RAW Ratings for All Movies I've Seen...
Well, not quite. Scroll down to see ratings for A LOT of the movies I've seen, but certainly nowhere near ALL (Part of the reason for that is I started doing this in 2003). Every year since, I've included the complete list of the year's movies I
gave a postive rating. Because I am a filmmaker myself and know lots of people in the industry, I have decided not to include movies I
gave a
negative rating.
Rating System: Four
Stars Maximum (**** excellent, ***
good,
** fair, * poor). All negative ratings (**1/2 and lower) have been
suppressed.
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RAW Ratings for All 2014 Movies I've Seen
(Theatrically Released Movies in Bold)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (***1/2); Captain America: The Winter Soldier (3D) (***1/2); Noah (IMAX) (***1/2); Party Central (***1/2); The Lego Movie (3D) (***)
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RAW Ratings for All 2013 Movies I've Seen
(Theatrically Released Movies in Bold)
Before Midnight (****); Blue Is the Warmest Color / La Vie d'Adèle–Chapitres 1&2 (****); The Wind Rises / Kaze Tachinu (****); American Hustle (****); The Hunt / Jagten (****); Nebraska (****); What Maisie Knew (****); The Act of Killing (****); Philomena (****); Upstream Color (****); Mr Hublot (****); Captain Phillips (****); Rush (****); Saving Mr. Banks (****); That Wasn't Me (****); Linsanity (****); Just Before Losing Everything (****); The Voorman Problem (****); Feral (****); Fruitvale Station (****); Get a Horse! (****); Possessions (****); The Grandmaster / Yi dai zong shi (***1/2); Dallas Buyers Club (***1/2); 12 Years a Slave (***1/2); The Past / Le Passé (***1/2); Her (***1/2); Inside Llewyn Davis (***1/2); Twenty Feet From Stardom (***1/2); Blue Jasmine (***1/2); Gravity (3D) (***1/2); The Place Beyond the Pines (***1/2); Frances Ha (***1/2); A La Francaise (***1/2); All Is Lost (***1/2); The Great Beauty / La Grande Bellezza (***1/2); 42 (***1/2); Helium (***1/2); Room on the Broom (***1/2); Star Trek Into Darkness (3D) (***1/2); Pacific Rim (***1/2); The Blue Umbrella (***1/2); The Wolf of Wall Street (***); August: Osage County (***); The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (***); This Is the End (***); Eveline (***); Iron Man 3 (***); The Way, Way Back (***); The Missing Scarf (***); Songs of You (***); Frozen (***); Enough Said (***); Man of Steel (3D) (***)
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RAW Ratings for All 2012 Movies I've Seen
(Theatrically Released Movies in Bold)
The Raid: Redemption (****); Moonrise Kingdom (****); Life of Pi (****); Django Unchained (****); The Master (****); Amour (****); Zero Dark Thirty (****); Beasts of the Southern Wild (****);
Death of a Shadow (****); Henry (****); Fresh Guacamole (****); Skyfall (IMAX) (****); Rust and Bone (****); Adam and Dog (****); Head Over Heels (****); Les Misérables (***1/2) ; Holy Motors (***1/2); 21 Jump Street (***1/2); Safety Not Guaranteed (***1/2); Flight (***1/2); The Perks of Being a Wallflower (***1/2); Lincoln (***1/2); The Dark Knight Rises (***1/2);
Curfew (***1/2);
Mud (***1/2); Looper (***1/2); The Impossible (***1/2); Paperman (***1/2); Buzkashi Boys (***1/2); The Longest Daycare (***1/2); Asad (***1/2); Dumpling (***1/2); How War Ends (***1/2); The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (***1/2); Abiogenesis (***1/2); Dripped (***1/2);
No Asians, No Fats, No Fems (***1/2); Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (***1/2); Magic Mike (***1/2); Paperman (***1/2); Bloodtraffick (***1/2); The Words (***1/2); Argo (***); Wedding Palace (***); To Rome With Love (***); Silver Linings Playbook (***); The Avengers (3D) (***); The Hunger Games (***); Brave (3D) (***); The Sessions (***); Quartet (***); The Gruffalo's Child (***);
