American Hustle

And the award goes to Louis C.K.! (With Bale coming in a very close second.)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1800241/

Sugar

The very definition of success. Just not the success we all think of.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0990413/

Dexter: Season 8

For purists perhaps that was perfect, but for me it was a paltry sum of its parts.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0773262/

Doctor Who: The Movie

Obviously ridiculous (an amorous Doctor? half-human??), still, I have to side with the Master for the first and only time when he corrects Grace's grammar.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116118/

Doctor Who: Season 26

And all we learn (in the end) is that the Doctor has many secrets, not all of them nice.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0056751/

Doctor Who: Season 25

Tom Baker style, it's getting weirder as the Doctor gets meaner.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0056751/

Wuthering Heights (2011)

If I'd wanted to watch moths fluttering and grass waving in the wind, I would have gone outside instead.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1181614/

Misfits: Season 5

I'm surprised to discover I will miss this show dearly - bizarre quirky weirdness and all.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1548850/

Broadchurch: Season 1

If it weren't for the accents, the contrived nature of the plot would have been untenable.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2249364/

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Season 5

Odo's transformation and Kira's pregnancy aside, the treatment of Eddington throughout the season was what transformed it from bland to stellar.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106145/

An Adventure in Space and Time

The BBC may have their rose-colored glasses on, but this is a sweet depiction of the First Doctor's contribution to posterity.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2663812/

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

As usual, John Barrowman's section is the best part of this cute li'l for-the-fans short.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3356268/

Doctor Who: Season 24

Big sigh of relief. This doctor (Sylvester McCoy) is fun, a good actor, and treats his companions with respect.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056751/

We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks

Regrettably lengthy, yet still valuable as a point of discussion regarding our freedoms.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1824254/

The Gatekeepers

Although international viewers may lack some background, it isn't required to comprehend the resulting situation.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2309788/

Continuum: Season 2

I appreciate both the violence - in context! - and the lack of knowing who the good guy is.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1954347/

The Big Bang Theory: Season 6

When Bob Newhart shows up the entire cast, that's when you stop watching. (Fer reals this time.)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898266/

Doctor Who (new): The Day of the Doctor 3D

You just can't go wrong with Tennant, Hurt, Smith and B.... Nope, I hate spoilers too much.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2779318/

Iron Man 3

I'd watch this again just to see those security thugs with true comedic timing. And Ben Kingsley, of course.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1300854/

Homeland: Season 2

Why devolve into melodrama and ridiculous plot lines? FBI safe houses made out of glass, major terrorists secretly entering the U.S., etc., etc.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1796960/

Deep Water

It's not technically a Rosie Ruiz maneuver, but why wouldn't sailing to, say, PEI have worked?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460766/

The Sapphires

Classic tale of a good story, but not a good film.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1673697/

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

It takes too long for them to divulge why-oh-why it takes 10 years to become an excellent sushi chef.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1772925/

How to Survive a Plague

While sometimes dry and alternately melodramatic, I guarantee you'll be engaged by the time the Helms condom shows itself.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2124803/

56 Up

I loved seeing them (for the most part) move past complacency and into wisdom and satisfaction.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2147134/

The Imposter

Not even close to what you think it's going to be during its first 5 minutes.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1966604/

Stoker

Double warning: extremely creepy and rather pointless.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1682180/

Kon-Tiki (2012)

It's a toss-up which I like more: films about crazy-pants explorers or high-school football dramas.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1613750/

Olympus Has Fallen

"We got all the balls in the world right here, man!"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2302755/

The Croods

You have to love a film that contains a visual description of behavioral mimicry.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481499/

Viy

A cross between Bride of Frankenstein, Last Temptation of Christ, and Wizard of Oz.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062453/

Amour

Surely there is no other film that makes you feel what it will feel like to get old, tired, slow and ill.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1602620/

From Up on Poppy Hill

All of Ghibli's movies do one thing right - they place you in a time that no longer exists but that we all long for. Even on another continent.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798188/ (Original title: Kokuriko-zaka kara)

The Sessions

Helen Hunt hands-down deserved her nomination for portraying the utterly strange life of a sex therapist.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1866249/

The East

Your usual morality suspense plot-- only this time, written by an actress and director who were actually IN an anarchist collective.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1869716/

Humpday

The filmmakers have performed a neat trick: turned a bizarre concept into something both surreal and real at the same time.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1334537/

Carnage

Pretentious in its staged nature, but engaging and intriguing in its view of life.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1692486/

Epic

But, but... bats are useful! detritus is necessary! mice actually are adorable!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848537/

Gravity

Don't forget to wear your seat belt.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1454468/

