Guardians of the Galaxy

Archetypical popcorn flick, excellently executed. 

A Man Most Wanted

Le Carre reminds us we are all bureaucrats.

Divergent

Better metaphors than the Hunger Games.

Under the Skin

Simple to the point of dumb, slow to the point of 'really?' -- and yet it gets under......

Rock of Ages

The world before the Seattle re-boot.

Snowpiercer

This is how movies were meant to be. Action, intelligence, snow.

Grand Budapest Hotel

All the good Wes Anderson stuff, with none of the annoying bits.

Jack Ryan

A thinly veiled trite 9/11 conspiracy theory re-boot, for his re-boot.

The East

Reminds me of Humboldt County twenty years ago.

Fight Club

Still wishing, after all these years, that the huge number of brilliant bits actually added up to something that wasn't, sadly, far less awesome than even the sum of its parts.

The Way Back

Kind of like The Lord of the Rings but real.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_Back

Anchorman 2

Precisely the mostly-funny extended SNL sketch you were expecting.

The Wolf Of Wall Street

Best comedy of 2013.  Monstrously funny.

All Is Lost

Like 'Gravity' but realistic. An awesome metaphor.

Prisoners

In which the audience is like the frog being slowly boiled.

Rush

Oh, wow, a boring movie about high speed racing.

Room 237

More about the obsessed than about the object of their obsession -- but it does entice you to watch The Shining again.

Ender's Game

By the end it finally gets more interesting than Starship Troopers.

Runner Runner

Sometimes the critics are right.

Robot & Frank

Is frank about what happens when we cannot be a robot.

Dallas Buyers Club

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