The Place Beyond the Pines

Not just a modern film noir but a sort of grim, wheel-of-life, cops and robbers and barons tale.

Trance

Because we need to remember there are good little hypnotherapy movies every now and then.

Oblivion

Derivative, yes, but at least they stole mostly the better bits from their inspirations.

This Is Forty

Minutes too long.

Warm Bodies

It's not quite George Romero but with so many subtexts you almost forget it's a zombie romance.

Cloud Atlas

It should have been a television serial drama but it works reasonably well even as a movie.