The Right Season: October 2009

Movies (I want) to Watch

2012 (action/adventure) director: Roland Emmerich (November 13, 2009)
42 (sports drama) director: Brian Helgeland (April 12, 2013)
5 Broken Cameras (documentary/ Palestine) directors: Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi (May 30, 2012)
9 (CG SciFi) director: Timur Bermambetov
9th Company (military action drama/ Russia) director: Fyodor Bondarchuk (September 3, 2010)
A Dirty Carnival (South Korea) director: Yoo Ha
A Film Unfinished director: Yael Hersonski (August 13, 2010)
A Good Day to Die Hard director: John Moore (February 14, 2013)
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (U.S.) director: Dito Montiel
A Simple Plan director: Sam Raime
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter director: Timur Bekmambetov (June 22, 2012)
Across the Hall director: Alex Merkin (December 4, 2009)
Act of Valor directors: Mike McCoy, Scott Waugh (February 24, 2012)
Adjustment Bureau director: George Nolfi (March 4, 2011)
Adventures of Tintin, The director: Steven Spielberg (December 21, 2011)
Afgan Star director: Havana Marking
African Cypher, The director: Bryan Little (2012)
After the Cup: Sons of Sakhnin United director: Christopher Browne
Ambassador, The (Denmark) director: Mads Brügger (August 29, 2012)
Amexicano director: Matthew Bonifacio
Amreeka director: Cherien Dabis
An Education director: Lone Scherfig (October 9, 2009)
Animal Kingdom director: David Michôd (August 13, 2010)
Argo director: Ben Affleck (October 12, 2012)
Artist, The director: Michel Hazavanicius
As We Forgive director: Laura Waters Hinson
Astro Boy director: David Bowers
Ayn Rand & The Prophecy of Atlas Shrugged director: Chris Mortensen
Balibo director: Robert Connolly (August 13, 2009)
Ballast director: Lance Hammer (DVD in November 10, 2009)
Barrio Cuba
Battle: Los Angeles director: Jonathan Liebesman (March 11, 2011)
Beasts of the Southern Wild director: Benh Zeitlin (June 27, 2012)
Beaufort director: Joseph Cedar
Beaver, The director: Jodie Foster
Bedtime Stories
Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo director: Jessica Oreck (May 12, 2010)
Bellflower Director: Evan Glodell (Augst 5, 2011)
Biutiful director: Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu (December 29, 2010)
Black Swan director: Darren Aronofsky (December 1, 2010)
Blackthorn director: Mateo Gil (October 7, 2011)
Blind Side, The director: John Lee Hancock (November 20, 2009)
Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi, The director: "Beat" Takeshi Kitano
Blindsight director: Lucy Walker (March 5, 2008)
Blue Ridge director: Vincent Sweeney
Born and Bred director: Justin Frimmer
Bourn Trilogy
Boys Are Back, The director: Scott Hicks (September 25, 2009)
Boys: the Sherman Brothers' Story, The directors: Jeffrey C. Sherman, Gregory V. Sherman
Bra Boys director: Sunny Abberton (April 11, 2008)
Breach director: Billy Ray
Bright Star director: Jane Campion
Brothers Bloom, The director: Rian Johnson
Buffalo Girls (documentary/Thailand) director: Todd Kellstein
Bullhead (Belgium) director: Michael R. Roskam (February 17, 2012)
CJ7 director: Steven Chow
Carnage director: Roman Polanski
Cars 2 director: John Lasseter (Jun 24, 2011)
Catch .44 director: Aaron Harvey (December 9, 2011)
Chinatown director: Roman Polanski
Chronicle director: Joshua Trank (February 3, 2012)
Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The director: Michael Apted (December 10, 2010)
Chronicles of an Escape (Argentina) director: Adrien Caetano
Circo director: Aaron Schock ( April 1, 2011)
City of God (Brazil) director: Fernando Meirelles
Clash of the Titans director: Louis Leterrier (March 26, 2010)
Class, The (France) director: Laurent Cantet
Cold Souls director: Sophie Barthes (August 7, 2009)
Company Men, The director: John Wells (October 22, 2010)
Contraband director: Baltasar Kormákur (January 13, 2012)
