American Pastoral
Arrival  
As I Open My Eyes
Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice
The Apology
Being 17
The Benefactor 
A Bigger Splash
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk 
Borealis 
Born to Be Blue
Burn Your Maps
Café Society
Cameraperson 
The Clan 
Closet Monster
Coconut Hero
The Conjuring 2 
Arrival
Criminal
The Daughter
Dawn
The Demons 
Denial 
Dheepan
Diary of an Old Man
Dirty Grandpa 
The Distinguished Citizen
The Dressmaker
The Edge of Seventeen
Elle
Embrace of the Serpent
Elle 
End of Days, Inc. 
Les êtres chers
Everybody Wants Some!! 
Finding Dory
Fire Song 
The Fixer
Florence Foster Jenkins
Frantz 
Ghostbusters 
Hail, Caesar!
Hell or High Water
Florence Foster Jenkins

Hello Destroyer  
Imperium
In Order of Disappearance
Indignation 
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words 
Into the Forest
Into the Forest
It's Only the End of the World
Jackie 
Jane Got a Gun 
Khoya
Knight of Cups 
Lavender
The League of Exotique Dancers
The Little Prince
Lion
The Lobster 
The Lockpicker 
London Has Fallen
Look Again
Love & Friendship
The Lovers and the Despot
Loving
Maliglutit (Searchers)  
Jackie

Manchester by the Sea
Manhattan Night 
Mean Dreams
Miss Sloane 
The Lobster
Money Monster  
Montreal la Blanche 
Mr. Right
My Life as a Courgette 
Nelly 
The Neon Demon
A Noble Intention
Nocturnal Animals
Numb
Oh What a Wonderful Feeling 
Operation Avalanche
Our Kind of Traitor 
The People Garden
Portrait of a Serial Monogamist
Prank
Precious Cargo 
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
The Rainbow Kid 
The Revenant 
Love & Friendship
Revenge (Hevn)  
River
Robin and Mark and Richard III 
Sand Storm
The Saver
Suicide Squad
Sully 
Swiss Army Man 
A Tale of Love and Darkness
Tale of Tales 
Tanna
Toni Erdmann
Maliglutit
Touched with Fire 
Two Lovers and a Bear 
Viva
We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice
Werewolf 
Where is Rocky II?
Weirdos 
Wiener-Dog 
Window Horses
Your Money or Your Wife
Zoom

Nocturnal Animals

Capsule Reviews

The Age of Shadows
Birth of a Nation 
Chi-raq
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny
Deadpool
Eddie the Eagle
Endorphine 
Eye in the Sky 
The Revenant
Hello, My Name is Doris
The Girl on the Train
Hidden Figures
High-Rise 
I, Daniel Blake
The Innocents
Jesus
The Jungle Book 
Kubo and the Two Strings
Maudie 
The Mermaid
Le Mirage
Spirit Unforgettable
Moonlight
Neighbors 2 
Neruda
The Nice Guys
Okafor's Law
Paris Can Wait
The Passion of Augustine
Sausage Party 
Tallulah 
Things to Come
Trolls
Triple 9  
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Tanna


At Point of View 

After Circus
Aim for the Roses
All the World's a Screen
Almost Holy
Amanda Knox
Anatomy of Violence 
Toni Erdmann
Angry Inuk
The Apology 
Before the Flood
Bezness as Usual
Callshop Istanbul
Chasing Asylum
The Cinema Travellers
CodeGirl  
Colonization Road
A Dog's Life
The Fear of 13
Fire at Sea
Weirdos

Fireflies in the Abyss  
Frackman
Future Baby 
Gatekeeper 
Gaza Surf Club
Ghostland: The View of the Ju/'Hoansi
Giants of Africa
Gimme Danger 
Girl Unbound
Gleason 
Gun Runners 
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
Window Horses
Hip Hop-eration
Hissein Habre, a Chadian Tragedy
Hotel Dallas 
I am Not Your Negro
I Am Sun Mu 
The Infinite Happiness
The Islands and the Whales 
J: Beyond Flamenco
JT + The Tennessee Kids 
Life, Animated 
Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World
Magicarena
Mascots
The Missing Ingredient 
Mostly Sunny
Mr. Gaga 
Mully 
My Land
My Millennial Life
Natural Disorder
Nice People
Oasis: Supersonic
Oscar Nom'd Short Docs  
The Pearl Button
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
Ping'an yueqing
The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
Rodnye (Close Relations) 
The Rolling Stones Olé Olé Olé! A Trip Across Latin America
Safari 
Sour Grapes
Spirit Unforgettable
Star Men 
Strike a Pose
Suited and Handsome & Majestic 
Tickled
The Uncondemned 
Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt 
Voyage of Time: Life's Journey
Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom 
Zero Days


