| Movie | Rating | Year |
| 10 Things I Hate About You (Gil Junger) | ***1/2 | 1999 |
| 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet) | **** | 1957 |
| 127 Hours (Danny Boyle) | **** | 2010 |
| 13 Going on 30 (Gary Winick) | *** | 2004 |
| 2 Days in the Valley (John Herzfeld) | *** | 1996 |
| 200 Cigarettes (Risa Bramon Garcia) | **1/2 | 1999 |
| 21 Grams (Alejandro González Iñárritu) | **** | 2003 |
| 25th Hour (Spike Lee) | **** | 2002 |
| 28 Days Later (Danny Boyle) | ***1/2 | 2003 |
| 28 Weeks Later (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo) | ***1/2 | 2007 |
| 300 (Zack Snyder) | ** | 2007 |
| The 40 Year Old Virgin (Judd Apatow) | **** | 2005 |
| 42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon) | ** | 1933 |
| 48 Hours (Walter Hill) | ***1/2 | 1982 |
| 500 Days of Summer (Marc Webb) | **** | 2009 |
| 54 (Mark Christopher) | **1/2 | 1998 |
| 8 Seconds (John G. Avildsen) | **1/2 | 1994 |
| 8: The Mormon Proposition (Reed Cowan) | ***1/2 | 2010 |
| 9500 Liberty (Annabel Park, Eric Byler) | ***1/2 | 2010 |
| Abandon (Stephen Gaghan) | ** | 2002 |
| About a Boy (Paul Weitz & Chris Weitz) | ***1/2 | 2002 |
| About Schmidt (Alexander Payne) | ***1/2 | 2002 |
| Above the Rim (Jeff Pollack) | *** | 1994 |
| Abraham Lincoln (DW Griffith) | *1/2 | 1930 |
| Absence of Malice (Sydney Pollack) | ***1/2 | 1981 |
| The Abyss (James Cameron) | ***1/2 | 1989 |
| The Accidental Tourist (Lawrence Kasdan) | **** | 1988 |
| Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder) | **** | 1951 |
| Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (Tom Shadyac) | **1/2 | 1994 |
| Adaptation. (Spike Jonze) | ***1/2 | 2002 |
| The Addams Family | **1/2 | 1991 |
| Addams Family Values (Barry Sonnenfeld) | **1/2 | 1993 |
| Addicted to Love (Griffin Dunne) | *** | 1997 |
| Adoration (Atom Egoyan) | *** | 2009 |
| Adventureland (Greg Mottola) | *** | 2009 |
| Adventures in Babysitting (Chris Columbus) | *** | 1987 |
| The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz, William Keighley) | **** | 1938 |
| The Adventures of Tintin (Steven Spielberg) | **1/2 | 2011 |
| After Hours (Martin Scorsese) | ***1/2 | 1985 |
| After the Cup: Sons of Sakhnin United (Christopher Browne) | *** | 2010 |
| The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese) | **** | 1993 |
| Agora (Alejandro Amenábar) | **1/2 | 2010 |
| AI (Steven Spielberg) | **** | 2001 |
| Aimée & Jaguar (Max Färberböck) | **1/2 | 2000 |
| Air Force One (Wolfgang Petersen) | *** | 1997 |
| Airplane! (Jim Abahams, David Zucker) | ***1/2 | 1980 |
| Akeelah and the Bee (Doug Atchison) | *** | 2006 |
| Al Franken: God Spoke (Nick Doob & Chris Hegedus) | *** | 2006 |
| Aladdin | **1/2 | 1992 |
| Ali (Michael Mann) | *** | 2001 |
| Alibi (Roland West) | ***1/2 | 1929 |
| Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Martin Scorsese) | **** | 1974 |
| Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton) | **1/2 | 2010 |
| Aliens (James Cameron) | **** | 1986 |
| All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz) | **** | 1950 |
| All About My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar) | ***1/2 | 1999 |
| All I Wanna Do! (Sarah Kernochan) | **1/2 | 2000 |
| All of Me (Carl Reiner) | *** | 1984 |
| All Over Me (Alex Sichel) | ** | 1997 |
| All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone) | **** | 1930 |
| All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green) | ***1/2 | 2003 |
| All the Right Moves (Michael Chapman) | ***1/2 | 1983 |
| Alley Pat: The Music is Recorded (Tom Roche) | *** | 2010 |
| Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe) | **** | 2000 |
| Always | ** | 1989 |
| American Beauty (Sam Mendes) | **** | 1999 |
| American Dreamz (Paul Weitz) | **1/2 | 2006 |
| American Flyers (John Badham) | *** | 1985 |
| American History X (Tony Kaye) | *** | 1998 |
| American Jihadist (Mark Claywell) | *** | 2010 |
| American Madness (Frank Capra) | **** | 1932 |
| American Movie: The Making of Northwestern (Chris Smith) | *** | 1999 |
| American Pie (Paul Weitz) | *** | 1999 |
| American Pie 2 (J.B. Rogers) | **1/2 | 2001 |
| The American President (Rob Reiner) | **** | 1995 |
| American Psycho (Mary Harron) | *** | 2000 |
| An American Rhapsody (Eva Gardos) | *** | 2001 |
| American Splendor (Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman) | *** | 2003 |
| American Teen (Nanette Burstein) | ***1/2 | 2008 |
| An American Tragedy (Josef Von Sternberg) | **** | 1931 |
| America's Sweethearts (Joe Roth) | *1/2 | 2001 |
| Amistad (Steven Spielberg) | *** | 1997 |
| The Anarchist Cookbook (Jordan Susman) | ** | 2003 |
| Anastasia (Don Bluth, Gary Goldman) | *** | 1997 |
| Angus (Patrick Read Johnson) | *** | 1995 |
| Animal Crackers (Victor Heerman) | *** | 1930 |
| Animal House (John Landis) | ***1/2 | 1978 |
| Anna Christie (Clarence Brown) | ** | 1930 |
| Annie Hall (Woody Allen) | **** | 1977 |
| Another 48 Hours (Walter Hill) | ** | 1990 |
| Another Stakeout (John Badham) | *** | 1993 |
| Antwone Fisher (Denzel Washington) | *** | 2002 |
| Antz (Eric Darnell & Tim Johnson) | *** | 1998 |
| Any Given Sunday (Oliver Stone) | **1/2 | 1999 |
| Anywhere but Here (Wayne Wang) | *** | 1999 |
| The Apartment (Billy Wilder) | **** | 1960 |
| Apocalyspe Now (Francis Ford Coppola) | **** | 1979 |
| Apollo 13 (Ron Howard) | ***1/2 | 1995 |
| Appaloosa (Ed Harris) | ** | 2008 |
| Applause (Rouben Mamoulian) | *1/2 | 1929 |
| Arizona Dream (Emir Kusturica) | * | 1993 |
| Arlington Road (Mark Pellington) | ***1/2 | 1999 |
| Armageddon (Michael Bay) | * | 1998 |
| The Arrival (David Twohy) | *** | 1996 |
| Arrowsmith (John Ford) | ** | 1931 |
| Arsenal (Alexander Dovzhenko) | ***1/2 | 1929 |
| Arsene Lupin (Jack Conway) | *** | 1932 |
| Arthur (Steve Gordon) | ***1/2 | 1981 |
| The Artist (Michael Hazanavicus) | **** | 2011 |
| As Good As it Gets (James L. Brooks) | ***1/2 | 1997 |
| Asphalt (Joe May) | **** | 1929 |
| The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward... (Andrew Dominik) | ***1/2 | 2007 |
| Assault on Precint 13 (John Carpenter) | *** | 1976 |
| At First Sight (Irwin Winkler) | **1/2 | 1999 |
| The Athlete (Davey Frankel, Rasselas Lakew) | *** | 2011 |
| Atlantic City (Louis Malle) | **** | 1980 |
| Austin Powers in Goldmember (Jay Roach) | ** | 2002 |
| Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (Jay Roach) | *** | 1997 |
| Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (Jay Roach) | ***1/2 | 1999 |
| Avatar (James Cameron) | **1/2 | 2009 |
| The Aviator (Martin Scorsese) | **1/2 | 2004 |
| Away From Her (Sarah Polley) | ***1/2 | 2007 |
| Away We Go (Sam Mendes) | **** | 2009 |
| The Babe | ** | 1992 |
| Babe (Chris Noonan) | ***1/2 | 1995 |
| Babe: Pig in the City (George Miller) | *** | 1998 |
| Babel (Alejandro González Iñárritu) | ***1/2 | 2006 |
| Baby Face (Alfred E. Green) | *** | 1933 |
| The Babysitters (David Ross) | *1/2 | 2008 |
| The Bachelor (Gary Sinyor) | 1/2* | 1999 |
| The Bachelor Father (Robert Z. Leonard) | **1/2 | 1931 |
| Bachelor Party (Neal Israel) | **1/2 | 1984 |
| Back to School (Alan Metter) | *** | 1986 |
| Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis) | **** | 1985 |
| Back to the Future 2 (Robert Zemeckis) | *** | 1989 |
| Back to the Future 3 (Robert Zemeckis) | **** | 1990 |
| Bad Girl (Frank Borzage) | **1/2 | 1931 |
| The Bad News Bears (Michael Ritchie) | *** | 1976 |
| Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff) | ***1/2 | 2003 |
| Bad Teacher (Jake Kasdan) | *** | 2011 |
| The Ballad of Jack and Rose (Rebecca Miller) | ** | 2005 |
| Bambi (David Hand) | **** | 1942 |
| Bananas (Woody Allen) | **** | 1971 |
| Bandits (Barry Levinson) | ***1/2 | 2001 |
| Bar Girls (Marita Giovanni) | *1/2 | 1994 |
| Barcelona (Whit Stillman) | *** | 1994 |
| Barefoot in the Park (Gene Saks) | *** | 1967 |
| Basic Instinct | *1/2 | 1992 |
| The Bat Whispers (Roland West) | *** | 1930 |
| Batman & Robin (Joel Schumacher) | ** | 1997 |
| Batman (Tim Burton) | ***1/2 | 1989 |
| Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan) | ***1/2 | 2005 |
| Batman Forever (Joel Schumacher) | ** | 1995 |
| Batman Returns | ** | 1992 |
| The Battle for Bunker Hill (Kevin Willmott) | *1/2 | 2010 |
| The Battle of Pussy Willow Creek (Wendy Jo Cohen) | *** | 2010 |
| Battle of the Sexes (DW Griffith) | ** | 1928 |
| Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein) | **** | 1925 |
| Be Kind Rewind (Michel Gondry) | **1/2 | 2008 |
| Beast of the City (Charles Brabin) | **1/2 | 1932 |
| Beautiful Girls (Ted Demme) | **** | 1996 |
| A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard) | *** | 2001 |
| Beauty Prize (Augusto Genina) | ***1/2 | 1930 |
| Beavis and Butthead Do America (Mike Judge) | *** | 1996 |
| Bed and Sofa (Abram Room) | ***1/2 | 1927 |
| Bed of Roses (Michael Goldenberg) | ** | 1996 |
| Beetlejuice | ***1/2 | 1988 |
| Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater) | **** | 1995 |
| Before Sunset (Richard Linklater) | **** | 2004 |
| Beggars of Life (William Wellman) | ** | 1928 |
| Beginners (Mike Mills) | ***1/2 | 2011 |
| Being Human (Bill Forsyth) | ** | 1994 |
| Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze) | **** | 1999 |
| The Believer (Henry Bean) | ***1/2 | 2002 |
| Beloved (Jonathan Demme) | ***1/2 | 1998 |
| Bend It Like Beckham (Gurinder Chadha) | *** | 2003 |
| Benny & Joon (Jeremiah Chechik) | *** | 1993 |
| Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Walter Ruttman) | ***1/2 | 1928 |
| Besieged (Bernardo Bertolucci) | *1/2 | 1999 |
| Best in Show (Christopher Guest) | ***1/2 | 2000 |
| Best Laid Plans (Mike Barker) | **1/2 | 1999 |
| The Best Man (Malcolm D. Lee) | *** | 1999 |
| A Better Life (Chris Weitz) | *** | 2011 |
| Better Off Dead (Savage Steve Holland) | *** | 1985 |
| Better than Chocolate (Anne Wheeler) | **1/2 | 1999 |
| Better than Sex (Jonathan Teplitzky) | **1/2 | 2001 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies (Penelope Spheeris) | * | 1993 |
| Beverly Hills Cop (Martin Brest) | *** | 1984 |
| Beverly Hills Cop 2 (Tony Scott) | **1/2 | 1987 |
| Beverly Hills Cop 3 (John Landis) | *1/2 | 1994 |
| Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Russ Meyer) | *** | 1970 |
| Big (Penny Marshall) | ***1/2 | 1988 |
| The Big Chill (Lawrence Kasdan) | ***1/2 | 1983 |
| Big Font, Large Spacing (Paul Howard Allen) | *** | 2010 |
| Big Girls Don't Cry | **1/2 | 1992 |
| The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen) | *** | 1998 |
| Big Night (Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci) | ***1/2 | 1996 |
| The Big One (Michael Moore) | ***1/2 | 1997 |
| The Big One (Michael Moore) | ***1/2 | 1998 |
| The Big Trail (Raoul Walsh) | ** | 1930 |
| Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey | *** | 1991 |
| Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (Stephen Herek) | *** | 1989 |
| Billy the Kid (King Vidor) | ***1/2 | 1930 |
| The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock) | **** | 1963 |
| The Bitter Tea of General Yen (Frank Capra) | *** | 1933 |
| Biutiful (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu) | *** | 2010 |
| Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky) | ***1/2 | 2010 |
| Blackmail (Alfred Hitchcock) | *** | 1929 |
| Blade Runner (Ridley Scott) | ***1/2 | 1982 |
| Blades of Glory (Will Speck & Josh Gordon) | ** | 2007 |
| The Blair Witch Project (Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sanchez) | **** | 1999 |
| Blast from the Past (Hugh Wilson) | ** | 1999 |
| Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks) | ***1/2 | 1974 |
| Blink (Michael Apted) | ***1/2 | 1994 |
| Blonde Venus (Josef Von Sternberg) | ** | 1932 |
| Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau) | ***1/2 | 1930 |
| Blood River (Adam Mason) | *** | 2009 |
| Blown Away (Brenton Spencer) | * | 1993 |
| The Blue Angel (Josef Von Sternberg) | **** | 1930 |
| Blue Chips (William Friedkin) | *** | 1994 |
| Blue Crush (John Stockwell) | *** | 2002 |
| Blue Steel | *** | 1989 |
| Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance) | **** | 2010 |
| Blue Velvet (David Lynch) | **1/2 | 1986 |
| Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Paul Mazursky) | *** | 1969 |
| Bodies, Rest & Motion (Michael Steinberg) | **1/2 | 1993 |
| Body Snatchers (Abel Ferrara) | *** | 1993 |
| The Bodyguard | ** | 1992 |
| The Bone Collector (Phillip Noyce) | ** | 1999 |
| Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn) | **** | 1967 |
| Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson) | **** | 1997 |
| Boomerang | *** | 1992 |
| Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen) | *** | 2006 |
| Bordello Of Blood (Gilbert Adler) | *1/2 | 1996 |
| Born on the 4th of July | **** | 1989 |
| Boulevard (Penelope Buitenhuis) | ** | 1994 |
| Bounce (Don Roos) | *** | 2000 |
| Bound (Wachowski Bros.) | **** | 1996 |
| The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass) | *** | 2004 |
| The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass) | ***1/2 | 2007 |
| Bowfinger (Frank Oz) | *** | 1999 |
| Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore) | **** | 2002 |
| Box of Moonlight (Tom Dicillo) | ***1/2 | 1996 |
| Boys Don't Cry (Kimberly Peirce) | **** | 1999 |
| Boyz N The Hood | **** | 1991 |
| The Brandon Teena Story (Susan Muska & Greta Olafsdottir) | *** | 1998 |
| Breakdown (Jonathan Mostow) | *** | 1997 |
| Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards) | *** | 1961 |
| The Breakfast Club (John Hughes) | **** | 1985 |
| Breakfast of Champions (Alan Rudolph) | 1/2* | 1999 |
| Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier) | **** | 1996 |
| Brewster's Millions (Walter Hill) | *** | 1985 |
| Brick (Rian Johnson) | *** | 2006 |
| Bridesmaids (Paul Feig) | **** | 2011 |
| A Bridge Too Far (Richard Attenborough) | *** | 1977 |
| Bridget Jones's Diary (Sharon Maguire) | *** | 2001 |
| Bright Lights, Big City | ***1/2 | 1988 |
| Bring It On (Peyton Reed) | *** | 2000 |
| Bringing Out the Dead (Martin Scorsese) | *** | 1999 |
| Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks) | ** | 1938 |
| Broadcast News (James L. Brooks) | **** | 1987 |
| The Broadway Melody (Harry Beaumont) | *** | 1929 |
| Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee) | **** | 2005 |
| Brokedown Palace (Jonathan Kaplan) | *** | 1999 |
| Broken Arrow (John Woo) | *** | 1996 |
| The Broken Hearts Club -- A Romantic Comedy (Greg Berlanti) | ***1/2 | 2000 |
| Bruce Almighty (Tom Shadyac) | *** | 2003 |
| Bubble Boy (Blair Hayes) | *1/2 | 2001 |
| Buddy (Caroline Thompson) | **1/2 | 1997 |
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer | **1/2 | 1992 |
| A Bug's Life (John Lasseter) | *** | 1998 |
| Bugsy | **** | 1991 |
| Bull Durham (Ron Shelton) | ***1/2 | 1988 |
| Bulworth (Warren Beatty) | **** | 1998 |
| Burn After Reading (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen) | *** | 2008 |
| The Business of Strangers (Patrick Stettner) | *** | 2001 |
| Bustin Loose (Oz Scott) | *** | 1981 |
| But I'm a Cheerleader (Jamie Babbit) | *** | 2000 |
| Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill) | **** | 1969 |
| Bye Bye Love (Sam Weisman) | **1/2 | 1995 |
| The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene) | **** | 1921 |
| The Cable Guy (Ben Stiller) | ***1/2 | 1996 |
| Caddyshack (Harold Ramis) | ***1/2 | 1980 |
| Cadence (Martin Sheen) | ** | 1990 |
| The Cameraman (Edward Sedgwick) | *** | 1928 |
| Canadian Bacon (Michael Moore) | **1/2 | 1995 |
| Candyman | *** | 1992 |
| The Cannonball Run (Hal Needham) | **1/2 | 1981 |
| Cannonball Run 2 (Hal Needham) | * | 1984 |
| Can't Hardly Wait (Deborah Kaplan & Harry Elfont) | **1/2 | 1998 |
| Capote (Bennett Miller) | *** | 2005 |
| Carbon Copy (Michael Schultz) | *** | 1981 |
| Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey) | **** | 1962 |
| Carrie (Brian De Palma) | ***1/2 | 1976 |
| Carried Away (Bruno Barreto) | *** | 1996 |
| Casablanca (Michael Curtiz) | **** | 1942 |
| Casino (Martin Scorsese) | *** | 1995 |
| Cast Away (Robert Zemeckis) | **** | 2000 |
| Casualtes of War | **** | 1989 |
| The Cat and the Canary (Paul Leni) | ***1/2 | 1927 |
| Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg) | ***1/2 | 2002 |
| Cavalcade (Frank Lloyd) | ** | 1933 |
| Cedar Rapids (Miguel Arteta) | *** | 2011 |
| The Cell (Tarsem Singh) | *** | 2000 |
| Cemetery Man (Michele Soavi) | *** | 1994 |
| Center Stage (Nicholas Hytner) | *** | 2000 |
| Chain Reaction (Andrew Davis) | ** | 1996 |
| The Champ (King Vidor) | ** | 1931 |
| Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness (Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Shoedsack) | *** | 1927 |
| Changeling (Clint Eastwood) | ***1/2 | 2008 |
| The Change-Up (David Dobkin) | **1/2 | 2011 |
| Changing Lanes (Roger Michell) | *** | 2002 |
| Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson) | ** | 1981 |
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton) | ** | 2005 |
| Charlie Wilson's War (Mike Nichols) | **** | 2007 |
| Charlie's Angels (McG) | *** | 2000 |
| Charly (Ralph Nelson) | ***1/2 | 1968 |
| The Chase (Adam Rifkin) | ** | 1994 |
| Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith) | ***1/2 | 1997 |
| Chicago (Rob Marshall) | *** | 2002 |
| Chicken Run (Peter Lord & Nick Park) | **** | 2000 |
| Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón) | *** | 2006 |
| The Children's Hour (William Wyler) | ***1/2 | 1961 |
| China Moon (John Bailey) | ***1/2 | 1994 |
| Chinatown (Roman Polanski) | **** | 1974 |
| Chloe (Atom Egoyan) | ** | 2010 |
| A Christmas Story (Bob Clark) | *** | 1983 |
| The Cider House Rules (Lasse Hallström) | *** | 1999 |
| Cimarron (Wesley Ruggles) | ** | 1931 |
| Circumstance (Maryam Keshavarz) | *** | 2011 |
| The Circus (Charles Chaplin) | **** | 1928 |
| Citizen Kane (Orson Welles) | **** | 1941 |
| Citizen Ruth (Alexander Payne) | **** | 1996 |
| City Girl (FW Murnau) | **** | 1930 |
| City Hall (Harold Becker) | ** | 1996 |
| City Lights (Charles Chaplin) | **** | 1931 |
| City of Angels (Brad Silberling) | *** | 1998 |
| A Civil Action (Steven Zaillian) | *** | 1998 |
| The Claim (Michael Winterbottom) | *** | 2001 |
| Claire's Knee (Eric Rohmer) | ***1/2 | 1971 |
