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[ 2012 ]
"The Well-Digger's Daughter" (Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Daniel Auteuil)


[ 2011 ]
"Haywire" (Gina Carano, Channing Tatum)
"Le Havre" (Andre Wilms, Kati Outinen)
"Tomboy" (Zoe Heran, Malonn Levana) "Love Crime" (Ludivine Sagnier, Kristen Scott Thomas)
"Rapt" (Yvan Attal, Anne Consigny)
"Point Blank" (Gilles Lellouche, Roschdy Zem)


[ 2010 ]
"Letters to Father Jacob" (Kaarina Hazard, Heikki Nousiaineng) (Finland)
"The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" *
"A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop" (Sun Honglei, Xiao Shenyang) A comedy
"The Secret In Their Eyes"
"The Girl Who Played With Fire" (Noomi Rapace)*
"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" (Noomi Rapace)*


[ 2009 ]
"Jerichow" *


Documentary Bin
[2013]
"Leviathan"


[2012]
"They Call It Myanmar"


[2011]
"Make Believe"
"IMAX: Hubble 3D"


[2010]
"American Faust: From Condi To Neo-condi" (Condoleezza Rice> [12/31]
"Boxing Gym"


"A Film Unfinished"


[2009]
"Leonard Cohen at The Isle of Wight 1970"
"In Search of Beethoven"
"The Perfect Cappuccino"
"Stock Shock"
"Earth: Nature's Most Amazing Events"
"60 Minutes Presents: Obama: All Access- Barack Obama's Road to the White House"
"Ballerina"



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2013 Reviews:
"Star Trek Into Darkness" (Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto)
"The Great Gatsby" (Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan)
"Iron Man 3" (Robert Downey Jr, Gwyneth Paltrow)
"Oblivion" (Tom Cruise, Andrea Riseborough)
"33 Postcards" (Guy Pearce, Zhu Lin)
"Jack the Giant Slayer" (Nicholas Hoult, Eleanor Tomlinson)
"Oz the Great and Powerful" (James Franco, Michelle Williams)
"Bullet to the Head" (Silvester Stallone, Sung Kang)
"Gangster Squad" (Josh Brolin, Emma Stone)

2012 Reviews:
"Django Unchained" (Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz)
"Promised Land" (Matt Damon, Frances McDormand)
"Zero Dark Thirty" (Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke)
"Rust and Bone" (Marion Cottilard, Matthias Schoenaerts)
"Skyfall" (Daniel Craig, Judy Dench)
"Lincoln" (Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field)
"Flight" (Denzell Washington, Kelly Reilly)
"Cloud Atlas" (Tom Hanks, Halle Berry)
"Trouble With the Curve" (Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams)
"Argo" (Ben Affleck, John Goodman)
"End of Watch" (Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Pena)
"Looper" (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt)
"Arbitrage" (Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon)
"Lawless" (Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf)
"Breathless" (Val Kilmer, Gina Gershon)
"The Bourne Legacy" (Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz)
"Friends With Kids" (Jennifer Westfeldt, Adam Scott)
"The Dark Knight Rises" (Christian Bale, Ann Hathaway)
"The Amazing Spider-man" (Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone)
"Savages" (Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively)
"Prometheus" (Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender)
"Wallander: The Revenge" (Krister Henriksson, Lena Endre)
"Snow White and the Huntsman" (Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth)
"Moonrise Kingdom" (Bruce Willis, Ed Norton)
"A Bag of Hammers" (John Ritter, Jake Sandviq)
"Battleship" (Taylor Kitsch, Brooklyn Decker)
"Marvel's The Avengers" (Robert Downey, Jr, Scarlett Johansson)
"Cellmates" (Tom Sizemore, Stacy Keach)
"Wrath of the Titans" (Sam Worthington, Rosamund Pike)
"John Carter" (Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins)
"Safe House" (Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds)
"The Three Musketeers" (Logan Lerman, Milla Jovovich) [DVD]
"The Son of No One" (Channing Tatum, Al Pachino)
"Journey 2: The Mysterious Island" (Dwayne Johnson, Josh Hutcherson)
"Texas Killing Fields" (Sam Worthington, Jeffrey Dean Morgan)
"Contraband" (Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale)



2011 Reviews:
"The Iron Lady" (Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent)
"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" (Rooney Mara, Daniel Craig)
"Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" (Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law)
"Fright Night" (Colin Farrell, Anton Yelchin)
"Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy" (Gary Oldman, John Hurt)
"Clash of the Titans" (Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson)
"Melancholia" (Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg)
"J. Edgar" (Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Watts)
"Margin Call" (Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons)
"The Ides of March" (Ryan Gosling, George Clooney)
"Moneyball" (Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill)
"Take Shelter" (Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain)
"Captain America: The First Avenger" (Chris Evans, Hayley Atwood)
"Cowboys and Aliens" (Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford)
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2" (Daniel Radcliffe, Ralph Fiennes)
"Larry Crowne" (Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts)
"Green Lantern" (Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively)
"Hesher" (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Natalie Portman)
"Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" (Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz)
"Thor" (Chris Hemsworth,Natalie Portman)
"Fast Five" (James McAvoy, Robin Wright)
"The Beaver" (Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster)
"Water For Elephants" (Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon)
"The Conspirator" (James McAvoy, Robin Wright)
"Hanna" (Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana)
"Arthur" (Russell Brand, Helen Mirren)
"Source Code" (Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan) *
"The Resident" (Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Dean Morgan) [DVD]
"Sucker Punch" (Emily Browning, Scott Glenn)
"I Am Number Four" (Alex Pettyfer, Dianna Agron)
"Paul" (Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig)