2015 Reviews

Amy

45 Years ★★★★
99 Homes ★★★★
After the Ball ★★★
All the Time in the World ★★★
Aloft ★★ 
Aloha ★★
American Sniper  ★★★ 
Amy ★★★★
Around the World in 50 Concerts ★★★
The Assassin ★★★
Carol
Baby(a)lone ★★★½
Bang Bang Baby ★★★★
Beasts of No Nation ★★★
The Beautiful Risk
Beeba Boys ★★½
The Danish Girl
Far from the Madding Crowd
Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery ★★★½
Berkshire County ★★★½
Biff Wellington ★★½
Big Game ★★★
Big Muddy ★★★½
The Big Short ★★★★
Black or White ★★★
Blackhat ★★½
Bota ★★★★
Boy 7 ★★★½
Bridge of Spies ★★★★½
By the Sea ★★★
Cake ★★★
Carol ★★★★★
Cartoonists: Footsoldiers of Democracy? ★★★½
Cast No Shadow ★★★★
Chameleon ★★★½
Cinderella ★★★½
Class Enemy ★★★★
Closer to the Moon ★★★★
The Cocksure Lads ★★★½
Corner Gas: The Movie ★★★
Crumbs ★★½
The Danish Girl ★★★★½
Dark Star: HR Giger's World ★★★
The Dead Lands ★★★★
Dear White People ★★★½
Dégradé ★★★★
The Forbidden Room
Demolition ★★★★
Diamond Tongues ★★½
The Dove Flyer ★★★½
Down Here ★★★
Eden ★★½
The Editor ★★★½
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films ★★★½
Entourage ★★½
Eva Doesn't Sleep ★★★½
In Her Place
 Eva Nova ★★★½
Ex Machina ★★★½
The Excursionist ★★★½
Fall ★★★½
Far from the Madding Crowd ★★★★½
February ★★★½
Felix and Meira ★★★★
The Fencer ★★★½
Fifty Shades of Grey ★★
Jupiter Ascending
The Forbidden Room ★★★★½
Freeheld ★★★½
Gemma Bovery ★★★½
The Girl King ★★★½
The Good Son ★★★★
Grandma ★★★
Guidance ★★★½
The Gunman ★★
Gurov and Anna ★★★★
Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World ★★★½
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
The Hallow ★★★
The Hateful Eight ★★★★½
Hellions ★★★
Henri Henri ★★½
Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous ★★★½
How Heavy this Hammer ★★★½
How to Change the World ★★★★ 
Phoenix
I Put a Hit on You ★★★★ 
In Her Place ★★★★½
Infinitely Polar Bear ★★★½
Inherent Vice ★★★★
Insurgent ★★★
Irrational Man ★★★★
Jackie Boy ★★★½
Joy ★★★
Jupiter Ascending
Jurassic World ★★★
The Keeper of Lost Causes ★★★½
Kingsman: The Secret Service ★★★
Ricki and the Flash
Koza ★★
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter ★★★★
Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck ★★★★½
The Last Gigolos ★★★½
Learning to Drive ★★★½
The Lesson ★★★½
Listen to Me Marlon ★★★★
Lily & Kat ★★★
Macbeth ★★★★
Mad Max: Fury Road ★★★★
The Magic Mountain ★★★★
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ★★★
Mangiacake ★★★
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The Martian ★★★★
Mavis! ★★★½
McFarland ★★★½
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl ★★★★
The Messenger ★★★½
Mississippi Grind ★★★½
Mortdecai ★★
Mountain Men ★★★½
Mr. Holmes ★★★
Mr. Turner ★★★★
Selma
Murder in Pacot ★★★½
My Internship in Canada ★★★★
The Narrow Frame of Midnight ★★½
National Diploma ★★★
NN ★★½
Ninth Floor ★★★★
No Escape ★★★
of the North
Oscar Animated Shorts n/a
Our Everyday Life ★★★½
Pan ★★
Sicario
Panama Canal Stories ★★★½
Paper Towns  ★★
Parisienne ★★★
Patron Saint ★★★
Pawn Sacrifice ★★½
People Hold On ★★★½ 
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence ★★★★ 
Phoenix ★★★★½
Port of Call ★★★½
Possessed (Pos eso) ★★★
The Sound of Trees
Pretend We're Kissing ★★★½
Price of Love ★★★
The Price We Pay ★★★★
Queen & Country ★★★½
Remember ★★★
Ricki and the Flash ★★★★½
Samba ★★★½
San Andreas ★½
The Scarehouse ★★★
The Search ★★
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel ★★★½
Spotlight
The Second Mother ★★★★
Secret in Their Eyes ★★½
Self/Less ★★★
Selma ★★★★½
Sicario ★★★★½
Sitting on the Edge of Marlene ★★★½
Sleeping Giant ★★★★
Sleeping with Other People ★★★½
Son of Saul ★★★★½
Song of the Sea ★★★★
The Sound of Trees ★★★★½
Southpaw ★★★½
Sunshine Superman
Spectre  ★★★½
Spotlight ★★★★½
Spring ★★★½
Standby ★★★½
Steve Jobs ★★★★½
Strangerland ★★★½
Suffragette ★★★½
Sugar Coated ★★★★
Suite Française ★★★
Sunset Song ★★★★½
Tangerine ★★★½
There Where Atilla Passes... ★★★½
What Happened, Miss Simone?
This Changes Everything ★★★★
Tig ★★★
Traceable ★★★
The Transporter: Refueled ★★½
The Tribe ★★★
True Story ★★½
Trumbo ★★★
Two 4 One ★★★★
The Valley Below ★★★★
Very Big Shot ★★★½
A Woman Like Me
Ville-Marie ★★★
The Waiting Room ★★★½
A Walk in the Woods ★★★
We Were Wolves ★★★½
Wildlike ★★★★
The Witch ★★★★½
While We're Young ★★★★
The Wolfpack ★★★
Woman in Gold ★★★
Youth ★★★★★
Youth
Z for Zachariah ★★★★

Capsule Reviews


The Amina Profile ★★★★
Ballet 422 ★★★
Brooklyn ★★★★
The Calling ★★★½
Cartel Land ★★★★ 
The Closer We Get ★★★
Creed ★★★½
The Cult of JT LeRoy ★★½
Deprogrammed  ★★★
Double Happiness ★★
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon ★★★
Empty Cans ★★★
Experimenter ★★½
Finders Keepers ★★★½
Furious 7 ★★½
Goodnight Mommy ★★★★
Guantanamo's Child: Omar Khadr ★★½
Hadwin's Judgement ★★★½
Hyena Road ★★★½
I Smile Back ★★★
In Jackson Heights
Inside Out ★★½
Iris ★★★½
It Was You Charlie ★★★
Ixcanul ★★★½
James White ★★★★
Jesus Town, USA ★★★½
Legend ★★
Lolo ★★★★
Minions ★★½
Monty Python: The Meaning of Live ★★★
Mustang ★★★★
Observance ★★
Room ★★★½
Shaun the Sheep ★★★½
Straight Outta Compton ★★★★
Trainwreck ★★★★
Truth ★★★★
Spartacus & Cassandra
The Wave ★★★½
We Monsters ★★½
White God ★★★★

