Tuesday, January 3, 2012

The Movies of 2011: Thumbs Up or Down?

Below, a complete list (in chronological order) of thumbs up and thumbs down votes on the 164 releases I saw in 2011. (As Eleanor Clift said on "The McLaughlin Group," "On this show you have to make a decision!") In one or two cases, my vote may have changed upon further reflection since first seeing the film. All close calls get thumbs up, and there are often worthwhile elements even to movies I can't quite recommend.

  • "On The Bowery" (restoration): UP
  • "No Strings Attached": DOWN
  • "Unknown": UP
  • "Of Gods and Men": DOWN
  • "The Adjustment Bureau": DOWN
  • "Jane Eyre": UP
  • "Certified Copy": DOWN
  • "Battleship Potemkin" (restoration): UP
  • "Win Win": UP
  • "Potiche": DOWN
  • "Bill Cunningham New York": DOWN
  • "Source Code": DOWN
  • "In a Better World": DOWN
  • "The Lincoln Lawyer": UP
  • "Limitless": DOWN
  • "Hanna": UP
  • "Circo": DOWN
  • "Henry's Crime": UP
  • "The Princess of Montpensier": DOWN
  • "Water for Elephants": DOWN
  • "Incendies": DOWN
  • "Queen to Play": DOWN
  • "Nostalgia for the Light": DOWN
  • "The Double Hour": UP
  • "Fast Five": UP
  • "The Beaver": DOWN
  • "The Robber": DOWN
  • "Poetry": DOWN
  • "Something Borrowed": DOWN
  • "Everything Must Go": UP
  • "Skateland": DOWN
  • "The Cave of Forgotten Dreams": DOWN
  • "Bridesmaids": UP
  • "Midnight in Paris": DOWN
  • "L'Amour Fou": DOWN
  • "The Tree of Life": DOWN
  • "The Hangover Part II": DOWN
  • "Dumbstruck": UP
  • "Blank City": UP
  • "Submarine": DOWN
  • "Beginners": UP
  • "Beautiful Boy": UP
  • "Nuremburg: Its Lesson for Today": DOWN
  • "Super 8": DOWN
  • "The Trip": UP
  • "Viva Riva!": UP
  • "Buck": DOWN
  • "The City of Life and Death": UP
  • "Page One": DOWN
  • "A Better Life": DOWN
  • "The Names of Love": UP
  • "Cars 2": DOWN
  • "Conan O'Brien Can't Stop": DOWN
  • "Bad Teacher": UP
  • "Monte Carlo": UP
  • "Larry Crowne": DOWN
  • "Terri": DOWN
  • "Horrible Bosses": DOWN
  • "Tabloid": UP
  • "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan": DOWN
  • "Life, Above All": DOWN
  • "Project Nim": UP
  • "If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front": UP
  • "Another Earth": UP
  • "Crazy, Stupid Love": DOWN
  • "Point Blank": DOWN
  • "The Myth of the American Sleepover": UP
  • "The Guard": UP
  • "Friends with Benefits": DOWN
  • "The Devil's Double": UP
  • "The Future": DOWN
  • "Sarah's Key": DOWN
  • "The Whistleblower": DOWN
  • "Bellflower": DOWN
  • "The Harvest": DOWN
  • "Life in a Day": DOWN
  • "The Help": DOWN
  • "Senna": DOWN
  • "Rapt": UP
  • "30 Minutes or Less": UP
  • "Rise of the Planet of the Apes": DOWN
  • "One Day": DOWN
  • "The Hedgehog": DOWN
  • "Mozart's Sister": DOWN
  • "Griff the Invisible": DOWN
  • "Brighton Rock": DOWN
  • "Higher Ground": UP
  • "The Interrupters": UP
  • "Chasing Madoff": DOWN
  • "Rebirth": DOWN
  • "Colombiana": UP
  • "Our Idiot Brother": DOWN
  • "The Debt": DOWN
  • "Love Crime": DOWN
  • "Littlerock": DOWN
  • "Contagion": DOWN
  • "Mr. Nice": UP
  • "My Afternoons with Marguerite": DOWN
  • "Happy, Happy": UP
  • "Restless": DOWN
  • "Drive": UP
  • "Moneyball": DOWN
  • "The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975": DOWN
  • "Special Treatment": DOWN
  • "Bobby Fischer Against the World": UP
  • "Puncture": DOWN
  • "I Don't Know How She Does It": DOWN
  • "Weekend": DOWN
  • "50/50": DOWN
  • "Take Shelter": UP
  • "The Ides of March": DOWN
  • "The Women on the 6th Floor": DOWN
  • "Toast": DOWN
  • "The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu": UP
  • "Blackthorn": UP
  • "Real Steel": DOWN
  • "The Skin I Live In": DOWN
  • "Footloose": DOWN
  • "The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby": DOWN
  • "The Big Year": DOWN
  • "What's Your Number?": DOWN
  • "Fireflies in the Garden": DOWN
  • "Texas Killing Fields": DOWN
  • "Oranges and Sunshine": UP
  • "Martha Marcy May Marlene": UP
  • "Le Havre": DOWN
  • "Margin Call": UP
  • "The Rum Diary": UP
  • "Anonymous": UP
  • "Like Crazy": UP
  • "Tower Heist": DOWN
  • "In Time": UP
  • "Kawasaki Rose": DOWN
  • "Melancholia": UP
  • "Into the Abyss": DOWN
  • "J. Edgar": DOWN
  • "An African Election": UP
  • "The Conquest": DOWN
  • "The Descendants": DOWN
  • "A Dangerous Method": DOWN
  • "My Week with Marilyn": DOWN
  • "The Artist": DOWN
  • "Hugo": DOWN
  • "Tomboy": UP
  • "Shame": UP
  • "Outrage": DOWN
  • "Kinyarwanda": DOWN
  • "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy": DOWN
  • "Young Adult": DOWN
  • "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows": UP
  • "Carnage": UP
  • "Corman's World": UP
  • "London River": UP
  • "Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol": DOWN
  • "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo": DOWN
  • "The Flowers of War": DOWN
  • "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn": DOWN
  • "Albert Nobbs": DOWN
  • "We Bought a Zoo": DOWN
  • "War Horse": DOWN
  • "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close": DOWN
  • "The Iron Lady": DOWN
  • "Pariah": UP
  • "A Separation": UP

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