Conviction director: Tony Goldwin (October 15, 2010)
Cool It director: Ondi Timoner (November 12, 2010)
CopOut director: Kevin Smith (Feburary 26, 2010)
Coriolanus director: Ralph Fiennes (January 20, 2012)
Countdown to Zero director: Lucy Walker (July 23, 2010)
Crude director: Joe Berlinger (September 9, 2009)
Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The director: David Fincher
Days of Glory (France/Algeria) director: Rachid Bouchareb
Dear Zachary director: Kurt Kuenne
Defiance director: Ed Zwick
Despicable Me 2 directors: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud (July 3, 2013)
Disappearance of Alice Creed, The director: J Blakeson (August 6, 2010)
District 13: Ultimate director: Patrick Alessandrin (February 5, 2010)
Dog Sweat director: Hosseine Keshavarz (November 11, 2011)
Downfall director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Dr. Seuss' The Lorax diector: Chris Renaud (March 2, 2012)
Dragon Eyes director: John Hyams (May 11, 2012)
Dragon director: Peter Ho-Sun Chan (November 30, 2012)
Drive director: Nicolas Winding Refn (September 16, 2011)
Eames: The Architect and the Painter directors: Jason Cohn, Bill Jersey (Nobember 18, 2011)
Elephant King, The director: Seth Grossman
Elevate director: Anne Buford (October 21, 2011)
Elite Squad (Brazil) director: José Padilha (2007)
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (Brazil) director: José Padilha (November 11, 2011)
Encounter Point director: Ronit Avni
End of Watch director: David Ayer (September 28, 2012)
End of the Line, The director: Rupert Murray
Endgame director: Pete Travis (November 5, 2009)
Enemies of the People (Cambodia) director: Thet sambath, Rob Lemkin (July 30, 2010)
Escapist, The director: Rupert Wyatt
Even the Rain director: Iciar Bollain (February 18, 2011)
Exile Family Movie (Austria/Iran) director: Arash
Exiled director: Johnny To
Expendables 2, The director: Simon West (August 17, 2012)
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close director: Stephen Daldry (December 25, 2011)
Fantastic Mr. Fox director: Wes Anderson (November 13, 2009)
Farewell director: Christian Carion (July 23, 2010)
Fifty Dead Men Walking director: Kari Skogland (July 31, 2009)
Fighter, The director: David O Russell (December 2010)
Fightville directors: Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker (April 20, 2012)
Fish Tank director: Andrea Arnold (January 10, 2010)
Five Minutes of Heaven director: Oliver Hirschbiegel (August 21, 2009)
Fix director: Tao Ruspoli (November 20, 2009)
Flame & Citron director: Ole Christian Madsen (July 31, 2009)
Flight director: Robert Zemeckis (November 2, 2012)
Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story directors: Jonathan Gruber, Ari Daniel Pinchot (June 2012)
Forged director: William Wedig
Forgiveness of Blood, The (Albania) director: Joshua Marston (Feburary 24, 2012)
Fountain, The director: Darren Aronofsky
Four Seasons Lodge director: Andrew Jacobs (November 11, 2009)
G.I. Joe: Retaliation director: Jon M. Chu (June 29, 2012)
Garbo: The Spy director: Director: Edmon Roch (November 18, 2011)
Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, The director: Daniel Alfredson (October 20, 2010)
Girl Who Leapt Through Time, The director: Mamoru Hosoda
Girl form the Naked Eye, The director: David Ren (June 15, 2012)
Gone Baby Gone director: Ben Affleck
Good Shepherd, The (U.S.) director: Robert De Niro
Good, The Bad, The Weird, The director: Kim Jee-Woon (April 23, 2010)
Goodbye Solo director: Ramin Bahrani
Goods, The director: Neal Brennan
Granito: How to Nail a Dictator director: Pamela Yates
Great Gatsby, The director: Baz Luhrmann (December 25, 2012)
Green Hornet, The director: Michel Gondry (January 14, 2011)
Half Nelson
Hammer, The director: Oren Kaplan (October 27, 2011)
Happy New Year (drama) director: K. Lorrel Manning
