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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)
133. Sunset Boulevard (A+)

134. Lincoln (A-)

Steven Spielberg's decade-long quest to adapt Team of Rivals finally arrives on the screen...based on events that take up about a half-dozen pages of the book. This is the eighteenth of his movies I've seen, pushing him into the position of my most-watched director of all-time (breaking a tie with Woody Allen).

The result is a pretty good movie, featuring a Daniel Day-Lewis performance for the ages. Honestly some of the most immersive acting I've ever seen on screen; if we brought the real Lincoln into the present day for a comparison, I wouldn't be surprised if he was a lot like this. He's supported by a pretty formidable supporting cast, including Tommy Lee Jones (in one of his best roles in a while, and giving a nice boost in prominence to an undeservedly neglected historical figure), Sally Field, David Straithairn, and half a hundred notable character actors in one- or two-scene parts. Also, in what I must assume is a visual gag, Hal Holbrook is a dead ringer for Teddy Kennedy while playing Preston Blair.

A lot of people have said they think the movie should have ended slightly before it does, and I think that's probably true, though the added few minutes don't detract in any meaningful way. This is quite a change of pace for Spielberg. It's the most performance-driven film of this that I've ever seen, and quite stylistically restrained (as so many reviewers have observed). It might actually have done with a bit more sentiment at the end -- Lincoln's death (spoiler!) is handled in a pretty muted manner.

Cinema: 45 (+1)
Home Video: 76
Computer: 13