I watched 107 movies this year. Fully a quarter of those have been in this past month alone.
I find it difficult to pull together “best of the year” lists. I mean, some of the most fun I had watching movies this year was with films like Equilibrium and Mongolian Death Worm, and I’m not going to claim either of those were good movies.
There were a lot of very good movies on my list, and even a few from this calendar year like Captain Phillips, Gravity, Before Midnight, Upstream Color, and The World’s End. (I’d include Frances Ha, but I think technically that first came out at the end of 2012.)
Most recently, the best movie I’ve seen has definitely been Beckett, with terrific performances from both Peter O’Toole and Richard Burton. The worst, on the other hand, was easily Jonah Hex.
I saw a few really great movies this year, a few really terrible ones, a few really terrible ones that were made great by live-tweeting them with friends, and the rest kind of a normal mix.