12.29.2011

2011 movies we wished we'd seen

The 2009 arrival of Li'l Fry has put a crimp in our habit of seeing one or two new releases in theaters every weekend. That sort of social-life spontaneity is now a completely alien concept. The list of movies we have seen in theaters can be counted on two hands (The King's Speech, Hanna, Bridesmaids, X Men First Class, Super 8, Moneyball, The Muppets, Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows).

The movies we wanted to see, but didn't, are legion:

30 Minutes or Less
The Adjustment Bureau
Another Earth
Apollo 18
The Artist
Captain America
Cars 2
Cedar Rapids
The Change-Up
Colombiana
Contagion
The Descendants
Dream House
Drive
Fast Five
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Green Hornet
Green Lantern
Hall Pass
The Hangover Part II
Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows Part 2
The Help
Horrible Bosses
The Ides of March
Insidious
In Time
Like Crazy
Limitless
The Lincoln Lawyer
Margin Call
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Melancholia
Midnight in Paris
My Week with Marilyn
Our Idiot Brother
Prom
Real Steel
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Scream 4
The Skin I Live In
Sucker Punch
Super
Take Me Home Tonight
Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon
The Thing
Thor
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Unknown
Young Adult

In a perfect world, all of these would have clever, pithy knee-jerk reviews that would amuse and dazzle you.

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