End of Watch (***); Fortune Cookie Magic Trick (***); The Intouchables (***);
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RAW Ratings for All 2011 Movies I've Seen
(Theatrically Released Movies in Bold)
The Artist (****);
A Separation (****);
War Horse (****);
Shame (****);
Drive (****);
Take Shelter (****);
Melancholia (****);
Martha Marcy May Marlene (****);
Moneyball (****);
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (****);
The Muppets (****);
Margin Call (****);
The Shore (****); Raju (****);
Submarine (****); Jane Eyre (****); Andy and Zach (****); Small Fry (****); The Adventures of Tintin (3D) (****); Skateistan: To Live and Skate Kabul (****); The High Level Bridge (****); The Ides of March (****); Yelp (****); 8 Bits (****); Young Adult (***1/2); Cave of Forgotten Dreams (***1/2); Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (***1/2);
Warrior (***1/2); My Week With Marilyn (***1/2); Win Win (***1/2); Rise of the Planet of the Apes (***1/2);
POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (***1/2); A Better Life (***1/2);
Xemoland (***1/2); Jupiter Elicius (***1/2); Bridesmaids (***1/2); Midnight in Paris (***1/2); Bellflower (***1/2); X-Men: First Class (***1/2); Contagion (***1/2); Dimanche (***1/2); Wild Life (***1/2); The Tree of Life (***1/2); The Iron Lady (***1/2);
Beginners (***1/2);
A Morning Stroll (***1/2); La Luna (***1/2); Weekend (***1/2); Hugo (3D) (***1/2); The Descendants (***1/2); Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (***1/2); Super 8 (***1/2); Source Code (***1/2); Pandemic 41.410806, -75.654259 (***1/2); Amazonia (***1/2); Carolina Shout (***1/2);
Boys (***1/2); Sasquatch Birth Journal 2 (***1/2); Excuse Me (***1/2); The Help (***); Meditations: Supper (***);
Randy Parsons: American Luthier (***);
Oops (***); Captain America: The First Avenger (***); The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (***); Pentecost (***); A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (***); Skylight (***); Hybrid Union (***); Close. (***); Nullarbor (***); 3 Minutes (***); Self Portrait (***); Tuba Atlantic (***); Time Freak (***); Arthur Christmas (3D) (***); Thor (***); Hanna (***); The Hunter and the Swan Discuss Their Meeting (***); The White Box (***);
The Red Bag (***); 50/50 (***);
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RAW Ratings for All 2010 Movies I've Seen
(Theatrically Released Movies in Bold)
Inception: The IMAX Experience (****);
Enter the Void (****);
Winter's Bone (****);
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives / Loong Boonmee raleuk chat (****);
The King's Speech (****);
Exit Through the Gift Shop (****);
Somewhere (****);
The Kids Are All Right (****);
Catfish (****); The Crush (****); One Square Mile Of Earth (****);
Drunk History Vol. 5 (****);
Blue Valentine (****); The Secret Friend (****); God of Love (****);
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (***1/2);
Buried (***1/2);
Black Swan (***1/2);
The Social Network (***1/2);
Inside Job (***1/2);
Waiting For 'Superman' (***1/2);
True Grit (***1/2);
Cyrus (***1/2);
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (***1/2);
The Birds Upstairs (***1/2);
The Fighter (***1/2);
White Material (***1/2);
127 Hours (***1/2);
Toy Story 3 (3D) (***1/2);
Biutiful (***1/2); 38-39º (***1/2);
How to Train Your Dragon (***1/2); The Town (***1/2);
Iron Man 2 (***1/2); Delmer Builds a Machine (***1/2); Fair Game (***1/2); Carbon Nation (***1/2); Sketch (***1/2); Rabbit Hole (***1/2);
Day & Night (***1/2); The Mole (***1/2); Drunk History Vol. 6 (***1/2); Shutter Island (***1/2); Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No (***1/2); Rob and Valentyna in Scotland (***1/2); Na Wewe (***1/2); Memory of a Dancer (***1/2); Pillow Talk (***1/2); Ip Man 2 (***); The Ghost Writer (***);
The Poodle Trainer (***);
