Adaptation for sure. Bad Lieutenant is another go-to, but Adaptation…that's as good as it gets. People tend to agree.

I can't think of a recurring actor/director team more potent than Fassbender/McQueen these days. It's modern De Niro/Scorsese.

I've found Tucker and Dale to have the replay value of any good comedy, and I've seen it three times now. I haven't felt any drive to revisit Cabin in the 2+ years since I first watched it, but the tone reeeeally put me off that first time.

A+

I like this use of "jejune."

I follow the domestic film industry pretty closely, for work and pleasure, and I'm not sure I could name more than 50 studio/major indie movies in the past few years that really deserve consideration for a list like this. When you're looking for 100 titles and you're really after the cream of the crop, a fair amount…

Agreed. I don't buy the "but 180 mins of run time just represents the excess even further!" defense in the slightest.

I majored in business as an undergrad alongside more than a few people who would like nothing more than a career that turns them into Jordan Belforts and Frank Underwoods, and now it takes a lot of self control to not reflexively hate WoWS and HoC for that reason.

AVC will have you pilloried for your lactose intolerance.

The caption for the screengrab is salt in the wound.

I'll cop to not being a Whedon fan, so while I stand by my take on Cabin, it may not be the fairest. I guess I could make the earlier comment more positive and say that of the two, Tucker and Dale's parody seemed more obviously affectionate toward horror, and as a fan of that genre I appreciated that.

She was the main character in Another Earth, also showed up as Richard Gere's daughter in Arbitrage and in larger roles in The East and Sound of My Voice. She also wrote Another Earth, so maybe not your cup of tea, but she seems to take her work seriously enough that a couple smart project choices could get her widely…

I'm torn between wanting Brit Marling to hit it big and become another Jessica Chastain, and hoping she makes a career of being a marvelous quiet indie gem.

Fair enough. I definitely liked the visual presentation, but after about 80 minutes I felt like I'd watched so much nothing that I was literally pacing my living room, glancing at the TV and waiting for it to be over. Might be worth a second viewing.

This line of thinking is faaaaar too reasonable to be showing up on the internet.

Interesting that you felt that way. For me, my relationship with my dad is such that I'll get emotional if a movie is even a little bit competent in addressing a father/child dynamic. So Interstellar really should have pressed those buttons, but it got so bogged down in other things that I just didn't feel it.

I love the Tree of Life and the New World, and some of Malick's older movies too, but To the Wonder was probably my biggest let down of that year. I think if you're going to be that willfully artsy (some might say obtuse), it's better to take the Tree of Life path and address something that's obviously massive in…

That's rough…

Cabin was the self-important version of Tucker and Dale vs Evil, which was just goddamn delighful.

Bringing Out the Dead is in my first found of ammo reserved for people who claim that Nic Cage has nothing to offer.