| Clash of the Titans (Desmond Davis) | *** | 1981 |
| Class of 1984 (Mark Lester) | *** | 1982 |
| Clerks (Kevin Smith) | *** | 1994 |
| Clerks II (Kevin Smith) | **1/2 | 2006 |
| The Client (Joel Schumacher) | ** | 1994 |
| Cliffhanger (Renny Harlin) | *** | 1993 |
| A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick) | **** | 1971 |
| Close to Home (Vardit Bilu & Dalia Hagar) | ** | 2007 |
| Closer (Mike Nichols) | ***1/2 | 2004 |
| Closet Land | **** | 1991 |
| Cloverfield (Matt Reeves) | ** | 2008 |
| Clueless (Amy Heckerling) | *** | 1995 |
| Cocktail (Roger Donaldson) | ** | 1988 |
| The Cocoanuts (Robert Florey, Joseph Santley) | ***1/2 | 1929 |
| Cocoon (Ron Howard) | *** | 1985 |
| Cold Mountain (Anthony Minghella) | ***1/2 | 2003 |
| Cold Weather (Aaron Katz) | **** | 2011 |
| Coldblooded (M Wallace Wolodarsky) | ***1/2 | 1995 |
| Collateral (Michael Mann) | ***1/2 | 2004 |
| College (James Horne, Buster Keaton) | ** | 1927 |
| Color of Night (Richard Rush) | * | 1994 |
| The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg) | **** | 1985 |
| Coming to America (John Landis) | *** | 1987 |
| Commando (Mark L. Lester) | *** | 1985 |
| Con Air (Simon West) | ** | 1997 |
| Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (George Clooney) | **** | 2002 |
| Conspiracy Theory (Richard Donner) | *** | 1997 |
| Contact (Robert Zemeckis) | **** | 1997 |
| The Contender (Rod Lurie) | ***1/2 | 2000 |
| Cookie's Fortune (Robert Altman) | ***1/2 | 1999 |
| Cool World | ** | 1992 |
| A Cool, Dry Place (John N. Smith) | *** | 1999 |
| The Cooler (Wayne Kramer) | ***1/2 | 2003 |
| Cop Land (James Mangold) | *** | 1997 |
| A Cottage on Dartmoor (Anthony Asquith) | **** | 1930 |
| Counsellor at Law (William Wyler) | ***1/2 | 1933 |
| Courage Under Fire (Edward Zwick) | ***1/2 | 1996 |
| Cradle Will Rock (Tim Robbins) | *** | 1999 |
| The Craft (Adrew Fleming) | ** | 1996 |
| Crash (David Cronenberg) | ** | 1996 |
| Crash (Paul Haggis) | *** | 2005 |
| Crazy Heart (Scott Cooper) | ** | 2009 |
| Crazy, Stupid, Love (Glenn Ficarra, John Requa) | *** | 2011 |
| crazy/beautiful (John Stockwell) | *** | 2001 |
| Crimes and Misdemeanors | **** | 1989 |
| Crimson Tide (Tony Scott) | *** | 1995 |
| Cropsey (Joshua Zeman & Barbara Brancaccio) | *** | 2010 |
| Cropsey (Joshua Zeman, Barbara Brancaccio) | *** | 2010 |
| Crossing in St. Augustine (CB Hackworth) | *** | 2010 |
| Crossing the Bridge | ** | 1992 |
| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee) | **** | 2000 |
| The Crowd (King Vidor) | **** | 1928 |
| The Crucible (Nicholas Hytner) | ***1/2 | 1996 |
| Cruel Intentions (Roger Kumble) | *** | 1999 |
| The Crying Game | ***1/2 | 1992 |
| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher) | *** | 2008 |
| The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Nick Park & Steve Box) | *** | 2005 |
| The Cutting Edge | *** | 1992 |
| CUTUD: The Crossing (Scott Wurth) | *** | 2010 |
| Cyrus (Jay Duplass & Mark Duplass) | *** | 2010 |
| D.E.B.S. (Angela Robinson) | ** | 2005 |
| Dan in Real Life (Peter Hedges) | *** | 2007 |
| Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 (Tim McCanlies) | ** | 1998 |
| Dandelion (Mark Milgard) | * | 2005 |
| A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg) | ***1/2 | 2011 |
| Dangerous Minds (John N. Smith) | ** | 1995 |
| Dante's Peak (Roger Donaldson) | *1/2 | 1997 |
| Dark City (Alex Proyas) | **** | 1998 |
| The Dark Crystal (Jim Henson, Frank Oz) | ***1/2 | 1982 |
| The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan) | **** | 2008 |
| Dark Star (John Carpenter) | *** | 1974 |
| DARYL (Simon Wincer) | *** | 1985 |
| Dave (Ivan Reitman) | ***1/2 | 1993 |
| Dave Chappelle's Block Party (Michel Gondry) | ***1/2 | 2006 |
| Dawn of the Dead (Zack Snyder) | ***1/2 | 2004 |
| The Day After Tomorrow (Roland Emmerich) | ** | 2004 |
| Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev) | *** | 2007 |
| The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise) | **** | 1951 |
| Daylight (Rob Cohen) | *** | 1996 |
| The Daytrippers (Greg Mottola) | *** | 1996 |
| Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater) | *** | 1993 |
| Dead Calm | *** | 1989 |
| Dead Dogs (Clay Eide) | ***1/2 | 1999 |
| Dead Man on Campus (Alan Cohn) | ** | 1998 |
| Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins) | **** | 1995 |
| Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir) | **1/2 | 1989 |
| Deadland (Damon O'Steen) | * | 2009 |
| Dear Frankie (Shona Auerbach) | **** | 2005 |
| Dear Lemon Lima (Suzi Yoonessi) | **** | 2011 |
| Death Becomes Her | ** | 1992 |
| The Death of Alice Blue (Park Bench) | *1/2 | 2009 |
| Deep Blue Sea (Renny Harlin) | **1/2 | 1999 |
| The Deep End of the Ocean (Ulu Grosbard) | ** | 1999 |
| Deep Impact (Mimi Leder) | *** | 1998 |
| The Defiant Ones (Stanley Kramer) | **** | 1958 |
| Demolition Man (Marco Brambilla) | *** | 1993 |
| Denise Calls Up (Hal Salwen) | ** | 1995 |
| The Departed (Martin Scorsese) | ***1/2 | 2006 |
| The Descendants (Alexander Payne) | **** | 2011 |
| Desert Blue (Morgan J. Freeman) | *** | 1999 |
| Design For Living (Ernst Lubitsch) | **** | 1933 |
| Design For Living (Ernst Lubitsch) | **** | 1933 |
| Desperate Hours (Michael Cimino) | *1/2 | 1990 |
| Destiny (Fritz Lang) | ***1/2 | 1921 |
| Diary of a Lost Girl (GW Pabst) | **** | 1929 |
| Dick (Andrew Fleming) | ** | 1999 |
| Die Hard (John McTiernan) | **** | 1988 |
| Die Hard 2 (Renny Harlin) | **** | 1990 |
| Die Hard: With a Vengeance (John McTiernan) | ***1/2 | 1995 |
| Diggstown | ** | 1992 |
| Diner (Barry Levinson) | ***1/2 | 1982 |
| Dinner at Eight (George Cukor) | *** | 1933 |
| Dirty Harry (Don Siegel) | ***1/2 | 1971 |
| Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Frank Oz) | ***1/2 | 1988 |
| Dishonored (Josef von Sternberg) | ***1/2 | 1931 |
| The Distinguished Gentleman | ** | 1992 |
| District 9 (Neill Blomkamp) | *** | 2009 |
| Disturbia (D.J. Caruso) | *1/2 | 2007 |
| Disturbing Behavior (David Nutter) | **1/2 | 1998 |
| The Divorcee (Robert Z. Leonard) | * | 1930 |
| Divorcing God (Maggie Sargent) | ** | 2010 |
| Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee) | **** | 1989 |
| Doc Hollywood | ***1/2 | 1991 |
| The Docks of New York (Josef Von Sternberg) | ***1/2 | 1928 |
| Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet) | **** | 1975 |
| Dog Park (Bruce McCulloch) | *** | 1999 |
| Dogfight | ***1/2 | 1991 |
| Dogma (Kevin Smith) | *** | 1999 |
| Dominick and Eugene | ***1/2 | 1988 |
| Donnie Brasco (Mike Newell) | *** | 1997 |
| The Doom Generation (Gregg Araki) | Zero | 1995 |
| Doomsday (Rowland v. Lee) | *** | 1928 |
| Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder) | **** | 1944 |
| Doubt (John Patrick Shanley) | ***1/2 | 2008 |
| Down Periscope (David S. Ward) | **1/2 | 1996 |
| Down to the Bone (Debra Granik) | **1/2 | 2005 |
| Down to You (Kris Isacsson) | *1/2 | 2000 |
| Down With Love (Peyton Reed) | *** | 2003 |
| Downhill Racer (Michael Ritchie) | *** | 1969 |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian) | *** | 1931 |
| Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Ron Howard) | **1/2 | 2000 |
| Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick) | **** | 1964 |
| Dr. T & the Women (Robert Altman) | **1/2 | 2000 |
| Dracula (Tod Browning) | **1/2 | 1931 |
| Dragonheart (Rob Cohen) | *** | 1996 |
| The Dream Catcher (Ed Radtke) | ***1/2 | 2000 |
| Dream for an Insomniac (Tiffanie DeBartolo) | *1/2 | 1998 |
| Dream Lover (Nicholas Kazan) | *** | 1994 |
| Dreamgirls (Bill Condon) | ***1/2 | 2006 |
| The Dreamlife of Angels (Erick Zonca) | ***1/2 | 1999 |
| Dreams (Akira Kurosawa) | *** | 1990 |
| Drive Me Crazy (John Schultz) | ** | 1999 |
| Driving Miss Daisy (Bruce Beresford) | *** | 1989 |
| Drop Squad (D. Clark Johnson) | * | 1994 |
| Duck Season (Fernando Eimbcke) | *** | 2006 |
| Duck Soup (Leo McCarey) | **** | 1933 |
| Duck Soup (Leo McCarey) | **** | 1933 |
| Dumb & Dumber (Peter Farrelly) | *** | 1994 |
| Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen) | **** | 1941 |
| Dumbstruck (Mark Goffman) | *** | 2010 |
| Duplicity (Tony Gilroy) | **1/2 | 2009 |
| E.T. the Extraterrestrial (Steven Spielberg) | **** | 1982 |
| Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko) | ***1/2 | 1930 |
| Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg) | ***1/2 | 2007 |
| Easy A (Will Gluck) | *** | 2010 |
| Ed Wood (Tim Burton) | **** | 1994 |
| Eddie (Steve Rash) | *1/2 | 1996 |
| The Edge of Heaven (Fatih Akin) | ***1/2 | 2008 |
| Edge of Seventeen (David Moreton) | *** | 1999 |
| Ed's Next Move (John Walsh) | * | 1996 |
| EDtv (Ron Howard) | ** | 1999 |
| An Education (Lone Scherfig) | *** | 2009 |
| Eight Days a Week (Michael Davis) | *** | 1997 |
| Eight Men Out | **** | 1988 |
| Election (Alexander Payne) | **** | 1999 |
| Elephant (Gus Van Sant) | ***1/2 | 2003 |
| Elizabeth (Shekhar Kapur) | **** | 1998 |
| Elizabethtown (Cameron Crowe) | **1/2 | 2005 |
| Emma (Clarence Brown) | **1/2 | 1932 |
| The Emperor Jones (Dudley Murphy) | *** | 1933 |
| Emperor Jones (Dudley Murphy) | ** | 1933 |
| Empire of the Sun (Steven Spielberg) | **** | 1987 |
| Empire Records (Allan Moyle) | *** | 1995 |
| The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner) | **** | 1980 |
| Enchanted (Kevin Lima) | *** | 2007 |
| The End of St. Petersburg (Vsevolod Pudovkin) | *** | 1928 |
| The End of the Affair (Neil Jordan) | *** | 1999 |
| Enemy of the State (Tony Scott) | ***1/2 | 1998 |
| Entrapment (Jon Amiel) | *** | 1999 |
| Eraser (Charles Russell) | *** | 1996 |
| Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh) | **** | 2000 |
| Erotikon (Gustav Machaty) | **1/2 | 1929 |
| Escape From Alcatraz (Donald Siegel) | ***1/2 | 1979 |
| Escape From LA (John Carpenter) | *** | 1996 |
| Eternal Love (Ernst Libitsch) | *** | 1929 |
| Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry) | **** | 2004 |
| Ever After (Andy Tennant) | *** | 1998 |
| Everybody's all-American | **1/2 | 1988 |
| Everyone Says I Love You (Woody Allen) | ***1/2 | 1996 |
| Eve's Bayou (Kasi Lemmons) | ***1/2 | 1997 |
| Executive Decision (Stuart Baird) | *** | 1996 |
| eXistenZ (David Cronenberg) | *** | 1999 |
| Exit 117 (Kevin James McMullin) | *** | 2010 |
| Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy) | ***1/2 | 2010 |
| Exotica (Atom Egoyan) | **** | 1995 |
| Explorers (Joe Dante) | *** | 1985 |
| The Extra Man (Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini) | ** | 2010 |
| Extreme Measures (Michael Apted) | *** | 1996 |
| The Eyes of Me (Keith Maitland) | *** | 2010 |
| Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick) | *** | 1999 |
| The Fabulous Baker Boys | *** | 1989 |
| Face/Off (John Woo) | *** | 1997 |
| Factotum (Bent Hamer) | ** | 2006 |
| The Faculty (Robert Rodriguez) | *** | 1998 |
| Faded Glory (Richard Cohen) | *** | 2009 |
| Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore) | ***1/2 | 2004 |
| Faithless (Harry Beaumont) | ** | 1932 |
| Fall (Eric Schaeffer) | 1/2* | 1997 |
| The Fall of the House of Usher (Jean Epstein) | *** | 1928 |
| Fallen (Gregory Hoblit) | ** | 1998 |
| Family Affair (Chico Colvard) | ** | 2010 |
| The Family Man (Brett Ratner) | *** | 2000 |
| Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson) | ***1/2 | 2009 |
| Far from Heaven (Todd Haynes) | **** | 2002 |
| A Farewell to Arms (Frank Borzage) | ** | 1932 |
| Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Amy Heckerling) | ***1/2 | 1982 |
| Fatal Attractiton (Adrian Lyne) | **1/2 | 1987 |
| Father of the Bride | *** | 1991 |
| The Favor (Donald Petrie) | *1/2 | 1994 |
| Fearless (Peter Weir) | ***1/2 | 1993 |
| Feast of Love (Robert Benton) | *** | 2007 |
| Feed the Fish (Michael Matzdorff) | *1/2 | 2010 |
| Feeling Minnesota (Steven Baigelman) | ** | 1996 |
| Feet First (Clyde Bruckman) | ***1/2 | 1930 |
| Felicia's Journey (Atom Egoyan) | **1/2 | 1999 |
| Female (Michael Curtiz) | **1/2 | 1933 |
| Female (Michael Curtiz) | **1/2 | 1933 |
| Ferris Bueller's Day Off (John Hughes) | **** | 1986 |
| A Few Good Men | **** | 1992 |
| Field of Dreams (Phil Alden Robinson) | **** | 1989 |
| The Fifth Element (Luc Besson) | ** | 1997 |
| The Fighter (David O. Russell) | **** | 2010 |
| The Final Countdown (Don Taylor) | *** | 1980 |
| Final Destination (James Wong) | *** | 2000 |
| Final Destination 2 (David R. Ellis) | *1/2 | 2003 |
| Finding Forrester (Gus Van Sant) | ** | 2000 |
| Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton) | **** | 2003 |
| Finding Neverland (Marc Forster) | ***1/2 | 2004 |
| The Firm (Sydney Pollack) | *** | 1993 |
| First Daughter (Forest Whitaker) | ** | 2004 |
| Firstborn (Michael Apted) | ** | 1984 |
| Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold) | ** | 2010 |
| Five Star Final (Mervyn LeRoy) | ***1/2 | 1931 |
| Flags of Our Fathers (Clint Eastwood) | *** | 2006 |
| Flash Gordon (Mike Hodges) | **1/2 | 1980 |
| Flatliners (Joel Schumacher) | *** | 1990 |
| Flightplan (Robert Schwentke) | * | 2005 |
| Flirt (Hal Hartley) | ** | 1995 |
| Flirting | **** | 1992 |
| Flirting With Disaster (David O. Russell) | ***1/2 | 1996 |
| Fluke (Carlo Carlei) | ***1/2 | 1995 |
| The Fly (David Crornenberg) | ***1/2 | 1986 |
| Fools Rush In (Andy Tennant) | **1/2 | 1997 |
| Footlight Parade (Lloyd Bacon) | *** | 1933 |
| Footloose (Herbert Ross) | *** | 1984 |
| For Love of the Game (Sam Raimi) | *** | 1999 |
| For Love or Money (Barry Sonnenfeld) | *** | 1993 |
| For the Loves of Movies: American Film Criticism (Gerald Peary) | **1/2 | 2009 |
| Forbidden (Frank Capra) | ***1/2 | 1932 |
| Forces of Nature (Bronwen Hughes) | 1/2* | 1999 |
| A Foreign Affair (Billy Wilder) | **** | 1948 |
| Forever Young | **1/2 | 1992 |
| Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Nicholas Stoller) | **** | 2008 |
| Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis) | **** | 1994 |
| Foul Play (Colin Higgins) | *** | 1978 |
| The Four Seasons (Alan Alda) | **** | 1981 |
| Four Sons (John Ford) | *1/2 | 1928 |
| Four Weddings and a Funeral (Mike Newell) | ***1/2 | 1994 |
| Foxfire (Annette Haywood-Carter) | ***1/2 | 1996 |
| Frank Miller's Sin City (Frank Miller & Robert Rodriguez) | ** | 2005 |
| Frankenstein (James Whale) | *** | 1931 |
| Freaks (Tod Browning) | **** | 1932 |
| Freaky Friday (Mark Waters) | *** | 2003 |
| Freddy vs. Jason (Ronny Yu) | *1/2 | 2003 |
| A Free Soul (Clarence Brown) | *1/2 | 1931 |
| Free Willy (Simon Wincer) | *** | 1993 |
| Freedom For Us (Rene Clair) | ***1/2 | 1931 |
| Freedom Riders (Stanley Nelson) | *** | 2010 |
| Freeway (Matthew Bright) | ***1/2 | 1996 |
| The French Connection (William Friedkin) | **1/2 | 1971 |
| Fresh (Boaz Yakin) | ***1/2 | 1994 |
| The Freshman (Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor) | **** | 1925 |
| Friday (F Gary Gray) | *** | 1995 |
| Friday Night Lights (Peter Berg) | **1/2 | 2004 |
| Friday the 13th (Sean S. Cunningham) | ** | 1980 |
| Friday the 13th Part 2 (Steve Miner) | * | 1981 |
| Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (Joseph Zito) | *1/2 | 1984 |
| Friends With Money (Nicole Holofcener) | **** | 2006 |
| Fright Night (Tom Holland) | ***1/2 | 1985 |
| The Frighteners (Peter Jackson) | **** | 1996 |
| From Dusk Til Dawn (Robert Rodriguez) | *** | 1996 |
| From Here to Eternity (Fred Zinneman) | **** | 1953 |
| Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard) | *** | 2008 |
| Frozen Assets | 1/2* | 1992 |
| Frozen River (Courtney Hunt) | *** | 2008 |
| The Fugitive (Andrew Davis) | **** | 1993 |
| Full Frontal (Steven Soderbergh) | *** | 2002 |
| Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick) | *** | 1987 |
| Funny Face (Stanley Donen) | ***1/2 | 1957 |
| Funny Farm | ***1/2 | 1988 |
| Funny Girl (William Wyler) | ***1/2 | 1968 |
| Funny People (Judd Apatow) | ***1/2 | 2009 |
| Gabriel Over the White House (Gregory La Cava) | **1/2 | 1933 |
| Gabriel Over the White House (Gregory Lacava) | **1/2 | 1933 |
| GalaxyQuest (Dean Parisot) | ***1/2 | 1999 |
| The Game (David Fincher) | ***1/2 | 1997 |
| Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese) | ***1/2 | 2002 |
| The Garden of Eden (Lewis Milestone) | ** | 1928 |
| Garden State (Zach Braff) | **** | 2004 |
| Gas Food Lodging | *** | 1992 |
| Gasland (Josh Fox) | *** | 2010 |
| The General (Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton) | ***1/2 | 1927 |
| The General's Daughter (Simon West) | * | 1999 |
| George Washington (David Gordon Green) | ***1/2 | 2000 |
| Get Shorty (Barry Sonnenfeld) | ***1/2 | 1995 |
| Get Smart (Peter Segal) | *** | 2008 |
| Getting to Know You (Lisanne Skyler) | **** | 2000 |
| Ghost (Jerry Zucker) | *** | 1990 |
| Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff) | **** | 2001 |
| The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski) | *** | 2010 |
| Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman) | **** | 1984 |
| Ghostbusters 2 (Ivan Reitman) | **1/2 | 1989 |
| Ghosts of Mississippi (Rob Reiner) | ** | 1996 |
| The Gift (Sam Raimi) | ***1/2 | 2001 |
| Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett) | **1/2 | 2001 |
| A Girl in Every Port (Howard Hawks) | ***1/2 | 1928 |
| The Girl on the Train (André Téchiné) | ** | 2010 |
| Girl Shy (Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor) | ***1/2 | 1924 |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher) | ** | 2011 |
| Girl, Interrupted (James Mangold) | *** | 1999 |
| Girlfight (Karyn Kusama) | ***1/2 | 2000 |
| The Girlfriend Experience (Steven Soderbergh) | *1/2 | 2009 |
| Girls Just Want to Have Fun (Alan Metter) | **1/2 | 1985 |
| Girls Town (Jim McKay) | *** | 1996 |
| Gladiator (Ridley Scott) | *** | 2000 |
| Glory (Edward Zwick) | **** | 1989 |
| Glory Daze (Rich Wilkes) | ** | 1995 |
| Go (Doug Liman) | **** | 1999 |
| Gods and Monsters (Bill Condon) | *** | 1998 |
| The Gods Must Be Crazy (Jamie Uys) | *** | 1981 |
| Godspeed (Robert Saitzyk) | * | 2010 |
| Godzilla (Roland Emmerich) | ** | 1998 |
| Goethe! (Philipp Stolzl) | *1/2 | 2011 |
| Going All the Way (Mark Pellington) | ** | 1997 |
| Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy) | **1/2 | 1933 |
| The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin) | **** | 1925 |
| Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck) | *** | 2007 |
| Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming) | **** | 1939 |
| The Good Girl (Miguel Arteta) | ***1/2 | 2002 |
| The Good Heart (Dagur Kári) | *1/2 | 2010 |
| Good Night, and Good Luck. (George Clooney) | **** | 2005 |
| The Good Son (Joseph Ruben) | ** | 1993 |
| Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant) | **** | 1997 |
| Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese) | **** | 1990 |
| The Goonies (Richard Donner) | *** | 1985 |
| The Graduate (Mike Nichols) | **** | 1967 |
| Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood) | *** | 2008 |
| Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding) | *** | 1932 |
| Grease (Randal Kleiser) | ***1/2 | 1978 |
| Great Expectations (Alfonso Cuarón) | **1/2 | 1998 |
| The Great Outdoors (Howard Deutch) | **1/2 | 1988 |
| Great World of Sound (Craig Zobel) | **** | 2007 |
| Greedy (Jonathan Lynn) | *** | 1994 |
| Green Card (Peter Weir) | *** | 1990 |
| Green Mansions (Mel Ferrer) | *1/2 | 1959 |
| The Green Mile (Frank Darabont) | *** | 1999 |
| Green Street Hooligans (Lexi Alexander) | ** | 2005 |
| Greenberg (Noah Baumbach) | ***1/2 | 2010 |
| Gregory's Girl (Bill Forsyth) | ***1/2 | 1981 |
| Gremlins (Joe Dante) | **** | 1984 |
| Gridlock'd (Vondie Curtis-Hall) | *** | 1997 |
| The Grifters (Stephen Frears) | **** | 1990 |
| Grindhouse (Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino) | *** | 2007 |
| Gross Anatomy | ***1/2 | 1989 |
| Grosse Pointe Blank (George Armitage) | ***1/2 | 1997 |
| Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis) | ***1/2 | 1993 |
| The Grudge (Takashi Shimizu) | ***1/2 | 2004 |
| Guarding Tess (Hugh Wilson) | *** | 1994 |
| Guess Who (Kevin Rodney Sullivan) | ** | 2005 |
| Guinevere (Audrey Wells) | ***1/2 | 1999 |
| Hackers (Iain Softley) | * | 1995 |
| Hail the Conquering Hero (Preston Sturges) | **** | 1944 |
| Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck) | *** | 2006 |
| Hallelujah! (King Vidor) | **1/2 | 1929 |
| Halloween (John Carpenter) | **** | 1978 |
| Halloween 2 (Rick Rosenthal) | *** | 1981 |
| Halloween 5 | * | 1989 |
| Halloween Resurrection (Rick Rosenthal) | **1/2 | 2002 |
| Halloween: H2O (Steve Miner) | ** | 1998 |
| Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (Joe Chappelle) | 1/2* | 1995 |
| Hancock (Peter Berg) | *** | 2008 |
| The Hand that Rocks the Cradle | *1/2 | 1992 |
| Handsome Harry (Bette Gordon) | *** | 2010 |
| Hangman's House (John Ford) | *** | 1928 |
| The Hangover (Todd Phillips) | *** | 2009 |
| Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen) | **** | 1986 |
| Hannibal (Ridley Scott) | *** | 2001 |
| Happiness (Todd Solondz) | **** | 1998 |
| Happy Endings (Don Roos) | **1/2 | 2005 |
| Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson) | ***1/2 | 1996 |
| The Hard Way | *** | 1991 |
| Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby) | **** | 1971 |
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Chris Columbus) | *** | 2002 |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (David Yates) | *** | 2010 |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (David Yates) | **** | 2011 |
| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Mike Newell) | *** | 2005 |
| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (David Yates) | *** | 2009 |
| Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (David Yates) | ***1/2 | 2007 |
| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Alfonso Cuarón) | **** | 2004 |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Chris Columbus) | *** | 2001 |
| He Got Game (Spike Lee) | *** | 1998 |
| Head Above Water (Jim Wilson) | *1/2 | 1996 |
| Heart of Stone (Beth Toni Kruvant) | *** | 2009 |
| The Heart of the Game (Ward Serrill) | **** | 2006 |
| Heartbreak Ridge (Clint Eastwood) | *** | 1986 |
| Hearts and Souls (Ron Underwood) | *** | 1993 |
| Heathers (Michael Lehmann) | **** | 1989 |
| Heaven Can Wait (Warren Beatty, Buck Henry) | **** | 1978 |
| Heaven Help Us (Michael Dinner) | *** | 1985 |
| Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson) | **** | 1994 |
| Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell) | **1/2 | 2001 |
| Heights (Chris Terrio) | *** | 2005 |
| Hell's Angels (Howard Hughes) | ***1/2 | 1930 |
| Hell's Kitchen (Tony Cinciripini) | **1/2 | 1999 |
| The Help (Tate Taylor) | **1/2 | 2011 |
| Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (John McNaughton) | **** | 1986 |
| Hercules (Ron Clements, John Musker) | *** | 1997 |
| Here on Earth (Mark Piznarski) | * | 2000 |
| Hero (Zhang Yimou) | ***1/2 | 2004 |
| Heroes For Sale (William Wellman) | *** | 1933 |
| Hey Arnold! The Movie (Tuck Tucker) | *** | 2002 |
| Hideous Kinky (Gillies MacKinnon) | *** | 1999 |
| High Art (Lisa Cholodenko) | **1/2 | 1998 |
| High Fidelity (Stephen Frears) | **** | 2000 |
| Highball (Noah Baumbach) | **1/2 | 1997 |
| Higher Learning (John Singleton) | *** | 1995 |
| Highway to Hell | **1/2 | 1991 |
| Hi-Life (Roger Hedden) | **1/2 | 1998 |
| The Hills Have Eyes (Wes Craven) | *** | 1977 |
| His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks) | **** | 1940 |
| A History of Violence (David Cronenberg) | **** | 2005 |
| Hitch (Andy Tennant) | *** | 2005 |
| The Hitcher (Robert Harmon) | ** | 1986 |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Garth Jennings) | *** | 2005 |
| The Holiday (Nancy Meyers) | *** | 2006 |
| Hollow Man (Paul Verhoeven) | ** | 2000 |
| Holy Smoke (Jane Campion) | *** | 1999 |
| Home Alone (Chris Columbus) | **1/2 | 1990 |
| Home For the Holidays (Jodie Foster) | ***1/2 | 1995 |
| Homeward Bound 2: Lost in San Francisco (David R. Ellis) | **1/2 | 1996 |
| Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (Duwayne Dunham) | *** | 1993 |
| Honey (Billie Woodruff) | ** | 2003 |
| Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (Joe Johnston) | **1/2 | 1989 |
| Honeydripper (John Sayles) | *** | 2007 |
| Honeymoon in Vegas | ***1/2 | 1992 |
| Hoop Dreams (Steve James) | **** | 1994 |
| Hoosiers (David Anspaugh) | **** | 1986 |
| Horrible Bosses (Seth Gordon) | **1/2 | 2011 |
| Horse Feathers (Norman McLeod) | ***1/2 | 1932 |
| The Host (Bong Joon-ho) | *** | 2007 |
| Hot Shots | *** | 1991 |
| Hot Shots! Part Deux (Jim Abrahams) | *** | 1993 |
| Hot Tub Time Machine (Steve Pink) | *1/2 | 2010 |
| Hot Water (Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor) | **** | 1924 |
| Hotel de Love (Craig Rosenberg) | ** | 1996 |
| Hotel Rwanda (Terry George) | **** | 2004 |
| The Hours (Stephen Daldry) | *** | 2002 |
| House Arrest (Harry Winer) | * | 1996 |
| House of Sand and Fog (Vadim Perelman) | ***1/2 | 2003 |
| The House of Yes (Mark Waters) | *** | 1997 |
| Housesitter | *** | 1992 |
| How I Got Into College | *** | 1989 |
| How to Train Your Dragon (Dean DeBlois & Chris Sanders) | *** | 2010 |
| Howard the Duck (Willard Huyck) | ** | 1986 |
| Howl's Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki) | **1/2 | 2005 |
| Hudson Hawk | ** | 1991 |
| Hugo (Martin Scorsese) | ***1/2 | 2011 |
| Hulk (Ang Lee) | *** | 2003 |
| The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (Tom Six) | * | 2010 |
| Humpday (Lynn Shelton) | ** | 2009 |
| Hurlyburly (Anthony Drazan) | **1/2 | 1998 |
| The Hurricane (Norman Jewison) | *** | 1999 |
| Hurricane Streets (Morgan J. Freeman) | *** | 1998 |
| The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow) | *** | 2009 |
| Husbands and Wives | **** | 1992 |
| I Am A Fugitive From a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy) | **** | 1932 |
| I Am Legend (Francis Lawrence) | *** | 2007 |
| I Am the Bluebird (Unknown) | * | 2009 |
| I Know What You Did Last Summer (Jim Gillespie) | *** | 1997 |
| I Love You, I Love You Not (Billy Hopkins) | *1/2 | 1996 |
| I Love You, Man (John Hamburg) | ** | 2009 |
| I Spit On Your Grave (Meir Zarchi) | Zero | 1978 |
| I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (Danny Cannon) | *1/2 | 1998 |
| I Was Born, But... (Yasujiro Ozu) | ***1/2 | 1932 |
| I, Robot (Alex Proyas) | *** | 2004 |
| The Ice Storm (Ang Lee) | **** | 1997 |
| An Ideal Husband (Oliver Parker) | ***1/2 | 1999 |
| The Ides of March (George Clooney) | **1/2 | 2011 |
| Igby Goes Down (Burr Steers) | *** | 2002 |
| I'll Do Anything (James L. Brooks) | **1/2 | 1994 |
| The Illusionist (Neil Burger) | ** | 2006 |
| I'm Reed Fish (Zackary Adler) | ** | 2007 |
| Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk) | ***1/2 | 1959 |
| In & Out (Frank Oz) | ***1/2 | 1997 |
| In Good Company (Paul Weitz) | **1/2 | 2004 |
| In Her Shoes (Curtis Hanson) | *** | 2005 |
| In the Bedroom (Todd Field) | *** | 2001 |
| In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute) | **** | 1997 |
| In the Land of Women (Jonathan Kasdan) | *** | 2007 |
| In the Line of Fire (Wolfgang Petersen) | *** | 1993 |
| In the Loop (Armando Iannucci) | ***1/2 | 2009 |
| In the Name of the Father (Jim Sheridan) | *** | 1993 |
| Inception (Christopher Nolan) | **** | 2010 |
| The Incredible Hulk (Louis Leterrier) | *** | 2008 |
| The Incredible Shrinking Woman (Joel Schumacher) | *** | 1981 |
| The Incredibles (Brad Bird) | **** | 2004 |
| Indecent Proposal (Adrian Lyne) | ** | 1993 |
| Independence Day (Roland Emmerich) | *** | 1996 |
| Indian Summer (Mike Binder) | *** | 1993 |
| Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg) | **1/2 | 2008 |
| Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg) | **** | 1989 |
| Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg) | **** | 1984 |
| The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh) | ***1/2 | 2009 |
| Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino) | **** | 2009 |
| Inherit the Wind (Stanley Kramer) | *** | 1960 |
| Inside Man (Spike Lee) | ***1/2 | 2006 |
| The Insider (Michael Mann) | ***1/2 | 1999 |
| Internal Affairs (Mike Figgis) | ** | 1990 |
| Interview With the Vampire (Neil Jordan) | *** | 1994 |
| Into the Night (John Landis) | *** | 1985 |
| Intolerable Cruelty (Joel Coen) | ***1/2 | 2003 |
| Inventing the Abbots (Pat O' Connor) | ** | 1997 |
| The Invention of Lying (Ricky Gervais & Matthew Robinson) | *** | 2009 |
| Invictus (Clint Eastwood) | *** | 2009 |
| The Invisible Circus (Adam Brooks) | ** | 2001 |
| The Invisible Man (James Whale) | *** | 1933 |
| The Invisibles (Noah Stern) | *** | 1999 |
| Iron Eagle (Sidney J. Furie) | **1/2 | 1986 |
| The Iron Giant (Brad Bird) | **** | 1999 |
| Iron Man (Jon Favreau) | *** | 2008 |
| Iron Man 2 (Jon Favreau) | *** | 2010 |
| The Iron Mask (Allan Dwan) | **** | 1929 |
| It (Clarence Badger) | ** | 1927 |
| It Could Happen to You (Andrew Bergman) | *** | 1994 |
| It Happened One Night (Frank Capra) | **** | 1934 |
| Italian for Beginners (Lone Scherfig) | ***1/2 | 2002 |
| It's A Wonderful Life (Frank Capra) | **** | 1946 |
| It's Kind of a Funny Story (Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck) | *** | 2010 |
| It's My Party (Randal Kleiser) | **1/2 | 1996 |
| J. Edgar (Clint Eastwood) | ** | 2011 |
| Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino) | ***1/2 | 1997 |
| Jacob's Ladder (Adrian Lyne) | ***1/2 | 1990 |
| Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (Adam Marcus) | * | 1993 |
| Jawbreaker (Darren Stein) | ** | 1999 |
| Jaws (Steven Spielberg) | **** | 1975 |
| Jaws 2 (Jeannot Szwarc) | *** | 1979 |
| The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland) | ** | 1927 |
| The Jerk (Carl Reiner) | *** | 1979 |
| Jerry Maguire (Cameron Crowe) | **** | 1996 |
| JFK | **** | 1991 |
| Joe Versus the Volcano (John Patrick Shanley) | ***1/2 | 1990 |
| Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (Stanley Nelson) | *** | 2006 |
| Josie and the Pussycats (Deborah Kaplan & Harry Elfont) | ** | 2001 |
| The Joy Luck Club (Wayne Wang) | *** | 1993 |
| Joy Ride (John Dahl) | **** | 2001 |
| Joyride (Quinton Peeples) | * | 1997 |
| Judge Dredd (Danny Cannnon) | *1/2 | 1995 |
| Judgment Night (Stephen Hopkins) | **1/2 | 1993 |
| Juice | *** | 1992 |
| Julie & Julia (Nora Ephron) | ** | 2009 |
| Jumanji (Joe Johnston) | *** | 1995 |
| Jumpin Jack Flash (Penny Marshall) | *** | 1986 |
| Junebug (Phil Morrison) | **1/2 | 2005 |
| The Jungle Book (Wolfgang Reitherman) | **** | 1967 |
| Jungle Fever | ***1/2 | 1991 |
| Juno (Jason Reitman) | ***1/2 | 2007 |
| Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg) | *** | 1993 |
| Jurassic Park III (Joe Johnston) | ** | 2001 |
| The Juror (Brian Gibson) | * | 1996 |
| Just a Little Harmless Sex (Rick Rosenthal) | ** | 1999 |
| Just One of the Guys (Lisa Gottlieb) | ** | 1985 |
| The Karate Kid (John G. Avildsen) | **** | 1984 |
| Karate Kid 3 | ** | 1989 |
| The Karate Kid Part II (John G. Avildsen) | *** | 1986 |
| The Karate Kid Part III (John G. Avildsen) | *1/2 | 1989 |
| Kassim the Dream (Kief Davidson) | *** | 2009 |
| Keeping the Faith (Edward Norton) | ***1/2 | 2000 |
| Kick-Ass (Matthew Vaughn) | *** | 2010 |
| Kicking and Screaming (Noah Baumbach) | **** | 1995 |
| The Kid (Charles Chaplin) | **** | 1921 |
| The Kid Brother (Ted Wilde and JA Howe) | ***1/2 | 1927 |
| Kids (Larry Clark) | ** | 1995 |
| The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko) | ***1/2 | 2010 |
| Kiki's Delivery Service | *** | 1989 |
| Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino) | *** | 2004 |
| Kill Bill, Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino) | **** | 2003 |
| Killer Movie (Jeff Fisher) | * | 2009 |
| The Killing (Stanley Kubrick) | ***1/2 | 1956 |
| King Kong (Merian C. Cooper, Ernest Shoedsack) | ***1/2 | 1933 |
| King Kong (Peter Jackson) | **** | 2005 |
| The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese) | **** | 1983 |
| King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (Seth Gordon) | *** | 2007 |
| The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (Seth Gordon) | *** | 2007 |
| King of the Hill (Steven Soderbergh) | **** | 1993 |
| The King's Speech (Tom Hooper) | ***1/2 | 2010 |
| Kinsey (Bill Condon) | ***1/2 | 2004 |
| Kiss the Girls (Gary Fleder) | *** | 1997 |
| Kissing Jessica Stein (Charles Herman-Wurmfeld) | **** | 2002 |
| Klute (Alan J. Pakula) | ***1/2 | 1971 |
| Knocked Up (Judd Apatow) | **** | 2007 |
| Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton) | **** | 1979 |
| Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow) | *1/2 | 2005 |
| LA Confidenntial (Curtis Hanson) | **** | 1997 |
| LA Story | *** | 1991 |
| The Lady and the Tramp (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson) | ***1/2 | 1955 |
| Lady for a Day (Frank Capra) | ***1/2 | 1933 |
| Lady For a Day (Frank Capra) | ***1/2 | 1933 |
| Lady in White | *** | 1988 |
| Lady Killer (Roy Del Ruth) | *** | 1933 |
| The Ladykillers (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen) | *** | 2004 |
| L'âge d'or (Luis Bunuel) | **1/2 | 1930 |
| Lake Placid (Steve Miner) | **1/2 | 1999 |
| Lake Tahoe (Fernando Eimbcke) | *** | 2009 |
| Lars and the Real Girl (Craig Gillespie) | ***1/2 | 2007 |
| Last Action Hero (John McTiernan) | ** | 1993 |
| The Last Command (Josef Von Sternberg) | *** | 1928 |
| The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman) | ***1/2 | 1998 |
| The Last House on the Left (Wes Craven) | *** | 1972 |
| The Last King of Scotland (Kevin Macdonald) | *** | 2006 |
| The Last Kiss (Tony Goldwyn) | ** | 2006 |
| Last Night (Don McKellar) | *** | 1999 |
| The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich) | **** | 1971 |
| The Last Samurai (Edward Zwick) | ***1/2 | 2003 |
| The Last Seduction (John Dahl) | **** | 1994 |
| The Last Starfighter (Nick Castle) | *** | 1984 |
| The Last Supper (Stacy Title) | **** | 1996 |
| The Last Warning (Paul Leni) | *** | 1929 |
| Laugh, Clown, Laugh (Herbert Brenon) | **** | 1928 |
| Laura (Otto Preminger) | **** | 1944 |
| Lawn Dogs (John Duigan) | *** | 1997 |
| Lawn Dogs (John Duigan) | *** | 1998 |
| A League of Their Own | *** | 1992 |
| Lean on Me (John G. Avildsen) | ***1/2 | 1989 |
| Leatherheads (George Clooney) | ***1/2 | 2008 |
| Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis) | **** | 1995 |
| Legally Blonde (Robert Luketic) | **1/2 | 2001 |
| Legend (Ridley Scott) | *** | 1985 |
| Let it Ride | *** | 1989 |
| Let Me In (Matt Reeves) | *** | 2010 |
| Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson) | **** | 2008 |
| Lethal Weapon (Richard Donner) | ***1/2 | 1987 |
| Lethal Weapon 2 (Richard Donner) | ***1/2 | 1989 |
| Lethal Weapon 3 | *** | 1992 |
| Lethal Weapon 4 (Richard Donner) | *** | 1998 |
| Letters From Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood) | ***1/2 | 2006 |
| Liar Liar (Tom Shadyac) | *** | 1997 |
| Liberty Heights (Barry Levinson) | *** | 1999 |
| License to Drive | ** | 1988 |
| License to Wed (Ken Kwapis) | * | 2007 |
| Life (Ted Demme) | *** | 1999 |
| The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson) | ** | 2004 |
| Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella) (Roberto Benigni) | ***1/2 | 1998 |
| Life Is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni) | ***1/2 | 1997 |
| A Life Less Ordinary (Danny Boyle) | ** | 1997 |
| Life of Brian (Terry Jones) | ***1/2 | 1979 |
| Life With Mikey (James Lapine) | **1/2 | 1993 |
| Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock) | *** | 1944 |
| Light of Day (Paul Schrader) | *** | 1987 |
| Like Father Like Son | * | 1987 |
| Liliom (Frank Borzage) | *** | 1930 |
| Limbo (John Sayles) | *** | 1999 |
| The Limey (Steven Soderbergh) | *** | 1999 |
| The Lion King (Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff) | ***1/2 | 1994 |
| Little Big League (Andrew Scheinman) | *** | 1994 |
| Little Caeser (Mervyn LeRoy) | ***1/2 | 1931 |
| Little Children (Todd Field) | *** | 2006 |
| Little Man Tate | ***1/2 | 1991 |
| The Little Mermaid (Ron Clements, John Musker) | ***1/2 | 1989 |
| Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris) | **** | 2006 |
| A Little Romance (George Roy Hill) | ***1/2 | 1979 |
| Little Women (George Cukor) | **** | 1933 |
| Little Women (Gillian Armstrong) | **** | 1994 |
| Live Free or Die (Gregg Kavet & Andy Robin) | *1/2 | 2007 |
| Live Free or Die Hard (Len Wiseman) | *** | 2007 |
| Live Nude Girls (Julianna Lavin) | **1/2 | 1995 |
| Living in Oblivion (Tom Dicillo) | *** | 1995 |