Heart of Stone director: Beth Toni Kruvant
Hell and Back Again director: Danfung Dennis (October 5, 2011)
Hereafter director: Clint Eastwood (October 22, 2010)
Highwater director: Dana Brown
Holy Wars director: Stephen Marshall (July 30, 2010)
Hunter, The director: Daniel Nettheim (April 6, 2012)
I Wish director: Hirokazu Koreeda (May 11, 2012)
I'm Still Here director: Casey Affleck (September 10, 2010)
Il Divo director: Paolo Sorrentino
Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The director: Terry Gilliam (December 25, 2009)
Imposter, The director: Bart Layton
In a Better World (Denmark) director: Susanne Bier (April 1, 2011)
In the Pit (Mexico) director: Juan Carlos Rulfo
Incendies director: Denis Villeneuve (April 22, 2011)
Indie Game directors: Lisanne Pajot, James Swirskly (May 18, 2012)
Inside Job director: Charles Ferguson (October 8, 2010)
Interrupters, The Director: Steve James (July 29, 2011)
Into Eternity director: Michael Madsen
Invictus director: Clint Eastwood (December 11, 2009)
Ip Man director: Wilson Yip (January 28th, 2011)
Iraq in Fragments (US/Iraq) director: James Longley
Iron Crows (South Korea) director: Bong-Nam Park
Italian, The (Russia) director: Andre Kravchuk
J. Edgar director: Clint Eastwood (November 9, 2011)
JCVD director: Mabrouk El Mechri
John Rabe director: Florian Gallenberger (May 21, 2010)
Jumper director: Doug Liman
Kabei: Our Mother director: Yoji Yamada
Kid With A Bike, The (France) directors: Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne (March 16, 2012)
Kings of Pastry directors: Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker (September 15, 2010)
Kisses director: Lance Daly (July 16, 2010)
Kite Runner, The
Kon Tiki (drama/ Norway) directors: Joachim Ronning, Espen Sandberg
La Danse director: Frederick Wiseman (November 4, 2009)
La Soga director: Josh Crook (August 13, 2010)
Lady, The (France) director: Luc Besson (April 13, 2012)
Last Ride director: Glendyn Ivin (July 2, 2009)
Last Train Home director: Lixin Fan (September 3, 2010)
Lawless director: John Hillcoat (August 31, 2012)
Leonera director: Pablo Trapero (July 3, 2009)
Les Miserables director: Tom Hooper (December 14, 2012)
Let the Right One In director: Tomas Alfredson
Letters from Iwo Jima director: Clint Eastwood
Little Red Flowers (China/Italy) director: Zhang Yuan
Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders director: Mark Hopkins (June 4, 2010)
Lone Ranger, The director: Gore Verbinski (July 3, 2013)
Long Way Round/ Long Way Down (TV series)
Looper director: Rian Johnson (September 28, 2012)
Louder Than a Bomb directors: Greg Jacobs, Jon Siskel
Love director: William Eubank
Mad Detective (Hong Kong) directors: Johnnie To, Wai Ka Fai
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted directors: Eric Darnell, Conrad Vernon (June 8, 2012)
Magicians, The (Spain) director: Elisabet Cabeza, Esteve Riambau
Man in the Chair director: Michael Schroede
Man of Steel (SciFi action) director: Zack Snyder (June 14, 2013)
Mandabala (Brazil) director: John Kohn
March of the Penguins
Margin Call director: J.C. chandor (October 21,2011)
Martha Marcy May Marlene director: Sean Durkin (October 21, 2011)
Mary and Max director: Adam Elliot
Master, The director: Paul Thomas Anderson (October 12, 2012)
Max Payne director: John Moore
Meet the Robinsons
Men Who Stare At Goats, The director: Grant Heslov (NOvember 6, 2009)
Meserine - Killer Instinct director: Jean-Francois Richet (August 13, 2010)
Messenger, The director: Oren Moverman (November 13, 2009)
Micmacs director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet (May 28, 2010)
Mirror Mirror director: Tarsem Singh (March 16, 2012)
Mongol director: Sergei Bodrov
Moonrise Kingdom director: Wes Anderson (May 25, 2012)
Mud director: Jeff Nichols (April 26,2013)
Muppets, The director: James Bobin (November 23, 2011)
Music from the Big House director: Bruce McDonald
