Sunday
February 5, 2012

Now Playing

A Separation (Jodaeiye Nader az Simin) (Reviewed January 24, 2012)

The Artist (Reviewed January 23, 2012)

The Iron Lady (Reviewed January 20, 2012)

War Horse (Reviewed January 12, 2012)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Reviewed January 10, 2012)

A Dangerous Method (Reviewed December 22, 2011)

Shame (Reviewed December 14, 2011)

Melancholia (Reviewed December 1, 2011)

The Descendants (Reviewed December 1, 2011)

Margin Call (Reviewed November 21, 2011)

The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, C.I.A. Spymaster William Colby (Reviewed November 21, 2011)

Anonymous (Reviewed November 21, 2011)

The Way (Reviewed October 25, 2011)

Take Shelter (Reviewed October 18, 2011)

Toast (Reviewed October 14, 2011)

Moneyball (Reviewed October 4, 2011)

The Hedgehog (Le Hérisson) (Reviewed October 3, 2011)

The Help (Reviewed October 2, 2011)

Drive (Reviewed September 20, 2011)

The Guard (Reviewed September 15, 2011)

Our Idiot Brother (Reviewed August 26, 2011)

One Day (Reviewed August 25, 2011)

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (Reviewed August 18, 2011)

Tabloid (Reviewed August 15, 2011)

Page One: Inside The New York Times (Reviewed July 15, 2011)

Tree of Life (Reviewed July 1, 2011)

City of Life and Death (Reviewed June 20, 2011)

Everything Must Go (Reviewed June 9, 2011)

Hesher (Reviewed June 7, 2011)

There Be Dragons (Reviewed May 24, 2011)

Win Win (Reviewed May 19, 2011)

Winter in Wartime (Oorlogswinter) (Reviewed April 26, 2011)

In a Better World (Hævnen) (Reviewed April 13, 2011)

Jane Eyre (Reviewed April 4, 2011)

A Somewhat Gentle Man (En ganske snill mann) (Reviewed March 21, 2011)

Of Gods and Men (Des Hommes et des Dieux) (Reviewed March 9, 2011)

Cedar Rapids (Reviewed March 9, 2011)

Another Year (Reviewed February 18, 2011)

No Strings Attached (Reviewed February 15, 2011)

The King's Speech (Reviewed February 2, 2011)

True Grit (Reviewed February 2, 2011)

Black Swan (Reviewed January 21, 2011)

127 Hours (Reviewed December 22, 2010)

How Do You Know (Reviewed December 21, 2010)

I Love You Phillip Morris (Reviewed December 20, 2010)

Cool It (Reviewed November 19, 2010)

Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (Reviewed November 18, 2010)

Secretariat (Reviewed November 12, 2010)

Inside Job (Reviewed November 2, 2010)

Waiting for Superman (Reviewed October 25, 2010)

The Social Network (Reviewed October 19, 2010)

Inception (Reviewed July 30, 2010)

Winter's Bone (Reviewed June 24, 2010)

About the rating system:

Because I think of my readers as busy people whose lives, and even whose leisure time, are not organized around movies, I doubt the need for a finely calibrated, four- or five-star rating system, which could only accentuate the subjectivity of movie-reviewing anyway. Such readers, it seems to me, are likely to want instead to know the following:

• Is the movie so good that I simply must see it?
• Is it something that’s worth seeing if I haven’t got anything better to do on a Saturday night?
• Is it a waste of time?

For those who trust me to answer such questions on their behalf, I give for an affirmative answer to the first question (two stars), to the second, (one star) and to the third, (no stars).