Moonrise Kingdom

If the first 10 minutes of Edward Norton as the scoutmaster isn't tickling your funny bone, you won't enjoy this film.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1748122/

The Company You Keep

I'm fairly certain Redford and Dobbs could not have more clearly telegraphed the denouement.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1381404/

The Bling Ring

How do you excuse the zeitgeist of bling by showing oodles of it (and how fun it is)?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2132285/

Disconnect

New genre: multi-part stories about how our lives suck because of the Internet.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1433811/

Defying Gravity: Season 1

Simply put, this is a poor man's version of SGU (Stargate Universe).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1319690/

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Season 4

I'll admit to being completely disinterested in Quark's little kingdom when I started watching this. Now these are my favorite episodes.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106145/

42

The strength of character needed to do what Mr. Robinson did - that's the most important take-away.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0453562/

Lark Rise to Candleford: Season 4

Well, that's the end, and a disappointing end, too. At least Queenie remained as marvelous as ever.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1077744/

Elysium

The flying iRobots were the best part of the movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535108/

Lark Rise to Candleford: Season 3

Aha! I've put my finger on it. Julia Sawalha is channeling Yoda.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1077744/

World War Z

Now that's what every decent zombie film needs: a description of how Mother Nature really works.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816711/

Oz the Great and Powerful

Of all the ridiculous things in this movie, it's the unthinking laudation of Edison that really gets my goat.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1623205/

Arrested Development: Season 4

Once you catch on, it's more fun, but I don't remember the previous seasons being so exhausting to watch.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367279/

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Season 3

Precisely as in ST:TNG, season 3 is when things start to come together. Why oh why does it take so long, though?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106145/

Doctor Who: Season 22

That rock-n-roll DJ with the fake American accent (in "Revelation of the Daleks") harkens back to "Pirate Planet" and the best of the first Baker.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056751/

Dexter: Season 7

I can't wait for next season. At least we'll be done with all the excuses. (The rest I'll miss.)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0773262/

Warehouse 13: Season 4

Watching Alison Scagliotti and Cherie Currie sing "Cherry Bomb" made up for that irritating hiatus.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1132290/

Pacific Rim

Blood, sparks, ruin, rain, steel, bravado.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1663662/

Savages

Stone can make a B-movie look like a B-movie with cojones. And I sure hope the chosen title is ironic.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1615065/

Ruby Sparks

This standard love story cum explanation of a love story revealed far more when I realized who the writer was.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1839492/

Damsels in Distress

They think they've made a farce because it's obnoxious and irrational. It also needs to be a lot less bemusing.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1667307/

Undefeated

I watch any uplifting football film simply because I miss Friday Night Lights.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1860355/

30 Rock: Season 7

Slightly disappointing that Liz had to be MWC at the end, yet I will miss this show and its fast-flying zingers.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0496424/

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Season 2

I don't understand why you need a new enemy (The Dominion) when the old Hitler-esque one was working so well (The Cardassians).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106145/

Dead Man Down

A less introspective, more dead obvious version of In Bruges.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2101341/

Jack the Giant Slayer

If I were Mr. McGregor, I'd be peeved that all the villains have Scottish accents.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1351685/

The Evil Dead

Bwahahaha. I had zero scary dreams after watching this.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083907/

Warm Bodies

What an adorable concept for a teen dramedy.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1588173/

Side Effects

That would be a standard riff on the problems surrounding pharmaceutical companies morphing directly and absurdly into a thriller.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2053463/

Monsters University

A perfectly adequate, but not eye-opening, Pixar offering. At least it didn't make me fall asleep like Cars 2 did.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1453405/

Robot & Frank

This is both - a rumination on memory and age, and amusing and entertaining - rolled into one.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1990314/

Snitch

Always a joy to watch a natural actor at work, regardless of the calibre of film.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0882977/

Much Ado About Nothing

For the first 15 minutes, I was holding my breath. For the remaining 94 minutes, I had no need to.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2094064/

Doctor Who: Season 21

Goodbye Mr. Davison: a little sorrow on that one. Hello Mr. Baker (#2): yes, you're a very good actor, but, ugh.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056751/

The Newsroom: Season 1

While it's clear that Sorkin is trying way too hard here, we'll likely stick around another season to listen to the news.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1870479/

Cloud Atlas

So intriguing that I now want to read the book. Hubby says different enough that it will be another form of intriguing.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1371111/

Parker

At times like this, a direct quote is best: "You ain't ever gonna get an Academy Award for doing Crank and you certainly won't for doing all the other movies I've done."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1904996/

Orphan Black: Season 1

So much to like here. And, Dr. Aldous Leekie? Excellent name, folks.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2234222/

