Title |
Year |
Rating |
Rank |
Review |
Ex Machina | 2015 | 95 | 1 | (full review) |
Avengers: Age of Ultron | 2015 | 92 | 2 | (full review) |
The Big Short | 2015 | 92 | 2 | (full review) - Entertaining and educational. Great cast, great performances. Should be required viewing. |
Whiplash | 2014 | 92 | 2 | |
Inside Out | 2015 | 90 | 5 | |
Jiro Dreams of Sushi | 2011 | 90 | 5 | (full review) |
Ant-Man | 2015 | 88 | 7 | |
Minions | 2015 | 88 | 7 | |
Rope | 1948 | 88 | 7 | |
The Imitation Game | 2014 | 88 | 7 | |
The Martian | 2015 | 88 | 7 | (full review) |
Children of Men | 2006 | 87 | 12 | |
Creed | 2015 | 87 | 12 | (full review) |
Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck | 2015 | 87 | 12 | (full review) - The ending left something to be desired, as it capped off an otherwise excellent, insightful documentary into one of the most interesting personalities of the 1990s. |
Love & Mercy | 2015 | 87 | 12 | |
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl | 2015 | 87 | 12 | |
Southpaw | 2015 | 87 | 12 | (full review) - Brutal and heart-felt. A great boxing movie. |
Spy | 2015 | 87 | 12 | - If we don't get a sequel to this film, I'll be disappointed. |
The Equalizer | 2014 | 87 | 12 | |
The Theory of Everything | 2014 | 87 | 12 | - Some of the scenes felt unfinished whose implications were quite important. Great performances, great story, very good film otherwise. The ending suffered a bit. |
Mad Max: Fury Road | 2015 | 86 | 21 | (full review) |
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation | 2015 | 86 | 21 | |
12 Years a Slave | 2013 | 85 | 23 | |
American Sniper | 2014 | 85 | 23 | |
Boyhood | 2014 | 85 | 23 | |
Fruitvale Station | 2013 | 85 | 23 | - It's disappointing that Crash got a Best Picture Oscar and this wasn't even nominated. Different years, but Fruitvale is far superior. |
Fury | 2014 | 85 | 23 | |
Kingsman: The Secret Service | 2015 | 85 | 23 | |
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | 2015 | 85 | 23 | (full review) |
The Peanuts Movie | 2015 | 85 | 23 | |
Before Midnight | 2013 | 84 | 31 | |
The Hundred-Foot Journey | 2014 | 84 | 31 | |
White House Down | 2013 | 84 | 31 | |
City Lights (1931) | 1931 | 83 | 34 | |
Foxcatcher | 2014 | 83 | 34 | |
Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, The | 2014 | 83 | 34 | |
Kill the Messenger | 2014 | 83 | 34 | |
Monsters University | 2013 | 83 | 34 | |
Serpico | 1973 | 83 | 34 | |
Spare Parts | 2015 | 83 | 34 | - Uplifting film based on a true story that absolutely deserves to be told AND HEARD! |
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him | 2013 | 83 | 34 | |
The Great Dictator | 1940 | 83 | 34 | - The first 100 minutes of the film are good, but do little push forward the final plot piece of the film. The ending to an otherwise great film seems more like a soapbox piece than anything else. |
The One I Love | 2014 | 83 | 34 | (full review) |
The Third Man | 1949 | 83 | 34 | - Solid mystery with a nice twist, but the ending could be improved and the music choices were completely off the emotional mark. |
Jurassic World | 2015 | 82 | 45 | |
Spectre | 2015 | 82 | 45 | |
The Judge | 2014 | 82 | 45 | |
Big Eyes | 2014 | 80 | 48 | |
Butler, The (2013 F Whitaker by Lee Daniels) | 2013 | 80 | 48 | |
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | 2014 | 80 | 48 | - The series got a significant improvement from the first installment. Very interested to see how they follow it up. |
Dope | 2015 | 80 | 48 | |
Frank | 2014 | 80 | 48 | |
In a World... | 2013 | 80 | 48 | (full review) |
Joy | 2015 | 80 | 48 | (full review) |
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior | 1981 | 80 | 48 | (full review) |
Mr. Holmes | 2015 | 80 | 48 | - A bit slow, but very nicely crafted. Tells the tale about Holmes struggling with issues in the one area which has always served as his greatest asset. |
