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
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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-
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