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"Real Steel" (Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly)
"Red Riding Hood" (Amanda Seyfried, Shiloh Fernandez)
"The Adjustment Bureau" (Matt Damon, Emily Blunt)
"Sanctum" (Richard Roxburgh, Ioan Gruffudd)


2010 Reviews:
Oscar Nominations
(2010)
for the 2011 Academy Awards, 2/27/11
"Tangled" (Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi)
"True Grit" (Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld)
"Tron Legacy" (Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund)
"Somewhere" (Stephen Dorff, Elle Fanning)
"How Do You Know" (Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd)
"The Company Men" (Ben Affleck, Maria Bello)
"The Fighter" (Mark Wahlberg, Amy Adams)
"The Next Three Days" (Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks)
"Secretariat" (Diane Lane, John Malkovich)
"Hereafter" (Matt Damon, Cecile de France)
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I" (Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson)
"Tamara Drewe" (Gemma Arterton, Luke Evans) ] A comedy
"Inside Job" (Matt Damon, Eliot Spitzer) ]
"You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" (Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin) A comedy
"The Town" (Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall)
"The American" (George Clooney, Irina Bjorklund)
"Animal Kingdom" (Guy Pearce, Ben Mendelsohn)
"Temple Grandin" (Claire Danes, Julia Ormond)
"The Disappearance of Alice Creed" (Gemma Arterton, Eddie Marsan)
"Salt" (Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber)
"Get Low" (Robert Duvall, Cissy Spacek)
"The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (Nicolas Cage, Jay Baruchel)
"Inception" (Leonardo DiCaprio, Marian Cotillard)
"The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" (Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson)
"The Girl Who Played With Fire" (Noomi Rapace, Michael Nykvist) *
"Knight and Day" (Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz)
"Shrek Forever After" (Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz) A comedy
"Macgruber" (Will Forte, Kristen Wiig)
"Robin Hood" (Russel Crowe, Cate Blanchett)
"Sherlock Holmes" (Robert Downey, Jr., Jude Law)
"Shadows and Lies" (James Franco, Julianne Nicholson)
"Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time")
"The City of Your Final Destination" (Charlotte Gainsbourg, Omar Metwally)
"Harry Brown" (Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer)
"Repo Men" (Jude Law, Forest Whitaker)
"Green Zone" (Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear)
"Alice In Wonderland" (Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska) [3/5]
"The Book of Eli" (Denzell Washington, Gary Oldman)

2009 Reviews:
"Avatar" (Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana)
"It's Complicated" (Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin) A comedy
"Invictus" (Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman)
"Up In the Air" (George Clooney, Vera Farmiga) A comedy
"Crazy Heart" (Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal)
"Brothers" (Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal)
"The Lovely Bones" (Saoirse Ronan, Mark Wahlberg)
"Whatever Works" (Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood)
"Precious: : Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire" (Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique)
"2012" (John Cusack, Amanda Peet)
"The Road" (Viggo Mortensen, Kodi McPhee)
"Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans" (Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes)
"An Education" (Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard)
"The Messenger" (Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster)
"Pirate Radio" (Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tom Sturridge) A comedy
"Jennifer's Body" (Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried)
"The Fourth Kind" (Milla Jovovich, Will Patton)
"Michael Jackson's This Is It" (Michael Jackson)
"Turning Green" (James Gallery, Timothy Hutton)
"The Damned United" (Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall)
"Where the Wild Things Are" (James Gandolfini, Max Records)
"Buddenbrooks" (Armin Mueller-Stahl, Jessica Schwarz)
"Surrogates" (Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell)
"A Serious Man" (Michael Stuhlbarg, Sari Lennick)
"Bright Star" (Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw)
"The Informant" (Matt Damon, Scott Bakula)
"WhiteOut" (Kate Beckinsale, Tom Skerritt)
"Inglorious Basterds" (Brad Pitt, Melanie Laurent)
"District 9" (Sharlto Copley, Vanessa Haywood)
"The Time Traveler's Wife" (Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams)
"Shrink" (Kevin Spacey, Saffron Burrows)
"(500) Days of Summer" (Zooey Dschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" (Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson)
"Off Jackson Avenue" (John-Luke Montias, Jessica Pimentel)
"Public Enemies" (Johnny Depp, Marion Clotilard)
"The Hurt Locker" (Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie)
"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" (Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox)
"Moon" (Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey)
"The Taking of Pelham 123" (Denzel Washington, John Travolta)
Land of the Lost (Will Ferrell, Anna Friel)

Downloading Nancy (Maria Bello, Jason Patric)