Man in a Blizzard/Idiot with a Tripod (***);
Despicable Me (***);
Kick-Ass (***);
Fatakra (***); Hereafter (***);
Wish 143 (***); Wrestling with My Father (***);
Road to Sangam (***);
Let Me In (***);
Astronaut Goes From Migrant Fields to Outer Space (***);
The Confession (***); Controlled Burn (***); The Virtues of Corned Beef Hash (***);
Spice it Up (***);
Mother (***);
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Runners-up
for my Top 10 films of the 2000s include: The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story / Das weisse Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte ('09, Austria/Germany/France/Italy); There Will Be Blood ('07, USA); Letters From Iwo Jima ('06, USA/Japan); Sicko ('07, USA); The Diving Bell and the Butterfly / Le scaphandre et le papillon ('07, France/USA); No Country for Old Men ('07, USA); Fish Tank ('09, UK); The Corporation ('03, Canada); The Believer ('01, USA); Lorna's Silence / Le silence de Lorna ('09, Belgium/France/Italy/Germany); The Son / Le Fils ('02, Belgium/France); Before Sunset ('04, USA); Hero / Ying xiong ('03, China); Sin Nombre ('09, Mexico/USA); Moon ('09, UK); The Visitor ('08, USA); Milk ('08, USA); Let the Right One In / Let Låt den rätte komma in ('08, Sweden); Wendy and Lucy ('08, USA); United 93 ('06, UK/USA); In America ('03, Ireland); The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara ('03, USA); Adaptation. ('02, USA); The Dark Knight ('08, USA/UK); WALL-E ('08, USA); Irréversible ('02, France); Primer ('04, USA); Talk to Her / Hable con ella ('02, Spain)
Runners-up for my Top 10 auteurs of the 2000s include: Hou Hsiao-Hsien (Taiwan/China), Richard Linklater (USA), Paul Thomas Anderson (USA), Zhang Yimou (China), Errol Morris (USA), Pedro Almodóvar (Spain), Martin Scorsese (USA), Woody Allen (USA), Alejandro González Iñárritu (Mexico), Roman Polanski (France/Poland), Lars von Trier (Denmark), Werner Herzog (Germany), Danny Boyle (England/Ireland), Hayao Miyazaki (Japan), Aleksandr Sokurov (Russia), Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand), Gaspar Noé (France/Argentina), Jim Jarmusch (USA), Spike Lee (USA), Deepa Mehta (Canada/India), Mike Leigh (England), NOTE: These are the top auteurs based on output during the '00s, e.g. Scorsese, one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, is only a runner-up here since his best films were in the '70s/'80s, not the '00s. Back Top
RAW Ratings for All 2009 Movies I've Seen
(Theatrically Released Movies in Bold)
The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story / Das weisse Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (****); Fish Tank (****);
Lorna's Silence / Le silence de Lorna (****); Sin Nombre (****); Moon (****); Up in the Air (****); (500) Days of Summer (****); Inglourious Basterds (****);
The Fantastic Mr. Fox (****);
The Art of Drowning (****);
A Prophet / Un prophete (****);
Dogtooth (****);
An Education (****);
The Secret in Their Eyes / El secreto de sus ojos (****);
Crazy Heart (****); The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (****); The Messenger (****);
The Informant! (****); A Single Man (****); Paranormal Activity (****); The Maid / La nana (****);
Up (3D) (****); Star Trek (****); The New Tenants (****);
Logorama (****);
Miracle Fish (****);
The World Is Young (****); The Six Dollar Fifty Man (****);
(Untitled) (****); Can We Talk? (****); Broken Embraces / Los abrazos rotos (***1/2);
Skin (***1/2); The Secret of Kells (***1/2); The Last Station (***1/2);
The Cove (***1/2);
Whatever Works (***1/2);
The Road (***1/2);
A Serious Man (***1/2);
Red Cliff / Chi bi (***1/2); Conrad the Wise (***1/2);
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (***1/2);
Bright Star (***1/2);
Watchmen (***1/2); Capitalism: A Love Story (***1/2);
Antichrist (***1/2);
Countertransference (***1/2);
Kavi (***1/2);