| Living is Winning (Linda Burns) | *** | 2009 |
| Living Out Loud (Richard LaGravenese) | *** | 1998 |
| The Lodger (Alfred Hitchcock) | ***1/2 | 1928 |
| The Longest Yard (Robert Aldrich) | ***1/2 | 1974 |
| Look at Me (Agnès Jaoui) | *** | 2005 |
| The Lookout (Scott Frank) | *** | 2007 |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson) | **** | 2001 |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson) | **** | 2003 |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson) | **** | 2002 |
| Lorenzo's Oil | *** | 1992 |
| Los Campeones De La Lucha Libre (Eddie Mort) | **1/2 | 2008 |
| Loser (Amy Heckerling) | ** | 2000 |
| Lost and Delirious (Léa Pool) | **** | 2001 |
| Lost in America (Albert Brooks) | ***1/2 | 1985 |
| Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola) | **** | 2003 |
| The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder) | **** | 1945 |
| The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg) | ***1/2 | 1997 |
| Love & Basketball (Gina Prince-Bythewood) | *** | 2000 |
| Love (Edmund Goulding) | *** | 1927 |
| Love Actually (Richard Curtis) | *** | 2003 |
| Love Affair (Glenn Gordon Caron) | **1/2 | 1994 |
| Love and a .45 (CM Talkington) | *** | 1994 |
| Love and Death on Long Island (Richard Kwietniowski) | **** | 1998 |
| Love and Other Catastrophes (Emma-Kate Coghan) | **** | 1996 |
| Love Field | *** | 1992 |
| Love in the Afternoon (Billy Wilder) | **** | 1957 |
| Love in the Time of Money (Peter Mattei) | *** | 2002 |
| Love Jones (Theodore Witcher) | ***1/2 | 1997 |
| Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian) | ***1/2 | 1932 |
| The Love of Jeanne Ney (GW Pabst) | *** | 1928 |
| Love on the Rocks (Justin Edwards) | ** | 2010 |
| The Love Parade (Ernst Lubitsch) | **** | 1929 |
| The Love Trap (William Wyler) | * | 1929 |
| Lovely & Amazing (Nicole Holofcener) | **** | 2002 |
| The Low Life (George Hickenlooper) | *** | 1995 |
| Lucas (David Seltzer) | **** | 1986 |
| Lucky Star (Frank Borzage) | ***1/2 | 1929 |
| M (Fritz Lang) | **** | 1931 |
| Mad Hot Ballroom (Marilyn Agrelo) | *** | 2005 |
| Mad Love (Antonia Bird) | *1/2 | 1995 |
| Made in America (Richard Benjamin) | **1/2 | 1993 |
| The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan) | **** | 2003 |
| Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson) | **** | 1999 |
| Major League (David Ward) | ***1/2 | 1989 |
| Major League 2 (David S. Ward) | *1/2 | 1994 |
| Make-Out With Violence (Deagol Brothers) | *** | 2010 |
| Making Mr. Right | *** | 1987 |
| Malcolm X | **** | 1992 |
| Mallrats (Kevin Smith) | **1/2 | 1995 |
| Maltese Falcon (Roy Del Ruth) | ** | 1931 |
| The Man in the Moon | ***1/2 | 1991 |
| Man on the Moon (Milos Forman) | *** | 1999 |
| The Man Who Laughs (Paul Leni) | ***1/2 | 1928 |
| The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen) | **** | 2001 |
| Man With a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov) | *** | 1929 |
| Manhattan (Woody Allen) | **** | 1979 |
| Manhattan Murder Mystery (Woody Allen) | *** | 1993 |
| The Manhattan Project (Marshall Brickman) | ***1/2 | 1986 |
| A Man's Castle (Frank Borzage) | **** | 1933 |
| A Man's Castle (Frank Borzage) | ***1/2 | 1933 |
| Mansfield Park (Patricia Rozema) | *** | 1999 |
| A Map of the World (Scott Elliott) | ***1/2 | 1999 |
| Marathon Man (John Schlesinger) | **** | 1976 |
| March of the Penguins (Luc Jacquet) | *** | 2005 |
| Margin Call (J.C. Chandor) | ***1/2 | 2011 |
| Maria Full of Grace (Joshua Marston) | *** | 2004 |
| Married to the Mob | ***1/2 | 1988 |
| Mars Attacks (Tim Burton) | *** | 1996 |
| Marvin's Room (Jerry Zaks) | ***1/2 | 1996 |
| Maryam (Ramin Serry) | *** | 2002 |
| MASH (Robert Altman) | **** | 1970 |
| Mask (Peter Bogdanovich) | ***1/2 | 1985 |
| The Mask (Charles Russell) | *** | 1994 |
| Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir) | ***1/2 | 2003 |
| Masters of the Universe | * | 1987 |
| Mata Hari (George Fitzmaurice) | *** | 1931 |
| Match Point (Woody Allen) | *** | 2005 |
| The Matchmaker (Mark Joffe) | *** | 1997 |
| Matewan | **** | 1987 |
| Matinee (Joe Dante) | *** | 1993 |
| The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human (Jeff Abugor) | *1/2 | 1999 |
| The Matrix (The Wachowski Brothers) | **** | 1999 |
| The Matrix Reloaded (The Wachowski Brothers) | *1/2 | 2003 |
| The Matrix Revolutions (The Wachowski Brothers) | **1/2 | 2003 |
| Maverick (Richard Donner) | *** | 1994 |
| McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman) | **** | 1971 |
| Me and My Gal (Raoul Walsh) | **** | 1932 |
| Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July) | **** | 2005 |
| Me Without You (Sandra Goldbacher) | *** | 2002 |
| Me, Myself & Irene (Bobby Farrelly & Peter Farrelly) | *** | 2000 |
| Mean Girls (Mark Waters) | *** | 2004 |
| The Meaning of Life (Terry Jones) | ***1/2 | 1983 |
| Meet the Feebles | *** | 1989 |
| Memento (Christopher Nolan) | **** | 2001 |
| Memoirs of an Invisible Man | ** | 1992 |
| Men in Black (Barry Sonnenfeld) | *** | 1997 |
| Men in Black II (Barry Sonnenfeld) | ** | 2002 |
| Menace II Society (Hughes Bros.) | ***1/2 | 1993 |
| Metro (Thomas Carter) | *** | 1997 |
| Metroland (Philip Saville) | *** | 1999 |
| Metropolis (Fritz Lang) | **** | 1927 |
| Metropolitan (Whit Stillman) | **** | 1990 |
| Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy) | **** | 2007 |
| Midnight Madness (Michael Nankin, David Wechter) | ** | 1980 |
| Midnight Run (Martin Brest) | **** | 1988 |
| Midway (Jack Smight) | ** | 1976 |
| Mighty Aphrodite (Woody Allen) | *** | 1995 |
| Milk (Gus Van Sant) | ***1/2 | 2008 |
| Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood) | **** | 2004 |
| Millions (Danny Boyle) | *** | 2005 |
| Mimic (Guillermo Del Toro) | *** | 1997 |
| Min and Bill (George W. Hill) | *** | 1930 |
| Minority Report (Steven Spielberg) | **** | 2002 |
| The Minus Man (Hampton Fancher) | **1/2 | 1999 |
| Miracle (Gavin O'Connor) | *** | 2004 |
| Miracle Mile | ***1/2 | 1989 |
| Miracle Woman (Frank Capra) | **** | 1931 |
| Mischief (Mel Damski) | ** | 1985 |
| Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Brad Bird) | **** | 2011 |
| Mission to Mars (Brian De Palma) | * | 2000 |
| Mission: Impossible (Brian DePalma) | *** | 1996 |
| Mission: Impossible II (John Woo) | *** | 2000 |
| Mission: Impossible III (J.J. Abrams) | *** | 2006 |
| Mississippi Damned (Tina Mabry) | *** | 2009 |
| The Mod Squad (Scott Silver) | *1/2 | 1999 |
| Modern Times (Charles Chaplin) | **** | 1936 |
| Mommie Dearest (Frank Perry) | ** | 1981 |
| Mona Lisa Smile (Mike Newell) | *** | 2003 |
| The Money Pit (Richard Benjamin) | ** | 1986 |
| Moneyball (Bennett Miller) | ***1/2 | 2011 |
| Monkey Business (Norman Z. McLeod) | *** | 1931 |
| Monster's Ball (Marc Forster) | **** | 2001 |
| Monsters, Inc. (Pete Docter) | ***1/2 | 2001 |
| Monte Carlo (Ernst Lubitsch) | *** | 1930 |
| Moon (Duncan Jones) | ***1/2 | 2009 |
| Moonlight Mile (Brad Silberling) | **** | 2002 |
| Moonstruck | **** | 1987 |
| Morning Glory (Lowell Sherman) | *** | 1933 |
| Morocco (Josef von Sternberg) | ***1/2 | 1930 |
| Mortal Thoughts | ** | 1991 |
| The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir) | *** | 1986 |
| Mostly Martha (Sandra Nettelbeck) | ***1/2 | 2002 |
| Mother (Bong Joon-ho) | *** | 2010 |
| Moulin Rouge (Baz Luhrmann) | *** | 2001 |
| The Mountain Thief (Gerry Balasta) | ***1/2 | 2010 |
| Movie Crazy (Clyde Bruckman) | ***1/2 | 1932 |
| Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Doug Liman) | ** | 2005 |
| Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (HC Potter) | **1/2 | 1948 |
| Mr. Holland's Opus (Stephen Herek) | *** | 1995 |
| Mr. Jealousy (Noah Baumbach) | *** | 1998 |
| Mr. Mom (Jim McBride) | *** | 1983 |
| Mr. Saturday Night | *** | 1992 |
| Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra) | **** | 1939 |
| Much Ado About Nothing (Kenneth Branagh) | **** | 1993 |
| Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch) | ***1/2 | 2001 |
| Mulholland Falls (Lee Tamahori) | ** | 1996 |
| Multiplicity (Harold Ramis) | ** | 1996 |
| Mumford (Lawrence Kasdan) | ***1/2 | 1999 |
| The Mummy (Karl Freund) | *1/2 | 1932 |
| Munich (Steven Spielberg) | **** | 2005 |
| The Muppets (James Bobin) | ***1/2 | 2011 |
| The Muppets Take Manhattan (Frank Oz) | *** | 1984 |
| Murder! (Alfred Hitchcock) | **1/2 | 1930 |
| Music and Lyrics (Marc Lawrence) | *** | 2007 |
| Must Love Dogs (Gary David Goldberg) | ** | 2005 |
| My Best Friend's Wedding (PJ Hogan) | **** | 1997 |
| My Best Girl (Sam Taylor) | *1/2 | 1927 |
| My Bodyguard (Tony Bill) | ***1/2 | 1980 |
| My Cousin Vinny | ***1/2 | 1992 |
| My Fair Lady (George Cukor) | **** | 1964 |
| My Father the Hero (Steve Miner) | ** | 1994 |
| My Girl | *** | 1991 |
| My Girl 2 (Howard Zieff) | ** | 1994 |
| My Kid Could Paint That (Amir Bar-Lev) | *** | 2007 |
| My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan) | *** | 1989 |
| My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki) | ***1/2 | 1988 |
| My Summer of Love (Pawel Pawlikowski) | ** | 2005 |
| My Week With Marilyn (Simon Curtis) | ***1/2 | 2011 |
| The Mysterious Lady (Fred Niblo) | ** | 1928 |
| Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki) | ***1/2 | 2005 |
| Mystery Men (Kinka Usher) | *** | 1999 |
| Mystery, Alaska (Jay Roach) | *** | 1999 |
| Mystic River (Clint Eastwood) | **** | 2003 |
| The Myth of Fingerprints (Bart Freundlich) | *** | 1997 |
| The Myth of Time (Jaguar X) | 1/2* | 2010 |
| The Naked Gun (David Zucker) | *** | 1988 |
| Naked Gun 2 and a Half | *** | 1991 |
| Napoleon (Abel Gance) | **** | 1929 |
| The Natural (Barry Levinson) | **** | 1984 |
| Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone) | **** | 1994 |
| Naturally Obsessed: Making of a Scientist (Carole Rifkind, Richard Rifkind) | *** | 2009 |
| Necessay Roughness | **1/2 | 1991 |
| The Negotiator (F. Gary Gray) | ***1/2 | 1998 |
| Neshoba (Micki Dickoff, Tony Pagano) | ***1/2 | 2009 |
| Neshoba: The Price of Freedom (Micki Dickoff & Tony Pagano) | *** | 2010 |
| The Net (Irwin Winkler) | **1/2 | 1995 |
| Network (Sidney Lumet) | **** | 1976 |
| Never Been Kissed (Raja Gosnell) | *** | 1999 |
| The Neverending Story (Wolfgang Petersen) | **** | 1984 |
| The New Age (Michael Tolkin) | *** | 1994 |
| New Nightmare (Wes Craven) | *** | 1994 |
| The New Twenty (Chris Mason Johnson) | ** | 2009 |
| New Waterford Girl (Allan Moyle) | *** | 2000 |
| The Newton Boys (Richard Linklater) | * | 1998 |
| Next Stop Wonderland (Brad Anderson) | **1/2 | 1998 |
| Niagara Niagara (Bob Gosse) | *** | 1998 |
| Niagara, Niagara (Bob Gosse) | *** | 1997 |
| Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (Peter Sollett) | ***1/2 | 2008 |
| Nick of Time (John Badham) | **1/2 | 1995 |
| The Night Before | ***1/2 | 1988 |
| Night of the Comet (Thom Eberhardt) | *** | 1984 |
| Night Train to Venice (Carlo U. Quinterio) | * | 1996 |
| A Nightmare on Elm Street (Wes Craven) | **** | 1984 |
| Nightmare on Elm Street 2 (Jim Sholder) | * | 1985 |
| Nightmare on Elm Street 3 | *** | 1987 |
| Nine Months (Christopher Columbus) | **1/2 | 1995 |
| Nine to Five (Colin Higgins) | *** | 1980 |
| Nixon (Oliver Stone) | *** | 1995 |
| No Country for Old Men (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen) | **** | 2007 |
| No Escape (Martin Campbell) | ** | 1994 |
| No Reservations (Scott Hicks) | *** | 2007 |
| Nobody's Fool (Robert Benton) | **** | 1994 |
| NoNames (Kate Lindboe) | **1/2 | 2010 |
| Normal Life (John McNauhton) | ***1/2 | 1996 |
| North (Rob Reiner) | ** | 1994 |
| North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock) | **** | 1959 |
| North Shore | *1/2 | 1987 |
| Not So Dumb (King Vidor) | **1/2 | 1930 |
| Nothing But Trouble | Zero | 1991 |
| Nothing to Lose (Steve Oedekerk) | *1/2 | 1997 |
| Notting Hill (Roger Michell) | *** | 1999 |
| Nowhere (Gregg Araki) | 1/2* | 1997 |
| The Nun's Story (Fred Zinneman) | ***1/2 | 1959 |
| Nurse Betty (Neil LaBute) | **** | 2000 |
| The Nutty Professor (Tom Shadyac) | *** | 1996 |
| O (Tim Blake Nelson) | *** | 2001 |
| O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen) | **** | 2000 |
| The Object of My Affection (Nicholas Hytner) | *** | 1998 |
| Observe and Report (Jody Hill) | ***1/2 | 2009 |
| OC and Stiggs (Robert Altman) | **1/2 | 1985 |
| Ocean's Eleven (Steven Soderbergh) | ***1/2 | 2001 |
| Ocean's Thirteen (Steven Soderbergh) | **1/2 | 2007 |
| Ocean's Twelve (Steven Soderbergh) | *** | 2004 |
| October (Sergei Eisenstein) | *** | 1928 |
| October Sky (Joe Johnston) | **1/2 | 1999 |
| Of Mice and Men | **** | 1992 |
| Office Space (Mike Judge) | *** | 1999 |
| An Officer and a Gentleman (Taylor Hackford) | **** | 1982 |
| The Old Dark House (James Whale) | ***1/2 | 1932 |
| Old Goats (Taylor Guterson) | **1/2 | 2011 |
| On Golden Pond (Mark Rydell) | **** | 1981 |
| On the Outs (Lori Silverbush & Michael Skolnik) | *** | 2005 |
| Once (John Carney) | **** | 2007 |
| One Crazy Summer (Savage Steve Holland) | *** | 1986 |
| One Fine Day (Michael Hoffman) | ** | 1996 |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (Milos Forman) | **** | 1975 |
| One Hour With You (Ernst Lubitsch) | ***1/2 | 1932 |
| One on One (Lamont Johnson) | **1/2 | 1977 |
| One True Thing (Carl Franklin) | *** | 1998 |
| One Way Passage (Tay Garnett) | **** | 1932 |
| One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder) | **** | 1961 |
| Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks) | **** | 1939 |
| Only You (Norman Jewison) | ***1/2 | 1994 |
| Open Five (Kentucker Audley) | *** | 2010 |
| Open Water (Chris Kentis) | *1/2 | 2004 |
| The Opposite of Sex (Don Roos) | ***1/2 | 1998 |
| The Other Guys (Adam McKay) | **1/2 | 2010 |
| Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton, Jack Blystone) | *** | 1923 |
| Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh) | **** | 1998 |
| Out to Sea (Martha Coolidge) | **1/2 | 1997 |
| Outbreak (Wolfgang Petersen) | *** | 1995 |
| Outrageous Fortune | *** | 1987 |
| Over the Top (Menahem Golan) | *1/2 | 1987 |
| Oxygen (Richard Shepard) | ***1/2 | 1999 |
| The Pallbearer (Matt Reeves) | **1/2 | 1996 |
| Pandora's Box (GW Pabst) | **** | 1929 |
| Panic Room (David Fincher) | ***1/2 | 2002 |
| Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro) | **** | 2006 |
| The Paper (Ron Howard) | *** | 1994 |
| Paper Heart (Nicholas Jasenovec) | *** | 2009 |
| Paradise Lost (Joe Berliner, Bruce Sinofsky) | **** | 1996 |
| The Parent Trap (David Swift) | *** | 1961 |
| The Parent Trap (Nancy Meyers) | *** | 1998 |
| Park (Kurt Voelker) | * | 2007 |
| Passion Fish | ***1/2 | 1992 |
| The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer) | **** | 1928 |
| Patch Adams (Tom Shadyac) | * | 1998 |
| A Patch of Blue (Guy Green) | **** | 1965 |
| Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick) | **** | 1957 |
| Patriot Games | ** | 1992 |
| The Patsy (King Vidor) | ***1/2 | 1928 |
| Pay It Forward (Mimi Leder) | 1/2* | 2000 |
| Payback (Brian Helgeland) | ** | 1999 |
| The Pay-Off (Lowell Sherman) | *** | 1930 |
| PCU (Hart Bochner) | *1/2 | 1994 |
| The Peacemaker (Mimi Leder) | *** | 1997 |
| Pee Wee's Big Adventure (Tim Burton) | ***1/2 | 1985 |
| Peggy Sue Got Married (Francis Ford Coppola) | **** | 1986 |
| The Pelican Brief (Alan J. Pakula) | *** | 1993 |
| The People Speak (Anthony Arnove, Chris Moore, Howard Zinn) | *** | 2009 |
| The People vs. Larry Flynt (Milos Forman) | ***1/2 | 1996 |
| The Perfect Storm (Wolfgang Petersen) | **1/2 | 2000 |
| Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud) | **1/2 | 2007 |
| Personal Velocity (Rebecca Miller) | *** | 2002 |
| Pet Sematary (Mary Lambert) | ** | 1989 |
| Phantasm (Don Coscarelli) | ** | 1979 |
| The Phantom (Simon Wincer) | * | 1996 |
| Phenomenon (Jon Turtletaub) | *** | 1996 |
| Philadelphia (Jonathan Demme) | *** | 1993 |
| The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor) | **** | 1940 |
| The Piano (Jane Campion) | **** | 1993 |
| Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir) | ***1/2 | 1975 |
| Picture Perfect (Glenn Gordon Caron) | ** | 1997 |
| Pieces of April (Peter Hedges) | *** | 2003 |
| Pineapple Express (David Gordon Green) | *** | 2008 |
| Pinky (Elia Kazan) | *** | 1949 |
| Pinocchio (Ben Sharpsteen) | **** | 1940 |
| Pip & Zastrow: An American Friendship (Victoria Bruce, Karen Hayes) | *** | 2009 |
| Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski) | *** | 2003 |
| Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Rob Marshall) | **1/2 | 2011 |
| Pitch Black (David Twohy) | ***1/2 | 2000 |
| Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (John Hughes) | ***1/2 | 1987 |
| Platinum Blonde (Frank Capra) | **** | 1931 |
| Platoon (Oliver Stone) | **** | 1986 |
| The Player | **** | 1992 |
| Playing by Heart (Willard Carroll) | ***1/2 | 1999 |
| Playing for Charlie (Pene Patrick) | ** | 2009 |
| Playing God (Andy Wilson) | *** | 1997 |
| Pleasant People (David Bonawits) | *** | 2011 |
| Pleasantville (Gary Ross) | **** | 1998 |
| Please Give (Nicole Holofcener) | **** | 2010 |
| Point Break | *** | 1991 |
| Point of No Return (John Badham) | **1/2 | 1993 |
| Poison Ivy | * | 1992 |
| Police Academy (Hugh Wilson) | *1/2 | 1984 |
| Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper) | **** | 1982 |
| Pontiac Moon (Peter Medak) | ** | 1994 |
| Porky's (Bob Clark) | ** | 1982 |
| Powder (Victor Salva) | **1/2 | 1995 |
| Precious (Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire) (Lee Daniels) | **** | 2009 |
| Prefontaine (Steve James) | *** | 1997 |
| Prelude to a Kiss | **1/2 | 1992 |
| The Prestige (Christopher Nolan) | *** | 2006 |
| Pretty in Pink (Howard Deutch) | *** | 1986 |
| Pretty Persuasion (Marcos Siega) | *** | 2005 |
| Pretty Woman (Garry Marshall) | *** | 1990 |
| A Price Above Rubies (Boaz Yakin) | ***1/2 | 1998 |
| Pride & Prejudice (Joe Wright) | ***1/2 | 2005 |
| Primal Fear (Gregory Hoblit) | *** | 1996 |
| Primary Colors (Mike Nichols) | **** | 1998 |
| The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner) | **** | 1987 |
| Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki) | ***1/2 | 1999 |
| Private Benjamin (Howard Zieff) | *** | 1980 |