My Sister's Keeper director: Nick Cassavetes
Never Let Me Go director: Mark Romanek (October 1, 2010)
No Country for Old Men directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
No End in Sight director: Charles Ferguson
No Impact Man directors: Laura Gabbert, Justin Schein (September 4, 2009)
Nomad (Kazakhstan) director: Sergei Bodrov
O Jerusalem
Ode to Joy (Polish) director: Anna Karzejak-Darwid
Of Gods and Men director: Xavier Beauvois
Offside (Iranian) director: Jafar Panahi
Oka director: Lavinia Currier (October 14, 2011)
One Day on Earth director: Kyle Ruddick (June 1, 2012)
P-Star Rising director: Gabriel Noble
Page Turner, The (France) director: Denis Dercourt
Paris, Je T'Aime 18 renown directors
Pierrepoint - The Last Hangman director: Adrian Shergold
Pina (German) director: Wim Wenders
Pirates! Band of Misfits, The director: Peter Lord (March 30, 2012)
Planet 51 director: Jorge Blanco (November 20, 2009)
Planet Earth
Polisse director: Maiwenn (May 18, 2012)
Pressure Cooker directors: Jennifer Grausman, Mark Becker (May 27, 2009)
Price Check director: Michael Walker
Price of Life directors: Dan Hunt, Margaux LaPointe (October 8-21 - Chicago International Film Festival)
Pride and Glory director: Gavin O’Connor
Push director: Paul McGuigan
Puss in Boots director: Chris Miller (October 28, 2011)
Queen and I, The director: Nahid Persson Sarvestani (January 17, 2009)
Racing Dreams directors: Annabeth Barnes, Brandan Warren, Josh Hobson
Rage director: Sebastián Cordero
Rampage (Australia) director: George Gittoes
Real Time director: Randall Cole
Rebirth director: Jim Whitaker
Red Hill (Australia) director: Patrick Hughes (November 5, 2010)
Red Riding Hood director: Catherine Hardwicke (March 11, 2011)
Red director: Robert Schwentke (October 15, 2010)
Renaissance (France/UK/ Luxembourg) director: Christian Volckman
Rescue Dawn director: Werner Herzog
Restrepo directors: Sebastian Junger, Tim Hetherington (June 25, 2010)
Revanche (Austrian) director: Götz Spielmann
Revolver director: Guy Richie
Rise and Shine directors: Nick Lewis, Ranko Tutulugdzija (November 3, 2011)
Robin Hood director: Ridley Scott (May 14, 2010)
Romantico director: Mark Becker
Rudo y Cursi director: Carlos Cuaron
Rush (racing drama) director: Ron Howard (September 20, 2013)
Safe House director: Daniel Espinosa (February 10, 2012)
Safe director: Boaz Yakin (April 27, 2012)
Salt director: Phillip Noyce (July 23, 2010)
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World director: Edgar Wright (August 13, 2010)
Secret World of Arrietty, The director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi (February 17, 2012)
September Issue, The director: RJ Cutler (August 28, 2009)
Set the Stool on Fire director: Mark Kidel
Seven Psychopaths director: Martin McDonagh (October 12, 2012)
Shadow Dancer (suspense / British) director: James Marsh (May 31, 2013)
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows director: Guy Ritchie (December 16, 2011)
Sicilian Girl, The director: Marco Amenta (August 4, 2010)
Sin Nombre director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Skyline directors: Colin strause, Greg Strause (November 12, 2010)
Sleepers director: Barry Levinson
Snow White and the Huntsman director: Rupert Sanders (June 1, 2012)
Somewhere director: Sofia Coppola
Son of Rambo director: Garth Jennings
Song of Sparrows, The director: Majid Majidi
Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony (documentary /Western Sahara, Spain) director: Alvaro Longoria
Sorcerer's Apprentice, The director: Jon Turteltaub (July 14, 2010)
Splinters director: Adam Pesce (February 3, 2012)
Star Trek Into Darkness (SciFi Action) director: J. J. Abrams (May 17, 2013)
Starry Starry Night director: Tom Shu-Yu Lin (July 6, 2012)
State of Play director: Kevin MacDonald
Step Up
Step Up 2
Stone director: John Curran (October 8, 2010)
