Noah:Crowe gets a lot of
Close-ups; I got stuck on his
Symmetrical moles.
Grade: B

The Grand Budapest Hotel:If you needed an
Antonym for mumblecore,
It would be this film.
Grade: B

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Pompeii:Sasha Roiz makes
A much better Roman than
Keifer Sutherland.
Grade: C+

The LEGO Movie:Buying the LEGOs
Was probably the largest
Budget line item.
Grade: B

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The Monuments Men:If all we're saving
Are the great masterpieces,
No rush on this one.
Grade: C

Inside Llewyn Davis:Lots of folk music
And two very well-behaved
Marmalade kitties.
Grade: B

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Out of the Furnace:The location scouts
Were as talented as the
Director and cast.
Grade: B+

American Hustle:But we never got
To hear the end of Louie's
Ice fishing story!
Grade: B+

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The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug:I don't remember
The barrel-riding escape
Being a fight scene...?
Grade: B

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues:Sometimes the camera
Just cuts away, in search of
Something funnier.
Grade: C-

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[20:53] <dr_jerkface> right now, my neighborhood is grandfathered in as a dry community.

[20:53] thanks to some fascist bullshit from 1893.

[20:54] it periodically comes back to the political arena, and i have a mind to try to push the issue.

[20:54] Dry. That's scary shit.

[20:54] especially for the irish, whom i suspect it was intended to ( Read more... )

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire:Jennifer Lawrence
Is a commanding presence
On the silver screen.
Grade: B

Oldboy:Less of a "movie",
More of a "twisted wet dream
Of the one percent."
Grade: C

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The Counselor:Cormac McCarthy:
Letting the baddest guys win
Just to depress you.
Grade: B-

Thor: The Dark World:Meeting Jane Foster
Goes poorly for Thor's parents.
Don't date mortals, Thor!
Grade: B+

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Gravity:Slippery toeholds
Are all we have to show for
Fifty years in space.
Grade: B+

The Family:No grand ambitions,
But there are enough base hits
To get the job done.
Grade: C+

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Elysium:Let's stop larding up
Blomkamp's low-rent/hi-tech tales
With Hollywood dreck.
Grade: B-

The World's End:To no-one's surprise,
The world is destroyed by a
Drunken, aging goth.
Grade: B+

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