At Point of View 

(not starred)

The 50-Year Argument
Al Purdy Was Here
Being Canadian
Best of Enemies 
Danny
Daughter of the Lake
He Named Me Malala
Help Us Find Sunil Tripathi
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Invention
Je Suis Charlie
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Miss Sharon Jones!
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble
Noma: My Perfect Storm 
Seymour: An Introduction
Stay Awhile
Sunshine Superman
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Where to Invade Next
A Woman Like Me
 
 

2014 Reviews

9 mois ferme ★★
Birdman
Candice Breitz: 'Him + Her'
Above All Else ★★★★
Actress ★★★★
Afflicted ★★½
All the Wrong Reasons ★★★½
The Ambassador to Bern ★★★½
American Descent ★½
The Babadook ★★★★½ 
Bad Words ★★★
Bald Mountain ★★★★
Ballymun Lullaby ★★★
Before the Winter Chill ★★★
Begin Again ★★★★
Beyond Clueless
Big Bad Wolves ★★★
Big Eyes ★★★½
The Birder ★★★
Birdman ★★★★½
Blood Ties ★½
Enemy
Blood Type ★★★½
Boyhood ★★★★½
A Brand New You ★★★
Camille Claudel 1915 ★★★
Candice Bretiz: 'Him + Her' n/a
The Candidate ★★★½
Chef ★★★★
Christmas Tango ★★★½
Citizen Marc ★★★½
Citizenfour ★★★
Clouds of Sils Maria ★★★★
The Cobbler
The F Word
Come Worry with Us! ★★★½
Cutie and the Boxer ★★★½
Déjà Vu ★★★
Le démantèlement ★★★★
The Dirties ★★★★
Dirty Wars ★★½
Divergent ★★★½
Dom Hemingway ★★★½
Domestic ★★★½
Don't Get Killed in Alaska ★★★½
The Drop ★★★½
Edge of Tomorrow ★★★
El Huaso ★★★
Elephant Song ★★★½
Enemy ★★★★
The Equalizer ★½
Gone Girl
Everything Will Be ★★★★
An Eye for Beauty ★★½
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The F Word (What If)  ★★★★★
Farewell, Herr Schwarz ★★★★
The Fault in Our Stars ★★½
Feast ★★★★★
Fed Up ★★½
Finding Vivian Maier ★★★★½
Five Acclaimed Short Films n/a
For Those Who Can Tell No Tales ★★★★
Force Majeure ★★★★½
Foxcatcher ★★★½
The German Doctor ★★½
Girlhouse ★★½
The Giver ★★★½
Gloria ★★★½
Godzilla ★★★½
Gone Girl ★★★★½
Her
The Grand Budapest Hotel ★★★★½
The Grand Seduction ★★★★
The Great Beauty ★★★★½
Habanastation ★★★
Hard Drive ★★½
Her ★★★ 
Hold Fast ★★★
The Homesman ★★★★
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 ★★★½
Hunting Elephants ★★★½
I, Frankenstein
I Origins ★★★
I am Big Bird
The Imitation Game ★★★★
The Immigrant ★★★★½
In the Name of the Girl ★★★½
In the Turn ★★★½
The Internet's Own Boy... ★★★★
Interstellar ★★★½
Into the Dark ★★★
Into the Woods ★★★★
The Invisible Woman ★★★½
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit ★★
Jack Strong ★★★★
Jersey Boys ★★
Joe ★★★½
Joy of Man's Desiring ★★★★
The Judge  ★★★
The Immigrant
The Last Sentence ★★★
Left Behind ★★
The Lego Movie ★★★★
Life Itself ★★★★
Lisa Limone and Maroc Orange: A Rapid Love Story ★★★
Little Black Spiders ★★★
A Little Chaos ★★★★
A Little Chaos
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed ★★★½
Living on the Edge  ★★★ 
Locke ★★★
A Long Way Down ★★
Longwave / Les grandes ondes (à l'ouest) ★★★½
Louis Cyr ★★★
The Lost Key ★★
Lucky Them ★★★½
The Lunchbox
The Lunchbox ★★★★
The Magic Ferret ★★★½
Magic in the Moonlight ★★★½
Maleficent
Maïna ★★½
Maleficent ★★★½
Maps to the Stars ★★★★½
Meetings with a Young Poet ★★½
Miraculum ★★★½
Miss Julie ★★★
The Missing Picture ★★★★½
Mommy ★★★★★
The Monuments Men ★★
Moonrider ★★★★
A Most Violent Year ★★★★★
A Most Wanted Man ★★★★
Mother, I Love You ★★★
My Father and the Man in Black ★★★½
My Prairie Home ★★★★
My Stuff ★★★
Ned Rifle ★★★★
Night Moves ★★★★
Nightcrawler ★★★★½
No Clue ★★★
Noah ★★★½
Maps to the Stars
Obvious Child ★★★★
October Gale ★★½
On the Trail of the Far Fur Country ★★★★
Mommy
Only Lovers Left Alive ★★★★½
Oscar Live Shorts n/a
Out of Mind, Out of Sight ★★★
The Overnighters ★★★★
The Past ★★★
People of a Feather ★★★½
A Place in Heaven ★★★
Ragnarock's Cabin ★★½
Road North ★★★½
RoboCop ★★★
Rocks in My Pockets ★★★★
Rosewater ★★★½
The Rover ★★½
Scarecrow Club ★★
Serena ★★
Slums: Cities of Tomorrow ★★★½
Snowpiercer ★★★★
A Special Day ★★★
A Most Violent Year
The Square ★★★★
St. Vincent ★★★½
Stage Fright ★★★
Still Alice ★★★★
Stray Dogs ★★★½ 
Sunflower Hour ★★★
Super Duper Alice Cooper ★★★
Supermensch ★★★
The Supreme Price ★★★½
The Tale of Princess Kaguya ★★★★
Nightcrawler
The Theory of Everything ★★★★
Third Contact ★★
This is Where I Leave You ★★★
To Be Takei ★★★½
Tracks ★★★★
Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize It ★★★
Transcendence ★★½
Triptych ★★★★
Unbroken ★★★★
Under the Starry Sky ★★★½
Only Lovers Left Alive
Until Sbornia Do Us Part ★★★½
Uvanga ★★★
Vampire Academy
Vis-à-Vis ★★★★
Waste Land ★★★½
Wet Bum ★★★★
Whiplash ★★★½
Whitewash ★★★
Wild ★★★★★
William's Lullaby ★★★
The Wind Rises ★★★½
Snowpiercer
The Wonders ★★★½
Young & Beautiful ★★★½