Mr. Peabody & Sherman | 2014 | 80 | 48 | |
Nightcrawler | 2014 | 80 | 48 | |
Selma | 2014 | 80 | 48 | |
Stand by Me | 1986 | 80 | 48 | |
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens | 2015 | 80 | 48 | |
Tangled | 2010 | 80 | 48 | |
Wedding Ringer, The | 2015 | 80 | 48 | |
Let's Be Cops | 2014 | 79 | 64 | |
Begin Again | 2014 | 78 | 65 | |
Better Living Through Chemistry | 2014 | 78 | 65 | |
Lawless | 2012 | 78 | 65 | |
Out of the Furnace | 2013 | 78 | 65 | |
Results | 2015 | 78 | 65 | |
Maleficent | 2014 | 77 | 70 | |
Transformers: Age of Extinction | 2014 | 76 | 71 | |
Bad Teacher | 2011 | 75 | 72 | |
Stretch | 2014 | 75 | 72 | (full review) |
The Interview | 2014 | 75 | 72 | - The highly entertaining second half made up for a lame start to the film. Randall Park stole the show. |
Total Recall (1990) | 1990 | 75 | 72 | |
Fantastic Four | 2015 | 73 | 76 | (full review) |
Space Jam | 1996 | 73 | 76 | - Basically a history lesson about Michael Jordan's foray into baseball and return to basketball, mixed with some Looney Toons. Bill Murray really helps make it decent. |
Ali | 2001 | 70 | 78 | |
DUFF, The | 2015 | 70 | 78 | |
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978) | 1978 | 70 | 78 | |
Justice League: The New Frontier | 2008 | 70 | 78 | |
The Intern | 2015 | 70 | 78 | - The ending was disappointingly flat and uninspired. It felt like the writer got a more interesting project and just decided to wrap things up. The rest of the movie was interesting, albeit a little cheesey. There are at least four acceptable directions the ending could have gone, and they just pulled the proverbial plug. |
The Sheik | 2014 | 70 | 78 | |
Transporter, The | 2002 | 70 | 78 | |
Aloha | 2015 | 68 | 85 | |
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her | 2013 | 68 | 85 | - Doesn't work very well at all without the HIM version first. Disappointing, yet, still decent. |
Larry Crowne | 2011 | 65 | 87 | - Totally contrived, unnatural dialogue, very hokie, but I was somehow entertained. Whether I was laughing with the movie or at the movie, I was at least laughing. |
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome | 1985 | 65 | 87 | (full review) |
Neighbors | 2014 | 65 | 87 | |
Pixels | 2015 | 65 | 87 | (full review) |
Someone Marry Barry | 2014 | 65 | 87 | |
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | 2007 | 65 | 87 | (full review) - Exceptionally well acted, good story, but the ending comes out of nowhere. I realize it's a true story, but the film just ends. Highly over-rated. |
A Million Ways to Die in the West | 2014 | 60 | 93 | - A well-made movie that only made me laugh twice in the first 80 minutes of the film, and about a dozen times in the 40 which followed. Fun cameos though. |
Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil | 2011 | 60 | 93 | |
Nut Job, The | 2014 | 60 | 93 | |
Mad Max | 1979 | 53 | 96 | (full review) - Very forgettable, aside from possibly one or two scenes. |
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | 2011 | 50 | 97 | - One of the most confusing movies I've seen. Had it been constructed and prsented better, the story lends itself to being something special. Some audiences will appreciate the film in its first viewing, but most will not. That's a failure of the director and producers. It could have been excellent with its top-notch cast. |
Hangover Part III, The | 2013 | 45 | 98 | - I didn't laugh out loud until the post-credits scene. |
Crash | 2004 | 44 | 99 | (full review) - Too contrived, and although the story is interestingly complex, the dialogue is sub-par and the characters are way too stereotypical. Huge disappointment. |
The Ridiculous 6 | 2015 | 40 | 100 | - just sooooo boring. |