| The Private Life of Henry VIII (Alexander Korda) - Instant | **** | 1933 |
| The Program (David S. Ward) | **1/2 | 1993 |
| Project X | *** | 1987 |
| Promised Land | **1/2 | 1987 |
| Prosperity (Sam Wood) | **1/2 | 1932 |
| Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock) | **** | 1959 |
| Psycho Beach Party (Robert Lee King) | ** | 2000 |
| The Public Enemy (William Wellman) | **** | 1931 |
| Puccini for Beginners (Maria Maggenti) | *** | 2007 |
| Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino) | **** | 1994 |
| Pump Up the Volume (Allan Moyle) | ***1/2 | 1990 |
| Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson) | ***1/2 | 2002 |
| Punchline | *** | 1988 |
| The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen) | **** | 1985 |
| The Pursuit of Happyness (Gabriele Muccino) | ***1/2 | 2006 |
| Pushin Up Daisies (Patrick Franklin) | *** | 2010 |
| Pushing Tin (Mike Newell) | *** | 1999 |
| Putty Hill (Matthew Porterfield) | ***1/2 | 2011 |
| Quality Street (Sidney Franklin) | ** | 1927 |
| The Queen (Stephen Frears) | *** | 2006 |
| Queen Cristina (Rouben Mamoulian) | ***1/2 | 1933 |
| Queen Kelly (Erich Von Stroheim) | ***1/2 | 1929 |
| Quinceañera (Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland) | ***1/2 | 2006 |
| Quiz Show (Robert Redford) | **** | 1994 |
| Rabbit-Proof Fence (Phillip Noyce) | ***1/2 | 2002 |
| Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme) | **** | 2008 |
| The Rachel Papers | **1/2 | 1989 |
| Racing Dreams (Marshall Curry) | *** | 2010 |
| Radio Flyer | **1/2 | 1992 |
| Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese) | **** | 1980 |
| Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg) | **** | 1981 |
| Rain (Maria Govan) | *** | 2009 |
| Rain Man (Barry Levinson) | **** | 1988 |
| The Rainmaker (Francis Ford Coppola) | *** | 1997 |
| Raising Arizona (Coen Bros.) | **** | 1987 |
| Raising Victor Vargas (Peter Sollett) | ***1/2 | 2003 |
| Rambling Rose | *** | 1991 |
| Ran (Akira Kurosawa) | **** | 1985 |
| Ransom (Ron Howard) | *** | 1996 |
| The Rapture | **** | 1991 |
| Ratatouille (Brad Bird) | **** | 2007 |
| Ray (Taylor Hackford) | *** | 2004 |
| Real Women Have Curves (Patricia Cardoso) | *** | 2002 |
| Reality Bites (Ben Stiller) | ***1/2 | 1994 |
| Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock) | **** | 1954 |
| Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray) | **** | 1955 |
| Red Dawn (John Milius) | **1/2 | 1984 |
| Red Headed Woman (Jack Conway) | **1/2 | 1932 |
| Red Rock West (John Dahl) | **** | 1994 |
| The Red Violin (François Girard) | *** | 1999 |
| Reds (Warren Beatty) | ***1/2 | 1981 |
| The Ref (Ted Demme) | *** | 1994 |
| Reign of Fire (Rob Bowman) | ** | 2002 |
| The Remains of the Day (James Ivory) | **** | 1993 |
| Remember the Titans (Boaz Yakin) | ***1/2 | 2000 |
| The Replacement Killers (Antoine Fuqua) | *** | 1998 |
| The Replacements (Howard Deutch) | **1/2 | 2000 |
| Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky) | **** | 2000 |
| Reservoir Dogs | **1/2 | 1992 |
| Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand) | **** | 1983 |
| Return to Me (Bonnie Hunt) | *** | 2000 |
| Return to Paradise (Joseph Ruben) | ***1/2 | 1998 |
| Revenge (Tony Scott) | * | 1990 |
| Revenge of the Nerds (Jeff Kanew) | *** | 1984 |
| Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes) | *** | 2008 |
| Riding in Cars with Boys (Penny Marshall) | *** | 2001 |
| The Right Stuff (Phillip Kaufman) | **** | 1983 |
| The Ring (Gore Verbinski) | *** | 2002 |
| Ripe (Mo Ogrondik) | *1/2 | 1996 |
| Rise of the Planet of the Apes (Rupert Wyatt) | *** | 2011 |
| Risky Business (Paul Brickman) | **** | 1983 |
| River's Edge (Tim Hunter) | ***1/2 | 1986 |
| Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes) | **** | 2002 |
| Robin and Marian (Richard Lester) | ***1/2 | 1976 |
| Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | *1/2 | 1991 |
| Robocop (Paul Veerhoeven) | *** | 1987 |
| The Rock (Michael Bay) | *** | 1996 |
| Rocket Science (Jeffrey Blitz) | ***1/2 | 2007 |
| Rocky (John G. Avildsen) | **** | 1976 |
| Rocky 2 (Sylvester Stallone) | *** | 1979 |
| Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) | **1/2 | 2006 |
| The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman) | *** | 1975 |
| Rocky III (Sylvester Stallone) | **1/2 | 1982 |
| Rocky IV (Sylvester Stallone) | ** | 1985 |
| Roger and Me | **** | 1989 |
| Roman Holiday (William Wyler) | ***1/2 | 1953 |
| Romeo + Juliet (Baz Luhrmann) | ***1/2 | 1996 |
| Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (David Mirkin) | *** | 1997 |
| Rookie of the Year (Daniel Stern) | *** | 1993 |
| Rounders (John Dahl) | *** | 1998 |
| Roxanne | ***1/2 | 1987 |
| The Royal Bed (Lowell Sherman) | *** | 1931 |
| Ruby in Paradise (Victor Nunez) | **** | 1993 |
| Rudo y Cursi (Carlos Cuaron) | ** | 2009 |
| Rudy (David Anspaugh) | **** | 1993 |
| Rules of Engagement (William Friedkin) | * | 2000 |
| Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer) | *** | 1999 |
| The Runaways (Floria Sigismondi) | ** | 2010 |
| The Running Man (Paul Michael Glaser) | *** | 1987 |
| Running on Empty | **** | 1988 |
| Rushmore (Wes Anderson) | ***1/2 | 1998 |
| Ruthless People (David Zucker, Jim Abrahams) | ***1/2 | 1986 |
| Sabrina (Billy Wilder) | **** | 1954 |
| Sabrina (Sydney Pollack) | *** | 1995 |
| Safe (Todd Haynes) | ***1/2 | 1995 |
| Safety Last! (Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor) | **** | 1923 |
| Sahkanaga (John Henry Sumerour) | ***1/2 | 2011 |
| Saint Ralph (Michael McGowan) | ***1/2 | 2005 |
| The Sandlot (David Mickey Evans) | *** | 1993 |
| The Savages (Tamara Jenkins) | *** | 2007 |
| Save the Last Dance (Thomas Carter) | *** | 2001 |
| Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg) | **** | 1998 |
| Say Anything (Cameron Crowe) | **** | 1989 |
| Scanners (David Cronenberg) | *** | 1981 |
| Scarface (Howard Hawks) | **1/2 | 1932 |
| Scary Movie (Keenen Ivory Wayans) | *** | 2000 |
| Scent of a Woman | **1/2 | 1992 |
| Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg) | **** | 1993 |
| School Ties | *** | 1992 |
| Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Edgar Wright) | *** | 2010 |
| Scream (Wes Craven) | **** | 1996 |
| Scream 2 (Wes Craven) | **** | 1997 |
| Scream 3 (Wes Craven) | *** | 2000 |
| Scream 4 (Craven) | ** | 2011 |
| Scrooged | **1/2 | 1988 |
| Searching for Bobby Fischer (Steven Zaillian) | **** | 1993 |
| Secret Admirer (David Greenwalt) | ** | 1985 |
| The Secret of My Success | *** | 1987 |
| The Secret to a Happy Ending (Barr Weisman) | *** | 2010 |
| The Secret to a Happy Ending (Barr Weisman) | *** | 2010 |
| Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh) | *** | 1996 |
| See No Evil, Hear No Evil (Arthur Hiller) | ** | 1989 |
| Seeing Other People (Wally Wolodarsky) | *1/2 | 2004 |
| Seems Like Old Times (Jay Sandrich) | *** | 1980 |
| Serendipity (Peter Chelsom) | *** | 2001 |
| Serenity (Joss Whedon) | **** | 2005 |
| Series 7: The Contenders (Daniel Minahan) | *** | 2001 |
| A Serious Man (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen) | *** | 2009 |
| Seven (David Fincher) | **** | 1995 |
| Seven Chances (Buster Keaton) | ***1/2 | 1925 |
| Seven Minutes in Heaven (Linda Feferman) | *** | 1985 |
| The Seven Year Itch (Billy Wilder) | *** | 1955 |
| Seventh Heaven (Frank Borzage) | ***1/2 | 1927 |
| sex, lies, and videotape (Steven Soderbergh) | ***1/2 | 1989 |
| Shadow Conspiracy (George P. Cosmatos) | *1/2 | 1997 |
| Shadowlands (Richard Attenborough) | **1/2 | 1993 |
| Shaft (Gordon Parks) | *** | 1971 |
| Shaft (John Singleton) | *** | 2000 |
| Shakespeare in Love (John Madden) | ***1/2 | 1998 |
| Shallow Hal (Peter & Bobby Farrelly) | *** | 2001 |
| Shame (Steve McQueen) | ***1/2 | 2011 |
| Shanghai Express (Josef Von Sternberg) | ***1/2 | 1932 |
| Shattered Glass (Billy Ray) | ***1/2 | 2003 |
| Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright) | ***1/2 | 2004 |
| The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont) | **** | 1994 |
| She Done Him Wrong (Lowell Sherman) | ***1/2 | 1933 |
| She Done Him Wrong (Sherman) | ***1/2 | 1933 |
| Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton) | ***1/2 | 1924 |
| Sherrybaby (Laurie Collyer) | **** | 2006 |
| She's All That (Robert Iscove) | *** | 1999 |
| She's Out of Control | Zero | 1989 |
| She's out of My League (Jim Field Smith) | *1/2 | 2010 |
| She's the One (Edward Burns) | ** | 1996 |
| Shine (Scott Hicks) | ** | 1996 |
| Shining Through (David Seltzer) | * | 1992 |
| Shoot to Kill | *** | 1988 |
| The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch) | **** | 1940 |
| Short Circuit (John Badham) | *** | 1986 |
| Short Cuts (Robert Altman) | **** | 1993 |
| Shortbus (John Cameron Mitchell) | ** | 2006 |
| Show Me Love (Lukas Moodysson) | **** | 1999 |
| Show People (King Vidor) | ***1/2 | 1928 |
| Shrek (Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson) | **1/2 | 2001 |
| Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese) | **** | 2010 |
| Sicko (Michael Moore) | ***1/2 | 2007 |
| Sideways (Alexander Payne) | **** | 2004 |
| The Siege (Edward Zwick) | *** | 1998 |
| Signs (M. Night Shyamalan) | ***1/2 | 2002 |
| Silence of the Lambs | *** | 1991 |
| Silent Tongue (Sam Shepard) | *1/2 | 1993 |
| The Silver Horde (George Archainbaud) | **1/2 | 1930 |
| Silver Tongues (Simon Arthur) | * | 2011 |
| Simpatico (Matthew Warchus) | *** | 2000 |
| A Simple Plan (Sam Raimi) | **** | 1998 |
| Simply Irresistible (Mark Tarlov) | *1/2 | 1999 |
| Singin in the Rain (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly) | **** | 1952 |
| Single White Female | *** | 1992 |
| Singles | ***1/2 | 1992 |
| The Siren of the Tropics (Henri Etievant, Mario Nalpas) | 1/2* | 1927 |
| Sirens (John Duigan) | *** | 1993 |
| Six Degrees of Separation (Fred Schepisi) | ***1/2 | 1993 |
| Sixteen Candles (John Hughes) | ***1/2 | 1984 |
| The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan) | **** | 1999 |
| Skin Deep | *** | 1989 |
| Slap Down (Jesus Christ) | * | 2010 |
| Slap Shot (George Roy Hill) | ***1/2 | 1977 |
| SLC Punk! (James Merendino) | **1/2 | 1999 |
| Sleeping With the Enemy | **1/2 | 1991 |
| Sleepless in Seattle (Nora Ephron) | *** | 1993 |
| Sleepy Hollow (Tim Burton) | ** | 1999 |
| Sliding Doors (Peter Howitt) | *** | 1998 |
| Sling Blade (Billy Bob Thornton) | ***1/2 | 1996 |
| Slither (James Gunn) | *** | 2006 |
| Sliver (Phillip Noyce) | *1/2 | 1993 |
| Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle) | *** | 2008 |
| Slums of Beverly Hills (Tamara Jenkins) | ***1/2 | 1998 |
| Small Soldiers (Joe Dante) | *** | 1998 |
| Smilin Through (Sidney Franklin) | *** | 1932 |
| The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch) | **** | 1931 |
| Smilla's Sense of Snow (Bille August) | ***1/2 | 1997 |
| Smooth Talk (Joyce Chopra) | **** | 1985 |
| Snakes on a Plane (David R. Ellis) | **1/2 | 2006 |
| Sneakers | *** | 1992 |
| Snow Angels (David Gordon Green) | *** | 2008 |
| Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (William Cotrell, David Hand) | **** | 1937 |
| Soapdish | ***1/2 | 1991 |
| The Social Network (David Fincher) | ***1/2 | 2010 |
| A Soldier's Story (Norman Jewison) | **** | 1984 |
| Some Kind of Wonderful (Howard Deutch) | ***1/2 | 1987 |
| Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder) | **** | 1959 |
| Someone Like You (Tony Goldwyn) | **1/2 | 2001 |
| Something New (Sanaa Hamri) | ** | 2006 |
| Something's Gotta Give (Nancy Meyers) | *** | 2003 |
| Sommersby (Jon Amiel) | **1/2 | 1993 |
| Song O My Heart (Frank Borzage) | ***1/2 | 1930 |
| Songcatcher (Maggie Greenwald) | ***1/2 | 2001 |
| Sophie's Choice (Alan J. Pakula) | ***1/2 | 1982 |
| Soul Food (George Tillman Jr.) | ***1/2 | 1997 |
| Souled Out Comedy (Jonathan Appel) | ** | 2010 |
| The Souler Opposite (Bill Kalmenson) | **1/2 | 1998 |
| Source Code (Duncan Jones) | ***1/2 | 2011 |
| South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Trey Parker) | ***1/2 | 1999 |
| Soylent Green (Richard Fleischer) | *** | 1973 |
| Spaceballs (Mel Brooks) | *** | 1987 |
| Spacecamp (Harry Winer) | ** | 1986 |
| The Spanish Prisoner (David Mamet) | *** | 1997 |
| Spanking the Monkey (David O. Russell) | *** | 1994 |
| The Specialist (Luis Llosa) | *1/2 | 1994 |
| Speechless (Ron Underwood) | **1/2 | 1994 |
| Speed (Jan De Bont) | **** | 1994 |
| Speed 2: Cruise Control (Jan de Bont) | 1/2* | 1997 |
| Speedy (Ted Wilde) | **** | 1928 |
| Spellbound (Jeffrey Blitz) | **** | 2003 |
| Spider-Man (Sam Raimi) | ***1/2 | 2002 |
| Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi) | ***1/2 | 2004 |
| Spider-Man 3 (Sam Raimi) | ** | 2007 |
| Spies (Fritz Lang) | **** | 1929 |
| Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki) | **** | 2002 |
| Spite Marriage (Edward Sedgwick) | *** | 1929 |
| Splendor (Gregg Araki) | *** | 1999 |
| Splendor in the Grass (Elia Kazan) | *** | 1961 |
| Spring Forward (Tom Gilroy) | *** | 2000 |
| Spy Hard (Rick Friedberg) | *1/2 | 1996 |
| The Square (Nash Edgerton) | *** | 2010 |
| The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach) | **1/2 | 2005 |
| Sripes (Ivan Reitman) | ***1/2 | 1981 |
| Stage Beauty (Richard Eyre) | *** | 2004 |
| Stagecoach (John Ford) | **** | 1939 |
| Stakeout | *** | 1987 |
| Stalag 17 (Billy Wilder) | **** | 1953 |
| Stalingrad (Joseph Vilsmaier) | ***1/2 | 1993 |
| Stand and Deliver (Ramon Menendez) | ***1/2 | 1988 |
| Stand By Me (Rob Reiner) | **** | 1986 |
| Star Trek (J.J. Abrams) | *** | 2009 |
| Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan (Nicholas Meyer) | **** | 1982 |
| Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (Leonard Nimoy) | ***1/2 | 1986 |
| Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (William Shatner) | ** | 1989 |
| Star Trek VI | *** | 1991 |
| Star Trek: Generations (David Carson) | *** | 1994 |
| Star Wars (George Lucas) | **** | 1977 |
| Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones (George Lucas) | *** | 2002 |
| Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas) | *** | 2005 |
| Stardust (Matthew Vaughn) | **1/2 | 2007 |
| Starman (John Carpenter) | **** | 1984 |
| Starship Troopers (Paul Veerhoeven) | *** | 1997 |
| Starter for 10 (Tom Vaughan) | *** | 2007 |
| State and Main (David Mamet) | ***1/2 | 2000 |
| State Fair (Henry King) | *** | 1933 |
| Stay Tuned | *1/2 | 1992 |
| Stealing Beauty (Bernardo Bertolucci) | ***1/2 | 1996 |
| Steamboat Bill Jr. (Charles Reisner) | **** | 1928 |
| Steel Magnolias (Herbert Ross) | *** | 1989 |
| The Stepfather | *** | 1987 |
| Stepmom (Chris Columbus) | *** | 1998 |
| Stir Crazy (Sidney Poitier) | ***1/2 | 1980 |
| Stir of Echoes (David Koepp) | *** | 1999 |
| The Story of Us (Rob Reiner) | * | 1999 |
| The Straight Story (David Lynch) | *** | 1999 |
| Straight Talk | *1/2 | 1992 |
| A Stranger Among Us | *1/2 | 1992 |
| Stranger Than Fiction (Marc Forster) | ***1/2 | 2006 |
| Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah) | **1/2 | 1971 |
| Street Angel (Frank Borzage) | ** | 1928 |
| Striking Distance (Rowdy Herrington) | *1/2 | 1993 |
| Stuart Little (Rob Minkoff) | **1/2 | 1999 |
| Stuck on You (Peter Farrelly & Bobby Farrelly) | ** | 2003 |
| The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (Ernst Lubitsch) | **** | 1927 |
| Suburbia (Richard Linklater) | **1/2 | 1996 |
| Sugar (Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck) | **** | 2009 |
| The Sum of All Fears (Phil Alden Robinson) | ** | 2002 |
| Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas) | ***1/2 | 2009 |
| Summer of 42 (Robert Mulligan) | **** | 1971 |
| Summer of Sam (Spike Lee) | *** | 1999 |
| Summer Rental (Carl Reiner) | **1/2 | 1985 |
| Sunrise (FW Murnau) | **** | 1927 |
| Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder( | **** | 1950 |
| Sunshine Cleaning (Christine Jeffs) | ***1/2 | 2009 |
| Sunshine State (John Sayles) | *** | 2002 |
| Super 8 (JJ Abrams) | ***1/2 | 2011 |
| Superbad (Greg Mottola) | *** | 2007 |
| Superman (Richard Donner) | ***1/2 | 1978 |
| Superman 2 (Richard Lester) | **** | 1980 |
| Superman Returns (Bryan Singer) | *1/2 | 2006 |
| The Sure Thing (Rob Reiner) | **** | 1985 |
| Surviving the Game (Ernest Dickerson) | ** | 1994 |
| Svengali (Archie Mayo) | *** | 1931 |
| Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton) | ***1/2 | 2007 |
| The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan) | **** | 1997 |
| Sweet Home Alabama (Andy Tennant) | ** | 2002 |
| Sweet Land (Ari Selim) | *** | 2006 |
| Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick) | **** | 1957 |
| Sweet Sweetback's Badassssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles) | * | 1971 |
| Swimfan (John Polson) | * | 2002 |
| Swing Time (George Stevens) | *** | 1936 |
| Swingers (Doug Liman) | ***1/2 | 1996 |
| Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman) | **** | 2008 |
| Syriana (Stephen Gaghan) | **** | 2005 |
| Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (FW Murnau) | *** | 1931 |
| The Talented Mr. Ripley (Anthony Minghella) | ***1/2 | 1999 |
| The Tall Guy | ***1/2 | 1989 |
| Tangled (Nathan Greno, Byron Howard) | *** | 2010 |
| Tango and Cash (Andrei Konchalovsky) | **1/2 | 1989 |
| Tarzan (Kevin Lima & Chris Buck) | *** | 1999 |
| Tarzan the Ape Man (WS Van Dyke) | **1/2 | 1932 |
| Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese) | **** | 1976 |
| Teaching Mrs. Tingle (Kevin Williamson) | *1/2 | 1999 |
| Teen Wolf (Rod Daniel) | *** | 1985 |
| Teen Wolf Too | 1/2* | 1987 |
| Tempest (Sam Taylor) | *** | 1928 |
| The Terminal (Steven Spielberg) | **** | 2004 |
| Terminal Velocity (Deran Sarafian) | **1/2 | 1994 |
| The Terminator (James Cameron) | **** | 1984 |
| Terminator 2 | ***1/2 | 1991 |
| Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (Jonathan Mostow) | *** | 2003 |
| Terms of Endearment (James L. Brooks) | **** | 1983 |
| Terri (Azazel Jacobs) | ***1/2 | 2011 |
| The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang) | **** | 1933 |
| The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang) | **** | 1933 |
| The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Marcus Nispel) | ** | 2003 |
| The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper) | ***1/2 | 1974 |