2014 Capsule Reviews or Not Reviewed:

1987 ★★★½
Advanced Style ★★★★
Amsterdam ★★★
Aunt Hilda ★★★
Stage Fright
Backcountry ★★★½
Block 12 ★★½
The Boxtrolls ★★★½
Bugarach ★★★½
Calvary ★★★½
Cas & Dylan ★★★
Case Against 8 ★★★★
Christmas with Don Cherry ★★★
Corbo ★★★★
The Creator of the Jungle ★★
Still Alice
The Dark Side of Chew ★★★
Death Metal Angola ★★½
The Double ★★½
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me ★★★★
Everyday Rebellion ★★★
Fading Gigolo ★★★
The Family Farm ★★★
Frank ★★
Get on Up ★★★
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night ★★★★
Guidelines ★★★½
The Wanted 18
Heart of a Lion ★★★
Hotline ★★★½
How to Train Your Dragon 2 ★★★★
I am a Girl ★★★
I Love Kuduro ★★
Ida ★★★★
Jutra ★★★★½
Wild
Keep on Keepin' On ★★★★
Lava ★★★½
Lucy ★★½
Mad as Hell ★★★
The Malagasy Way ★★
Manglehorn ★★★
Monsoon ★★★★
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
Mugshot ★★★½
National Gallery ★★★½
Neighbors ★★★
The New Girlfriend ★★★★
Nurse
Nymphomaniac: Vol. 1 ★★★
Nymphomaniac: Vol. 2 ★★★
The Pioneer ★★★
Point and Shoot ★★★★
Pompeii ★★½
Portraits in a Sea of Lies ★★★
Quebekoisie ★★★
The Riot Club ★★★★
Rock the Casbah ★★★½ 
Ruth & Alex ★★★
The Secret Trial 5 ★★★★
The Skeleton Twins ★★★★
Solo ★★★
The Sower ★★★
Stress Position  ★★★
That Burning Feeling ★★★½
Tu dors Nicole ★★★★½
Two Days, One Night ★★★★
Vanishing Point ★★★
Virunga ★★★★
Waiting for August ★★★
The Way He Looks ★★★
We are the Best! ★★★
What Now? Remind Me ★★★½
Where I'm From ★★½
White Bird in a Blizzard ★★★
Whitey: The United States Vs. James J. Bulger ★★★½

At Point of View

(Not Starred)

Beats of the Antonov
Divide in Concord
From the Bottom of the Lake
Gun Porn
Happiness
An Honest Liar
I am Big Bird: The Carrol Spinney Story 
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness 
Kung Fu Elliot 
The Look of Silence
Marinoni
Meet the Patels
Roger Waters The Wall
Sacro GRA
See No Evil
The Sheik
Trick or Treaty?
The Wanted 18
What is Left?
The Writer with No Hands
Write Down, I am an Arab




