Million Dollar Arm

What else do you expect from a Disney film about a sport?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1647668/

Maleficent

If it only proves that Jolie has a sense of humor, it's achieved its goals.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1587310/

Begin Again

Some sweet fillips in this film, like the "I dare you not to dance to this" scene.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1980929/

3 Idiots

Despite hammering its message home as hard as it can, engaging to the last.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1187043/

How to Train Your Dragon 2

There's no way you can follow the first with something better, but this is an excellent effort.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1646971/

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

At least that's #OneLastTime I have to see those eagles.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2310332/

Star Trek: Voyager: Season 7

A few good episodes mixed in with the mostly middling ones. Best line = "Hey Itchy! Yo, Cueball!"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112178/

The Wind Rises

Despite the controversy surrounding this film, it made me wax nostalgic and be distraught that it's Miyazaki's last.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2013293/ (Original title: Kaze Tachinu)

The Theory of Everything

Overly sentimental, but gorgeous and phenomenally well acted.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2980516/

Star Trek: Voyager: Season 6

Way too many silly holodeck episodes (getting to the end, are we?).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112178/

The Book Thief

Overly Hollywood-ized, but at least the theme of value of education comes through loud and clear.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816442/

Death Comes to Pemberley (mini-series)

Super distressing to see Darcy and Elizabeth in any sort of marital discord.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2951788/

Star Trek: Voyager: Season 5

Wasn't all that excited about the Borg queen, but Bride of Chaotica was hysterical.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112178/

22 Jump Street

They actually could repeat the previous script word for word, and I'd think I was watching a brand-new film.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2294449/

Homeland: Season 3

Yet another series hitting its stride in later seasons (but where do they go next but downhill?).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1796960/

The Newsroom: Season 2

Much better than the first season so I wish there was going to be a fourth.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1870479/

Interstellar

Surprisingly gripping 3-hour movie. (ie, pee before going in the theater- there's no good time to take a break...)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/

Chef

Insipid pablum. A chef who doesn't know Spanish? Plus the zillion other small blunders.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2883512/

Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey (mini-series)

Seth MacFarlane should be given the keys to Hollywood.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2395695/

Go Goa Gone

A (more) Indian Harold & Kumar crossed with every zombie film ever made.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2436516/

Snowpiercer

Tilda Swinton understood this was a series of high-concept set pieces. No one else in the film did.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1706620/

Doctor Who: Season 23

That's the end of classic Doctor Who for me. That is, until Netflix decides to finally make the remainder available...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056751/

Mad Men: Season 7, Part 1

The drama of the series can be truly annoying, but then we get the last 3 minutes of this half-season.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804503/

Star Trek: Voyager: Season 4

Although the actor behind 7-of-9 must have been chosen for the young male demographic, it is fascinating that the writers did not abandon her.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112178/

The Fault in Our Stars

Better than most in the dying-of-cancer genre, although the plot "twist" is beyond obvious.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2582846/

Lorenzo's Oil

Not sure how I missed this one the first time around. The best thing? The sound design.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104756/

Non-Stop

Artificial and trite. But with a decent surprise in the end.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2024469/

Muppets Most Wanted

As they say in the film, "the sequel's never quite as good."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2281587/

Jodorowsky's Dune

I don't believe Giger wouldn't have been discovered, but I greatly admire this wacky visionary nonetheless.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935156/

Star Trek: Voyager: Season 3

"Distant Origin" ranks among the top 10 ST episodes of all time, for me.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112178/

Draft Day

Moneyball this is most emphatically not.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2223990/

Parks and Recreation: Season 6

Not sure why they want to top that with one more season, but I'll take it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1266020/

Breaking Bad: Season 5

I'll never ask any of you to go on a ride-along.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903747/

The Walking Dead: Season 4

I am definitely getting my flu shot this year.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1520211/

Parks and Recreation: Season 5

When should I expect to see Pratt lose all the weight I know he lost? (It's like time travel, in a sense.)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1266020/

Breaking Bad: Season 4

OK, Season 4 was better. I am still of the opinion that this series is overly dramatic and cares too much about its "image."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903747/

The Lunchbox

The magic of the dabbawallas almost overwhelms the sweetness of the story.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2350496/ (Original title: Dabba)

Locke

Could easily have been a radioplay and done just as well.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2692904/

Maria Full of Grace

How could Marston write an ending like that? Talk about your hurdles to overcome.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390221/

