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Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Good Recent Films You May Have Missed

This is the time of year when people start making "best of" lists. It takes me about three years to see all the movies I want to see after they're released, so I made a list of 70 films I liked that were released between 2009 and 2011. About 20 are high budget popular films you may have seen. That leaves about 50 good movies you probably have not seen.

Ajami
The Artist
Another Year
Arthur Christmas
Black Swan
Broken Embraces
Buck
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Carlos (miniseries)
Casino Jack and the United States of Money
City of Life and Death
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
Coraline
The Cove
The Descendants
District 9
Drive
50/50
Fish Tank
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009, Swedish)
The Gleaners and I
Hugo
The Illusionist
Inception
In a Better World
In Darkness
Incendies
Inside Job
The Interrupters
The King's Speech
The Kids Are All Right
The Kid With a Bike
La Danse: Le Ballet de l'Opera de Paris
Last Train Home
Life, Above All
The Maid
The Messenger
Moneyball
Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Monsieur Lazhar
Mother
9
The Oath
Of Gods and Men
127 Hours
The Pacific (miniseries)
Poetry
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
Project Nim
A Prophet
Rango
Restrepo
Senna
A Separation
The Social Network
Star Trek
Sugar
Super 8
Tangled
Thirst
Toy Story 3
The Tillman Story
The Town
True Grit
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
Up
Up in the Air
Warrior
Win Win
Zombieland

1 comment:

Carilyn said...

I love your lists, Steve! I have seen a lot of these, but will now make a point to find the rest. I am a Netflix junkie when I'm on the TM.