Street Dreams director: Chris Zamoscianyk (June 12, 2009)
Street Thief director: Malik Bader
Such Great Heights dierctor: Jonah Tulis (June 4, 2012)
Sugar directors: Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden
Sultanes Del Sur director: Alejandro Lozano
Summer Wars Director: Mamoru Hosoda (December 24, 2010)
Surrogates director: Paul Verhoeven (Sept. 25, 2009)
Surveillance director: Jennifer Lynch (June 26, 2009)
Syriana director: Stephen Gaghan
Take Shelter director: Jeff Nichols (2011)
Taxi 2 (France) director: Gérard Krawczyk
Tell No One (France) director: Guillaume Canet
Ten9Eight: Shoot For the Moon director: Mary Mazzio (November 13, 2009)
The End of Time director: Peter Mettler
The History of Future Folk (Comedy Scifi) directors: J. Anderson Mitchell, Jeremy Kipp Walker (May 31, 2013)
The Place Beyond the Pines (drama) director: Derek Cianfrance (March 28, 2013)
The Sorcerer and the White Snake (fantasy/ China) director: Ching Siu-Tung (Feburary 8, 2013)
Throw Down (Hong Kong) director: Johnnie To
Thunder Soul director: Mark Landsman
Tiger Eyes (drama) director: Lawrence Blume (June 7, 2013)
Tillman Story, The director: Amir Bar-Lev (August 20, 2010)
Time Traveler's Wife, The director: Robert Schwentke (August 14, 2009)
To End All Wars director: David L. Cunningham
To Save a Life director: Brian Baugh (January 22, 2010)
To the Arctic director: Greg MacGillivray (April 20, 2012)
Tokyo Sonata director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Tourist, The director: Florian henckel von Donnersmarck (December 10, 2010)
Trade
Undertow (Peru) director: Javier Fuentes-Leon (November 26, 2010)
Valhalla Rising director: Nicolas Winding Refn (July 16, 2010)
Van Diemen's Land director: Jonathan auf der Heide (September 24, 2009)
Violin, The (Mexico) director: Francisco Vargas
Vitus (Switzerland) director: Fredi M. Murer
Waiter (Netherlands) director: Alex van Warmerdam
Waiting for "Superman" director: Davis Guggenheim
Waiting for Lightning (documentary) director: Jacob Rosenberg (December 7, 2012)
Waltz with Bashir (Israel) director: Ari Folman (December 26, 2008)
War
War Horse director: Steven Spielberg
War/Dance directors: Sean Fine, Andrea Nix Fine
Warlords director: Peter Ho-Sun Chan (April 10, 2010)
Warrior director: Gavin O'Connor
Warrior's Way, The director: Sngmoo Lee (December 3, 2010)
Way We Get By, The director: Aron Gaudet (September 25, 27 - Gene Siskel Film Center)
We Need to Talk About Kevin director: Lynn Ramsay
Where Soldiers Come From director: Heather Courtney (September 9, 2011)
Where the Wild Things Are director: Spike Jonze (October 16, 2009)
White Ribbon, The director: Michael Haneke (December 30, 2009)
Whiz Kids directors: Tom Shepard , Tina Difeliciantonio
Wild Ocean 3D directors: Steve McNicholas, Luke Cresswell
Winter in Wartime (director: Martin Koolhoven March 18, 2011)
Wolfman, The director: Joe Johnston (Feburary 12, 2010)
X-Men: First Class director: Matthew Vaughn (June 3, 2011)
Yacoubian Building, The (Egypt) director: Marwan Harmed
Yelling to the Sky (urban drama) director: Victoria Mahoney (December 14, 2012)

Movies Seen (quality: *, popcorn value: ♣ out of 5)

50/50 director: Jonathan Levine **♣♣♣
A Prophet (France) director: Jacques Audiard ****♣♣♣
A Separation (Iran) Asghar Farhadi ****♣♣
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop (China) director: Zhang Yimou ***♣♣
After the Wedding (Denmark) director: Susanne Bier ****♣♣
Amazing Spider-Man, The director: Marc Webb (July 3, 2012) ***♣♣♣♣
Amelia director: Mira Nair *
American Gangster director: Ridley Scott *** ♣♣
Avatar director: James Cameron ***♣♣♣♣
Book of Eli, The directors: Alber and Allen Hughes *** ♣♣♣
Bourne Legacy, The director: Tony Gilroy (August 3, 2012)
Brave Story director: Kôichi Chigira ** ♣♣
Captain America: The First Avenger director: Joe Johnston ***♣♣♣
Centurion director: Neil Marshall (August 27, 2010) **♣♣