In the Loop (***1/2); The Door (***1/2); Instead of Abracadabra / Istället för abrakadabra (***1/2);
Ponyo (***1/2); The Hangover (***1/2); District 9 (***1/2);
The Hurt Locker (***1/2); 35 Shots Of Rum / 35 rhums (***1/2);
Tetro (***1/2);
Michael Jackson's This Is It (***1/2);
Partly Cloudy (***1/2); A Letter to Uncle Boonmee / Ena gramma ston theio Boonmee (***); The Lovely Bones (***); Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (***); Avatar (IMAX/3D) (***); Invictus (***); The Invention of Lying (***); Me and Orson Welles (***); Julie & Julia (***); The Girl Who Played with Fire (***); The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (***); Choices (***); Angels & Demons (***); The Legend of Chloe (***); Where the Wild Things Are (***); Super Rhino (***);
State of Play (***); Bruno (***); Coraline (3D) (***); 2012 (***); The Bridge (***); Water in the Boat (***); The Commoners (***); For Us (***); The Deaths of Chet Baker (***); Garden Roll Bounce Parking Lot (***); Tiempo al Tiempo (***); Monsters vs Aliens (***);
Pigeon: Impossible (***);
La Mission (***);
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RAW Ratings for All 2008 Movies I've Seen
(Theatrically Released Movies in Bold)
The Visitor (****); Milk (****); Let the Right One In / Let Låt den rätte komma in (****); Wendy and Lucy (****); The Dark Knight (****); WALL-E (****); Revanche (****);
Synecdoche, New York (****); Julia (****); Food, Inc. (****); Hunger (****); Kung Fu Panda (****); Ghost Town (****);
Vicky Christina Barcelona (****);
Pineapple Express (****); Glory at Sea (****);
Toyland / Spielzeugland (****); The Pig / Grisen (****);
Presto (****); On the Line / Auf der Strecke (****); The Wrestler (***1/2); Happy-Go-Lucky (***1/2); Slumdog Millionaire (***1/2); Ip Man (***1/2); Frost/Nixon (***1/2); The Summerlad’s City of Noise (***1/2); The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (***1/2);
Waltz with Bashir (***1/2); Religulous (***1/2);
Doubt (***1/2); 2 Birds / Smáfuglar (***1/2);
Revolutionary Road (***1/2); The Reader (***1/2); Manon on the Asphalt / Manon sur le bitume (***1/2); The Class / Entre les murs (***1/2); Burn After Reading (***1/2); Man on Wire (***1/2); In Bruges (***1/2);
Frozen River (***1/2); W. (***1/2); Cloverfield (***1/2);
By Modern Measure (***1/2); Sikumi (***1/2);
Role Models
(***1/2); Young Love (***1/2); Bronson (***1/2); How I Met Your Father / Cómo conocí a tu padre (***1/2); Forgetting Sarah Marshall
(***1/2); New Boy (***1/2); Semi-Pro (***); Bolt (***); Gomorrah (***); Departures / Okuribito (***); Sunshine Cleaning(***); Changeling (***); Gran Torino (***); Hamlet 2 (***); Hillary: The Movie (***); Quantum of Solace (***); Iron Man (***);
What Just Happened (***);
Harold and Kumar Escape from
Guantanamo Bay
(***); The Rambler (***); Transsiberian (***); Thirteen or So Minutes (***);
Killing Snakes (***); Open House (***); Tropic Thunder (***); Back Top
RAW Ratings for All 2007 Movies I've Seen
(Theatrically Released Movies in Bold)
Nanking (****); There Will Be Blood (****);
The Diving
Bell and the Butterfly
/ Le scaphandre et le papillon
(****); Sicko (****);
Blade Runner - The Final Cut (****);
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days / 4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile (****);
No
Country for Old Men (****); Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of
Fleet Street (****);
Once (****);
Water Lilies / Naissance des pieuvres (****);
Taxi to the Dark Side (****);
Killer of Sheep (****);
Away From Her (****);
Eklavya: The Royal Guard (****);
The Savages (****);
Breach (****); Eastern Promises (****);
Hairspray (****); The Orphanage / Orfanato, El (****);
Gone Baby Gone (****);
The Bourne Ultimatum (****);
Ratatouille (****);
300 (****);
Robert Rodriguez's
Planet Terror (****);
Into the Wild
(***1/2);
Lust, Caution / Se, jie