| Thank You for Smoking (Jason Reitman) | **1/2 | 2006 |
| That Evening Sun (Scott Teems) | ***1/2 | 2009 |
| That Thing You Do (Tom Hanks) | *** | 1996 |
| There Goes My Baby (Floyd Mutrux) | **1/2 | 1994 |
| There's Something About Mary (Bobby & Peter Farrelly) | *** | 1998 |
| They Had to See Paris (Frank Borzage) | *** | 1929 |
| They Live (John Carpenter) | *** | 1988 |
| The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick) | *** | 1998 |
| Things Fall Apart (Mario Van Peebles) | ** | 2011 |
| The Things We Carry (Ian McCrudden) | **1/2 | 2010 |
| Thirteen (Catherine Hardwicke) | *** | 2003 |
| Thirteen Days (Roger Donaldson) | ***1/2 | 2000 |
| This Film Is Not Yet Rated (Kirby Dick) | *** | 2006 |
| The Thomas Crown Affair (John McTiernan) | *** | 1999 |
| Thor (Kenneth Branagh) | *** | 2011 |
| Three For the Road | *1/2 | 1987 |
| Three Kings (David O. Russell) | **** | 1999 |
| Three Men and a Baby | **1/2 | 1987 |
| The Three Musketeers (Stephen Herek) | ** | 1993 |
| Three to Tango (Damon Santostefano) | *1/2 | 1999 |
| Threesome (Andrew Fleming) | *** | 1994 |
| Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa) | **** | 1957 |
| Tierra Madre (Dylan Verecchia) | ** | 2010 |
| Tightrope (Richard Tuggle) | ***1/2 | 1984 |
| Til There Was You (Scott Winant) | 1/2* | 1997 |
| Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (Mike Johnson & Tim Burton) | ** | 2005 |
| Time After Time (Nicholas Meyer) | **** | 1979 |
| Time Bandits (Terry Gilliam) | ***1/2 | 1981 |
| A Time to Kill (Joel Schumacher) | ** | 1996 |
| Timecop (Peter Hyams) | *1/2 | 1994 |
| TiMER (Jac Schaeffer) | *** | 2010 |
| Tin Cup (Ron Shelton) | ***1/2 | 1996 |
| Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Tomas Alfredson) | *** | 2011 |
| Titanic (James Cameron) | **** | 1997 |
| To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch) | **** | 1942 |
| To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (Michael Pressman) | *** | 1996 |
| To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan) | **** | 1962 |
| To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (Beeban Kidron) | **1/2 | 1995 |
| Tokyo Chorus (Yasujiro Ozu) | ***1/2 | 1931 |
| Tomorrow Never Dies (Roger Spottiswoode) | *** | 1997 |
| Tonight or Never (Mervyn LeRoy) | *** | 1931 |
| Tootsie (Sydney Pollack) | *** | 1982 |
| Top Gun (Tony Scott) | *** | 1986 |
| Total Recall (Paul Veerhoeven) | ***1/2 | 1990 |
| Touch of Evil (Orson Welles) | **** | 1958 |
| Towelhead (Alan Ball) | ** | 2008 |
| The Town (Ben Affleck) | ***1/2 | 2010 |
| A Town Called Panic (Stéphane Aubier & Vincent Patar) | *** | 2009 |
| The Toy (Richard Donner) | **1/2 | 1982 |
| Toy Soldiers | **1/2 | 1991 |
| Toy Story (John Lasseter) | **** | 1995 |
| Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter) | **** | 1999 |
| Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich) | **** | 2010 |
| Toys | *1/2 | 1992 |
| Trading Places (John Landis) | ***1/2 | 1983 |
| Traffic (Steven Soderbergh) | **** | 2000 |
| Training Rules (Dee Mosbacher, Fawn Yacker) | **1/2 | 2009 |
| Trainspotting (Danny Boyle) | ***1/2 | 1996 |
| Trancers (Charles Band) | **1/2 | 1985 |
| Trancers 2 (Charles Band) | **1/2 | 1991 |
| Trancers 3 (C. Courtney Joyner) | **1/2 | 1992 |
| Trancers 4: Jack of Swords (David Nutter) | * | 1994 |
| Transformers (Michael Bay) | * | 2007 |
| Trees Lounge (Steve Buscemi) | **** | 1996 |
| Trial and Error (Jonathan Lynn) | ** | 1997 |
| Trial By Jury (Heywood Gould) | ** | 1994 |
| trick (Jim Fall) | *** | 1999 |
| The Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet) | ***1/2 | 2003 |
| Trojan War (George Huang) | * | 1997 |
| Tron: Legacy (Joseph Kosinski) | **1/2 | 2010 |
| Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller) | *** | 2008 |
| Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch) | **** | 1932 |
| True Grit (Coen Bros.) | **** | 2010 |
| True Lies (James Cameron) | *** | 1994 |
| True Love | ***1/2 | 1989 |
| True Romance (Tony Scott) | *** | 1993 |
| The Truman Show (Peter Weir) | **** | 1998 |
| The Truth About Cats and Dogs (Michael Lehmann) | ***1/2 | 1996 |
| Tumbleweeds (Gavin O'Connor) | *** | 1999 |
| Turner and Hooch | *** | 1989 |
| The TV Set (Jake Kasdan) | *** | 2007 |
| Twelve Monkeys (Terry Gilliam) | ***1/2 | 1995 |
| Twilight (Robert Benton) | *** | 1998 |
| Twin Falls Idaho (Michael Polish) | *** | 1999 |
| Twins (Ivan Reitman) | *** | 1988 |
| Twist of Faith (Kirby Dick) | **** | 2005 |
| Twister (Jan De Bont) | **1/2 | 1996 |
| Two Girls and a Guy (James Toback) | **** | 1998 |
| Two If By Sea (Bill Bennett) | *1/2 | 1996 |
| Two Seconds (Mervyn LeRoy) | **** | 1932 |
| U Turn (Oliver Stone) | ** | 1997 |
| U.S. Marshals (Stuart Baird) | ** | 1998 |
| U-571 (Jonathan Mostow) | *** | 2000 |
| Ulee's Gold (Victor Nunez) | **** | 1997 |
| Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan) | ***1/2 | 2000 |
| Under Siege | *** | 1992 |
| Under the Roofs of Paris (Rene Clair) | ***1/2 | 1930 |
| Undercover Brother (Malcolm D. Lee) | *** | 2002 |
| Undertow (David Gordon Green) | **1/2 | 2004 |
| Underworld (Josef von Sternberg) | **** | 1927 |
| Unfaithful (Adrian Lyne) | *** | 2002 |
| Unforgiven | **** | 1992 |
| United 93 (Paul Greengrass) | ***1/2 | 2006 |
| The Unknown (Tod Browning) | **** | 1927 |
| Up (Pete Docter) | **** | 2009 |
| Up Close and Personal (Jon Avet) | ** | 1996 |
| Up in the Air (Jason Reitman) | **** | 2009 |
| Up the River (John Ford) | *1/2 | 1930 |
| The Upside of Anger (Mike Binder) | *** | 2005 |
| Urban Legend (Jamie Blanks) | *** | 1998 |
| The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer) | *** | 1995 |
| Vacation (Harold Ramis) | *** | 1983 |
| Vanilla Sky (Cameron Crowe) | *** | 2001 |
| Vantage Point (Pete Travis) | **1/2 | 2008 |
| Varsity Blues (Brian Robbins) | ** | 1999 |
| The Verdict (Sidney Lumet) | **** | 1982 |
| Vertical Limit (Martin Campbell) | ** | 2000 |
| Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock) | **** | 1958 |
| VI Warshawski | ** | 1991 |
| Vice Versa | *** | 1988 |
| Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen) | ***1/2 | 2008 |
| The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola) | *** | 2000 |
| Vision Quest (Harold Becker) | ***1/2 | 1985 |
| The Visitor (Tom McCarthy) | **** | 2008 |
| Volcano (Mick Jackson) | * | 1997 |
| W. (Oliver Stone) | **1/2 | 2008 |
| Wag the Dog (Barry Levinson) | ***1/2 | 1997 |
| Wait Until Dark (Terence Young) | **** | 1967 |
| Waiting for Superman (Davis Guggenheim) | **1/2 | 2010 |
| Waitress (Adrienne Shelly) | ***1/2 | 2007 |
| Waking the Dead (Keith Gordon) | **1/2 | 2000 |
| A Walk in the Clouds (Alfonso Arau) | *** | 1995 |
| A Walk on the Moon (Tony Goldwyn) | *** | 1999 |
| Walk on Water (Eytan Fox) | ** | 2005 |
| Walk the Line (James Mangold) | ** | 2005 |
| Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg) | **** | 1971 |
| Walking and Talking (Nicole Holofcener) | ***1/2 | 1996 |
| Wall Street | *** | 1987 |
| WALL•E (Andrew Stanton) | **** | 2008 |
| Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (Robert Greenwald) | *** | 2005 |
| Wanted (Timur Bekmambetov) | ** | 2008 |
| War Horse (Steven Spielberg) | **1/2 | 2011 |
| War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg) | ***1/2 | 2005 |
| The War Room (D.A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus) | ***1/2 | 1993 |
| Wargames (John Badham) | **** | 1983 |
| Watch It (Tom Flynn) | ** | 1993 |
| Water Lilies (Céline Sciamma) | ** | 2008 |
| The Waterdance | **** | 1992 |
| Waterloo Bridge (James Whale) | *** | 1931 |
| Watership Down (Martin Rosen) | **** | 1978 |
| Way Down East (DW Griffith) | ***1/2 | 1920 |
| Wayne's World | *** | 1992 |
| Wayne's World 2 (Stephen Surjik) | *** | 1993 |
| We Are the Hartmans (Laura Newman) | *** | 2011 |
| We Bought a Zoo (Cameron Crowe) | **** | 2011 |
| We Fun (Matthew Robison) | ** | 2009 |
| The Weather Underground (Sam Green & Bill Siegel) | **1/2 | 2003 |
| The Wedding March (Erich Von Stroheim) | *** | 1928 |
| The Wedding Singer (Frank Coraci) | *** | 1998 |
| Weird Science (John Hughes) | *** | 1985 |
| Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz) | **** | 1996 |
| Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt) | **** | 2008 |
| West Side Story (Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise) | **** | 1961 |
| Wet Hot American Summer (David Wain) | *** | 2001 |
| Whale Rider (Niki Caro) | *** | 2003 |
| What About Bob? | *** | 1991 |
| What Lies Beneath (Robert Zemeckis) | ** | 2000 |
| What Planet Are You From? (Mike Nichols) | *1/2 | 2000 |
| What Women Want (Nancy Meyers) | *** | 2000 |
| Whatever (Susan Skoog) | *** | 1998 |
| Whatever It Takes (David Raynr) | ** | 2000 |
| What's Eating Gilbert Grape? (Lasse Hallstrom) | ***1/2 | 1993 |
| What's Love Got to do With it? (Brian Gibson) | **** | 1993 |
| When Harry Met Sally (Rob Reiner) | *** | 1989 |
| Where the Day Takes you | **1/2 | 1992 |
| Where the Heart Is (Matt Williams) | *** | 2000 |
| Where the Rivers Flow North (Jay Craven) | *** | 1993 |
| While You Were Sleeping (Jon Turtletaub) | *** | 1995 |
| Whispers in the Dark | ** | 1992 |
| The White Hell of Pitz Palu (Arnold Fanck, GW Pabst) | ***1/2 | 1930 |
| White Men Can't Jump | ***1/2 | 1992 |
| White Oleander (Peter Kosminsky) | ** | 2002 |
| White Water Summer | ** | 1987 |
| Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis) | **** | 1988 |
| Who Saw Him? (Claudia Rorarius) | ** | 2010 |
| The Whole Nine Yards (Jonathan Lynn) | *** | 2000 |
| The Whole Wide World (Dan Ireland) | ***1/2 | 1996 |
| Wicked (Michael Steinberg) | *** | 1999 |
| Wide Sargasso Sea (John Duigan) | *** | 1993 |
| Wild America (William Dear) | *1/2 | 1997 |
| Wild at Heart (David Lynch) | *** | 1990 |
| Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken | **1/2 | 1991 |
| The Wild Life (Art Linson) | *1/2 | 1984 |
| The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (Judy Irving) | **** | 2005 |
| Wild Reeds (Andre Techine) | **** | 1995 |
| Wild Things (John McNaughton) | *** | 1998 |
| Wild Wild West (Barry Sonnenfeld) | ** | 1999 |
| Willow (Ron Howard) | *** | 1988 |
| Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart) | **** | 1971 |
| Win Win (Thomas McCarthy) | *** | 2011 |
| Wind | *** | 1992 |
| The Wind (Victor Sjostrom) | *** | 1928 |
| The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach) | ** | 2007 |
| Wings (William A. Wellman) | * | 1927 |
| Winter Solstice (Josh Sternfeld) | *** | 2005 |
| Winter's Bone (Debra Granik) | **** | 2010 |
| Wishmaster (Robert Kurtzman) | * | 1997 |
| The Witches of Eastwick | *** | 1987 |
| With Honors (Alex Keshishian) | *** | 1994 |
| Without a Trace (Stanley Jaffe) | ***1/2 | 1984 |
| Without Limits (Robert Towne) | *** | 1998 |
| Witness (Peter Weir) | **** | 1985 |
| Witness for the Prosecution (Billy Wilder) | **** | 1957 |
| The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming) | **** | 1939 |
| Woman in the Moon (Fritz Lang) | *** | 1931 |
| A Woman of Affairs (Clarence Brown) | *** | 1928 |
| Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson) | ***1/2 | 2000 |
| The Wood (Rick Famuyiwa) | *** | 1999 |
| Word Wars (Eric Chaikin & Julian Petrillo) | *** | 2004 |
| Working Girl (Mike Nichols) | *** | 1988 |
| The World Is Not Enough (Michael Apted) | *** | 1999 |
| World Trade Center (Oliver Stone) | *** | 2006 |
| World's Greatest Dad (Bobcat Goldthwait) | *** | 2009 |
| The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky) | ***1/2 | 2008 |
| The X-Files (Rob Bowman) | *** | 1998 |
| X-Men (Bryan Singer) | *** | 2000 |
| X-Men: First Class (Matthew Vaughn) | *** | 2011 |
| X-Men: The Last Stand (Brett Ratner) | *** | 2006 |
| Y tu mamá también (Alfonso Cuarón) | *** | 2002 |
| Year of the Dog (Mike White) | *** | 2007 |
| Yellowbrickroad (Jesse Holland, Andy Mitton) | ***1/2 | 2011 |
| You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan) | **** | 2000 |
| You Can't Take it With You (Frank Capra) | ***1/2 | 1938 |
| Young Adult (Jason Reitman) | *** | 2011 |
| Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks) | **** | 1974 |
| Young Sherlock Holmes (Barry Levinson) | *** | 1985 |
| The Young Unknowns (Catherine Jelski) | *** | 2003 |
| Youngblood (Peter Markle) | **1/2 | 1986 |
| Your Friends & Neighbors (Neil LaBute) | **** | 1998 |
| Youth in Revolt (Miguel Arteta) | **1/2 | 2010 |
| You've Got Mail (Nora Ephron) | *** | 1998 |
| Zerophilia (Martin Curland) | * | 2006 |
| Zodiac (David Fincher) | ***1/2 | 2007 |
Tuesday, January 16, 2001
All Movies Seen
Monday, January 1, 2001
1931 - Film Log
An American Tragedy (Josef Von Sternberg) - ****
Josef Von Sternberg is clearly one of the most consistent directors of his era, making one great film after another. Here he gives us an underappreciated adaptation of Dreiser's novel (which would be more famously adapted into A Place in the Sun) that may not be entirely faithful, but is nonetheless fascinating to watch. There's some really powerful and complex material in here, including a courtroom finale that gives the audience some grandstanding fireworks while also ridiculing the justice system that becomes more about the lawyers than the actual crime.
Arrowsmith (John Ford) - **
Uneven drama about medical research, which is not one of the most cinematic subjects. John Ford and the mostly uninspired cast don't do much to change that
The Bachelor Father (Robert Z. Leonard) - **
Another waste of the wonderful comedic talents of Marion Davies. Despite her winning charm and some nice chemistry with Ray Milland, the stagey direction and uneven script hold this movie back.
Bad Girl (Frank Borzage) - **1/2
Borzage departs from his usual fanciful style and settles for the stark realism of a struggling marriage. Good lead performances help, but the pacing is off and the story wastes far too much time on the courtship, preventing a deeper exploration of marital troubles.
The Champ (King Vidor) - **
This is considered a classic by many, but it left me completely cold. Beery overacts int he elad role and Cooper is a cute kid, but cannot handle the more demanding dramatic sequences. The important final scene is horribly staged and has some atrocious dialogue.
Cimarron (Wesley Ruggles) - *1/2
Someone wake me when this movie is over. A dreafully dull western that makes me want to reevaluate my negative review of The Big Trail, which at least looked great. This isn't the worst Best Picture winner ever (that honor belongs to Wings), but it's pretty close.
City Lights (Charles Chaplin) - ****
Not Chaplin's funniest film (that would be The Circus), but perhaps his most accomplished as a filmmaker. With a touching romance at the center and an oddball friendship, Chaplin hits on his familiar themes of class struggle and his Tramp character was never more endearing. Also of note is that Virginia Cherrill's blind girl is given multiple dimensions, a rarity in silent comedies.
Dishonored (Josef von Sternberg) - ****
Dietrich and Von Sternberg are one of the most perfect director/star matchups ever, and this is perhaps their best collaboration. Dietrich takes on the seductive spy role that was previously dominated by Garbo and does even better. Supporting cast is solid, but Dietrich completely dominates this film with her stunning screen presence. The most memorable moment comes when she uses an unexpected delay to apply lipstick, knowing that the delay is pointless and won't change a thing.
Dracula (Tod Browning) - **1/2
Dracula wastes the first half of its running time on pointlessly long exposition that almost completely kills the movie. In adapting a familiar story, Browning seems less prone to creating some of the more fascinating moments that piopulate his other films (The Unknown, Freaks). Still,t here is some good stuff int he second half, including an entertaining showdown between Van Helsing and Dracula, plus the memorable supporting work by Dwight Frye as Renfield.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian) - ***
Mamoulian's artistry and a great leading performance from Fredric March put this one a step ahead of some of the other early horror films. March is strong enough to maintain interest during the usually slow exposition that unfortunately populates this film as well. Mamoulian has an uneven track record with me, but he's usually at least trying to do something interesting.
Five Star Final (Mervyn LeRoy) - ***1/2
Harrowing drama about the devastating effects that the media can have on ordinary citizens when they put aside ethics and think about their bottom line. Edward G. Robinson gives another terrific performance as an editor who seeks to reveal the hidden identity of a woman who murdered her abusive husband many years ago. Very few directors of this era understand how to build dramatic tension as well as LeRoy
Frankenstein (James Whale) - **1/2
No that rating is not a mistake. This is a horror film that just does not hold up well at all. There's very little suspense until the very, very and and even then some of it is quite laughable. Decent performances and Whale's generally competent direction prevent this from being a complete disaster.
Freedom For Us (Rene Clair) - ***1/2
Amusing satire about two prisoners who go on very different paths, one becoming a supervisor at a factory and the other becoming a lowly struggling worker. This film is probably best known for the lawsuit that the filmmakers file against Chaplin, claiming he stole many elements of this film for Modern Times. I find that interesting since many of the same elements appear in Chaplin's earlier work. Disputes aside, this is a fun and insightful film.
A Free Soul (Clarence Brown) - *1/2
This is a movie that doesn't seem to know what it wants to be about. It alternates from love triangle (between Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, and Leslie Howard) to father-daughter drama about alcoholism (Sharer and Lionel Barrymore) to courtroom drama. Ultimately, it is not successful at any of them. Lionel Barrymore won an Oscar for his shameless courtroom antics at the end, but it is Norma Shearer that gives the only good performance in the film. She brings an astonishing elegance to her role and her wonderful presence makes the film somewhat bearable.