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

I haven't seen a stronger case for civil disobedience since Milk.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1319726/

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

If the movie had been only the last 5 minutes, I would have loved it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1872181/

Parks and Recreation: Season 4

The biggest laugh this season? How Pawneeans drink from water fountains.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1266020/

Enemy

One of my favorite new directors, who builds mysterious, understated cinema with the best reveals in town.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2316411/

Breaking Bad: Season 3

Still feel exactly the same way as at the end of season 2: gonna finish this season if it kills me.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903747/

Continuum: Season 3

I appreciate their attempts to be currently relevant. I'll bet Monsanto doesn't, though.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1954347/

Lone Survivor

If Navy SEALs can survive all that, I can survive a 5K with some wimpy obstacles.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1091191/

The Monuments Men

Schmaltzy, ambivalent to the facts, and of all awful things, funny.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2177771/

Noah

Mixed messages notwithstanding, I love that boozing it up isn't technically considered a sin.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1959490/

Guardians of the Galaxy

Pratt is a funny man. Why wasn't this a laugh a minute?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2015381/

Star Trek: Voyager: Season 2

Dare I say that Mulgrew is a better captain than her 3 predecessors?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112178/

Blue Ruin

The car should have had top billing. (Good use of $150 on the part of the filmmakers.)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2359024/

The Lego Movie

Only 10% the advertisement I thought it would be.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1490017/

Parks and Recreation: Season 3

Name a better TV comedy series, and I'll give you a pony.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1266020/

Project Nim

Blackfish was terrifying. Project Nim is ineffably sad.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1814836/

The Raid 2

Extraordinary fights and stunts, and some great cinematography, but overall... blech.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2265171/

Lee Daniels' The Butler

Not what I expected, but still too Hollywood.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1327773/

Under the Skin

Only an alien would have left that cake uneaten.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1441395/

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

The man I respect; the movie I was bored with.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2304771/

24: Live Another Day

Started with promise, then became the same ol' same ol'.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1598754/

Short Term 12

After reading the idiotic White Oleander, it's refreshing to see (what seems like) the real deal.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2370248/

Unfinished Song

Glee meets Young@Heart.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1047011/

The Agronomist

What it must have been like to talk to Jean Dominique in person!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377031/

The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara

Oh, the humanity.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317910/

Capturing the Friedmans

A lesson in how to portray ambiguity.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0342172/

Peaky Blinders: Season 1

Such daring music choices, unsettling cinematography, and stellar actors, but the tale - being at heart a romantic one - did not fire the imagination.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2442560/

Fargo: Season 1

You'd think the falling fish would have clued me in, but I was clueless until the Garden of Eden comment.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2802850/

Parks and Recreation: Season 2

The show's stance on libraries has made me rethink my career choice.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1266020/

True Detective: Season 1

McConaughey can make wildly irritating acting choices (his demeanor as the older Rust). On purpose?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2356777/

Laura

Vincent Price played Shelby Carpenter? Knock me over with a feather (I didn't know until I started writing this).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037008/

Breaking Bad: Season 2

Gonna finish this series if it kills me. (Watched the first season nearly 2 years ago. Same response then.)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903747/

Darwin's Nightmare

Needs to be packaged with smell-o-vision for full immersion.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424024/

A Young Doctor's Notebook: Season 1 and 2

Hard to enjoy a series when you feel zero sympathy for the protagonist (well, the young one).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2164430/

The Escape Artist (mini-series)

Keep in mind that the moral is that the justice system is broken, not that the ending is just.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2649522/

Orphan Black: Season 2

Maslany not getting even a nod at the Emmys? What, is there an anti-Canadian sentiment, or something?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2234222/

Edge of Tomorrow

Less Bill Murray, but more aliens, guns and cool tech.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1631867/

Blackfish

My cat has tendencies I stay carefully aware of. So, how or why could I trust a killer whale?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2545118/

The Interrupters

Packs the most emotional wallop towards the end, as life for certain people gets decidedly better or decidedly worse.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1319744/

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

A lot of years have passed, and this is still the horrifying spectacle it was in 2001.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1016268/

Ernest & Celestine

I don't care if the moral(s) might be obvious - this is just super-sweet (not icky-sweet).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1816518/ (Original title: Ernest et Célestine)

Kill Your Darlings

Kerouac, Burroughs and Ginsberg were fascinating people. This is just the sensationalist parts of their lives.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1311071/

Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple

How to watch this and not think of Scientology?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0762111/

