How I rate things:

• ★★★★★ = Extraordinary
• ★★★★ = Really good
• ★★★ = Average
• ★★ = Poor
• ★ = I just wasted over an hour of my life.

January

• The Hobbit Part 2: The Desolation of Smaug - ★★★
• Brave
• The Avengers
• Skyfall
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• The Matrix
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
• Doctor Zhivago

February

• Inglourious Basterds
• Louis C.K.: Live At The Beacon Theater - ★★★★
• How Beer Saved the World
• Airplane!
• Ghostbusters

March

• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• Men in Black II
• Robin Hood: Men in Tights
• The Great Outdoors
• The Boys from Brazil

April

• Moonrise Kingdom - ★★★★★
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - ★★★★
• Coneheads - ★★★
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• A Beautiful Mind
• Jumanji
• The Ten Commandments
• Pitch Black

May

• Edward Scissorhands
• Ed Wood
• Run Fatboy Run
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
• The Piano - ★★★★
• The Seventh Seal
• Avatar
• Blackfish
• The Price of Milk - ★★★★
• Local Hero - ★★★
• Fried Green Tomatoes
• The Talented Mr. Ripley - ★★★★

June

• Silence of the Lambs
• The Price of Milk
• Wolverine - ★★★
• X-Men - ★★★★

July

• Happy People - ★★★★
• Jurassic Park
• Skyfall - ★★★
• The Constant Gardener - ★★★
• How to Lose Friends and Alienate People - ★★★
• Eddie Murphy: Delirious
• Bad Santa
• 12 Angry Men
• Capote - ★★★
• The Parent Trap
• The Virgin Suicides
• Star Trek: First Contact

August

• Robin Hood
• La vita è bella
• Guardians of the Galaxy - ★★★★★
• Guardians of the Galaxy
• Contracted - ★
• Prometheus
• Hook
• The Virgin Suicides - ★★★★
• We Are What We Are
• Great Expectations (2012)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

September

• A Knight's Tale
• Cloud Atlas - ★★★★
• Ghost Ship - ★★
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• The Fifth Element - ★★★
• Silver Linings Playbook
• School of Rock

October

• Flubber
• Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
• Guardians of the Galaxy
• The Big Lebowski
• House on Haunted Hill
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) - ★★★
• Silver Linings Playbook - ★★★★
• The Nightmare Before Christmas

November

• Roman Holiday
• Godzilla - ★★★
• Snowpiercer - ★★★★
• The Awakening - ★★★
• We Are What We Are - ★★★
• Star Wars: Episode V
• Star Wars: Episode VI
• Waiting
• Death on the Nile
• Princess Mononoke
• Snatch
• Men in Black III
• The Neverending Story
• Flight of the Navigator
• Catch Me If You Can
• Babe
• The Truman Show
• Stand By Me
• Aziz Ansari: Dangerously Delicious

December

• My Neighbor Totoro
• Christmas With the Kranks
• Bad Santa
• Forrest Gump
• The Godfather
• The One I Love
• Bad Grandpa - ★★★
• Fight Club
• Borat
• Lilo & Stitch
• The Dark Crystal - ★★★★
• Addams Family Values
• Dumb and Dumber
• The Muppet Christmas Carol
• Crocodile Dundee
• Ever After
• Arachnophobia
• Sleepless in Seattle
• Labyrinth
• Romancing the Stone
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• Christmas with the Kranks
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
• Wayne's World
• Galaxy Quest