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Looper is special. Actually, it's S-P-E-C-I-A-L.

It took me both 6 seconds and 6 days to figure that out. I saw it, thought about it every few hours for the next five days, then saw it again. I had to. Rian Johnson's time-travel yarn practically demands it. This is the third film from Johnson (Brick, The Brothers Bloom) and it is clearly his best. Where before the director was in the early stages of his professional career and finding his…

Second viewing was in 48fps. And it was...weird. It's the best-looking 3D image I've seen from a technical standpoint. I never had to readjust my glasses or head (and since I wear regular glasses, that matters) and it was just such an easy viewing experience. That said, while I didn't hate the HFR, I never got used to it. I suppose it's possible this might be "the norm" 10-15 years from now and we'll look back at the hand-wringing as…

Let's get one thing out of the way. Alien is perfect.

Or at the very least – if you don't want to say a movie can be perfect – we can say that Ridley Scott's 1979 science fiction-horror masterpiece is as close as a motion picture can get to that lofty claim. Which leads me to another thing.

Prometheus is not perfect.

The hardest thing that Scott's new science fiction-horror film has to overcome is also its biggest strength and…

I don't know if The Cabin in the Woods heralds the end of horror as we know it, as some have suggested. It feels like a rebirth more than anything. This is a film that not only plays with and satirizes the conventions and boundaries of horror and horror-comedy, it lays down a challenge to everything that follows in its wake. It's not only one of the most intelligent horror films of recent years, but one of the most intelligent…

Nope, sorry. I have a great deal of respect for Ang Lee and the stuff at sea and with the tiger is decent enough (and undeniably beautiful). But it's thematic dogshit and ultimately not really about anything at all. It's pretty and sweet, but wishy-washy and has no deeper meaning. It's got National Geographic visuals with a Reader's Digest narrative. And while it is beautiful and colorful, it's not as good in using 3D as Hugo or Avatar. Except for…

I expected a lot of things from IRON MAN 3, but I'm not sure I expected a Marvel TERMINATOR comedy. Not that that's a bad thing. It plays way more like a comedy than I thought it would, even with Shane Black at the helm.

There are some dark aspects to it, but the trailers were a bit misleading since it really doesn't show all the banter and one-liners. Again, that's not a bad thing. Nice surprise actually. It honestly…

Fuck Tom Hooper and the horse shot in close-up he rode in on. I will not forgive or forget. I'll be Javert to his Valjean...except for the whole throwing myself off a bridge thing.

I love Les Mis. My problem isn't with Les Mis. My problem is with Hooper. He really couldn't have done a worse job if he tried. I didn't hate it, but this should have been SO much better. I mean seriously, the whole movie is in…