(***1/2);
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (***1/2);
I'm Not There
(***1/2); Hot Fuzz (***1/2); Cassandra's Dream (***1/2);
The Counterfeiters / Fälscher,
Die (***1/2); The Kite Runner (***1/2); Elizabeth: The Golden Age (***1/2); Mongol (***1/2); Juno (***1/2); On a
Tuesday (***1/2);
Atonement (***1/2);
Enchanted (***1/2); Pop Foul (***1/2); [Rec] (***1/2); Sunshine (***1/2); Persepolis
(***1/2); The Lookout
(***1/2); Michael Clayton (***1/2); La Vie En Rose
(***1/2); American
Gangster (***1/2);
3:10 to Yuma (***1/2); Beowulf (***1/2);
The Simpsons Movie (***1/2); Charlie Wilson's War (***1/2);
Grindhouse (***1/2);
Zodiac (***1/2); A Mighty Heart (***1/2); Knocked Up
(***1/2); Yonderville
(***1/2); Portrait
of an American Family
(***1/2); The Cellar
(***1/2); Blades of Glory (***1/2); Lifted
(***1/2); Lars and the Real Girl (***);
Little Farm (***); Stardust (***); Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (***); I Am Legend (***); Spider-Man 3 (***); Conversion (***); The
Namesake (***); Superbad (***); Visa's Breakout the Violins (***);
Murder on Turnpike Road (***); Tick Tock Lullaby (***); Granite Orchard
(***); When Me Body Lay Down In The Grave (***); When I Find Bin Laden
(***); Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof (***); Back Top
RAW Ratings for All 2006 Movies I've Seen (Theatrically
Released Movies in Bold)
Letters From Iwo Jima
(****), United 93 (****), An Inconvenient Truth (****),
Water (****), Neo Ned (****), Babel (****), Little Children
(****), The Last King of Scotland (****),
The Danish Poet (****),
Inland Empire
(****),
The Lives of Others / Leben der
Anderen, Das (****) , Venus (****), Inside Man (****),
Apocalypto (****), The Departed (****), Volver (****), This Film Is Not Yet Rated (****),
Maestro (****),
The Sasquatch Gang (****), Notes on a Scandal (****), The
Wraith of Cobble Hill (****),
Press
or Say '2' (****), Wordplay (****), Princesas (****), The Devil
Wears Prada (****), The Saviour (****), One Rat Short (****), The Wright
Stuff Episode 1:
Fight or Flight (****), Time / Shi gan (***1/2); Journey from the Fall (***1/2), Tre (***1/2), West Bank Story (***1/2), The
Prestige (***1/2), Syndromes and a Century (***1/2), The Pursuit of Happyness (***1/2), The
Illusionist (***1/2), Idiocracy (***1/2), Guide Dog (***1/2), The
Passenger (***1/2),
Pan's Labyrinth
(***1/2), The Fountain
(***1/2), Children of Men (***1/2), Dreamgirls (***1/2),
Clerks II (***1/2), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (***1/2), School For Scoundrels (***1/2),
Stranger Than Fiction (***1/2), Happy Feet (***1/2), A
Scanner Darkly (***1/2), Art School Confidential (***1/2),
World Trade Center (***1/2), A Prairie Home Companion
(***1/2), Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
(***1/2), The Da Vinci Code (***1/2), Kiss Me Not on the Eyes
(***1/2), Death of a President (***1/2), One Man Band
(***1/2), Superman Returns (***1/2), The Queen (***1/2),
Cars (***1/2), A Terrorist Ate My Brain (***1/2), Borat: Cultural
Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
(***1/2), Casino Royale (***1/2),
Hollywoodland (***1/2),
Facility
For the Common Man (***1/2), Half Nelson (***1/2), Thank You For
Smoking (***1/2), Gandhi at the Bat (***1/2),
Beautiful (***1/2), One Too Many (***1/2),
Nostalgia (***1/2),
Hostel (***1/2), Wally (***1/2), Adam's Eve (***1/2), The Scot and
the Aussie
(***1/2), Daylight Hole
(***1/2), And Then There Were Nun (***1/2), Robots are Blue (***1/2),
Marie Antoinette (***), Alpha Dog (***), American Dreamz
(***), The
Secret (***), Helmer & Son (***),
Akeelah and the Bee (***), Binta and the Great Idea (***),
Dongerize! (***),
Hard Candy (***), Mission: Impossible III (***), Scoop (***), The
Treehouse (***), Charlotte's Web (***), A Gentleman's Duel (***), The
Mailroom (***),
A Riverside Evening
(***),
