| Title |
Year |
Rating |
Rank |
Review |
| 50/50 | 2011 | 97 | 1 | (full review) - A film about cancer that presents a real version, with tears and laughs included. One of the best films of last year. |
| Alien | 1979 | 97 | 1 | (full review) - A tense, quiet horror film that deserves its place in pop culture. |
| Argo | 2012 | 97 | 1 | (full review) - One of the best films of the year. A tense thriller that manages to walk a fine tightrope between drama and comedy. |
| Captain Phillips | 2013 | 97 | 1 | (full review) - A tense and engaging emotional punch of a film, which doesn’t allow you to paint people as good or evil. |
| 127 Hours | 2010 | 80 | 5 | (full review) - A powerful story that plays heavily on our empathy with some stunning camera work and great acting. |
| 500 Days of Summer | 2009 | 80 | 5 | (full review) - An inventive and energetic film that accurately portrays the life and death of a relationship. |
| About Time | 2013 | 80 | 5 | (full review) - An almost-perfect portrayal of love, life and family, with a little bit of time travel thrown in. |
| Attack the Block | 2011 | 80 | 5 | (full review) - Filled with energy and inventiveness, this début is too rough around the edges to be perfect. Still a strong film, showcasing a director that has better work ahead of him. |
| Byzantium | 2012 | 80 | 5 | (full review) - A beautiful, melodic piece that explores women, death and sexuality. This isn’t your usual vampire film, but it’s a welcome change. |
| Chasing Amy | 1997 | 80 | 5 | (full review) - Kevin Smith’s best film: an examination of sexuality and pop culture from a script that’s alive with a passion of a filmmaker burning his own path in Hollywood. |
| Dead Poets Society | 1989 | 80 | 5 | (full review) - An incredibly charismatic film, that wins you over with charming characters and a sentimental theme. |
| Django Unchained | 2012 | 80 | 5 | (full review) - An undisciplined film, like many of Tarantino’s movies, but hugely entertaining. Charismatic characters and silver-tongued dialogue hide many of the flaws. |
| Easy A | 2010 | 80 | 5 | (full review) - A very funny high school comedy, which manages to reference classic films and brings a fresh energy to the genre. |
| Charlie Bartlett | 2007 | 61 | 14 | (full review) - Touches on the greatness of some John Hughes classics, but is too fluffy and light to become a film worth remembering. |
| Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 | 2013 | 61 | 14 | (full review) - This is still as zany as the first film, and even cuter, but it lacks the smarts that the first one had hidden behind all the laughs. A good film, but a lesser sequel. |
| Despicable Me | 2010 | 61 | 14 | (full review) - Not a bad film, but stifled because it’s too afraid to take risks. Should have been better. |
| Despicable Me 2 | 2013 | 61 | 14 | (full review) - While funnier than the original and more sure of itself, Despicable Me 2 doesn’t have the great story of the first and doesn’t manage to tie up all its loose ends by the finale. |
| Elysium | 2013 | 61 | 14 | (full review) - This is a great premise and some wonderful world-building, but ultimately not much more than a solid action sci-fi. |
| Enough Said | 2013 | 61 | 14 | (full review) - A tender and charming romantic story, that doesn’t fall back on Hollywood endings or grand gestures. Sadly, not strong enough to rise above the circumstances in which it was made. |
| Epic | 2013 | 61 | 14 | (full review) - It’s too cheap to say that Epic wasn’t epic, but time and again it fails to live up to the great ideas that hang around, unseen, in the background. |
| Blue Jasmine | 2013 | 43 | 21 | (full review) - A very fine performance of somebody that I hated spending time with, with nothing else to distract from the vapid personality. |
| Battlefield Earth | 2000 | 1 | 22 | |