Up (Ed Asner, Jordan Nagai)

Drag Me To Hell (Alison Lohman, Justin Long)
Terminator Salvation (Christian Bale, Sam Worthington)
Angels & Demons (Tom Hanks, Ayelet Zurer)
"Star Trek" (Zachary Quinto and Chris Pine)
"X-Men Origins: Wolverine" (Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber)
State of Play (Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck)
"Bruno" (Sasha Baron Cohen) A comedy
"Fighting" (Channing Tatum, Terrence Howard)
"Fast & Furious" (Vin Diesel, Paul Walker)
"Skills Like This" (Spencer Berger, Kerry Knuppe)
"Knowing" (Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne)
"Duplicity" (Julia Roberts, Clive Owen)
"Watchmen" (Billy Crudup, Malin Akerman)
"An American Affair" (Gretchen Mol, Cameron Bright)
"The Boys Are Back" (Clive Owen, George McAnulty)
"He's Just Not That Into You" (Ginnifer Goodwin, Ben Affleck)
"Donkey Punch" (Sian Brecklin, Robert Boulter)
"Inkheart" (Brendan Fraser, Eliza Hope Bennett)
"Taken" (Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace)
"Adam Resurrected" (Jeff Goldblum, Willem Dafoe)

"Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia"


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Year's Best to date
(2013)
"Iron Man 3"

Best "sleeper" film, 2012
"Deadfall"
Highly recommended!
Last Year's Best
(2012)
"Moonrise Kingdom"
"Skyfall"
"Hobbit"
"Looper"
"Argo"
"Silver Linings Playbook"
"Arbitrage"
"End of Watch"
"Marvel's The Avengers"

Year's biggest flop
(according to budget vs boxoffice & critic consensus)
(2012)
"John Carter"

About as bad
(2012)
"The Perks of Being a Wallflower"
"Not Fade Away"
2011
Year's Best to date
(2011)
"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"
"The Ides of March"
"Source Code"
"Hanna"

2010
Year's Best
(2010)
"The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest"
"The Girl Who Played With Fire"
"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"
"Animal Kingdom"
(It's not what it sounds like)
"Inception"
"The Town"
"The Secret in Their Eyes"
"The Disappearance of Alice Creed"

Best Performances
(2010)
Ben Mendelson ("Animal Kingdom")
Natalie Portman
("Black Swan")
Elizabeth Banks
("The Next Three Days")
Noomi Rapace
("The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo")
Javier Bardem ("Biutiful")
Colin Firth
("The King's Speech")
Jennifer Lawrence ("Winter's Bone")
Naomi Watts ("Fair Game")
Jeff Bridges ("True Grit")
Michelle Williams
("Blue Valentine")
Ryan Gosling
("Blue Valentine")
Mark Wahlberg
("The Fighter")
Jesse Eisenberg
("The Social Network")
Leonardo DiCaprio ("Inception")

Imagination award
(2009)
"Avatar"

Best of the Year
(2009)
"The Hurt Locker"
Up
District 9
Inglorious Basterds
Star Trek
Jerichow

Indies of Special Note
(2009)
"Sin Nombre"
"Off Jackson Avenue"
"Precious"

Surprise Hits
(2009)
"District 9"
"The Hurt Locker"
"The Proposal"
"The Other Side"

Best Screenplays
(2009)
"Sin Nombre"

Best in Animation
(2009)
Up
Coraline

Award Buzz
(2009)
"The Hurt Locker"
(Best Actor, Jeremy Renner)

Best Musical
(2009)
This Is It

Most Overrated
(2009)
"Up In the Air"
"Nine"
"Creation"
"A Single Man"

Oscar Nominations
(2009)
for the Academy Awards, 3/7/10

Top Grossers, Summer 2009
"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" (Paramount) / $399.6
"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" (Warner Bros.) / $295.1
"Up" (Disney) / $289.9
"The Hangover"(Warner Bros.) / $270.7
"Star Trek" (Paramount) / $256.8
(Box Office Mojo, 9/4/2009)
Worst
(2009)
Land of the Lost
Lost in a haze of satiric unfunniness. Bruno
Ahem, Mr. Cohen, you're pushing it. Jennifer's Body
Oh, so badly written A Single Man
Singularly overrated. Creation
Not only another terrible biopic but one of the worst of the epoch)

Best CGI Effects
(2009)
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

DVDs You've Got To Have
(2009)
No Country For Old Men
Stranded: I've Come From a Plane that Crashed on the Mountains" [DOC]
Johnny Got His Gun



"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" has outgrossed "The Incredibles" and "The Passion of the Christ" in worldwide earnings (6/19/08) and "Iron Man" has outswung "King Kong." Crashing over both of them is "Death Race." Want to see the current line up of all-time boxoffice hits and see which is the most successful Harry Potter and what movie tops them all?
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Worthy of note:
Read My Lips
(French crime film noir with unexpected twists)
Talk To Her
Nominated, Best Original Screenplay
Edge of Madness
Superb story and storytelling, avail on DVD


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