Flags of Our Fathers (***), V
For Vendetta (***), Full
Metal Slacks (***), Terminal (***), Camp Death (***), Kay Sha Su Bu (***),
The One (***),
Manstray
(***), Numb (***), Stuck in the Moment (***), Back Top
RAW Ratings for All 2005 Movies I've Seen
Hidden / Caché (****), The Squid and the Whale (****), A History of
Violence
(****); Me and You and Everyone
We Know (****); Munich
(****); The Descent (****); King Kong (****);
Broken Flowers
(****); Brokeback
Mountain (****); Pride and Prejudice (****); Murderball (****); The Child / L'enfant (****); Match Point (****); Why We
Fight (****);
The Constant Gardener
(****); Good Night,
and
Good Luck. (****); Millions (****); Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
(****);
My Jealous Barber / Min
Misunnelige Frisor (****);
March of the
Penguins (****); Grizzly Man (****); Paradise Now (****);
Sin City (***1/2);
Star Wars: Episode
III - Revenge of the Sith (***1/2); Reign of the Fallen (***1/2); Tsotsi
(***1/2);
Mrs Henderson Presents (***1/2); North Country
(***1/2);
Transamerica (***1/2);
2046 (***1/2);
Hustle and Flow (***1/2);
Oldboy (***1/2); Syriana (***1/2); Capote (***1/2); Bubble (***1/2); The New World (***1/2); Layer Cake
(***1/2); Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (***1/2);
Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody? (***1/2);
Walk the
Line (***1/2); Duma (***1/2); Junebug
(***1/2);
Wedding Crashers (***1/2); The Aristocrats
(***1/2); Crash
(***1/2); Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (***1/2);
The 40-Year-Old Virgin (***1/2); Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the
Were-Rabbit (***1/2);
War
of the Worlds (***1/2);
Cinderella Man (***1/2); Batman Begins
(***1/2); Proof (***1/2); The
Interpreter (***); Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (***); Lord of War (***); Mr. and Mrs. Smith (***); Kung Fu
Hustle (***); Unleashed
(***);
Intermission (***);
Raging Cyclist (***); Red Eye (***); Rent (***); Back Top
RAW Ratings for All 2004 Movies I've Seen
Primer (****), Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (****), Hero / Ying xiong (****) (see top 10 of
2002), Before Sunset (****), The Incredibles (****),
Downfall / Untergang, Der (****), 3-Iron / Bin-jip (****),
Vera Drake (****), The Aviator (****), Kinsey
(****), Super Size Me (****), Sideways (****), Collateral (****), I Heart
Huckabees (****), Bad
Education / La mala educación (****), Maria Full of Grace (****), Hotel
Rwanda (****),
Eternal
Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (****), Melinda and
Melinda (****), A Very Long Engagement / Un long dimanche de fiançailles
(****),
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of
Azkaban (****), The Bourne Supremacy (****), The Sea Inside / Mar adentro (***1/2), The Chorus /
Choristes, Les (***1/2),
Fahrenheit 9/11 (***1/2), Garden State
(***1/2), Million Dollar Baby (***1/2),
The Motorcycle Diaries / Diarios de motocicleta (***1/2), Anchorman:
The Legend of Ron Burgundy (***1/2), Mean Girls
(***1/2), Saving Face (***1/2),
Ray (***1/2), Finding
Neverland
(***1/2), Closer (***1/2), House of
Flying Daggers / Shi mian mai fu (***1/2), Harold and Kumar Go to White
Castle (***1/2), Shaun of
the Dead (***1/2), Touching the Void (***1/2), Spider-Man 2 (***1/2), The
Passion of The Christ (***1/2), Napoleon Dynamite (***1/2), Tarnation (***1/2),
Team America: World Police (***), The Ladykillers (***), Little Terrorist (***), The Notebook
(***), The Phantom of the
Opera (***), The Grudge (***),
Saw (***), Alexander (***), Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (***),
Meet the Fockers (***), Dawn of the Dead (***),
The Polar
Express (***), Ocean's
Twelve (***), What the Bleep Do We
Know? (***), Back Top
RAW Ratings for All 2003 Movies I've Seen
In
America (****); The Fog of War (****); Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...
