Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy…
Fantastic spy thriller. Incredibly complicated that doesn't cut any corners. It's a slow burn so be forewarned.
**** (out of five)
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol…
See it in Imax. Impressive stunt work with the Dubai set pieces stealing the show. However nothing comes close to the greatest that is Phillip Seymour Hoffman's performance in the 3rd film. I left this film saying "yeah that was cool, but PSH was cooler in the 3rd film."
***1/2 (out of five).
Five Stars…
I recently gave Warrior a five star rating, something that is very rare for me. Out of my 1,625 rated films & tv shows on Netflix, only 3.75% of them are rated with five stars. Below is the list of all my five star rated films/tv shows.
| Ace Ventura: Pet Detective | Inside Man |
| All the President's Men | Iron Monkey |
| Babylon 5 | The Killer |
| Bad Boys | L.A. Confidential |
| Bad Boys II | The Last of the Mohicans |
| Battlestar Galactica | The Lion King |
| Ben-Hur | Major League |
| Bill Cosby: Himself | The Matrix |
| Black Hawk Down | Moulin Rouge |
| The Bourne Ultimatum | Mulholland Dr. |
| Casablanca | My Cousin Vinny |
| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | The Natural |
| The Dark Knight | Patrice O'Neal: Elephant in the Room |
| Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly | The Shawshank Redemption |
| Deadwood | Singin' in the Rain |
| Dial M for Murder | Slumdog Millionaire |
| Die Hard | South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut |
| Drive (1997) | Spider-Man 2 |
| Enter the Dragon | Star Trek: First Contact |
| Equilibrium | Star Trek: The Next Generation |
| The Fifth Element | Star Wars: A New Hope |
| Firefly | Star Wars: Return of the Jedi |
| Fist of Legend | Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back |
| Gattaca | Superman: The Movie |
| Good Will Hunting | Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut |
| GoodFellas | Terminator 2: Judgment Day |
| The Great Escape | The Untouchables |
| Groundhog Day | Toy Story 2 |
| The Hurt Locker | True Lies |
| In Bruges | Warrior |
| The Incredibles |
Warrior…
The best sports film in the past 20 years. Yes it's cliche, yes it's contrived, and yes you can see the ending happening from a mile away. I don't care. It's fantastic. Tom Hardy is fantastic.
***** (Out of Five)
Moneyball…
Moneyball is a very interesting adaptation, whose biggest accomplishment is taking baseball statistics and making them interesting to the general public. In short this is a great film that I wish went further, but regardless is still a great film.
Moneyball, or really the statistification (how’s that for a word 
) of sports was a full-out assault on sports over a decade ago. Moneyball put a mass marketed face to that revolution. Starting a statistical arms race as teams hired one stats/finance/economics major after another. This was the aspect of Moneyball that I most wanted to see; lending itself more to a documentary perhaps than fictionalized feature.
No, Moneyball focuses on Billy Beane and his struggles to find a way for his Oakland A’s to compete with the bigger market teams. This is a reference sports film with every component extremely well done. Acting, writing, etc...everything is extremely solid. Like I said earlier, this is a great film that I wish went a bit further.
***1/2 (Out of Five)