2013 MOVIE LIST -- The Top 129 So Far

THE STANDOUTS (20) - This should go without saying, but these are all must-sees.

Her ****
Fruitvale Station (fka Fruitvale) ***1/2
Lone Survivor ***1/2
Captain Phillips ***1/2
Dallas Buyers Club ***1/2
The Wolf of Wall Street ***1/2
Twelve Years a Slave ***1/2
Nebraska ***1/2
The Spectacular Now ***1/2
American Hustle ***
Enough Said ***
Don Jon's Addiction ***
The Silence ***
This Is The End ***
Stories We Tell ***
Short Term 12 ***
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ***
Behind the Candelabra (HBO) ***
Blue Caprice ***
We Steal Secrets ***

THE GOOD (27) - These represent quality filmmaking all-around.

The Butler ***
Prisoners ***
Gravity ***
Rush ***
Saving Mr. Banks ***
Out of the Furnace ***
Mud ***
The Hunt ***
You're Next ***
Blackfish ***
The World's End ***
The Heat ***
Drinking Buddies ***
In a World... ***
Prince Avalanche ***
Philomena ***
Side Effects ***
August: Osage County ***
Delivery Man ***
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire ***
The Call ***
V/H/S/2 (fka S-VHS) ***
Sightseers ***
Mistaken For Strangers ***
The Kings of Summer ***
Jobs **1/2
Warm Bodies **1/2

THE GOOD... BUT SHOULD'VE BEEN BETTERS (19) - Why weren't these good movies better? I don't really know. But they should've been. Hence, the name of this section.

Monsters University ***
The Fifth Estate ***
Elysium ***
World War Z **1/2
Inside Llewyn Davis **1/2
All Is Lost **1/2
Blue Jasmine **1/2
The Dirties **1/2
Now You See Me **1/2 
The Wolverine **1/2
Pacific Rim **1/2
The Iceman **1/2
The East **1/2
Phil Spector (HBO) **1/2
The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman **1/2
Oblivion **1/2
Mama **1/2
The Jeffrey Dahmer Files **1/2
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (HBO) **

THE GUILTY PLEASURES (17) - These are movies that I shouldn't like but I do, for one reason or another. I only feel ashamed because the Internet tells me I'm supposed to.

Furious 6 ***
21 and Over ***
The Internship ***
Ass Backwards ***
Dealin' With Idiots **1/2
Snitch **1/2
Lovelace **1/2
Olympus Has Fallen ** 
We're the Millers **
Grown Ups 2 **
The To Do List **
Bullet to the Head **
A Haunted House **
Crystal Fairy **
Escape From Tomorrow **
Delivery **
Paranoia **

THE UNDERWHELMING DISAPPOINTMENTS (35) - Chalk it up to expectations but these movies just didn't cut it for me.

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues **1/2
The Way Way Back **1/2
Trance **1/2
Man of Steel **1/2
The Conjuring **1/2
The Hangover Part III **1/2
Star Trek Into Darkness **1/2
Clear History (HBO) **1/2
Only God Forgives **
Pain and Gain **
Kick-Ass 2 **
The Great Gatsby **
Gangster Squad **
Iron Man 3 **
White House Down **
2 Guns **
Europa Report **
Maniac **
Spring Breakers **
Kill Your Darlings **
Dead Man Down **
Broken City **
Identity Thief ** 
The Evil Dead ** 
Breathe In **
Stoker **
Black Rock **
Antiviral **
A Teacher **
Welcome to the Punch **
Dark Skies **
The Last Stand **
Sweetwater **
Ain't Them Bodies Saints *1/2
A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III *1/2

THE BAD (10) - For better or worse, I just don't know what these movies were thinking.

Carrie *1/2
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone *1/2
The Purge *
A Good Day To Die Hard *
Oldboy *
Stand Up Guys *
Adore (fka Two Mothers) *
Movie 43 *
Berberian Sound Studio *
Upstream Color *

IN PROGRESS (4) - I've started watching these but I'm not quite done yet.

42 (75 minutes)
The Grandmaster (30 minutes)
Kink (18 minutes)
Top of the Lake (2 hours)

DOESN'T REALLY COUNT (1) - Re-releases don't count unless it's my first time seeing the movie.

Jurassic Park 3D ****

OOPS, I MISSED (82): 20 Feet From Stardom, 47 Ronin, About Time, The Act of Killing, Admission, After Earth, The Armstrong Lie, At Any Price, The Attack, Bad Grandpa, Beautiful Creatures, Before Midnight, Beyond the Hills, Big Sur, The Bling Ring, Blue Is the Warmest Color, The Book Thief, The Canyons, Citadel, Closed Circuit, Computer Chess, The Counselor, Despicable Me 2, Diana, Dirty Wars, Emperor, Ender's Game, Epic, Escape Plan, Filly Brown, Free Birds, The Gatekeepers, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Ginger and Rosa, Girl Most Likely, I Give It a Year, Grudge Match, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, Here Comes the Devil, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Homefront, How I Live Now, The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete, Jack the Giant Slayer, Knife Fight, Kon-Tiki, Labor Day, The Last Exorcism Part II, Last Vegas, The Lone Ranger, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Machete Kills, Man of Tai Chi, The Monk, Mr. Nobody, Much Ado About Nothing, No, No Place on Earth, Oz the Great and Powerful, Parker, The Past, Pawn Shop Chronicles, Phantom, Red 2, Red Flag, R.I.P.D., Rubberneck, The Sapphires, Somebody Up There Likes Me, Sound City, Starbuck, Stuck In Love, Supporting Characters, The Sweeney, Texas Chainsaw 3D, Thor: The Dark World, Turbo, Unhung Hero, The Wall, The We and the I, Wrong, Zero Charisma