Star Trek: Voyager: Season 1

Mulgrew, Dawson and Picardo = win. McNeill = blech.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112178/

Out of the Furnace

A conundrum - so many unbelievable setups while also precisely acted.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1206543/

This is the End

I appreciate slapstick comedy without any hot chicks with boobs. We've come a long way since Porky's.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1245492/

Glee: Season 5

If I didn't like the music so much, I'd call that ending cheesy. Instead I'll call it coming full circle.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1327801/

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

All this movie did was make me want to visit Iceland. Which I already wanted to do.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0359950/

Parks and Recreation: Season 1

Any show that has me laughing hysterically by the 2nd episode is gonna be a winner.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1266020/

X-Men: Days of Future Past

A disappointment after the clearly superior Captain America (2014 edition).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1877832/

Modern Family: Season 5

I still think Bowen is on drugs, but I can find no large or small fault with this series.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1442437/

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Season 7

I will really miss this show, but I will not at all miss the horribly miscast Nicole de Boer.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106145/

12 Years a Slave

I suspect if I were producing the film, I'd add myself as the good guy, too.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2024544/

Warehouse 13: Season 5

The telenovela episode was a fitting end to an amusing and fun series run.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1132290/

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Season 1

The main character is not in fact Coulson, but the bloody plane. And it, like all the other characters, delivers its lines mechanically.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2364582/

Call the Midwife: Season 3

I don't understand how the show is going to be the show without Jessica Raine.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1983079/

Homefront

Stallone should stick to... well, I'm not sure what Stallone should do instead of writing screenplays.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2312718/

Godzilla

Did Ken Watanabe have to spend 2/3 of the movie with his mouth hanging open in shock?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0831387/

Veep: Season 2

Selina is no longer a victim. I am unsure if that's making it a better show or not, though.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1759761/

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Yay! All the significantly-accredited actors are used to great effect here. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1843866/

Thor: The Dark World

Meh. All the significantly-accredited actors are wasted here.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1981115/

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Season 6

The reason this is a more likeable series than TNG is because these characters have 'you and me' type problems.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106145/

Dallas Buyers Club

Well, in the end it's a feel-good movie. Maybe it's a new genre: The Feel-Horrible Feel-Good Movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790636/

Mad Men: Season 6

In keeping with the ambivalent endings... (Plus, Hollywood, quit splitting last seasons into two! Argh!)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804503/

In a World...

The "moral of the story" could easily pass for a double entendre, which makes this adorably quirky little film that much quirkier.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2294677/

August: Osage County

It's been a long time since I saw something that raw.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1322269/

Smashed

For an indie flick, really great. In the big picture, maybe a little too straightforward.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2063781/

Pain & Gain

I'm fairly certain this has no business being a comedy.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1980209/

RED 2

Hands-down, the only reason to watch this or the previous film is John Malkovich.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1821694/

Riddick

That damn dog was the best part of the film. (Ms. Sackhoff, what were you thinking?)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1411250/

Prisoners

Do not watch the trailer. It does this film no justice whatsoever.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392214/

Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids

The surprisingly most interesting part of the documentary was how foul-mouthed the parents were.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388789/

About Time

An incredibly sweet way to show the value of time in our lives.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2194499/

The Wolverine

Not a bad way to learn about different aspects of Japan. (Piss-poor ending, though.)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1430132/

Oblivion

Poor Mr. Cruise is so busted up on the inside, but I still appreciate his acting.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1483013/

Now You See Me

All flash, no substance. (Such an obvious review, but still true.)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1670345/

Game of Thrones: Season 3

I get why people who had read the book filmed their loved ones watching the Red Wedding.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/

The Forgotten Space

A disappointment after an entire festival of fantastic documentaries, this was just another political issue film.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1772382/

Reconversão

At first you think "walls?" By the end you think "of course, walls!"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2614316/

Coast of Death

The dangerous, difficult and/or Sisyphean work and activity of the denizens of beauteous Galicia, Spain.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3103318/ (Original title: Costa da Morte)

The Absent Stone

The structure of the film parallels the mysterious circumstances surrounding both the origin and the move of this ancient stone idol.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2726254/ (Original title: La Piedra Ausente)

Los Angeles Plays Itself

Although specific to LA and its moviemaking industry, the ruin, beauty and lost past are no different from other old cities, like, Detroit.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379357/

The Decline of Western Civilization Part III

Not so much a follow-up film on punk rock as a heartrending expose of the life of homeless kids.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138393/

