Hipster Movie Reviews


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a serious manA Serious Man
Finally. Finally the Coen Brothers getting back to what they do best--a symbolic, intellectual movie that is both entertaining and utterly dense at the same time. Harkening back to Barton Fink and Fargo, A Serious Man combines the mysticism of the former and the plot devices of the latter. Not that there's anything wrong with some of their other "serious" movies, but this one just felt like a Cohen Brothers' classic. Larry Gopnick is clearly cast in the roll of Job. He is a man put upon by his wife, his children, his students, his brother, his ... more

All ratings are out of 5 (*****) stars
# 28 Days Later ***
300   ***

A A Beautiful Mind   **
About a Boy   ***
Adaptation   ****
Affliction   **
A.I. Artificial Intelligence   ****
Almost Famous   ****½
Along Came Polly   *½
Amelie   ****
American Beauty   ****
American History X   **

American Psycho   ***
Anchorman   *½
Arlington Road   ***½
The Assassination of Richard Nixon   **½
Atonement   **½
Avatar   ****
B Baby Mama *
The Bad News Bears **
Balls of Fury   ½
The Bank Job   **
Batman Begins ****
Be Kind Rewind **½
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead   **½
Being John Malkovich ****
Big Fish ***
The Blair Witch Project   ***

Body of Lies   **
Boiler Room   ***
Bolt   ***
The Bone Collector   **½
Bowfinger   **
Bowling for Columbine   ****
The Bourne Identity   ***½
The Bourne Supremacy   ***½
The Bourne Ultimatum   ****
Boys Don't Cry   **
C Capote   **½
Chapter 27   *
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory   **½
City of Angels   *
Closer   **
Cloverfield   ***
Collateral   **½
Coming to America   ****
Contender, The   **
Crash   **
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon   ***½

D The Da Vinci Code   **
The Darjeeling Limited   **
The Dark Knight   ****
Dawn of the Dead   *½
The Day After Tomorrow   ½
Decption   **
District 9   ****
Disturbia   **
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly   **½
Dogma   **

Dude, Where's My Car?   **
E Eastern Promises   ***
Election   ****½
Elektra   *½
Empire of the Sun   ***
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind   ****½
Everything is Illuminated   ***½

F Fahrenheit 911   ***
Fight Club   ****½
First Daughter   *
Following   **½
Frailty   **½
Freeway   *½

G Garden State   ***½
The Good Shepherd   ***½
Gran Torino   **½

H Happiness   *½
Hard Eight   ***
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle   ***
Heist   *½
High Fidelity   ***½
A History of Violence   **½
Hot Fuzz   **½
House of Flying Daggers   ***½
How Stella Got Her Groove Back   *
Hurricane Streets   **

I I Heart Huckabees   **
The Ice Storm   ***½
Identity   *½
Igby Goes Down   **½
In Bruges   ****
In Good Company   **
The Incredibles   ***
Inglourious Basterds   ****
Inside Deep Throat   **½
Insomnia   ***

J Jack Frost   *½
Jarhead   **
Jersey Girl   ½
Jet Lag   ½
Juno   ***½

K The Kingdom   ***
Knocked Up   ***½

L The Last King of Scotland   ****
Lawn Dogs   ***
Layer Cake   ***½
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou   **½
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring  ***
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers  ***½

M The Machinist   ***½
Magnolia   ****
Man on Fire   ****
The Matador   **½
The Matrix   ***½
The Matrix Reloaded   **½
Mean Girls   *½
Memento   *****
Michael Clayton   ***½
A Mighty Wind   ***

Minority Report   **½
Moon   **
Mr. & Mrs. Smith   *½
Murderball   ***
N Napoleon Dynamite  ***
Next  *
Nick & Nora's Infinite Playlist  ***½
No Country for Old Men  ****½
The Number 23  *
Nurse Betty  *½

O Old School  **½
The Others  **½

P Panic Room   ***½
Pan's Labyrinth   ****
Party Monster   ½
Pecker  *½
Pineapple Express  **½
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl   ***
Planet of the Apes **
The Prestige ***½
Primer ***½
Psycho Beach Party *

Punch Drunk Love ***½
Q Quills   **

R Requiem for a Dream   ****
RocknRolla   ***
Rocky Balboa   ***
Roger & Me   ***
The Royal Tenenbaums   ****½
Running with Scissors   **
Rushmore   ****

S The Savages   ****
Saving Silverman   ½
The Science of Sleep   ***½
The Secret Lives of Dentists   *½
Secret Window   *
A Serious Man   ****
Sexy Beast   ***½
Shaun of the Dead   ****
Shrek   ***
Sicko   **½
Sideways   ****
The Siege   **
Signs   ***½
Sin City   **
The Sixth Sense   ***

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow   **½
Snatch   ***½
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut   ***½
The Squid and the Whale   ***½
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones   **
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith   ****
State and Main   ***½
Stateside   *
The Station Agent   ***½
Stripes   ****
Sunshine   ***
Superbad   ***
Suspect Zero   ½
Synecdoche, New York   **½
Syriana   ****
T Taken   **
Taking Lives   *
The Talented Mr. Ripley   ***
Thank You for Smoking   ***
There Will be Blood   **½
Three Kings   ***
Training Day   **½
Transformers   ***½

U Unbreakable   ***½

V Vanilla Sky  **½
View from the Top  no stars
The Village  **

W Waitress   **½
The Wackness   **½
WALL-E   ***½
Wanted   **
War of the Worlds   *½
Wonder Boys   ****

Y Y Tu Mamá También   **½
You Can Count On Me   ****

Z Zodiac   ***½

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