Children of Men director: Alfonso Cuarón ***** ♣♣♣
City of Men director: Paulo Morelli **** ♣♣
Cowboys & Aliens director: Jon Favreau *♣♣
Dark Knight Rises, The director: Christopher Nolan (Summer 2012) *****♣♣♣
Dark Knight Rises, The director: Christopher Nolan (Summer 2012) *****♣♣♣
Daybreakers directors: Spierig Brothers *** ♣♣♣
Debt, The director: John Madden ***♣♣
Departures director: Yojiro Takita *** ♣♣
Despicable Me directors: Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin ***♣♣♣♣
Devil's Double, The director: Lee Tamahori **♣♣♣
Elizabeth in the Golden Age director: Shekhar Kapur ** ♣♣
Expendables, The director: Sylvester Stallone **♣♣♣
Fall, The director: Tarsem Singh (*** ♣♣♣)
Fog of War, The director: Errol Morris **** ♣♣
Forbidden Kingdom, The director: Rob Minkoff **♣♣♣
Ghost Writer, The director: Roman Polanski ** ♣♣
Hancock director: Peter Berg *** ♣♣♣
Hellboy II: The Golden Army director: Guillermo del Toro *** ♣♣♣
Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The director: Peter Jackson (December 14, 2012) ***♣♣♣♣
Hurt Locker, The director: Kathryn Bigelow **** ♣♣♣
I Am Number Four director: D.J. Caruso ** ♣
Inception director: Christopher Nolan **** ♣♣♣♣
Informant!, The director: Steven Soderberg ** ♣
Iron Man 2 director: Jon Favreau *** ♣♣♣♣
Iron Man 3 director: Shane Black ***♣♣♣
Jiro Dreams of Sushi director: David Gelb ***♣
John Carter director: Andrew Stanton ***♣♣♣
Journey From the Fall (Vietnam/US) director: Ham Tran **** ♣♣
King's Speech, The director: Tom Hooper ****♣♣
Kingdom, The director: Peter Berg *** ♣♣
Kung Fu Panda 2director: Jennifer Yuh Nelson ****♣♣♣♣♣
Last Airbender, The director: M. Night Shyamalan **
Lord of War director: Andrew Niccol *** ♣♣♣
Marvel's The Avengersdirector: Joss Whedon ***♣♣♣♣
Megamind director: Tom McGrath ***♣♣♣♣
Melancholia director: Lars von Trier ****♣♣
Mirror Mask director :David McKean ***♣♣
Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol director: Brad Bird ****♣♣♣♣♣
Moon director: Duncan Jones *** ♣♣
Oblivion (SciFi action) director: Joseph Kosinski ***♣♣♣
Owl and the Sparrow (Vietnam) director: Stephane Gauger ****♣♣
Persepolis directors: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi *** ♣
Planet B-Boy director: Benson Lee ***♣♣♣
Pray the Devil Back to Helldirector: Gini Reticker *****♣♣
Prometheus director: Ridley Scott **♣♣
Public Enemies director: Michael Mann ** 1/2, ♣♣♣
Raid: Redemption, The (Indonesia) director: Gareth Evans **♣♣♣♣
Rango director: Gore Verbinski ****♣♣♣♣
Red Cliff director: John Woo ***♣♣♣
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (China) director: Zhang Yimou **** ♣♣
Road, The director: John Hillcoat *** ♣
Sherlock Holmes director: Guy Ritchie *** ♣♣♣
Shutter Island director: Martin Scorsese *** ♣♣
Skyfall director: Sam Mendes ***♣♣1/2
Soloist, The director: Joe Wright *** ♣
Spirit, The director: Frank Miller (no stars) ♣
Stoning of Soraya M., The director: Cyrus Norwasteh **** ♣
Super 8 director: J.J. Abrams ** ♣♣♣
Tai Chi 0 (Hong Kong) director: Stephen Fung (not release in U.S.?)
Take Out directors: Sean Baker, Shih-Ching Tsou *** ♣
Ten Canoes (Australia) director: Rolf de Heer **** ♣♣
The Avengers director: Joss Whedon ****♣♣♣♣♣
The Cabin in the Woods director: Drew Goddard **♣♣♣
There Will Be Blood director: Paul Thomas Anderson ****♣♣
Thor director: Kenneth Branagh **♣♣♣♣
Town, The director: Ben Affleck ** ♣♣
Tree of Life, The director: Terrence Malick *****, ♣♣
Triplets of Belleville, The (France) director: Sylvain Chomet ** ♣♣
Tron Legacy director: Joseph Kosinski ***, ♣♣♣♣
True Grit directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen *** ♣♣♣
Tulpan (Kazakhstan) director: Sergey Dvortsevoy ***, ♣
Up director: Peter Docter *** ♣♣♣
Up the Yantzedirector: Yung Chang ****♣
Zero Dark Thirty director: Kathryn Bigelow ****♣♣
Zombieland director: Ruben Fleischer *** ♣♣♣