There is no closure to Beasts of the Southern Wild, nothing to hold on to that I felt was satisfying. I love the fire and the passion it must have taken for Zeitlin and Alibar to bring the film to life, but that wasn’t enough as far as I was concerned.

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World is a movie I’m going to be treasuring for a very long time.

To Rome with Love is overstuffed yet also oddly vague, and while the better bits are wonderful the lesser ones irritated me so much they made the final product a disappointing afterthought in the career of a justifiably lauded filmmaker we all know is capable of better.

For all The Amazing Spider-Man gets wrong the template it sets for the future and the actors it spotlights to bring it all to life are part of a fairly solid foundation so I’m curious to see what happens next.

Magic Mike is an emotionally complex rollercoaster ride overflowing in raucously euphoric highs. So many of them, in fact, I can guarantee this is one title I’m going to be talking about for the remainder of the year.

Banks is incredible, her performance the anchor that holds People Like Us together.

As funny as Ted can be the magic of the early moments quickly dissipates, making this one-joke comedy borderline unbearable.

I don’t have a lot that’s positive to say about Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

Brave is, in a word, beautiful, and I will just leave things at that.