Ratings for 2011 releases

Here’s a list of Muriel-eligible releases I’ve seen so far in 2011. If it seems like I’m lenient with my ratings, reflect that my time is at a premium and I try to hand-pick the movies I really want to see while waiting to watch the ones about which I’m less enthusiastic until they hit Netflix. That is, of course, unless it’s something the Offspring wants to see, in which case they generally take precedence over anything else, for good (Rango) or ill (The Green Hornet).

Anyway, the ratings:

10 ratings
The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)

9 ratings
Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
Terri (Azazel Jacobs)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Tomas Alfredson)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

8 ratings
Cold Weather (Aaron Katz)
Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn)
Le Havre (Aki Kaurismäki)
House of Pleasures (Bertrand Bonello)
Hugo (Martin Scorsese)
Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
Mission: Impossible- Ghost Protocol (Brad Bird)
Moneyball (Bennett Miller)
Mysteries of Lisbon (Raul Ruiz)
Rango (Gore Verbinski)
Tabloid (Errol Morris)
Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols)
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay)

7 ratings
13 Assassins (Takashi Miike)
The Arbor (Clio Barnard)
Attack the Block (Joe Cornish)
Beginners (Mike Mills)
City of Life and Death (Lu Chuan)
Contagion (Steven Soderbergh)
Heartbeats (Xavier Dolan)
The Interrupters (Steve James)
Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin)
Melancholia (Lars Von Trier)
The Myth of the American Sleepover (David Robert Mitchell)
Of Gods and Men (Xavier Beauvois)
Potiche (Francois Ozon)
Project Nim (James Marsh)
Le quattro volte (Michelangelo Frammartino)
Rapt (Lucas Belvaux)
Silent Souls (Aleksei Fedorchenko)
Submarine (Richard Ayoade)
The Time That Remains (Elia Suleiman)
Tuesday, After Christmas (Radu Muntean)
Weekend (Andrew Haigh)

6 ratings
50/50 (Jonathan Levine)
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (Steven Spielberg)
Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest (Michael Rapaport)
A Better Life (Chris Weitz)
Captain America: The First Avenger (Joe Johnston)
Cars 2 (John Lasseter)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog)
The Debt (John Madden)
The Descendants (Alexander Payne)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher)
The Guard (John Michael McDonagh)
Hanna (Joe Wright)
Incendies (Denis Villeneuve)
Leap Year (Michael Rowe)
Margin Call (J.C. Chandor)
Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzmán)
Putty Hill (Matt Porterfield)
Road to Nowhere (Monte Hellman)
Senna (Asif Kapadia)
Shame (Steve McQueen)
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (Guy Ritchie)
Super 8 (JJ Abrams)
The Trip (Michael Winterbottom)
The Way Back (Peter Weir)
Win Win (Tom McCarthy)
Winnie the Pooh (Steve Anderson and Don Hall)

5 ratings
Bridesmaids (Paul Feig)
Carnage (Roman Polanski)
A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg)
Dolphin Tale (Charles Martin Smith)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 (David Yates)
The Housemaid (Im Sang-soo)
The Ides of March (George Clooney)
Insidious (James Wan)
Jane Eyre (Cary Fukunaga)
Kaboom (Gregg Araki)
Kung Fu Panda 2 (Jennifer Yuh Nelson)
Rio (Carlos Saldanha)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (Rupert Wyatt)
Thor (Kenneth Branagh)

4 ratings
Film: Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Rob Marshall)
Spy Kids: All the Time in the World (Robert Rodriguez)
The Three Musketeers: Someone Forgot to Put a Colon in the Title (Paul “Not Thomas” Anderson)
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Michael Bay)
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (Bill Condon)

3 ratings
The Green Hornet (Michel Gondry)
Happy Feet Two (George Miller)

2 ratings

1 ratings

0 ratings

Did not finish due to lack of interest:
Aurora (Cristi Puiu)
Crazy, Stupid, Love. (John Requa and Glen Ficarra)
The Future (Miranda July)
Rubber (Quentin Dupieux)
Special Treatment (Jeanne Labrune)

Also, here are the ones I still want to see that I haven’t gotten around to yet for some reason or other. As with last year, the numbers in [brackets] denote how interested I am in the movie, [1] meaning something I believe to be a top priority to see, [2] denoting a title I feel I ought to see before the Muriels deadline, [3] meaning movies I hope to see but won’t feel too terrible if I don’t get around to them, and [4] is reserved for stuff I’ll end up seeing for my family or awards-baity movies that I’ll possibly check out if they end up getting good reviews from critics I trust and not just Oscar-predicting types.

Now available on DVD and/or Netflix:
Bellflower (Evan Glodell) [3]
Caterpillar (Koji Wakamatsu) [3] {now streaming{
I Saw the Devil (Kim Jee Woon) [3] {now streaming}
The Woman (Lucky McKee) [3]
Warrior (Gavin O’Connor) [3]

Available on SundanceNow:
Sleeping Beauty (Julia Leigh) [3] {7 Feb @ Gateway}

Coming soon to DVD:
The Mill and the Cross (Lech Majewski) [2] {31 Jan}

Coming to DVD and/or Netflix post-Muriel deadline:
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (Jose Padilha) [3] {14 Feb}
Urbanized (Gary Hustwit) [3] {14 Feb}
The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodovar) [2] {6 Mar}
The Muppets (James Bobin) [3] {20 Mar}
Tyrannosaur (Paddy Considine) [3] {3 Apr}

Now playing in local theatres:
The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius) [2]
War Horse (Steven Spielberg) [3]
Young Adult (Jason Reitman) [3]

Coming to town after Muriels deadline, if at all
George Harrison: Living in the Material World (Martin Scorsese) [1]
Into the Abyss (Werner Herzog) [1] {24 Feb @ Gateway}
Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan) [1]
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky) [1]
A Separation (Asghar Farhadi) [1] {24 Feb @ Drexel}

My Joy (Sergei Loznitsa) [2]
Pina (Wim Wenders) [2] {17 Feb @ Gateway}

Coriolanus (Ralph Fiennes) [3]
Go Go Tales (Abel Ferrara) [3]
Kinyarwanda (Alrick Brown) [3]
Rampart (Owen Moverman) [3]
Shit Year (Cam Archer) [3]

Might see out of a sense of obligation now that they've gotten Oscar love:
Albert Nobbs (Rodrigo Garcia) [4] {27 Jan in theatres}
The Help (Tate Taylor) [4] {now on DVD}
The Iron Lady (Phyllida Lloyd) [4] {now in theatres}
My Week With Marilyn (Simon Curtis) [4] {now in theatres}

Oh great, since it got nominated for Best Picture I have to see it now damn it:
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Stephen Daldry) [89-ish] {now in theatres}