April 15, 2007

Movies for Grown-Ups: Master list

Tired of seemingly all discussion of movies in this country anymore sliding towards poop fests and other kiddie fare? Me too, which is why I decided to dedicate my Netflix account to nothing but "grown-up" movies, and to write reviews here of each one I see. If you've got a suggestion of a movie I should see, by the way, by all means let me know!

(M): Mini-review
(JMN): Justify My Netflix
(NN): Naughty Netflix

2010 (in the order they were reviewed)
The Book of Eli
Kick-Ass
Badlands
Performance
Chloe
Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
Riverworld (2010)
A Hole in My Heart (NN)
Personal essay: Is "Inception" actually a film about filmmaking?
An Education (JMN)
Patton (JMN)
Romance (NN)
Mary and Max (JMN)
Shutter Island (JMN)
Crazy Heart (JMN)
Surrogates (JMN)
Avatar (JMN)
Emmanuelle (NN)
Daybreakers (JMN)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (JMN)
The Lovely Bones (JMN)
Defendor (JMN)
The Andromeda Strain (1971) (JMN)
The Young Victoria (JMN)
The Dark Crystal (JMN)
Sherlock Holmes (2009) (JMN)
Sex and Lucia (NN)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925) (JMN)
The Men Who Stare at Goats (JMN)
The Box (JMN)
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (JMN)
The Informant! (JMN)
I'm Not There (JMN)
The Limey (JMN)
Bad Lieutenant (JMN)
The King of Kong (JMN)
Best In Show (JMN)
The Gamers: Dorkness Rising (JMN)
Cannibal Holocaust (JMN)
Julia (2008) (JMN)
The Watcher in the Woods (JMN)
Deception (2008) (JMN)
Public Enemies (JMN)
Rendez-vous (NN)
Parasite Dolls (JMN)
Jane Eyre (1934) (JMN)
A Simple Plan (JMN)
Murder on the Orient Express (1974) (JMN)
I Love You Too (NN)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (JMN)
The Brood (JMN)
Che (JMN)
Big Fan (JMN)
Xanadu (JMN)
A Real Young Girl (NN)
(500) Days of Summer (JMN)
Cthulhu (2007) (JMN)
Up (JMN)
Son of Rambow (JMN)

2009-2007 (in alphabetical order)
9 Songs (NN)
24 Hour Party People
2001: A Space Odyssey
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) (M)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997) (M)
Adaptation. (JMN)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (JMN)
Alphaville (M)
Altered States
The Animatrix (M)
Android (JMN)
Apocalypto (M)
Art School Confidential (JMN)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (M)
Ballykissangel, season 1 (JMN)
Batman Begins (JMN)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Berlin Alexanderplatz, disc 1 (JMN)
Big Trouble in Little China (JMN)
The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy (M)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (M)
Braveheart (M)
Brick
Brokeback Mountain (M)
The Brothers Bloom (JMN)
The Brothers Grimm (JMN)
The Caine Mutiny (1954) (M)
Caprica (JMN)
Casablanca (M)
Chocolat (M)
Choke (JMN)
Clerks and Clerks II (M)
Clockers (M)
Closer (M)
Cloverfield (M)
Coupling, season 1 (JMN)
Coyote County Loser
Cube
The Darjeeling Limited (M)
Day Watch (M)
Dead Ringers
Deliverance (JMN)
Demonlover (JMN)
The Departed
Diary of the Dead (M)
Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation (JMN)
Donnie Darko
Downfall / Der Untergang
The Duchess of Duke Street (JMN)
Dune (1984) (JMN)
Eastern Promises
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (M)
Equilibrium
Equus
Eragon (M)
Exorcist II: The Heretic (JMN)
Exterminating Angels (NN)
Father Ted, Season 1 (JMN)
Finding Neverland (JMN)
Fiona (NN)
Fitzcarraldo (JMN)
From Hell (M)
Funny Games (1997) (M)
Ghost In The Shell (JMN)
The Girlfriend Experience (JMN)
Gods and Monsters (JMN)
Great Expectations (1999) (M)
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (JMN)
Heavenly Creatures (JMN)
Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms (M)
Helvetica
Hitler's Lost Plan (JMN)
Hollywoodland (M)
Hot Fuzz (M)
I Am Curious (NN)
The Illusionist (M)
The IT Crowd, Season 3 (JMN)
Kill Bill (M)
King Kong (2005) (M)
Kissing On the Mouth
Kolchak: The Night Stalker (JMN)
Kundun (JMN)
Lars and the Real Girl (M)
Last Tango in Paris (JMN)
Little Children (M)
To Live and Die in LA
LOL (M)
Lonesome Dove (M)
Lost Treasures of Tibet (JMN)
The Madness of King George (JMN)
The Maltese Falcon
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Margo at the Wedding
Match Point (M)
Max (JMN)
Meth (2006) (M)
Metropolis
Michael Clayton
Mimic
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (JMN)
Mission: Impossible III (M)
Mongol (JMN)
Monty Python: Almost the Truth (JMN)
The Name of the Rose (M)
Night Watch
The Ninth Configuration (JMN)
No Country For Old Men
Notes on a Scandal (M)
Ocean's Twelve (M)
Oldboy (M)
Out Of Africa (JMN)
Pan's Labyrinth
Paprika (JMN)
The Passion of Ayn Rand
Perestroika (JMN)
Perfect Blue (JMN)
Personal Best (JMN)
Porn Theatre (NN)
The Prestige
Primer
The Prisoner (2009) (JMN)
Rachel Getting Married (JMN)
Ratatouille (M)
Renaissance (JMN)
Requiem for a Dream
Revolutionary Road (JMN)
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (JMN)
Riverworld (M)
RKO 281 (JMN)
Rope
The Saddest Music in the World (M)
A Scanner Darkly
The Shadow (1994) (JMN)
The Short Films of David Lynch
Sideways
The Simpsons Movie (M)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (M)
Slumdog Millionaire (JMN)
Somewhere in Time (JMN)
Southland Tales
Spetters (NN)
Spun (M)
The Squid and the Whale
Star Trek (2009) (JMN)
Storytelling
Sunshine
Superbad (M)
Superman Returns (M)
Television Under the Swastika (JMN)
The Third Man
THX 1138
Time Bandits
Triumph of the Will
Twin Peaks (JMN)
V for Vendetta (M)
Van Helsing (M)
Watchmen (JMN)
Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter (JMN)
What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? (M)
The Wrestler (JMN)
X2: X-Men United (M)
Youth Without Youth (M)
Zardoz
Zodiac (M)

Filed by Jason Pettus at 6:55 PM, April 15, 2007. Filed under: Movies | Reviews |
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