12 Years a Slave

2013 Reviews

5 Broken Cameras ★★★½
7 Boxes ★★★★
12 Years a Slave ★★★★★
15 Reasons to Live ★★★★½
20 Feet from Stardom ★★★★★
21 and Over ★★½
20 Feet From Stardom
The Act of Killing ★★★★
Admission ★★★
L'affaire Dumont ★★★½
Alias ★★★½
All is Lost ★★★★
Alphée of the Stars ★★★★
August: Osage County
American Hustle ★★★★
Amour ★★★★
Anatomy of Assistance ★★★½
And Nevertheless... ★★★½
Anima Buenos Aires ★★
The Animal Project ★★★
Anita ★★★
Before Midnight
Approved for Adoption ★★★½
Arjun: Warrior Prince ★★
The Art of the Steal ★★★
Arthur Newman ★★½
The Auctioneer ★★★½
August: Osage County ★★★½
The Aztec Box ★★★
Beyond the Hills
A Band Called Death ★★★½
Bastards ★★★½
Beautiful Creatures ★★★½
Blancanieves
Before Midnight ★★★★½
Best of Banff ★★★½
Bestiaire ★★★½
Beyond the Hills ★★★
Blackbird ★★★★
Blackfish ★★★★
Blue Jasmine
Blancanieves ★★★★½
Blind Spot ★★½
The Bling Ring ★★★★
Blood Brother ★★★★
Blood Pressure ★★★½
The Book Thief  ★★½
Blue is the Warmest Color ★★★★
Blue Jasmine ★★★★★
The Boy and the World ★★★½
Brazilian Western ★★★★
Broken Circle Breadown ★★★★½
Broken City ★½
Camion ★★★★
The Canyons ★★½
Captain Phillips ★★★½
Casting By ★★★★
Chi ★★★½
Chimeras ★★★½
Cinemanovels ★★½
The Clown ★★★
The Colony ★★
The Company You Keep ★★★
Compulsion
The Conspiracy½ 
The Broken Circle Breadown
Continental ★★★½
Cottage Country ★★★
The Counselor ★★
Crook ★★★½
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her
Dallas Buyers Club ★★★★
Dead Man Down ★★★
Dean Slater: Resident Advisor ★★★
Gabrielle
Devil's Knot ★★½
The Ghosts in Our Machine
Gravity
The Devil's Lair ★★★½
The Great Gatsby
Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby ★★★½
In the House
The Disappeared ★★★★
Don Jon ★★★
Downloaded ★★★★
Eat Sleep Die ★★★½
The East ★★★½
Elysium ½
Emperor ★★½
Empire of Dirt ★★★
The End of Pinky ★★★★
The End of Time ★★★½
Enough Said ★★★★
Ernest et Célestine ★★★★
Exit Marrakech ★★★½
Everybody has a Plan ½
Felix Austria! ★★★½
The Fifth Estate ★★★
Fire in the Blood ★★½
The Front Line ★★★½
Fruitvale Station ★★★★
Gabrielle ★★½
Gangster Squad ★★
Ghosts in Our Machine ★★★★½
The Giants ★★★½
God Loves Caviar ★★★
A Grand Canal ★★★★
The Grandmaster ★★½
Gravity ★★★★ 
The Great Gatsby ★★★
The Hangover Part III ★★
Hateship Loveship ★★★
The Heat ½
Hi-ho Mistahey! ★★★★
A Hijacking ★★ 
Home Again ★★
Labor Day
The Iceman ★★★½
I'm an Old Communist Hag ★★★½
The Lone Ranger ★★★
Lone Survivor ★★★½
Love, Marilyn ★★★★
Mad Ship ★★★
Mama ★★★
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom ★★★½
The Manor ★★★
Margarita ★★★½
Mohammed to Maya ★★★
Molly Maxwell ★★★★
Mood Indigo ★★
Mourning has Broken ★★★½
Movie 43 ★★½
Much Ado About Knotting ★★½
Much Ado About Nothing ★★★★
Mud ★★★★
Rhymes for Young Ghouls
Muscle Shoals ★★★★
My Awkward Sexual Adventure ★★★½
My Destiny ★★½
Nebraska ★★★★
No ★★★★
Not Fade Away ★★★
Now You See Me ★★★½
Oil Sands Karaoke ★★★½
Old Stock ★★★½
Only God Forgives ★½
Our Man in Tehran ★★
Our Nixon ★★★★
Out of the Furnace ★★½
Oz: Great and Powerful ★★★
Pacific Rim ★★★
The Pain and the Pity ★★★
Paranoia ★★
Penthouse North ★★
Personal Space ★★½
Picture Day ★★★★
Pieta ★★
Place Beyond the Pines ★★★
Price Check ★★★
Prince Avalanche ★★★½
Prisoners ★★★★
The Punk Singer ★★★½
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer ★★★½
The Railway Man ★★★½
Random Acts of Romance ★★★
Red 2 ★★★½
Renoir ★★★
Rhymes for Young Ghouls ★★★★½
The Right Kind of Wrong ★★½
A Royal Affair ★★★★
Rush ★★★★
The Sapphires ★★★★
Saving Mr. Banks ★★★½
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ★★½
The Sapphires
Saving Mr. Banks
Shadow Dancer ★★★½
Stoker
Shifting the Blame ★★★★
Short Term 12 ★★★★ 
Sick Birds Die Easy ★★★★
Side Effects ★★★★
Snitch ★★★
Spring Breakers ★★
Stand Up Guys ★★★
Star Trek Into Darkness ★★★
Still Mine ★★★½
Stoker ★★★½
Subconscious Password ★★★½
Superclasico ★★★★ 
The Suicide Shop ★★★½
Tales from the Organ Trade ★★★★
The Taste of Money ★★★½
Tito on Ice ★★★★
The To Do List ★★★
Tom at the Farm ★★★
A Trip ★★★½
Under the Skin ★★★★
Unfinished Song ½
Unforgiven ★★★★  
Upstream Color ★★★½
Vic + Flo Saw a Bear ★★★½
The Virgin, the Copts, and Me ★★★
Wadjda ★★★★
Wajma ★★★½
Wanderweg ★★★★
Warm Bodies ★★½
Watermark ★★★½
We Always Lie to Strangers ★★★★
We Wanted More ★★★★
Weddings and Other Disasters ★★★
West of Memphis ★★★★
Who is Dayani Cristal? ★★★½
The Wolf of Wall Street ★★★★½
World War Z ★★½
You Are Here ★★★½
You Are Here ★★★

2013: Capsule Reviews or Not Reviewed:

Warm Bodies
10 Years ★★★
Alcan Highway ★★★
American Commune ★★★
Around the Block ★★★
As Time Goes By in Shanghai ★★★
Ballerina ★★★
The Brass Teapot ★★★
Brave New River ★★★
Child's Pose ★★½
The Crash Reel ★★★★
The Croods ★★★
Despicable Me 2 ★★★
Dragon Girls ★★½
The Wolf of Wall Street
Drinking Buddies ★★★
Drug War ★★★★
Fall and Winter ★★
Felony ★★★½
A Field in England ★½
Finding the Funk ★★½
Frozen ★★★★
Gerontophilia ★★★
Get a Horse ★★½
Gloria Victoria ★★★★
A Good Day to Die Hard ★½
Good Ol' Freda ★★★
Hotell ★★★
I Declare War ★★★
Impromtu ★★★½
Identity Thief ★★
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
John Dies at the End ★★
Kiss of the Damned ★½
Last Black Sea Pirates ★★
The Last Station
Let the Fire Burn ★★★½
Mental
Monsters University ★★½
Mystery Road ★★★½
Mistaken for Strangers ★★
Narco Cultura ★★★½
NCR: Not Criminally Responsible ★★★½
No Place on Earth ★★★
A Place at the Table ★★★
Philomena ★★
The Reluctant Fundamentalist ★★½
Sarah Prefers to Run ★★★½
The Sea ★★
Siddharth ★★★½
Terms and Conditions May Apply ★★★
Third Person ★★★½
A Touch of Sin ★★★½
Touchy Feely ★★★★
The Unbelievers ★★★
Venus and Serena ★★★½
When Jews Were Funny ★★
Which Way is the Front Line From Here? ★★★½
Witching and Bitching ★★


Anna Karenina

2012 Reviews:

 