Little Caeser (Mervyn LeRoy) - ***1/2
Edward G. Robinson makes for a fine anti-hero in this straightforward, but entertaining gangster film. Robinson's presence is pretty powerful, making his character's rise through the ranks very convincing. It doesn't quite rise to the level of the first really great gangster pic, Josef Von sternberg's Underworld, because it doesn't really have as much depth. Most of it sits there on the surface. But it is still great entertaiment thanks to interesting characters, technically proficient direction from LeRoy, and a memorable performance in the lead role by Robinson.
M (Fritz Lang) - ****
Every modern filmmaker and moviegoer should be required to watch Fritz Lang's M, a brillianst story about the criminal underworld hunting down a child killer. Maybe then we'd be spared the ADD crap of modern blockbusters. M shows how brilliant a film can be when it has the patience let the suspense slowly build throughout the story. The most notable sequence is a long, mostly silent passage where a blind man notices the killer's presence and the underworld network tracks him to a building, where he hides in the attic as they get closer and closer to finding him. But the film isn't just visually brilliant, it explores the story through multiple levels, with a fascinating sequence at the end showing how the criminal underworld ironically views defense attorneys in a much different light when the tables are turned. Peter Lorre's performance is far removed from the standard one note villain. He doesn't play Hans Beckert as a purely evil psycopath, but as someone who feels he does not have control of his own actions. M is a film that plays against your expectations, where the criminals are self-righteous and child murderers are human beings. It's a thoughtful and frightening movie, coming from a director who by this point was a complete master at his craft.
Maltese Falcon (Roy Del Ruth) - *1/2
This early version of the Dashiell Hammett's crime novel suffers from the typical problems that pagued early sound films. It is poorly staged with clunky line delivery, offering very little visual imagination. Ricardo Cortez is uninspired in the role of Sam Spade.
Mata Hari (George Fitzmaurice) - ***
This is a fairly straightforward film without a lot of depth, but it is nonetheless entertaining thanks to an interesting story and solid performances from the entire cast. Garbo had issues the previous year in Anna Christie, which was her first talkie, but they seem to have been fixed as she gives a confident, relaxed performance here. Lionel Barrymore (much better here than in A Free Soul).
Miracle Woman (Frank Capra) - ****
The best surprise from 1931 was this early Capra film that doesn't get talked about too much, but deserves a place alongside his best remembered classics. Barbara Stanwyck is electrifying in the role of a disillusioned young woman whose pastor father dies and gets taken in by a con man who sets her up as a faith healer. Stanwyck is so good in this role that I don't hesitate to call it one of the very best performances I have ever seen. The opening sequence where she shames her father's former congregation is unforgettable.
Monkey Business (Norman Z. McLeod) - ***1/2
This is definitely a better vehicle for the Marx Brothers than the overrated Animal Crackers, mainly because its smart enough to keep them on the screen for the most part and the stowaway plot is a perfect setup for their hilarious antics.
Platinum Blonde (Frank Capra) - ****
This early screwball comedy from Frank Capra is definitely a great surprise. Fans of Hawks' His Girl Friday will find plenty to like in this love triangle where a reporter falls in love with someone he's writing about, while ignoring the feelings of his closest friend, who is also a reporter. All three leads are fantastic in this one, with an exquisite Loretta Young and sexy Jean Harlow. The biggest surprise is Robert Williams, who gives a terrific performance in only his 5th film that promised a bright future. Sadly, this would be his last film as he died from appendicitis.
The Public Enemy (William Wellman) - ****
The iconic central performance from James Cagney makes this one a winner. Cagney creates one of the most memorable characters in film history, one that would inspire countless followers, but only a handful would come close to matching the intimidating tough guy presence that Cagney brought to the screen. The final brilliantly shocking sequence is one of the more stunning moments in film history.
The Royal Bed (Lowell Sherman) - ***1/2
Another Lowell Sherman film that is a charming low key affair. In an era where comedy was mostly made up of broad slapstick, Sherman's style is actually refreshing. There's a nice, underlying sentiment to this story of a royal family of a small European nation, dealing with the normal family dynamics and a peasant revolt at the same time. Sherman's performance is much like his direction. He underplays every single scene, but he makes it work and creates a winning, empathetic character.
Smart Money (Alfred E. Green) - **
There's no denying that it's a thrill to see these two legends work together. Their incredible screen presence is certainly evident throughout the film. But once you get beyind that initial appeal, there's not much of a story here. The situations are poorly developed and the characters are only interesting because of the larger than life actors portraying them. I'll admit that it does wrap up nicely with a very strong concluding sequence, I just wish Robinson and Cagney had been given better material to work with before that point.
Svengali (Archie Mayo) - ***
John Barrymore gives a strong performance in the title role as a man who uses hypnotism and mind control to make a woman he loves a wonderful singer, while taking her away from the life she used to live. It's a really strong concept and t he film is entertaining enough, if not ever truly compelling. Marian Marsh also does solid work as the female lead.
The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch) - ****
Another delightful Lubitsch musical and among his best films overall. Maurice Chevalier and Claudette Colbert make a terrific romantic pair, and the musical numbers between them are outstanding. However, the biggest surprise in the film is Miriam Hopkins. Her character appears at first to be a one note spoiled brat, but Hopkins (and Lubitsch) makes her a wonderful, charmingly naive person. This really sets the film apart from most that deal with love triangles by allowing us to like both choices. In fact, one of the best scenes is when the two women meet and actually gain an understanding of one another. There's quite a bit of sexual innuendo in this pre-code talkie and Lubitsch "touches" are found all throughout the film. My favorite is when Niki tries to talk his way out of the marriage:
"When you winked at my daughter, were your intentions honorable?"
"They were."
"Well, then naturally, you'll marry her."
"My intentions were dishonorable!"
"Then you'll have to marry her!"
Dialogue like that just can't be found in most films. Lubitsch wraps things up with a surprisingly satisfying ending that mixes sadness and happiness, and is a whole lot of fun.
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (FW Murnau) - ***
Fascinating cinematography and interesting subject matter aren't enough to make this one of Murnau's better films, but even a lesser Murnau is has plenty to offer. In many ways, this film felt somewhat similar to King Vidor's Hallelujah!, another exploration of a different culture. This one works a little bit better because there isn't the same level of condescencion towards the characters, and the central love story is strong enough to make the audience care.
Tokyo Chorus (Yasujiro Ozu) - ***1/2
Ozu is an important filmmaker that will certainly take prominence as I move through the years with this project. This is one of his earlier works (although he had made many films before this), and it shows a nice eye for observant comedy and a light touch that handles a serious subject with complete charm.
Tonight or Never (Mervyn LeRoy) - **
An unremarkable romantic drama with Gloria Swanson as a talented opera singer who lacks passion in her performances, but perhaps potential romance will turn that around. Gloria Swanson is very appealing in the lead role, but this is an extremely dull story that goes nowhere.
Waterloo Bridge (James Whale) - ***
Whale takes a break from horror and presents a serious romance between a soldier and a prostitute. To the movie's credit, the characters (thanks to wonderful acting) rise above those stereotypes and become fully three dimensional creations. The romance is worth caring about, and has complexities that are interesting to explore. Loses a few points for the jarring final scene, which is completely unnecessary.
Woman in the Moon (Fritz Lang) - ***
Fritz Lang is one of the best directors in film history. His films have always had a startling originality and he has an unmatched skill in the purposeful manner he moves through a plot. Lang's movies have always been exciting from beginning to end, even at their usually long running times. However, this is one that probably runs just a bit too long. It takes far too long until we reach our outer space adventure, and what happens before that is not very interesting (as opposed to the electric opening of Spies). This is still a solid sci-fi adventure, just not up to the standards I expect from Lang.
Josef Von Sternberg is clearly one of the most consistent directors of his era, making one great film after another. Here he gives us an underappreciated adaptation of Dreiser's novel (which would be more famously adapted into A Place in the Sun) that may not be entirely faithful, but is nonetheless fascinating to watch. There's some really powerful and complex material in here, including a courtroom finale that gives the audience some grandstanding fireworks while also ridiculing the justice system that becomes more about the lawyers than the actual crime.
Arrowsmith (John Ford) - **
Uneven drama about medical research, which is not one of the most cinematic subjects. John Ford and the mostly uninspired cast don't do much to change that
The Bachelor Father (Robert Z. Leonard) - **
Another waste of the wonderful comedic talents of Marion Davies. Despite her winning charm and some nice chemistry with Ray Milland, the stagey direction and uneven script hold this movie back.
Bad Girl (Frank Borzage) - **1/2
Borzage departs from his usual fanciful style and settles for the stark realism of a struggling marriage. Good lead performances help, but the pacing is off and the story wastes far too much time on the courtship, preventing a deeper exploration of marital troubles.
The Champ (King Vidor) - **
This is considered a classic by many, but it left me completely cold. Beery overacts int he elad role and Cooper is a cute kid, but cannot handle the more demanding dramatic sequences. The important final scene is horribly staged and has some atrocious dialogue.
Cimarron (Wesley Ruggles) - *1/2
Someone wake me when this movie is over. A dreafully dull western that makes me want to reevaluate my negative review of The Big Trail, which at least looked great. This isn't the worst Best Picture winner ever (that honor belongs to Wings), but it's pretty close.
City Lights (Charles Chaplin) - ****
Not Chaplin's funniest film (that would be The Circus), but perhaps his most accomplished as a filmmaker. With a touching romance at the center and an oddball friendship, Chaplin hits on his familiar themes of class struggle and his Tramp character was never more endearing. Also of note is that Virginia Cherrill's blind girl is given multiple dimensions, a rarity in silent comedies.
Dishonored (Josef von Sternberg) - ****
Dietrich and Von Sternberg are one of the most perfect director/star matchups ever, and this is perhaps their best collaboration. Dietrich takes on the seductive spy role that was previously dominated by Garbo and does even better. Supporting cast is solid, but Dietrich completely dominates this film with her stunning screen presence. The most memorable moment comes when she uses an unexpected delay to apply lipstick, knowing that the delay is pointless and won't change a thing.
Dracula (Tod Browning) - **1/2
Dracula wastes the first half of its running time on pointlessly long exposition that almost completely kills the movie. In adapting a familiar story, Browning seems less prone to creating some of the more fascinating moments that piopulate his other films (The Unknown, Freaks). Still,t here is some good stuff int he second half, including an entertaining showdown between Van Helsing and Dracula, plus the memorable supporting work by Dwight Frye as Renfield.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian) - ***
Mamoulian's artistry and a great leading performance from Fredric March put this one a step ahead of some of the other early horror films. March is strong enough to maintain interest during the usually slow exposition that unfortunately populates this film as well. Mamoulian has an uneven track record with me, but he's usually at least trying to do something interesting.
Five Star Final (Mervyn LeRoy) - ***1/2
Harrowing drama about the devastating effects that the media can have on ordinary citizens when they put aside ethics and think about their bottom line. Edward G. Robinson gives another terrific performance as an editor who seeks to reveal the hidden identity of a woman who murdered her abusive husband many years ago. Very few directors of this era understand how to build dramatic tension as well as LeRoy
Frankenstein (James Whale) - **1/2
No that rating is not a mistake. This is a horror film that just does not hold up well at all. There's very little suspense until the very, very and and even then some of it is quite laughable. Decent performances and Whale's generally competent direction prevent this from being a complete disaster.
Freedom For Us (Rene Clair) - ***1/2
Amusing satire about two prisoners who go on very different paths, one becoming a supervisor at a factory and the other becoming a lowly struggling worker. This film is probably best known for the lawsuit that the filmmakers file against Chaplin, claiming he stole many elements of this film for Modern Times. I find that interesting since many of the same elements appear in Chaplin's earlier work. Disputes aside, this is a fun and insightful film.
A Free Soul (Clarence Brown) - *1/2
This is a movie that doesn't seem to know what it wants to be about. It alternates from love triangle (between Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, and Leslie Howard) to father-daughter drama about alcoholism (Sharer and Lionel Barrymore) to courtroom drama. Ultimately, it is not successful at any of them. Lionel Barrymore won an Oscar for his shameless courtroom antics at the end, but it is Norma Shearer that gives the only good performance in the film. She brings an astonishing elegance to her role and her wonderful presence makes the film somewhat bearable.
Little Caeser (Mervyn LeRoy) - ***1/2
Edward G. Robinson makes for a fine anti-hero in this straightforward, but entertaining gangster film. Robinson's presence is pretty powerful, making his character's rise through the ranks very convincing. It doesn't quite rise to the level of the first really great gangster pic, Josef Von sternberg's Underworld, because it doesn't really have as much depth. Most of it sits there on the surface. But it is still great entertaiment thanks to interesting characters, technically proficient direction from LeRoy, and a memorable performance in the lead role by Robinson.
M (Fritz Lang) - ****
Every modern filmmaker and moviegoer should be required to watch Fritz Lang's M, a brillianst story about the criminal underworld hunting down a child killer. Maybe then we'd be spared the ADD crap of modern blockbusters. M shows how brilliant a film can be when it has the patience let the suspense slowly build throughout the story. The most notable sequence is a long, mostly silent passage where a blind man notices the killer's presence and the underworld network tracks him to a building, where he hides in the attic as they get closer and closer to finding him. But the film isn't just visually brilliant, it explores the story through multiple levels, with a fascinating sequence at the end showing how the criminal underworld ironically views defense attorneys in a much different light when the tables are turned. Peter Lorre's performance is far removed from the standard one note villain. He doesn't play Hans Beckert as a purely evil psycopath, but as someone who feels he does not have control of his own actions. M is a film that plays against your expectations, where the criminals are self-righteous and child murderers are human beings. It's a thoughtful and frightening movie, coming from a director who by this point was a complete master at his craft.
Maltese Falcon (Roy Del Ruth) - *1/2
This early version of the Dashiell Hammett's crime novel suffers from the typical problems that pagued early sound films. It is poorly staged with clunky line delivery, offering very little visual imagination. Ricardo Cortez is uninspired in the role of Sam Spade.
Mata Hari (George Fitzmaurice) - ***
This is a fairly straightforward film without a lot of depth, but it is nonetheless entertaining thanks to an interesting story and solid performances from the entire cast. Garbo had issues the previous year in Anna Christie, which was her first talkie, but they seem to have been fixed as she gives a confident, relaxed performance here. Lionel Barrymore (much better here than in A Free Soul).
Miracle Woman (Frank Capra) - ****
The best surprise from 1931 was this early Capra film that doesn't get talked about too much, but deserves a place alongside his best remembered classics. Barbara Stanwyck is electrifying in the role of a disillusioned young woman whose pastor father dies and gets taken in by a con man who sets her up as a faith healer. Stanwyck is so good in this role that I don't hesitate to call it one of the very best performances I have ever seen. The opening sequence where she shames her father's former congregation is unforgettable.
Monkey Business (Norman Z. McLeod) - ***1/2
This is definitely a better vehicle for the Marx Brothers than the overrated Animal Crackers, mainly because its smart enough to keep them on the screen for the most part and the stowaway plot is a perfect setup for their hilarious antics.
Platinum Blonde (Frank Capra) - ****
This early screwball comedy from Frank Capra is definitely a great surprise. Fans of Hawks' His Girl Friday will find plenty to like in this love triangle where a reporter falls in love with someone he's writing about, while ignoring the feelings of his closest friend, who is also a reporter. All three leads are fantastic in this one, with an exquisite Loretta Young and sexy Jean Harlow. The biggest surprise is Robert Williams, who gives a terrific performance in only his 5th film that promised a bright future. Sadly, this would be his last film as he died from appendicitis.
The Public Enemy (William Wellman) - ****
The iconic central performance from James Cagney makes this one a winner. Cagney creates one of the most memorable characters in film history, one that would inspire countless followers, but only a handful would come close to matching the intimidating tough guy presence that Cagney brought to the screen. The final brilliantly shocking sequence is one of the more stunning moments in film history.
The Royal Bed (Lowell Sherman) - ***1/2
Another Lowell Sherman film that is a charming low key affair. In an era where comedy was mostly made up of broad slapstick, Sherman's style is actually refreshing. There's a nice, underlying sentiment to this story of a royal family of a small European nation, dealing with the normal family dynamics and a peasant revolt at the same time. Sherman's performance is much like his direction. He underplays every single scene, but he makes it work and creates a winning, empathetic character.
Smart Money (Alfred E. Green) - **
There's no denying that it's a thrill to see these two legends work together. Their incredible screen presence is certainly evident throughout the film. But once you get beyind that initial appeal, there's not much of a story here. The situations are poorly developed and the characters are only interesting because of the larger than life actors portraying them. I'll admit that it does wrap up nicely with a very strong concluding sequence, I just wish Robinson and Cagney had been given better material to work with before that point.
Svengali (Archie Mayo) - ***
John Barrymore gives a strong performance in the title role as a man who uses hypnotism and mind control to make a woman he loves a wonderful singer, while taking her away from the life she used to live. It's a really strong concept and t he film is entertaining enough, if not ever truly compelling. Marian Marsh also does solid work as the female lead.
The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch) - ****
Another delightful Lubitsch musical and among his best films overall. Maurice Chevalier and Claudette Colbert make a terrific romantic pair, and the musical numbers between them are outstanding. However, the biggest surprise in the film is Miriam Hopkins. Her character appears at first to be a one note spoiled brat, but Hopkins (and Lubitsch) makes her a wonderful, charmingly naive person. This really sets the film apart from most that deal with love triangles by allowing us to like both choices. In fact, one of the best scenes is when the two women meet and actually gain an understanding of one another. There's quite a bit of sexual innuendo in this pre-code talkie and Lubitsch "touches" are found all throughout the film. My favorite is when Niki tries to talk his way out of the marriage:
"When you winked at my daughter, were your intentions honorable?"
"They were."
"Well, then naturally, you'll marry her."
"My intentions were dishonorable!"
"Then you'll have to marry her!"
Dialogue like that just can't be found in most films. Lubitsch wraps things up with a surprisingly satisfying ending that mixes sadness and happiness, and is a whole lot of fun.
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (FW Murnau) - ***
Fascinating cinematography and interesting subject matter aren't enough to make this one of Murnau's better films, but even a lesser Murnau is has plenty to offer. In many ways, this film felt somewhat similar to King Vidor's Hallelujah!, another exploration of a different culture. This one works a little bit better because there isn't the same level of condescencion towards the characters, and the central love story is strong enough to make the audience care.
Tokyo Chorus (Yasujiro Ozu) - ***1/2
Ozu is an important filmmaker that will certainly take prominence as I move through the years with this project. This is one of his earlier works (although he had made many films before this), and it shows a nice eye for observant comedy and a light touch that handles a serious subject with complete charm.
Tonight or Never (Mervyn LeRoy) - **
An unremarkable romantic drama with Gloria Swanson as a talented opera singer who lacks passion in her performances, but perhaps potential romance will turn that around. Gloria Swanson is very appealing in the lead role, but this is an extremely dull story that goes nowhere.
Waterloo Bridge (James Whale) - ***
Whale takes a break from horror and presents a serious romance between a soldier and a prostitute. To the movie's credit, the characters (thanks to wonderful acting) rise above those stereotypes and become fully three dimensional creations. The romance is worth caring about, and has complexities that are interesting to explore. Loses a few points for the jarring final scene, which is completely unnecessary.
Woman in the Moon (Fritz Lang) - ***
Fritz Lang is one of the best directors in film history. His films have always had a startling originality and he has an unmatched skill in the purposeful manner he moves through a plot. Lang's movies have always been exciting from beginning to end, even at their usually long running times. However, this is one that probably runs just a bit too long. It takes far too long until we reach our outer space adventure, and what happens before that is not very interesting (as opposed to the electric opening of Spies). This is still a solid sci-fi adventure, just not up to the standards I expect from Lang.
Top 10 Films: 1927-1933, 1971, 1982-2010
Here is my current top 10 List. It goes from 1982-2010, with an additional list in 1971. I am constantly updating these lists as I see more films. I've also started a project that will eventually give me a top 10 list from 1927-2010 (or whatever year it is when I finish). So far I have completed 1927-1933 and those lists are posted below...
2011
Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn)
Bridesmaids (Paul Feig)
The Artist (Michael Hazanavicus)
The Descendants (Alexander Payne)
Dear Lemon Lima (Suzi Yoonessi)
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Brad Bird)
Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin)
Cold Weather (Aaron Katz)
We Bought a Zoo (Cameron Crowe)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (David Yates)
2010
Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance)
Inception (Christopher Nolan)
True Grit (Joel and Ethan Coen)
Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese)
Please Give (Nicole Holofcener)
Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)
Winter's Bone (Debra Granik)
127 Hours (Danny Boyle)
9500 Liberty (Annabel Park, Eric Byler)
The Social Network (David Fincher)
2009
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
Up in the Air (Jason Reitman)
Up (Pete Docter)
500 Days of Summer (Marc Webb)
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (Lee Daniels)
Sugar (Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck)
Away We Go (Sam Mendes)
Moon (Duncan Jones)
In the Loop (Armando Iannucci)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
2008
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
Wall-E (Andrew Stanton)
Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Nicholas Stoller)
Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme)
The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky)
The Visitor (Thomas McCarthy)
2007
No Country For Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen)
Great World of Sound (Craig Zobel)
Once (John Carney)
Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
Charlie Wilson's War (Mike Nichols)
Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy)
Juno (Jason Reitman)
Waitress (Adrienne Shelly)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton)
Knocked Up (Judd Apatow)
2006
Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro)
Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris)
Friends With Money (Nicole Holofcener)
The Heart of the Game (Ward Serrill)
The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
Dreamgirls (Bill Condon)
Sherrybaby (Laurie Collyer)
Letters From Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood)
Stranger Than Fiction (Marc Forster)
United 93 (Paul Greengreass)
2005
Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July)
Munich (Steven Spielberg)
Syriana (Stephen Gagan)
King Kong (Peter Jackson)
A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
Serenity (Joss Whedon)
Good Night, and Good Luck. (George Clooney)
The 40 Year Old Virgin (Judd Apatow)
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (Judy Irving)
2004
Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
Garden State (Zach Braff)
The Terminal (Steven Spielberg)
Sideways (Alexander Payne)
The Incredibles (Brad Bird)
Hotel Rwanda (Terry George)
Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Alfonso Cuarón)
Collateral (Michael Mann)
2003
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
21 Grams (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan)
Spellbound (Jeffrey Blitz)
Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)
Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton)
The Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet)
The Cooler (Wayne Kramer)
2002
25th Hour (Spike Lee)
Kissing Jessica Stein (Charles Herman-Wurmfeld)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson)
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore)
Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)
Moonlight Mile (Brad Silberling)
Lovely & Amazing (Nicole Holofcener)
Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes)
Far from Heaven (Todd Haynes)
2001
AI: Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
Monster's Ball (Marc Forster)
Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
Memento (Christopher Nolan)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen)
Joy Ride (John Dahl)
Lost and Delirious (Léa Pool)
Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
Bandits (Barry Levinson)
2000
Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
Cast Away (Robert Zemeckis)
Nurse Betty (Neil LaBute)
Traffic (Steven Soderbergh)
Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky)
Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen)
You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan)
Getting to Know You (Lisanne Skyler)
1999
Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Boys Don't Cry (Kimberly Peirce)
Show Me Love (Lukas Moodysson)
Election (Alexander Payne)
American Beauty (Sam Mendes)
Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)
Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter)
The Iron Giant (Brad Bird)
The Matrix (Wachowski Bros.)
