Chloe

surprised me by being better than Nathalie.

Something Borrowed

Clearly, I'm just a sucker for sentiment.

Le Premier Cercle

Jean Reno is still The Man, even in a throwaway heist movie.

Paul

is funny, in that (excuse me while I get literal) Seth-Rogen-meets-Shaun-of-the-Dead-at-Comic-Con-near-Area-51 sort of way.

Hereafter

Warner Bros must have grimaced as they wrote the check for this good but very slow, very personal, very idiosyncratic meditation on death. Although we might never have expected it, it makes sense that only the grand patriarch of the studio could have put such large resources together for such an unexpected project.

Thor

Not bad at all for a comic book movie, and a reminder from Mr. Branagh that the gap between Marvel and Shakespeare is a lot narrower than we might have been led to believe.