About Face: The Supermodels...★★★★
Alex Cross
All That You Possess ★★★★
Barrymore
Beasts of Southern Wild
Anna Karenina ★★★★★
Antiviral ★★★½
Arbitrage ★★★½
Argo ★★★★½
Arrugas ★★★½
Asian Gangs ★★★★
The Avengers ★★★½
Babeldom
Barbara ★★★
Barrymore ★★★★
Cloud Atlas
Beasts of Southern Wild ★★★★½
Best Day Ever ★★★½
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel ★★★★
Cosmopolis

The Dark Knight Rises
The Bourne Legacy ★★★
Boxing Girls of Kabul ★★★★
Bully ★★★½
Burlesque Assassins ★★★★
Buzkashi! ★★★½
Bydlo ★★★★
Byzantium ★★★
Cabin in the Woods ★★★
The Campaign ★★★
Charles Bradley: Soul... ★★★½
Chasing Ice ★★★★
Chinese Take-Away ★★★½
Cloud Atlas ★★★
Compliance ★★★
Consuming Spirits ★★½
Cosmopolis ★★★★
Damsels in Distress ★★★★
The Dark Knight Rises ★★★★½
Dark Shadows ★★½
Demons ★★★★
Despite the Gods★★★★
Detropia ★★★★
Django Unchained ★★★★
Doppelgänger Paul ★★
The Deep Blue Sea ★★★
Eddie: Sleepwalking Cannibal ★★★
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster ★★★★
English Vinglish ★★★★
The Final Member ★★★★ 
Flight ★★½
Foreverland ★★★
The Hobbit
Frances Ha ★★★★½
Francine ★★★
Frankenweenie ★★★★
Friends with Kids ★★★★
Frost ★★★★★
The Fruit Hunters ★★★
Game Change (TV) ★★★★
Goon ★★★
Great Expectations ★★★★
Hard Core Logo 2 ★★½
Haywire ★★★½
Headwinds ★★½
Her Master's Voice★★★½
Hope Springs
Hit & Run ★★★
Hitchcock ★★★
The Hobbit ★★
Holy Motors ★★★★
Hope Springs ★★★★
House at the End of the Street ★★★
The Hunger Games ★★★★½
Killing Them Softly ★★½
I'm Yours ★★½
Imogene ★★★★
The Impossible ★★★★
The Imposter ★★★★★
In Darkness ★★★½
Inch'Allah ★★★★
Inescapable ★★½
The Innkeepers ★★½
Into the Abyss ★★★½?
The Intouchables ★★★½
A Late Quartet
The Invisible War ★★★★½
Jeff, Who Lives at Home ★★½
The Job★★★½
Killer Joe ★★★★
The Lady ★★★½
Laurence Anyways ★★★
A Late Quartet ★★★★
Les Misérables ★★★★
The Lesser Blessed ★★★
Let the Daylight into the Swamp ★★★★½
Life of Pi ★★★½
Lincoln ★★★½
Liz & Dick
Lincoln
Looper ★★★★
Midnight's Children
Lore ★★★★½
Les Misérables
Maiden Danced to Death ★★★★
Marilyn ★★
Marley ★★★★
The Master ★★★★
Meanwhile ★★★½
Midnight's Children ★★★★½
Miss Bala ★★★
Moonrise Kingdom ★★★★½
Moving Day ★★
The Mystery of Mazo de la Roche★★★½
Neither Allah, Nor Master ★★★½
The Paperboy
On the Road ★★½
The Paperboy ★★★½
Payback ★★★★
Perks of Being a Wallflower ★★★½
Pina ★★★★
Ping Pong ★★★★
Pink Ribbons, Inc. ★★★½
Piranha 3DD
Prometheus ★★★½
Promised Land ★★★
Quartet ★★★★★
The Raid: Redemption ★★★½
Radioman ★★★
Rust & Bone
Rebelle ★★★★
Rock of Ages ★★★½
Roller Town ★★★½
Rust & Bone ★★★★½
Safe
Safe House ★★★ 
Safety Not Guaranteed ★★★★
Salmon Fishing/Yemen ★★★
Searching for Sugar Man ★★★★
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World ★★
Silver Linings Playbook
The Sessions ★★★★
Seven Psychopaths ★★★★
Shadows of Liberty ★★★½
Sigur Rós: Valtari ★★
Silence ★★½
Silver Linings Playbook ★★★★★
Sinister ★★★½
Skyfall ★★★★½
Skyfall
Smashed ★★★★½
Snow White & Huntsman ★★★½
Something in the Air ★★★★
Stories We Tell ★★★★★
Take This Waltz ★★★★½
Taken 2 ★½
Thanks for Sharing ★★★½
Theo Fleury: Playing with Fire ★★½
Therese Desqueyroux ★★★½
Thirteen Downs ★★½
Stories We Tell
To Rome with Love ★★★
To the Wonder ★★★
Twice Born ★★★★½
Undercurrent ★★★½
Zero Dark Thirty
Virginia ★½
W.E. ★½
We Are Wisconsin ★★★★★
We Have a Pope ★★★
Wetlands/Marecages ★★★★
What Maisie Knew ★★★★
Where Do We Go Now? ★★★
Winnie ★★★½
Winning Streak ★★★
The Woman in Black ★★½
The Woman in the Fifth ★★★
The World Before Her ★★★★
Writers ★★½
Your Sister's Sister ★★★½
Zero Dark Thirty ★★★★★

2012: Capsule Reviews or Not Reviewed

 

