criticism
Reviews: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST 3D and CONTRABAND
Beauty and the Beast 3D (Rating: A+)Contraband (Rating: B-)
Final 2011 Reviews and Year-End Lists
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Rating: B-)Young Adult (Rating: A-)
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (Rating: B)
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (Rating: A)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Rating: C+)
The Adventures of Tintin (Rating: C)
We Bought a Zoo (Rating: C)
War Horse (Rating: C-)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Rating: B)
Best Performances, Directing, and other Miscellany of 2011
Reviews: SHAME and SLEEPING BEAUTY
These are reprints of my reviews from Toronto:Shame (Rating: B+)
Sleeping Beauty (Rating: C+)
Reviews: ARTHUR CHRISTMAS, THE ARTIST, HUGO, and THE MUPPETS
Arthur Christmas (Rating: B+)The Artist (Rating: A-)
Hugo (Rating: B-)
The Muppets (Rating: A-)
Reviews: THE DESCENDANTS, BREAKING DAWN – PART 1, THE LIE, and More
The Descendants (Rating: A-)Immortals (Rating: C)
Into the Abyss (Rating: D-)
The Lie (Rating: B+)
Melancholia (Rating: B+)
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (Rating: C-)
Reviews: TOWER HEIST and A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS
Tower Heist (Rating: B-)A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (Rating: A-)
Reviews: ANONYMOUS, IN TIME, LIKE CRAZY, PUSS IN BOOTS, and THE RUM DIARY
Anonymous (Rating: B-)In Time (Rating: C-)
Like Crazy (Rating: D+)
Puss in Boots (Rating: C)
The Rum Diary (Rating: B)
Reviews: BEING ELMO, MARGIN CALL, and MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey (Rating: B)Margin Call (Rating C-)
Martha Marcy May Marlene (Rating: A)
Reviews: 50/50, WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER?, REAL STEEL, and THE IDES OF MARCH
50/50 (Rating: B)The Ides of March (Rating: B+)
Real Steel (Rating: B-)
What’s Your Number? (Rating: F)

