(_italics_ = rewatch; bold = previously unseen.)

• A Christmas Story (12.26, dvd)
  • 5/5
  • yes, again.
• True Grit (12.23, theatre)
  • 5/5
  • Awesome. Not just for having fabulous actors & a kickass female lead & surprising racial balance for being a Western set in the 1920s. When I saw the original, I didn't particularly care for it but I thought the storyline had potential: well, here it is done right. <3
• Love Actually (12.20, dvd)
  • 5/5
  • PERFECT MOVIE IS PERFECT. god why do I always tear up at the Beatles wedding scene ugh.
• A Christmas Story (12.18, dl)
  • 5/5
  • best Christmas movie of all time. OF ALL TIME. ∆
• A Christmas Carol [1984] (12.18, netflix)
  • 4/5
  • it was good.
• Elf (12.13, dl)
  • 4/5
  • so charming & cheerful. 'tis the season!
• Black Swan (12.11, theatre)
  • 4/5
  • It was beautiful & thrilling & engaging -- & Natalie Portman was exceptional -- but also too many scenes where I just could not look at the screen. One of those in particular may haunt me for the next year.
• Due Date (11.30, theatre)
  • 4/5
  • omg I loved it, I laughed so hard. I also cringed. but mostly I laughed.
• Casino Royale (11.28, dvd)
  • 4/5
  • so good & sooo bad. in a good way. good/bad. bad/goooooood. <3
• the Simpsons Movie (11.25, tv)
  • 4/5
  • lulz.
• Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 (11.21, theatre)
  • 5/5
  • the amount of detail they managed to fit into the movie, without making it annoyingly obvious, sort of amazes me. I only caught on the second time 'round.
• Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 (11.19, theatre)
  • 5/5
  • omg, love love loved it.
• Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince (11.15, dvd)
  • 4/5
  • um, I sort of remember it. I laughed at both appropriate & inappropriate times.
• Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix (11.09, dvd)
  • 4/5
  • Emo Harry only loves his owl & his dead parents, so the rest of you can just fuck off.
• Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire (11.02, dvd)
  • 3.5/5
  • THE HAIR. OMG THE HAIR.
• Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban (10.26, dvd)
  • 5/5
  • This one is sooooo preeeeetty. But Harry still likes to cop a feel off everything.
• Zoolander (10.20)
  • 4/5
  • ALEXANDER SKARSGÅRD IS THE BEST PART OF THIS MOVIE. But I also love Owen Wilson & Will Ferrell, so.
• Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets (10.19, dvd)
  • 4/5
  • Copping a feel & Tom Cruise & Haggy Hugs, oh my!
• Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone (10.14, dvd)
  • 4/5
  • OHMYGODMCGONAGALL.
• INCEPTION (10.03, crappy dl)
  • 5/5
  • Crappy quality. Soooo worth it.
• Get Him to the Greek (10.02, dl)
  • 2.5/5
  • ohh, another wasted Saturday afternoon.
• Wuthering Heights, 2009 (09.18, dl)
  • 3.5/5
  • Man, what a fucked-up storyline. I always forget how disturbing it is. This adaptation wasn't exactly spectacular, but not terrible, neither.
• a Serious Man (09.12, netflix)
  • 
    3/5
  • I got bored & made cookies instead.
• Scott Pilgrim v. the World (09.03, theatre)
  • 4/5
  • It was funny & kinda cute. Recommended. Our fellow audience members were hysterical in hysterics.
• Anastasia (08.16, stream)
  • 2/5
  • I somehow thought this was a Disney movie. And then I found out it wasn't. I was relieved.
• Zombieland (08.13, SLU Block Party)
• Tommy Boy (08.06, dvd)
  • 3/5
  • There was some funny stuff. But it was mostly really dumb.
• Inception (08.06, theatre)
  • 6/5
  • Even better the second time -- either because of the champagne fuzziness or because I caught on to foreshadowing, having already seen it.
    • Also: EEEAAMMMMESS.
• Dinner for Shmucks (08.05, Cinerama)
  • 3.5/5
  • I laughed a lot. But it was a pretty stereotypical comedy. I just love Steve Carell's facial expressions.
• Inception (08.01, theatre)
  • 5/5
  • OMG, so good. Everyone is so sexy in this! And awesome! Loved EAMES and Ariadne's neckerchiefs. I shall see this again, and probably again.
• Salt (07.24, theatre)
  • 3/5
  • Umm... wtf?