21 Jump Street ★★★
360 ★★
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry ★★★★
Aida: A Natural-Born Artist ★★★
Being Flynn ★★★
Bernie ★★★½
Big Easy Express ★★★½
Boy ★★★
Brave ★★★
Burn it up Djassa ★★★
Canned Dreams ★★
China Heavyweight ★★★½
Dear Scavengers ★★★★ 
Dangerous Liaisons ★★★
Ethel ★★½
Farewell, My Queen ★★★
Five-Year Engagement ★★½
The Frog Princes ★★★
Ginger & Rosa ★★
Gut ★★
Hannah Arendt ★★★★
Headhunters ★★½
Hyde Park on Hudson ★★★
Jack Reacher ★★★
Jackie ★★★
Jump ★★★
Keyhole ★★½
The Language of Love ★★★
Lola Versus ★★★
London Boulevard ★★½
Magic Mike ★★★
Manhood ★★½
Meanwhile in Mamelodi ★★★
Middle of Nowhere ★★★½
ParaNorman ★★★½
Passion
Peace Out ★★
Pot Country ★★★
The Prophet ★★★★
Premium Rush ★★
Pusher ★★★
The Queen of Versailles ★★★★
Reluctant Fundamentalist ★★½
The Samaritan ★★★
Smoke Traders ★★★½
 Ted ★★★½
This is 40 ★★★½
Total Recall ★★½
Trouble with the Curve ★★★
The Watch ★★
Wuthering Heights ★★★★

Bridesmaids

2011 Reviews:

50/50 ★★★★
Abendland ★★★
The Adjustment Bureau  ★★★½
Anonymous ★★½
Café de Flore
The Art of Getting By
Bad Teacher ★★★½
The Bang Bang Club ★★★
Beats Rhymes & Life ★★★
The Beaver ★★★★
Beginners ★★★★
Better This World ★★★★½
Breathing (Atmen) ★★★★
Breakaway ★★★½
Bridesmaids ★★★★
Down the Road Again
Café de Flore ★★★★½
Carnage ★★★★
Captain America ★★★½
Cave of Forgotten Dreams ★★★★
Cedar Rapids ★★★½
Certified Copy ★★★★
The Company Men ★★★½
Conan O'Brien Can't Stop ★★★½
Contagion ★★★★
Coriolanus ★★★
Crazy, Stupid, Love. ★★★★
Curling ★★
A Dangerous Method ★★★
The Debt ★★★½
The Help
Down the Road Again ★★★½
Drive ★★★★½
El Sicario: Room 164 ★★½
Elite Squad: Enemy Within ★★★½
Higher Ground
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close ★★½
French Immersion ★★★½
The Future ★★★
The Future is Now!
Girl w/the Dragon Tattoo ★★★★
Glorious 39 ★★★★
Good Neighbours ★★
The Green Hornet ★★
The Help ★★★★½
The High Cost of Living ★★★★
The Iron Lady
Higher Ground ★★★★
Highway Gospel ★★★
The Housemaid★★★★½
Hugo ★★★★
Last Night
The Ides of March ★★★★
Immortals ★★  
In a Better World ★★½
An Insignificant Harvey ★★★½
Insidious ★★★½
The Iron Lady ★★★½
J. Edgar ★★★½
Midnight in Paris
Larry Crowne ★★★
Last Night ★★★★½
Like Crazy ★★½
Little White Lies ★★★½
Love Crime ★★½
Margin Call ★★★★
Melancholia
Matchmaking Mayor ★★★½
Meek's Cutoff ★★★★
Melancholia ★★★★
Midnight in Paris ★★★★★
Modra ★★★★
The Muppets ★★★ 
My Week with Marilyn
My Week with Marilyn ★★★ 
The National Parks Project ★★★
No Strings Attached ★★½
Oliver Sherman ★★
One Day ★★★
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides ★★★
Pom Wonderful Presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold ★★★½
Starbuck
Potiche ★★★
Project Nim ★★★★½
Restless ★½
Tree of Life
The Righteous Tithe ★★★
Rise of the Planet of the Apes ★★½
Rubber ★★½
The Rum Diary ★★
Running Mates ★★★½
Sarah's Key ★★★★
Scre4m ★★★
A Separation ★★★★★
Somewhere ★★★★
St-Henri, the 26th of August ★★★★
A Wake
Starbuck ★★★★
Super 8 ★★★
War Horse
Tilt ★★★½
The Whistleblower
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ★★★★½  
Tree of Life ★★★★½
Unknown ★★
A Violent State ★★★½
A Wake ★★★★
War Horse ★★
Warrior ★★★★
Water for Elephants ★★½
The Way ★★★
The Whistleblower ★★★★★
Wiebo's War ★★★★
X-Men: First Class ★★★½
Young Adult ★★★★

2011: Capsule Reviews or Not Reviewed


388 Arletta Avenue ★★★½ 
A l'origine ★★★★
Afghan Luke
Albert Nobbs ★★★★
All Good Things ★★★
Another Earth ★★½
The Artist ★★★★½
Arthur ★★½
Attack the Block ★★★
Battle: Los Angeles ★★½
Beautiful Boy ★★★½
A Better Life ★★½ 
Bill Cunningham New York ★★★★
Buck ★★★½
Casino Jack ★★★
Ceremony ★★★
Chico and Rita ★★★½
The Conspirator  ★★★½
Dark Horse ★★★½
Daydream Nation ★★★½
The Deep Blue Sea ★★★
The Descendants ★★★★★
The Devil's Double ★★
The Dilemma ★★
Dogtooth ★★★½
Dorian Gray ★★½
Drive Angry ★★★
En Terrains Connus ★★★½
Essential Killing ★★½
Everything Must Go ★★½
Father of Invention ★★
The First Grader ★★★★
Flypaper ★ 
Friends with Benefits ★★½
Funkytown ★★★½
The Guard ★★★
The Hangover Part II ★★★
Hanna ★★★★½
Happythankyoumoreplease ★★★
Hell and Back Again ★★★★
Henry's Crime ★★★
Hobo with a Shotgun ★½
Horrible Bosses ★★★
Hysteria ★★★½
I Saw the Devil ★★★
Jane Eyre ★★★★
Jolene ★★★
Kaboom ★★½
Kennyville
Le Havre ★★★★
Life, above All ★★★½
Limitless ★★★
The Lincoln Lawyer ★★★½
Martha Marcy May Marlene ★★★★½
Meet Monica Velour ★★★½
Miral ★★
Moneyball ★★★½
Monsieur Lazhar ★★★½
My Own Love Song ★★
Of Gods and Men ★★★
Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding ★★★★
The Other Woman ★★★
Partir ★★★½
Puss in Boots ★★★★
Rampart ★★★★
Real Steel  ★★★
Red State ★★½ 
Repeaters ★★★
Senna ★★★½
Shame ★★★★★
Shelter ★★★
The Skin I Live in ★★
Source Code ★★★
Straw Dogs ★★
Submarine ★★★
Sucker Punch ★½
A Summer in Genoa ★★½
Take Shelter ★★★★½
Texas Killing Fields ★★½
Textuality ★★★
That Summer
Trespass
The Trip ★★★½
127 Hours
Trust ★★
The Vintner's Luck ★★★★
Violet & Daisy★★★
The Way Back ★★★
We Need to Talk About Kevin ★★★★½
Win Win ★★★★
Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom ★★★½