Lark Rise to Candleford: Season 2

The problem with watching one episode after another after another after... is that you get really sick of the especially weird characters (looking at you, Thomas Brown).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1077744/

Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm

Designed to pull at your heartstrings, it does it efficiently and with loads of humor.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1362518/

Lark Rise to Candleford: Season 1

If this is the trend in British period dramas - all drama! drama! drama! - I'm all for it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1077744/

Escape from Planet Earth

Run for your lives! We're all programmed to enjoy these moralistic "kid" animations!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0765446/

Doctor Who (new): Season 7, Part 2

Meh, meh and more meh. You better give us something to sink our teeth into next season, Mr. Moffat.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436992/

Star Trek Into Darkness

I applaud the return of the franchise to Star Trek's core values (honor, trust, heart) but why a nearly word-for-word re-do (with one switcheroo) of the all-important scene from Wrath of Khan?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1408101/

Django Unchained

Only Tarantino could marry The Ring Cycle with black westerns, and add the panache of a liberal dose of humor to it all.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1853728/

Modern Family: Season 4

Consistently entertaining, amusing and daring.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1442437/

Call the Midwife: Season 2

Chummy introduced me to "tickety-boo." Now I need to find a place and time to use it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1983079/

Rise of the Guardians

How'd I miss this when it was around last year? Really very sweet.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446192/

Jack Reacher

A perfect example of witty banter wrapping itself around your standard run-of-the-mill plot.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790724/

Veep: Season 1

I'll pretty much see anything with Tony Hale in it. Even when it teeters on the edge of funny.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1759761/

Glee: Season 4

This season simply reinforces that the reason to watch Glee is and always will be solely because of Rachel.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1327801/

A Separation

A 15th century morality play updated to the 21st and given a setting that we, as Americans, find particularly fascinating.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1832382/ (Original title: Jodaeiye Nader az Simin)

The Square

The denouement was nigh on incomprehensible, but the finale? Everyone will understand that.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1085507/

Life on Mars: Season 1

Really really obvious plots, but I eventually was intrigued by the peek into 70s Britain.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478942/

Misfits: Season 4

This moved from sci-fi freaky fun to faintly pornographic drama in the course of one season.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1548850/

The Place Beyond the Pines

Walk into this film knowing nothing about it and the plot device will be even more engaging.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1817273/

Persona

Oh yea, it's gorgeously composed, but I prefer my art-house films to have slightly more story.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060827/

The Impossible

A case of whitewashing or a case of genericizing? I see both.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1649419/

Call the Midwife: Season 1

A story about birth and death and love and friendship? Jackpot.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1983079/

Sinister

Logistically interesting. Otherwise: suspense can be really boring, folks.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1922777/

Game of Thrones: Season 2

Watching after reading makes the potential changes in fate that much more interesting.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/

Pitch Perfect

The romance is as usual ridiculous but the comedy, the music and the competition are exceptional.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1981677/

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

A romantic drama with one, and only one, visually metaphoric shot.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1441952/

Trouble with the Curve

First 1/3 of the movie: A for excellent acting, chemistry and script-writing. Rest of the movie: C+ for obviousness.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2083383/

Continuum: Season 1

Despite the obvious ending to this season, a welcome addition to the clever and intelligent sci-fi pantheon.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1954347/

Torchwood: Season 4

Since when did this become a police drama instead of a sci-fi show?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0485301/

A Royal Affair

An excellent example of how freedom of the press can bite you in the butt.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276419/ (Original title: En Kongelig Affære)

Torchwood: Season 3

Those who warned me really meant it. Be very, very careful watching this season.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0485301/

Torchwood: Season 2

Talk about getting at the heart of all the important sci-fi themes. Why can't it go on in this vein?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0485301/

Killing Them Softly

Gangsters-with-regular-lives, in the same vein as the-hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1764234/

Life of Pi

That last interaction - "which story do you prefer?" "the tiger one" "that's the way it is with God" - huh?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454876/

Hitchcock

Light entertainment with the added bonus of understanding how integral Alma was to his process.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0975645/

Digital Dharma

As a librarian, I can't help but love this documentary.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2056554/

Torchwood: Season 1

Shoot, that packs a punch at the end. Literally, figuratively, spiritually.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0485301/

Samsara

I don't like repetition. I especially don't like it when films like this are all I've seen during my AAFF pre-screening.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0770802/

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

It's somehow harder to think of Newman as a pretty boy trying to be serious than it is to think of Depp or DiCaprio that way.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051459/

House of Cards: Season 1

Perhaps a teeny bit overly dramatic, but I would watch Wright and Spacey every hour of every day.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1856010/

Becoming Human

Yea, but I had to look up Bergerac, which made me feel as stupid as the ghost.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1829850/