and Spring / Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom (****); The Corporation
(****); Monster (****); 21 Grams (****);
Lost in Translation (****); Elephant (****); Dogville (****);
Finding Nemo (****); Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (****);
Big Fish (****);
Capturing the Friedmans (****);
28 Days Later (****); Destino (****);
Shattered Glass (****); Osama (****), American Splendor (****);
Whale Rider (****); Russian
Ark (****); Classic Albums: Pink Floyd - The Making of 'The Dark Side of the
Moon' (****);
Love Actually (***1/2); Maybe Logic: The Lives and Ideas of Robert Anton
Wilson (***1/2);
Mystic River (***1/2);
Girl With a Pearl Earring (***1/2); House of Sand and Fog (***1/2); Thirteen
(***1/2); Bend it Like Beckham (***1/2); Matchstick Men (***1/2); Master and
Commander: The Far Side of the World (***1/2); The Station Agent (***1/2);
Charlotte Sometimes (***1/2);
Good Bye, Lenin! (***1/2);
Flashcards (***1/2); Cold Mountain (***1/2);
School of Rock (***1/2);
Identity (***1/2); The Italian Job (***1/2); Pirates of the Caribbean: The
Curse
of the Black Pearl (***1/2); Bubba Ho-Tep (***1/2); X2: X-Men United
(***1/2); This Is John (***1/2); Old School (***); Bad Santa (***); The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
(***)
(Real Oscar); Swimming Pool (***); Robot Stories (***); The Last
Samurai
(***); Intolerable Cruelty (***); Anything Else (***); Better Luck Tomorrow (***); Terminator 3:
Rise
of the Machines (***); American Wedding (***); Dark Blue (***);
Confidence (***); Gigantic: A Tale
of Two Johns (***);
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Runner-ups
for my Top 10 of 2002 include: Mount Head, The Most Beautiful Man in the World, Spellbound, Shackleton, Far From Heaven,
Punch-Drunk Love, Rabbits,
Rabbit-Proof Fence, Solaris, Insomnia, Moonlight Mile, City of God / Cidade de Deus, Minority
Report, Catch Me If You Can, I'll Wait for the Next One... / J'attendrai le suivant..., About a Boy. Back Top
Runner-ups
for my Top 10 of 2001 include: Dog / Inja, Donnie Darko, Gosford Park,
Frailty, The Man Who Wasn't There,
Memento, Shallow Hal, Bridget Jones' Diary, In the Bedroom. Back Top
Runner-ups for my Top 10 of 2000 include: Cast Away, High
Fidelity, Wonder Boys, Quills, Best in Show, Meet the Parents, Almost Famous,
Pollock, You Can Count on Me, Fleeing by Night / Ye ben, The Contender. Real
Oscar:
Gladiator is nowhere to be found. Back Top
Runner-ups for my Top 10 of 1999 include:
The Sixth Sense,
Princess Mononoke, Man on the Moon, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Sweet and
Lowdown, The Insider,
Magnolia,
Election, Bringing out the Dead. Back Top
Runner-ups
for my Top 10 of 1998 include: Regret to Inform, Antz, Dark City, A Simple Plan, Hilary and Jackie, Gods
and
Monsters, Shakespeare In
Love (Real Oscar), The Thin Red Line, There's Something About Mary, American
History X, Rushmore. Back Top
Runner-ups for my Top 10 of 1997 include: Lost Highway,
Affliction, A Pack of Gifts Now, Jackie Brown, Deconstructing Harry, Contact, Chasing Amy, Gattaca, The Apostle,
Dream With the Fishes. Back Top
Runner-ups
for my Top 10 of 1996 include: Swingers, Secrets and Lies, The English
Patient. Back Top
Runner-ups
for my Top 10 of 1995 include: Mighty Aphrodite; Heat; Kids; Who's Counting?
Marilyn Waring on Sex,
Lies and Global Economics; Babe; Toy Story; The Postman / Il Postino; The
Basketball Diaries. Back Top
Runner-ups
for my Top 10 of 1994 include: Quiz Show, Vanya on 42nd Street, Ed Wood, Reality Bites,
Chungking Express,
Hudsucker Proxy, The Lion
King. Back Top
Runner-ups
for my Top 10 of 1993 include: The Age of Innocence. Back Top
Runner-ups
for my Top 10 of 1992 include: Unforgiven (Real Oscar), White Men Can't Jump, A
Few Good Men, Hard-Boiled /
Lashou shentan, Mississippi Masala, Wayne's World. Back Top
Runner-ups
for my Top 10 of 1991 include: Thelma & Louise, Bugsy, The Man in the Moon, A Little Stiff, Grand
Canyon,
Beauty and the
Beast. Back Top
Runner-ups for my Top 10 of 1990 include: Reversal of Fortune. Back Top
Runner-ups for my Top 10 of 1989 include: Crimes
and Misdemeanors, The Lunch Date, When Harry Met Sally..., The Little Mermaid. Back Top
Runner-ups
for my Top 10 of 1985 include: Re-Animator. Back Top
Runner-ups
for my Top 10 of 1984 include: The Killing Fields, Romancing the Stone. Back Top
Runner-ups
for my Top 10 of 1983 include: Scarface, The Big Chill. Back Top
Runner-ups
for my Top 10 of 1982 include: Rambo: First Blood. Back Top