The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan)
1998
Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg)
Love and Death on Long Island (Richard Kwietniowski)
Pleasantville (Gary Ross)
The Truman Show (Peter Weir)
A Simple Plan (Sam Raimi)
Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh)
Primary Colors (Mike Nichols)
Happiness (Todd Solondz)
Bulworth (Warren Beatty)
Dark City (Alex Proyas)
1997
The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
Titanic (James Cameron)
The Ice Storm (Ang Lee)
In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute)
LA Confidetial (Curtis Hanson)
Contact (Robert Zemeckis)
Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Ulee's Gold (Victor Nunez)
Scream 2 (Wes Craven)
My Best Friend's Wedding (PJ Hogan)
1996
Jerry Maguire (Cameron Crowe)
Breaking the Waves (Lars Von Trier)
Bound (Wachowski Bros.)
Trees Lounge (Steve Buscemi)
Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd SOlondz)
Courage Under Fire (Edward Zwick)
The Last Supper (Stacy Title)
Beautiful Girls (Ted Demme)
The Frighteners (Peter Jackson)
Scream (Wes Craven)
1995
Wild Reeds (Andre Techine)
Exotica (Atom Egoyan)
Kicking and Screaming (Noah Baumbach)
Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins)
Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis)
Toy Story (John Lasseter)
The American President (Rob Reiner)
Fluke (Carlo Carlei)
Se7en (David Fincher)
Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
1994
Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson)
Hoop Dreams (Steve James)
The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis)
The Last Seduction (John Dahl)
Speed (Jan De Bont)
Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
Little Women (Gilliam Armstrong)
Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone)
1993
Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
King of the Hill (Steven Soderbergh)
Ruby in Paradise (Victor Nunez)
Searching For Bobby Fischer (Steven Zaillian)
The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorcese)
Remains of the Day (James Ivory)
Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
Hard-boiled (John Woo)
The Piano (Jane Campion)
Rudy (David Anspaugh)
1992
Malcolm X (Spike Lee)
The Player (Robert Altman)
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
Flirting (John Duigan)
A Few Good Men (Rob Reiner)
Of Mice and Men (Gary Sinise)
The Crying Game (Neil Jordan)
Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)
Passion Fish (John Sayles)
White Men Can't Jump (Ron Shelton)
1991
The Rapture (Michael Tolkin)
Boyz N The Hood (John Singleton)
JFK (Oliver Stone)
Bugsy (Barry Levinson)
The Man in the Moon (Robert Mulligan)
Terminator 2 (James Cameron)
Soapdish (Michael Hoffman)
Closet Land (Radha Bharadwaj)
Dogfight (Nancy Savoca)
Jungle Fever (Spike Lee)
1990
Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
Metropolitan (Whit Stillman)
The Grifters (Stephen Frears)
Back to the Future 3 (Robert Zemeckis)
Joe Versus the Volcano (John Patrick Shanley)
Die Hard 2 (Renny Harlin)
Jacob's Ladder (Adrian Lyne)
Pump Up the Volume (Allan Moyle)
Total Recall (Paul Veerhoeven)
Dreams (Akira Kurosaws)
1989
Say Anything (Cameron Crowe)
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
Roger & Me (Michael Moore)
Heathers (Michael Lehmann)
Glory (Edward Zwick)
Born on the 4th of July (Oliver Stone)
Casualties of War (Brian De Palma)
My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg)
1988
Running on Empty (Sidney Lumet)
Die Hard (John McTiernan)
Eight Men Out (John Sayles)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis)
Midnight Run (Martin Brest)
Rain Man (Barry Levinson)
The Accidental Tourist (Lawrence Kasdan)
Big (Penny Marshall)
My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
Bull Durham (Ron Shelton)
1987
Matewan (John Sayles)
Empire of the Sun (Steven Spielberg)
Raising Arizona (Coen Bros.)
Broadcast News (James L. Brooks)
The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner)
Moonstruck (Norman Jewison)
Some Kind of Wonderful (Howard Deutch)
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (John Hughes)
Lethal Weapon (Richard Donner)
Roxanne (Fred Schepisi)
1986
Lucas (David Seltzer)
Hoosiers (David Anspaugh)
Platoon (Oliver Stone)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (John Hughes)
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (John McNaughton)
Stand By Me (Rob Reiner)
Aliens (James Cameron)
Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
Ruthless People (David Zucker, Jim Abrahams)
River's Edge (Tim Hunter)
1985
Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis)
Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen)
The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg)
Witness (Peter Weir)
The Breakfast Club (John Hughes)
The Sure Thing (Rob Reiner)
Smooth Talk (Joyce Chopra)
After Hours (Martin Scorsese)
Lost in America (Albert Brooks)
1984
The Karate Kid (John G. Avildsen)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (Wes Craven)
Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman)
The Natural (Barry Levinson)
The Terminator (James Cameron)
Gremlins (Joe Dante)
A Soldier's Story (Norman Jewison)
Starman (John Carpenter)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg)
The Neverending Story (Wolfgang Petersen)
1983
The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
Terms of Endearment (James L. Brooks)
Wargames (John Badham)
Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand)
The Right Stuff (Phillip Kaufman)
Risky Business (Paul Brickman)
The Big Chill (Lawrence Kasdan)
The Meaning of Life (Terry Jones)
All the Right Moves (Michael Chapman)
Trading Places (John Landis)
1982
E.T. the Extraterrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
The Verdict (Sidney Lumet)
Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper)
An Officer and a Gentleman (Taylor Hackford)
Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan (Nicholas Meyer)
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Amy Heckerling)
Sophie's Choice (Alan J. Pakula)
48 Hours (Walter Hill)
The Dark Crystal (Jim Henson, Frank Oz)
1971
Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)
A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart)
Bananas (Woody Allen)
Summer of 42 (Robert Mulligan)
Klute (Alan J. Pakula)
Dirty Harry (Don Siegel)
1933
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
Design For Living (Ernst Lubitsch)
The Private Life of Henry VIII (Alexander Korda)
Little Women (George Cukor)
A Man's Castle (Frank Borzage)
Queen Cristina (Rouben Mamoulian)
Counsellor at Law (William Wyler)
Lady For a Day (Frank Capra)
King Kong (Merian C. Cooper, Ernest P. Shoedsack)
1932
Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy)
American Madness (Frank Capra)
Freaks (Tod Browning)
Me and My Gal (Raoul Walsh)
One Way Passage (Tay Garnett)
The Old Dark House (James Whale)
One Hour With You (Ernst Lubitsch)
I Was Born, But.... (Yasujiro Ozu)
Shanghai Express (Josef Von Sternberg)
1931
M (Fritz Lang)
City Lights (Charles Chaplin)
Miracle Woman (Frank Capra)
The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch)
An American Tragedy (Josef Von Sternberg)
Dishonored (Josef von Sternberg)
Platinum Blonde (Frank Capra)
The Public Enemy (William Wellman)
Little Caesar (Mervyn LeRoy)
The Royal Bed (Lowell Sherman)
1930
All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)
City Girl (FW Murnau)
A Cottage on Dartmoor (Anthony Asquith)
Morocco (Josef von Sternberg)
Hell's Angels (Howard Hughes)
Billy the Kid (King Vidor)
The Blue Angel (Josef Von Sternberg)
Feet First (Clyde Bruckman)
The White Hell of Pitz Palu (Arnold Fanck, GW Pabst)
Song O My Heart (Frank Borzage)
1929
The Iron Mask (Allan Dwan)
Spies (Fritz Lang)
Napoleon (Abel Gance)
Pandora's Box (GW Pabst)
Asphalt (Joe May)
Diary of a Lost Girl (GW Pabst)
The Love Parade (Ernst Lubitsch)
Alibi (Roland West)
Lucky Star (Frank Borzage)
Queen Kelly (Erich Von Stroheim)
1928
The Crowd (King Vidor)
The Circus (Charles Chaplin)
Speedy (Ted Wilde)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer)
Laugh, Clown, Laugh (Herbert Brenon)
Steamboat Bill Jr. (Charles Reisner)
The Last Command (Josef Von Sternberg)
A Girl in Every Port (Howard Hawks)
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Walter Ruttman)
The Lodger (Alfred Hitchcock)
1927
Sunrise (FW Murnau)
Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
Underworld (Josef von Sternberg)
The Unknown (Tod Browning)
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (Ernst Lubitsch)
The Kid Brother (Ted Wilde and JA Howe)
The General (Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton)
The Cat and the Canary (Paul Leni)
Seventh Heaven (Frank Borzage)
Bed and Sofa (Abram Room)
2011
Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn)
Bridesmaids (Paul Feig)
The Artist (Michael Hazanavicus)
The Descendants (Alexander Payne)
Dear Lemon Lima (Suzi Yoonessi)
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Brad Bird)
Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin)
Cold Weather (Aaron Katz)
We Bought a Zoo (Cameron Crowe)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (David Yates)
2010
Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance)
Inception (Christopher Nolan)
True Grit (Joel and Ethan Coen)
Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese)
Please Give (Nicole Holofcener)
Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)
Winter's Bone (Debra Granik)
127 Hours (Danny Boyle)
9500 Liberty (Annabel Park, Eric Byler)
The Social Network (David Fincher)
2009
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
Up in the Air (Jason Reitman)
Up (Pete Docter)
500 Days of Summer (Marc Webb)
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (Lee Daniels)
Sugar (Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck)
Away We Go (Sam Mendes)
Moon (Duncan Jones)
In the Loop (Armando Iannucci)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
Wall-E (Andrew Stanton)
Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Nicholas Stoller)
| Milk (Gus Van Sant) |
The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky)
The Visitor (Thomas McCarthy)
2007
No Country For Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen)
Great World of Sound (Craig Zobel)
Once (John Carney)
Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
Charlie Wilson's War (Mike Nichols)
Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy)
Juno (Jason Reitman)
Waitress (Adrienne Shelly)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton)
Knocked Up (Judd Apatow)
2006
Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro)
Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris)
Friends With Money (Nicole Holofcener)
The Heart of the Game (Ward Serrill)
The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
Dreamgirls (Bill Condon)
Sherrybaby (Laurie Collyer)
Letters From Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood)
Stranger Than Fiction (Marc Forster)
United 93 (Paul Greengreass)
2005
Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July)
Munich (Steven Spielberg)
Syriana (Stephen Gagan)
King Kong (Peter Jackson)
A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
Serenity (Joss Whedon)
Good Night, and Good Luck. (George Clooney)
The 40 Year Old Virgin (Judd Apatow)
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (Judy Irving)
2004
Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
Garden State (Zach Braff)
The Terminal (Steven Spielberg)
Sideways (Alexander Payne)
The Incredibles (Brad Bird)
Hotel Rwanda (Terry George)
Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Alfonso Cuarón)
Collateral (Michael Mann)
2003
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
21 Grams (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan)
Spellbound (Jeffrey Blitz)
Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)
Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton)
The Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet)
The Cooler (Wayne Kramer)
2002
25th Hour (Spike Lee)
Kissing Jessica Stein (Charles Herman-Wurmfeld)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson)
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore)
Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)
Moonlight Mile (Brad Silberling)
Lovely & Amazing (Nicole Holofcener)
Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes)
Far from Heaven (Todd Haynes)
2001
AI: Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
Monster's Ball (Marc Forster)
Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
Memento (Christopher Nolan)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen)
Joy Ride (John Dahl)
Lost and Delirious (Léa Pool)
Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
Bandits (Barry Levinson)
2000
Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
Cast Away (Robert Zemeckis)
Nurse Betty (Neil LaBute)
Traffic (Steven Soderbergh)
Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky)
Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen)
You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan)
Getting to Know You (Lisanne Skyler)
1999
Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Boys Don't Cry (Kimberly Peirce)
Show Me Love (Lukas Moodysson)
Election (Alexander Payne)
American Beauty (Sam Mendes)
Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)
Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter)
The Iron Giant (Brad Bird)
The Matrix (Wachowski Bros.)
The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan)
1998
Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg)
Love and Death on Long Island (Richard Kwietniowski)
Pleasantville (Gary Ross)
The Truman Show (Peter Weir)
A Simple Plan (Sam Raimi)
Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh)
Primary Colors (Mike Nichols)
Happiness (Todd Solondz)
Bulworth (Warren Beatty)
Dark City (Alex Proyas)
1997
The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
Titanic (James Cameron)
The Ice Storm (Ang Lee)
In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute)
LA Confidetial (Curtis Hanson)
Contact (Robert Zemeckis)
Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Ulee's Gold (Victor Nunez)
Scream 2 (Wes Craven)
My Best Friend's Wedding (PJ Hogan)
1996
Jerry Maguire (Cameron Crowe)
Breaking the Waves (Lars Von Trier)
Bound (Wachowski Bros.)
Trees Lounge (Steve Buscemi)
Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd SOlondz)
Courage Under Fire (Edward Zwick)
The Last Supper (Stacy Title)
Beautiful Girls (Ted Demme)
The Frighteners (Peter Jackson)
Scream (Wes Craven)
1995
Wild Reeds (Andre Techine)
Exotica (Atom Egoyan)
Kicking and Screaming (Noah Baumbach)
Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins)
Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis)
Toy Story (John Lasseter)
The American President (Rob Reiner)
Fluke (Carlo Carlei)
Se7en (David Fincher)
Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
1994
Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson)
Hoop Dreams (Steve James)
The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis)
The Last Seduction (John Dahl)
Speed (Jan De Bont)
Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
Little Women (Gilliam Armstrong)
Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone)
1993
Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
King of the Hill (Steven Soderbergh)
Ruby in Paradise (Victor Nunez)
Searching For Bobby Fischer (Steven Zaillian)
The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorcese)
Remains of the Day (James Ivory)
Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
Hard-boiled (John Woo)
The Piano (Jane Campion)
Rudy (David Anspaugh)
1992
Malcolm X (Spike Lee)
The Player (Robert Altman)
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
Flirting (John Duigan)
A Few Good Men (Rob Reiner)
Of Mice and Men (Gary Sinise)
The Crying Game (Neil Jordan)
Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)
Passion Fish (John Sayles)
White Men Can't Jump (Ron Shelton)
1991
The Rapture (Michael Tolkin)
Boyz N The Hood (John Singleton)
JFK (Oliver Stone)
Bugsy (Barry Levinson)
The Man in the Moon (Robert Mulligan)
Terminator 2 (James Cameron)
Soapdish (Michael Hoffman)
Closet Land (Radha Bharadwaj)
Dogfight (Nancy Savoca)
Jungle Fever (Spike Lee)
1990
Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
Metropolitan (Whit Stillman)
The Grifters (Stephen Frears)
Back to the Future 3 (Robert Zemeckis)
Joe Versus the Volcano (John Patrick Shanley)
Die Hard 2 (Renny Harlin)
Jacob's Ladder (Adrian Lyne)
Pump Up the Volume (Allan Moyle)
Total Recall (Paul Veerhoeven)
Dreams (Akira Kurosaws)
1989
Say Anything (Cameron Crowe)
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
Roger & Me (Michael Moore)
Heathers (Michael Lehmann)
Glory (Edward Zwick)
Born on the 4th of July (Oliver Stone)
Casualties of War (Brian De Palma)
My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg)
1988
Running on Empty (Sidney Lumet)
Die Hard (John McTiernan)
Eight Men Out (John Sayles)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis)
Midnight Run (Martin Brest)
Rain Man (Barry Levinson)
The Accidental Tourist (Lawrence Kasdan)
Big (Penny Marshall)
My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
Bull Durham (Ron Shelton)
1987
Matewan (John Sayles)
Empire of the Sun (Steven Spielberg)
Raising Arizona (Coen Bros.)
Broadcast News (James L. Brooks)
The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner)
Moonstruck (Norman Jewison)
Some Kind of Wonderful (Howard Deutch)
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (John Hughes)
Lethal Weapon (Richard Donner)
Roxanne (Fred Schepisi)
1986
Lucas (David Seltzer)
Hoosiers (David Anspaugh)
Platoon (Oliver Stone)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (John Hughes)
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (John McNaughton)
Stand By Me (Rob Reiner)
Aliens (James Cameron)
Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
Ruthless People (David Zucker, Jim Abrahams)
River's Edge (Tim Hunter)
1985
Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis)
Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen)
The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg)
Witness (Peter Weir)
The Breakfast Club (John Hughes)
The Sure Thing (Rob Reiner)
Smooth Talk (Joyce Chopra)
After Hours (Martin Scorsese)
Lost in America (Albert Brooks)
1984
The Karate Kid (John G. Avildsen)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (Wes Craven)
Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman)
The Natural (Barry Levinson)
The Terminator (James Cameron)
Gremlins (Joe Dante)
A Soldier's Story (Norman Jewison)
Starman (John Carpenter)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg)
The Neverending Story (Wolfgang Petersen)
1983
The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
Terms of Endearment (James L. Brooks)
Wargames (John Badham)
Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand)
The Right Stuff (Phillip Kaufman)
Risky Business (Paul Brickman)
The Big Chill (Lawrence Kasdan)
The Meaning of Life (Terry Jones)
All the Right Moves (Michael Chapman)
Trading Places (John Landis)
1982
E.T. the Extraterrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
The Verdict (Sidney Lumet)
Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper)
An Officer and a Gentleman (Taylor Hackford)
Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan (Nicholas Meyer)
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Amy Heckerling)
Sophie's Choice (Alan J. Pakula)
48 Hours (Walter Hill)
The Dark Crystal (Jim Henson, Frank Oz)
1971
Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)
A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart)
Bananas (Woody Allen)
Summer of 42 (Robert Mulligan)
Klute (Alan J. Pakula)
Dirty Harry (Don Siegel)
1933
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
Design For Living (Ernst Lubitsch)
The Private Life of Henry VIII (Alexander Korda)
Little Women (George Cukor)
A Man's Castle (Frank Borzage)
Queen Cristina (Rouben Mamoulian)
Counsellor at Law (William Wyler)
Lady For a Day (Frank Capra)
King Kong (Merian C. Cooper, Ernest P. Shoedsack)
1932
Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy)
American Madness (Frank Capra)
Freaks (Tod Browning)
Me and My Gal (Raoul Walsh)
One Way Passage (Tay Garnett)
The Old Dark House (James Whale)
One Hour With You (Ernst Lubitsch)
I Was Born, But.... (Yasujiro Ozu)
Shanghai Express (Josef Von Sternberg)
1931
M (Fritz Lang)
City Lights (Charles Chaplin)
Miracle Woman (Frank Capra)
The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch)
An American Tragedy (Josef Von Sternberg)
Dishonored (Josef von Sternberg)
Platinum Blonde (Frank Capra)
The Public Enemy (William Wellman)
Little Caesar (Mervyn LeRoy)
The Royal Bed (Lowell Sherman)
1930
All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)
City Girl (FW Murnau)
A Cottage on Dartmoor (Anthony Asquith)
Morocco (Josef von Sternberg)
Hell's Angels (Howard Hughes)
Billy the Kid (King Vidor)
The Blue Angel (Josef Von Sternberg)
Feet First (Clyde Bruckman)
The White Hell of Pitz Palu (Arnold Fanck, GW Pabst)
Song O My Heart (Frank Borzage)
1929
The Iron Mask (Allan Dwan)
Spies (Fritz Lang)
Napoleon (Abel Gance)
Pandora's Box (GW Pabst)
Asphalt (Joe May)
Diary of a Lost Girl (GW Pabst)
The Love Parade (Ernst Lubitsch)
Alibi (Roland West)
Lucky Star (Frank Borzage)
Queen Kelly (Erich Von Stroheim)
1928
The Crowd (King Vidor)
The Circus (Charles Chaplin)
Speedy (Ted Wilde)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer)
Laugh, Clown, Laugh (Herbert Brenon)
Steamboat Bill Jr. (Charles Reisner)
The Last Command (Josef Von Sternberg)
A Girl in Every Port (Howard Hawks)
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Walter Ruttman)
The Lodger (Alfred Hitchcock)
1927
Sunrise (FW Murnau)
Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
Underworld (Josef von Sternberg)
The Unknown (Tod Browning)
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (Ernst Lubitsch)
The Kid Brother (Ted Wilde and JA Howe)
The General (Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton)
The Cat and the Canary (Paul Leni)
Seventh Heaven (Frank Borzage)
Bed and Sofa (Abram Room)
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