The Decline of Western Civilization

Do you like punk rock? Doesn't matter - you'll go 250 beats per minute anyway.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082252/

From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf

A stream-of-conscious rendering of the 3rd-world equivalent of shipping containers.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3105448/

Manakamana

Hypnotic, gorgeous, transcendent - much like what I assume Nepal is like itself. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3103326/

Pickup on South Street

How the heck is this not as famous as, say, The Maltese Falcon or The Big Sleep?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046187/

Top of the Lake (mini-series)

The natural beauty is stupendous. I can't say the same about the storytelling.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2103085/

Upstream Color

For hours after watching this, your life feels like a series of moments captured in snapshots.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2084989/

The Great Gatsby

That's a heady mix of flamboyant, sparkling Luhrmann and eloquent, symbolic Fitzgerald.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1343092/

Sweetgrass

Compelling storytelling- about sheepherding- but with an odd final focus for this observational doc.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1517252/

Veronica Mars

Were the wait and the hoopla worth it? I'll give it a 72% success rate.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2771372/

Bigger Stronger Faster*

Prime example of the power of a personally motivated tale (and natural directing and editing talent).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1151309/

Last Train Home

Can't say it better than Ebert: "The rulers of China may someday regret that they distributed the works of Marx so generously."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1512201/ (Original title: Gui tu lie che)

Man of Steel

You thought the Avengers destroyed NYC (Metropolis, NYC, tomato, tomahto).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0770828/

The Heat

Irreverence in any kind of female-led movie is refreshing.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2404463/

Dirty Wars

Way too much of the creator in this film, but horrifying nonetheless.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2532528/

Downton Abbey: Season 4

They've handled the Mary heartbreak very well. Not sure I can say the same about the remainder of the characters.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1606375/

Her

A strange 24 hour juxtaposition: finish proofing the Turing book and then go see a movie about AI.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/

House of Cards: Season 2

Fortunately, those with an "if I just ran the world..." mentality aren't also psychotic.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1856010/

Captain Phillips

Greengrass = a man who can accurately and calmly provide a thriller. He also really gets what shock is all about.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535109/

Dogtown and Z-Boys

Great soundtrack, avant-garde choices (burned filmstock!), helter-skelter content, can't lose.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275309/

Cutie and the Boxer

This was nominated because it's the only documentary not about war. (Well, war of the heart, I suppose.)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2355540/

The Armstrong Lie

A not-surprising spotlight on the consistent denials, without the needed discussion of delusional tactics.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1638364/

Philomena

Nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay solely on the strength of the car conversations, I believe.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2431286/

All is Lost

Moral of the day: don't run out of flares.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2017038/

Blue Jasmine

Blanchett succeeds in making us feel for her poor little rich girl act.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2334873/

The Hunt

The difference between Mads Mikkelsen in this year's Danish Oscar entry and last year's is about 40 trillion kilometers.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2106476/ (Original title: Jagten)

Despicable Me 2

Not any specialer than the first one.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1690953/

Frozen

Frozen, tending towards melting.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2294629/

Being Human (UK series): Season 5

I suppose I should be grateful for 5 seasons of this eloquent show. (I'm also quite keen on that absolute last shot.)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1349938/

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

More geek cool here ("no soy soy latte?") but it doesn't quite reach the level of the first endeavor.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1985966/

Sherlock: Season 3

Proving that Steven Moffat still knows how to write. Pick better other writers, though.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1475582/

The Hedgehog

A French film about death, not about love and longing. What's up with that? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1442519/ (Original title: Le Hérisson)

20 Feet from Stardom

Didn't delve into the actual work of being a backup singer much, but the glorious music made up for that.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2396566/

Ain't Them Bodies Saints

Excellent title and some decent acting, but trite. Just boringly trite.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2388637/

The Walking Dead: Season 3

Wouldn't you choose a secure (against zombies) facility over an insecure facility, if you had that choice?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1520211/

The World's End

Um, weird? Also, best anti-technology line of 2013.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1213663/

Catch a Fire

It's just 8 years too late - with too much water under the bridge - to watch this for the first time.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0437232/

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Thankfully, far better than the first. Plus, the dragon (and his "cave") are very well realized.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1170358/

2 Guns

"Man, we got all the balls in the..." Wait, nobody got that joke the first time.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1272878/

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

First: Woody Harrelson, second: Stanley Tucci, third: Amanda Plummer.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1951264/