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1. My Week With Marilyn (B-)
2. Fantasia 2000 (B+)
3. Blade Runner (B)
4. The Hidden Fortress (A-)
5. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (B+)
6. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (A+)
7. The Descendants (A-)
8. Monsieur Lazhar (A)
9. The Prestige (A+)
10. Blood Simple (A-)
11. The Big Lebowski (B+)
12. West Side Story (A-)
13. The Hours (A-)
14. Lady and the Tramp (B)
15. An Officer and a Gentleman (B)
16. All Quiet On The Western Front (A)
17. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (B-)
18. Spellbound (B+)
19. Seven Samurai (A+)
20. X-Men: First Class (A)
21. Do The Right Thing (N/A)
22. Martha Marcy May Marlene (B)
23. The Artist (A-)
24. LA Confidential (A)
25. Young Adult (B)
26. Children of Men (B+)
27. Gaslight (B+)
28. North By Northwest (A+)
29. American Beauty (A-)
30. Revolutionary Road (A-)
31. Being There (B)
32. Coriolanus (C+)
33. To Catch A Thief (B+)
34. A Separation (A+)
35. The Hunger Games (B+)
36. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (A)
37. Saturday Night Fever (A-)
38. The Tree of Life (A-)
39. Hero (B-)
40. Boogie Nights (A+)
41. Magnolia (A-)
42. The Lives of Others (A)
43. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (A-)
44. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (A)
45. A Streetcar Named Desire (A)
46. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (A)
47. Downfall (A+)
48. In Darkness (B+)
49. Cabaret (C+)
50. The Avengers (A)
51. The Incredible Hulk (B)
52. The Last of the Mohicans (A-)
53. Alien (A)
54. Mystic River (A)
55. Amadeus (A+)
56. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (B)
57. Snow White and the Huntsman (C)
58. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (B+)
59. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (B)
60. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (A-)
61. Field of Dreams (A+)
62. The Conversation (B)
63. American Gangster (A)
64. Rise of the Planet of the Apes (B+)
65. Damsels in Distress (B+)
66. 3 Days of the Condor (B+)
67. Star Trek (A)
68. Thelma & Louise (A)
69. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (B)
70. Brave (B+)
71. The Grapes of Wrath (A-)
72. Where Do We Go Now? (B)
73. The Night of the Hunter (C)
74. Dangerous Liasons (A)
75. Amelie (A)
76. Glory (A)
77. Savages (B)
78. The Amazing Spider-Man (B+)
79. There Will Be Blood (A)
80. Memento (A)
81. Nine (C)
82. Insomnia (B)
83. Batman Begins (A+)
84. Margaret (A-)
85. The Dark Knight (A+)
86. The Dark Knight Rises (A)
87. Inception (A)
88. Moonrise Kingdom (A+)
89. The Aviator (A-)
90. Safety Not Guaranteed (B+)
91. The Quiet American (B+)
92. The Piano (B)
93. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (B)
94. Intouchables (A-)
95. The Seven Year Itch (B+)
96. Born on the Fourth of July (B)
97. 12 Angry Men (A+)
98. Wild Strawberries (A)
99. Broadcast News (A-)
100. Jaws (A)
101. Ikiru (A-)
102. Beasts of the Southern Wild (B+)
103. Lawless (B-)
104. The Rules of the Game (B+)
105. Tokyo Story (B+)
106. Burn After Reading (B+)
107. Brokeback Mountain (A+)
108. Looper (A+)
109. The Master (B+)
110. Nosferatu (N/A)
111. Argo (A)
112. Farewell, My Queen (B+)
113. King Kong (1933) (A)
114. Tomorrow Never Dies (B)
115. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (A-)
116. Cloud Atlas (B+)
117. Raiders of the Lost Ark (A+)
118. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (C+)
119. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (A-)
120. Dracula (C-)
121. Frankenstein (B)
122. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (B)
123. Flight (A-)
124. Wreck-It Ralph (A+)
125. The Room (F)
126. Sabrina (A-)
127. Skyfall (A)
128. Lawrence of Arabia (A+)
129. Funny Face (C+)
130. Killer Joe (B+)
131. Midnight's Children (B-)

132. Life of Pi (A)

After spending a solid week or so working on two law school papers, I finally have time to see a movie. What a nice break.

Ang Lee takes on Yann Martel's Booker-winning novel, which no doubt required quite a bit of ingenuity to translate to the screen, given its nature. The result is the most superb and assured craft I've yet seen this year; they should probably award the Oscars for cinematography and visual effects right now. Suraj Sharma, who plays the title character, surely has made one of the most difficult acting debuts in recent memory. He pretty much carries the picture, acting for most of his screentime opposite only (very convincing) visual effects (though having as skilled a director as Lee no doubt helps quite a lot).

It's not perfect (I could quibble with pieces of the beginning and end, particularly the very end, which seems almost to glide past the impact of the big reveal), but it's a pretty stunning artistic achievement.

Cinema: 44 (+1)
Home Video: 75
Computer: 13