• Toy Story 3 (07.07, theatre)
  • 4/5
  • Loved it! Charming & adorable. Ken was da bomb.
• Eclipse (07.02, Big Picture)
  • 2/5
  • LULZ.
• WALL•E (05.02, stream)
  • 4/5
  • Such a tragedy, because it's true. But, also hopeful? I hope so.
• An Education (04.20, netflix)
  • 4/5
  • I liked it, I DID I DID but whyyy did the last 20 seconds have to almost ruin it. Ugh. I dunno, the last line came off as backwards/contradictory to me. Oh well.
• Where the Wild Things Are (04.11, netflix)
  • 3.5/5
  • I liked it. It was an excellent interpretation. But the ending fell a little flat, I thought.
• Wilde (04.06ish, netflix)
  • 4/5
  • Fascinating to finally learn more about Oscar Wilde's life. Plus Stephen Fry is, you know, fantastic. Made you hate whatshisface, though -- however, I sorta wanna look up his poetry.
• The Virgin Suicides (03.28, netflix)
  • 5/5
  • So gorgeous and sad and confusing. A little unsatisfying, but I think it's supposed to be that way. I think the film is based on something and I need to read it.
• Cadillac Records (03.19, netflix)
  • 5/5
  • Seriously, wow; I loved it. I even cried. So good. Gave me those nice, warm happy feelings.
• Marie Antoinette (03.17, netflix)
  • 4/5
  • Gorgeous! I liked it.
• The Passion of Joan of Arc, 1928 (03.06, netflix)
  • 4/5
  • Some masterful directing somehow made this black & white, silent movie with a good deal of overacting amazingly entrancing. Very thought-provoking film.
• Burn After Reading (03.01, netflix)
  • 4/5
  • It was good, & I enjoyed watching it, & the characters were very real and believable. But something about it just makes me go 'meh.'
• The Triplets of Belleville / Les triplettes de Belleville (02.22, netflix)
  • 5/5
  • ohmigod so cute.
• Elephant (02.15, netflix)
  • 4/5
  • It was interesting, and beautiful at times. You get an amazing sense of the characters with not a lot of action or dialogue. But it was also a little odd -- it's about high school violence, yet the film's set up in a way that almost treats it as a normal, everyday occurrence. The movie didn't really seem to have a point. But, maybe that was the point. I'd watch it again.
  • ∆
• Percy Jackson & the Olympians (02.12, Pacific Place)
  • 5/5
  • Yes, it's different than the book, in many ways. But it's a good adaptation: the things that changed made for a more cohesive story on the silver screen. I still like the book better (natch), but I love the improvements here. Grover isn't a wimp! Annabeth is badass! Nice diversity in the casting, too.
• Sense & Sensibility, 2008 (02.07, dvd)
  • 5/5
  • Oh it was beautiful. I'm glad it was as well-done as it is, because I never really cared for Emma Thompson's adaptation (ahh! Blasphemy!).
• Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince (01.28, w/ H)
• Persuasion, 2007 (01.23, netflix)
  • 3/5
  • meh.
• Adaptation (01.18&20, netflix)
  • 5/5
  • This movie is pretty spectacular. I've been meaning to see it again for years, and man. It's fantastic. I love it. It also really makes me want a typewriter.
• The Golden Compass (01.17, dl)
  • 3/5
  • It's a nice effort, it really is. Scoresby & Iorek are great. But on the whole it's really a pretty bad movie, and that's too bad, since the books are so incredible.
• Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince (01.15, dvd)
  • 3.5/5
  • The action does kind of drag a bit in this one, but that's the book's fault. The settings & cinematography are quite pretty, however. My favorite part is still the Felix Felicis scene(s) -- Radcliffe is a much better comedic actor than dramatic.
• (500) Days of Summer (01.09, dvd)
  • 4/5
  • It's funny how similar Zooey & Emily Deschanel are, in the way that they act, talk & deliver their lines. The resemblance is so obvious.
• Avatar (01.03, Cinerama)
  • 4/5.
  • The totally formulaic plot & questionable acting left a sour taste in my mouth. You don't spend 10+ yrs on a movie for the visuals & ignore the script (see: Inglourious Basterds), even if those visuals do turn out fantastic. Nevertheless, it was worth seeing.
• Inglourious Basterds (01.02, dvd)
  • 5/5.
  • This movie is just so good. Brilliant. That is all.
• Zombieland (01.01, dvd)
  • 3.5/5
  • It was pretty funny, but that non-Michael Cera was really bugging me.