In contrast to our in-depth reviews of history’s movie masterpieces, this page will provide shorter, initial thoughts on recent theater releases pulled from my WTOP reviews. Unlike the great critic Pauline Kael, I firmly believe you can’t fully judge a film’s greatness until you’ve seen it multiple times, so these opinions may very well change after multiple viewings.
- Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013)
- The Great Gatsby (2013)
- Iron Man 3 (2013)
- The Big Wedding (2013)
- 42 (2013)
- Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
- Oz: The Great and Powerful (2013)
- Inocente (2013)
- A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)
- House of Cards (TV, 2013)
- Amour (2013)
- Gangster Squad (2013)
- Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
- Django Unchained (2012)
- The Hobbit (2012)
- Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
- Life of Pi (2012)
- Lincoln (2012)
- Skyfall (2012)
- Cloud Atlas (2012)
- Argo (2012)
- Trouble with the Curve (2012)
- The Master (2012)
- The Possession (2012)
- Robot & Frank (2012)
- The Bourne Legacy (2012)
- Total Recall (2012)
- Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
- The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
- The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
- To Rome With Love (2012)
- Brave (2012)
- Prometheus (2012)
- Snow White & The Huntsman (2012)
- Men in Black III (2012)
- The Dictator (2012)
- Dark Shadows (2012)
- The Avengers (2012)
- The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
- The Three Stooges (2012)
- Mirror, Mirror (2012)
- The Hunger Games (2012)
- Undefeated (2012)
- 21 Jump Street (2012)
- Kony 2012 (2012)
- Act of Valor (2012)
- The Descendants (2011)
- The Help (2011)
- Midnight in Paris (2011)
- War Horse (2011)
- The Tree of Life (2011)
- Moneyball (2011)
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)
- Hugo (2011)
- Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (2011)
- The Artist (2011)