Our Nixon

You didn't actually expect confessions from the aides' archival home movies, did you?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2282662/

Suitcase of Love and Shame

How did festival goers feel about that final shot?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2223676/

Water and Power

I think I need to watch this one 40 times.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098624/

Your Day Is My Night

You will not be upset when you learn at the end that it is half performance art.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2510468/

The End of Time

It may be beautiful. It's also damn obvious.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2176504/

Leviathan

No more fitting title to a documentary.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2332522/

People's Park

No, no, don't walk away. Let it roll out till the very end.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2334076/

The Master

Let it wash over you as a form of hypnosis, because trying to understand more could be grueling.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1560747/

Seven Psychopaths

With the last name of Bickle, what did you expect?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1931533/

End of Watch

Unique format, heartfelt acting and all? Still too obvious an ending.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1855199/

Wreck-It Ralph

Now what if Jack McBrayer didn't exist? A movie with Fix-It Felix couldn't exist either then.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1772341/

Carrier: Series 1

Although I may not agree with military policies, the women and men aboard our carriers receive 100% of my respect.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1224387/

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Watson seems to have over-thought all her lines and actions.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1659337/

The Central Park Five

Do you remember the Central Park jogger of 1989 and "wilding" kids? This will bring it all back.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2380247/

Wallander (Swedish version): Series 2

Sad as all get out, but the Swedes are more fun to watch than the Brits.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0907702/

Flight

I hope you didn't watch the Oscars. Because if you did, this movie is ruined for you.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1907668/

Dredd

The only interesting thing about this paltry story of special effects is the guns that are whatever you want them to be on spoken command.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1343727/

Homeland: Season 1

I can't decide if this show is a showcase for the tit-for-tat that is the international spying game, or a basic thriller with a bad message for the American people.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1796960/

Downton Abbey: Season 3

Julian Fellowes must have had a mini-heart attack when both actors asked to leave the show.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1606375/

Pather Panchali

When the critics only tell you something is a classic, but not why it's a classic, beware.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048473/

Wallander: Series 3

I think they may be coming to the end of all they want to do. Episode 2, "The Dogs of Riga", was just awful.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1178618/

Argo

In-jokes that work! Politically relevant! Tense and suspenseful! Affleck has hit one out of the park.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1024648/

Les Misérables

Jackman was good, Crowe was meh, but Hathaway was miraculous.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1707386/

Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead

It's an infomercial with a real impact.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1227378/

Frankenweenie

The gremlins were an inspired addition.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1142977/

Being Human (UK series): Season 4

I thought they'd not be able to create a character more charming than Mitchell, but this season? It's almost better than all the others.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1349938/

Hotel Transylvania

I just don't remember liking to be scared when I was kid. Times, they have changed.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0837562/

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Something this poetic and magical winning Best Picture? Dreaming, we are.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2125435/

Zero Dark Thirty

I wonder if Chastain got to meet her CIA counterpart, deep cover notwithstanding.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1790885/

Dexter: Season 6

Colin Hanks has a cloak of invisibility. He's perfect for the first 3/4 of this season, at least.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0773262/

Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln: Abolitionist and Cheater-cheater-pumpkin-eater.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443272/

Searching for Sugar Man

The first thing I said to hubby was "You don't have an exciting past like that that I'm going to learn about in 25 years, do you?"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2125608/

The Bourne Legacy

Decent expansion of the trilogy (with plenty of room for more) incorporating all the usual hijinks and unbelievable situations.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1194173/

Silver Linings Playbook

Despite the gloss-over of bi-polar disorder towards the end, this is one of the more refreshing rom-coms in recent memory.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1045658/

Doctor Who: Season 20

Holy cats, we're in the era of worst companions ever (ie, Adric, Tegan).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056751/

The Lady from Shanghai

It might be one of Welles' lesser works, but he's still clearly a genius (ie, the funhouse, the courtroom vs. chess scenes, the luminosity of Hayworth).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040525/

Ice Age: Continental Drift

Did anyone else think the sea lion character was just a cheap knock-off of Heimlich from A Bug's Life? 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1667889/

Ted

Strangely, this is the film that made me go look up Marky Mark's "Good Vibrations" on youtube.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637725/

The Guild: Season 6

Um, was that it? For like, ever?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1138475/

Jeff, Who Lives At Home

Honestly? I don't get it. (Signs crap-ola notwithstanding, like, duh.)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1588334/

Killer Joe

The fact that the NC-17 rating was surrendered by the MPAA (leaving it UR or unrated) will tell you something as to whether or not you want to rent this.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1726669/

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

Why make a typical (albeit laugh-out-loud at times) rom-com from such an interesting idea?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1307068/