2012 Films, Alphabetically (With Grades)
Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at 5:32PM Titles are listed alphabetically
(Or: listed in groups by grade)
110 Films
Last Update 2/11/13
Title (Director) Grade #of times seen if more than 1 Reviews if applicable
Rachel Weisz lusts uncontrollably for Tom Hiddleston. No one blames her.
Alpha Order 2012
21 Jump Street (Phil Lord & Chris Miller) B+ Review
28 Hotel Rooms (Matt Ross) B- Capsule
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter (Timur Bekmambetov) D+
Amazing Spider-Man, The (Marc Webb) C- Review
Amour (Michael Haneke) A- Review
Anna Karenina (Joe Wright) B+ Capsule
Any Day Now (Travis Fine) C Interview
Arbitrage (Nicholas Jarecki) C
Argo (Ben Affleck) B
Avengers, The (Joss Whedon) B+² Review | Sequel Wishlist | In-Flight ReScreen
Bachelorette (Lesley Headland) B Beau's Take | Leslye Headland Guest Blog
Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (Marie Losier) D+
Beasts of the Southern Wild (Behn Zeitlin) A- Capsule
Beloved (Christophe Honore) C+
Bernie (Richard Linklater) C
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The (John Madden) B- Review
Brave (Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman and Steve Purcell) B² Capsule
Bullhead (Michael R Roskam) B+
Cabin in the Woods (Drew Goddard) C+
Chronicle (Josh Trank) B- Overrated List
Cloud Atlas (Lana Wachowski, Andy Wachowski, Tom Tykwer) F Capsule
Compliance (Craig Zobel) C- Review & Interview
Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg) B+ Beau's Take
Damsels in Distress (Whit Stillman) B-
Dark Knight Rises, The (Chris Nolan) B- Review
Dark Shadows (Tim Burton) C Review
Declaration of War (Valérie Donzelli) B+
Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies) B/B+
Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino) B Various Posts
End of Watch (David Ayer) B+
Farewell My Queen (Benoît Jacquot) B+ Review
Flight (Robert Zemeckis) B- Review
For a Good Time, Call... (Jamie Travis) C+ Capsule
Frankenweenie (Tim Burton) B+ original short | Capsule
Gayby (Jonathan Lipsicki) B+ Capsule | Interview
Ginger and Rosa (Sally Potter) B²
Haywire (Steven Soderbergh) C Review
Hello I Must Be Going (Todd Louiso) B Melanie Lynskey Guest Blog
Hit So Hard (P David Ebersole) D
Hitchcock (Sacha Gervasi) C+ Review
Holy Motors (Leos Carax) B+ Capsule
Hope Springs (David Frankel) B Capsule
How to Survive a Plague (David France) B+
The House I Live In (Eugene Jarecki) B+
Hunger Games (Gary Ross) B- Review
I Want Your Love (Travis Mathews) B Interview
The Impossible (Juan Antonio Bayona) C+
The Invisible War (Kirby Dick) B-
Jeff, Who Lives At Home (Mark and Jay Duplass) D+
John Carter (Andrew Stanton) C+ Review
Joyful Noise (Todd Graf) C-
Keep the Lights On (Ira Sachs) C+ Capsule & Overrated List
Killer Joe (William Friedkin) B- Capsule
Lawless (John Hillcoat) B- Review
Lincoln (Steven Spielberg) B+/A- Podcast
Life of Pi (Ang Lee) C Overrated List
Lola Versus (Daryl Wein) C
Looper (Rian Johnson)B+ Review
The Loneliest Planet (Julia Loktev) B+ Review
Magic Mike (Steven Soderbergh) A-³ Review
The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson) C+ Review & Overrated List
Middle of Nowhere (Ava DuVernay) B+
Les Misérables (Tom Hooper) A-³ Screening & Interview & Various Posts
Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson) B+ Capsule
Mirror Mirror (Tarsem) C Review
Miss Bala (Gerardo Naranjo) B Capsule
The Odd Life of Timothy Green (Peter Hedges) D- Capsule
On the Road (Walter Salles) B- Brief Thoughts
Our Children (Joachim LaFosse) C+ Capsule
Oslo, August 31st (Joachim Trier) B+
The Paperboy (Lee Daniels) B- Review & Interview
ParaNorman (Chris Butler & Sam Fell) B
Paul Williams Still Alive (Stephen Kessler) C+
Peace, Love and Misunderstanding (Bruce Beresford) C Capsule
People Like Us (Alex Kurtzman) C- Capsule
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky) B Capsule & Interview
The Pirates! Band of Misfits (Peter Lord & Jeff Hewitt) C
Pitch Perfect (Jason Moore) B² Capsule
Premium Rush (David Koepp) D Capsule
Prometheus (Ridley Scott) B Capsule
Quartet (Dustin Hoffman) D Capsule
Rise of the Guardians (Peter Ramsey) C- Capsule
Rock of Ages (Adam Shankman) C Review
A Royal Affair (Nikolaj Arcel) B Brief Thought
Rust & Bone (Jacques Audiard) B-
Searching For Sugar Man (Malik Bendjelloul)
The Secret Life of Arrietty (Hiromasa Yonebayashi) B- Capsule
The Sessions (Ben Lewin) B- Review
Seven Psycopaths (Martin McDonagh) tba
Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell) C+ Brief Thought
Skyfall (Sam Mendes) B+ Review
Smashed (James Ponsoldt) B/B-
Snow White and the Huntsman (Rupert Sanders) C+² Review
Sparkle (Salim Akil) C Review
Starlet (Sean Baker) B+
Le Tableau/The Painting (Jean Francois) B/B-
Take This Waltz (Sarah Polley) B-
Ted (Seth MacFarlane) B+
This is 40 (Judd Apatow) C-
To Rome With Love (Woody Allen) D+ Review
Total Recall (Len Wiseman) C- Review
Vito (Jeffrey Schwarz) B- Interview
Wanderlust (David Wain) C+
What a Man (Matthias Schweighöfer) C
Wreck-It Ralph (Rich Moore) C+
Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow) B+³
No Distribution in the States
Bwakaw (Jun Lana) A- Review
Older Movies (Finally Released in the States OR Special Re-Releases) but too old to be eligible for my annual awards or for me to think of them as 2012 releases.
Hipsters (Valeriy Todorovskiy.... Russia from 2008) B
Boy (Taika Waititi... New Zealand from 2010) B
Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly... from 1952) A+⁷ Best Shot
Titanic 3D (James Cameron... from 1997) A⁴ in its original form... B with new 3D
Oki's Movie (Hong Sang Soo... Korea from 2010) C-
Reviews
Reader Comments (8)
Well, I for one would like to know the grade you assign to each film... Please don't stop that.
oh yes. i'll still do the letters. just listing chronologically
haven't you watched haywire?
oopa yeah. i even reviewed it.
I think Hunger Games was a total waste of time and money.
Curious if you got to see "Roadie" with Ron Eldard. Great little film which also had a wonderful supporting turn from Lois Smith. Sad that this film got no distribution...
Will you be doing a review for The Master at some point? I'm interested to see what you thought of it.
when is that master review coming. its been more than a month