Grades for Movies 2005

Monday, February 21, 2005

A+ Pantheon

A Masterpieces

Kings and Queen
(Desplechin) [moved up after 2nd viewing]

A- Great


Caché (Hidden) (Haneke) [AFI Fest]

Brokeback Mountain (Lee)

Memories of Murder
(Bong)

Tropical Malady (Weerasethakul)

A-/B+ Near Great

2046 (Wong)

King Kong (Jackson)

The Squid and the Whale (Baumbach)

Last Days (Van Sant)

B+ Must See

A Tale of Cinema (Hong)

Pride & Prejudice
(Wright)

Grizzly Man (Herzog)

Land of the Dead
(Romero)


Kung Fu Hustle (Chow)

Batman Begins
(Nolan)

Star Wars -- Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (Lucas)

Tony Takitani
(Ichikawa)


Dallas 362 (Caan)

B+/B Strongly Recommended

The Holy Girl (Martel)


Three Times (Hou)

Howl's Moving Castle (Miyazaki)

Good Night, and Good Luck
(Clooney)

Oldboy (Park)

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
(Black)

Match Point
(Allen)

Blind Shaft (Li)

The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Audiard)

Nobody Knows (Kore-eda)

The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Apatow)

Pulse
(Kurosawa)

Princess Raccoon (Suzuki) [AFI Fest] (estimated grade)

B Recommended

3-iron (Kim)

Clean (Assayas)

Sky High (Mitchell)


B/B- Recommended with minor reservations


Broken Flowers (Jarmusch)

Head-On (Akin)

A History of Violence (Cronenberg)

Me and You and Everyone We Know (July)

War of the Worlds
(Spielberg)

B- Recommended with major reservations

A tout de suite (Jacquot)



The Forest for the Trees (Ade) [LAFF]

Mirrormask (McKean)

Munich (Spielberg)


Mysterious Skin (Araki)

Pretty Persuasion
(Siega)


Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
(Park)

The New World (Malick)

Tomorrow We Move (Akerman)


C+ Not Recommended but with redeeming values

Eros (Wong [A-]; Soderbergh [B-]; Antonioni [D+])

Everything Is Illuminated (Shreiber)


Funny Ha Ha (Bujalski)

Sin City (Rodriguez & Miller w/ Tarantino)

The World (Jia)

C Poor

Kamikaze Girls (Nakashima) [LAFF]


Proof
(Madden)

C- Crap


A Talking Picture
(de Oliveira)

D+ Utter crap


D Foul, disgusting crap

F Burn the negative


Movies currently playing which I may see:

Wallace and Gromit
Capote
Syriana
The Constant Gardener
Walk the Line
Corpse Bride
Harry Potter
Gilles' Wife
The Penguin Movie
The Aristocrats


Missed:

My Summer of Love
Keane
5 x 2
Look at Me
Fever Pitch
The Brothers Grimm
Where the Truth Lies
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Bad News Bears
Kingdom of Heaven
Saraband
Ong-Bak: Thai Warrior
Rob Zombie Movie
Funny Ha Ha
Mr and Mrs Smith
Melinda and Melinda
Downfall

Turtles Can Fly

Best of Youth

2 Comments:

  • Bud The Holy Chick is not missable. Get the move on.

    By Blogger md'a, at 3:22 PM  

  • Of the films you missed:

    Turtles Can Fly and The Best of Youth are outstanding, both great at least. Sarabend is good, but not Bergman good (recommended with minor reservations on your scale).

    By Blogger David Watkins, at 11:46 PM  

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