Another Year

2010 Reviews:

Agora★★★
The American ★★★★
Barney’s Version
Animal Kingdom ★★★★½
Another Year ★★★★★
Barney’s Version ★★★★½
Biutiful ★★★½
Black Swan ★★★★★
Blue Valentine ★★★★
Black Swan
Carlos ★★★★½
Conviction ★★★½
Country Strong ★★★
Cyrus ★★★½
Fair Game ★★★★½
The Fighter ★★★★
Force of Nature ★★★★
I am Love
Get Low ★★★
Get Him to the Greek ★★★½
Girl Kicked Hornet's Nest ★★★★
Girl Who Played With Fire ★★★
Incendies
Harry Brown ★★★★ 
Hereafter ★★½
Helen ★★★★
Howl ★★★½
Made in Dagenham
I am Love ★★★★½
The Illusionist ★★★
Incendies ★★★★½
Inception★★★★★
Jack Goes Boating ★★★★
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
Joan Rivers: Piece of Work ★★★★½
The Kids Are All Right ★★★★½
The King's Speech ★★★★★
Knight and Day ★★
Late Autumn ★★★
Let Me In ★★★½
Made in Dagenham ★★★★½
Micmacs★★½
Morning Glory ★★★½
Score: A Hockey Musical
Mother★★★★
Mother and Child★★★★
Mr. Nobody★½
Never Let Me Go ★★★★
A Night for Dying Tigers ★★★
Nowhere Boy ★★★★
Ondine ★★★★
127 Hours ★★★★★
The Social Network
Predators★★½
Rabbit Hole ★★★★
Salt ★★★★
Score: A Hockey Musical ★★★
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ★★
The Tempest
The Secret in Their Eyes ★★★½
Secretariat ★★★★
Sex and the City 2 ★★★
The Social Network ★★★½
Solitary Man ★★★★
Soul Kitchen ★★½
Splice★★★★
The Square ★★★★
Suck ★★★½
The Tourist ★★★
The Town ★★★★
Toy Story 3 ★★★½
Trigger ★★★★★
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives ★★★★
Winter's Bone
Wall Street 2 ★★★
Winter's Bone ★★★★★
Year of the Carnivore★★★★
You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger★★★½

2010: Capsule Reviews or Not Reviewed

After.Life ★★★
Ajami ★★★★
Alice in Blunderland ★★
American Violet ★★★½
Les amours imaginaires ★★★
Bitch Slap ★★★
The Book of Eli ★
Brooklyn’s Finest ★★★½
Buried ★★★½
Burlesque ★★★
Chloe ★★★★½
City Island ★★★½
City of Your Final Destination ★★★★
Cooking With Stella ★★★
The Countess ★★½
Creation ★★★★
Date Night ★★★½
Daybreakers ★★½
Defendor ★★★½
The Disappearance of Alice Creed  ★★½
Disgrace ★★★
Due Date ★★
Easy A ★★★★
The Eclipse ★★½
Edge of Darkness ★★★
Enter the Void
The Expendables ★★½
The Extra Man ★★★
Fish Tank ★★★★
For Colored Girls ★★★★
Frozen ★★½
The Ghost Writer ★★★★
Girl With the Dragon Tattoo★★★★
Green Zone ★★★
Greenberg ★★★½
Gunless ★★½
Happy Tears ★★½
High Life ★★½
Homecoming ★½
Hot Tub Time Machine ★★★
How Do You Know ★½
How to Train Your Dragon ★★★★
Hurt ★
I'm Still Here ★
Inside Job ★★★★
Iron Man 2 ★★★½
It's Kind of a Funny Story  ★★★
The Joneses ★★★
Kick-Ass ★★★
The Killer Inside Me ★★★
Last Train Home ★★★★
Leaves of Grass ★★
Life During Wartime ★★★★
The Losers ★★½
Love Ranch ★★
The Maid ★★★
Mao's Last Dancer ★★★½
Mesrine: Killer Instinct ★★★½
Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 ★★★★
My Son My Son What Have Ye Done? ★
New York, I Love You ★★½
The Next Three Days ★★★½
A Nightmare on Elm Street ★½
Passenger Side ★★
Please Give ★★★★★
A Prophet ★★★★
Red ★★★½
Repo Men ★
Restrepo ★★★★
Robin Hood ★★★½
The Runaways ★★★★
The Secret of Kells ★★★★
Shutter Island ★★★★½
Stone ★★
Tamara Drewe ★★½
Tron: Legacy ★★
The Trotsky ★★★
True Grit ★★★★
Unstoppable ★★★
Welcome to the Rileys ★★½
Wild Grass ★★★
The Wolfman ★★★
A Woman, a Gun, and a Noodle Shop ★★★
You Don't Know Jack ★★★★
Youth in Revolt ★★★

Ratings Guide

★★★★★ Oscar
★★★★ Really Good
★★★ Good
★★ Better Not
★ Turkey
*Cinemablographer.com stopped issuing star ratings in 2016.


Last updated: 31 July, 2020