MY 2011 MOVIE JOURNAL : A YEAR IN RATINGS

MY 2011 MOVIE JOURNAL : Ratings of Movies I’ve Watched in 2011

Apa sih gunanya rating untuk sebuah review film? Jawabnya, tergantung. Salah, jelas tidak. Karena review-review yang ada, mau dari kritikus paling terkenal di seluruh dunia sampai sekedar jadi hobby saja pun, sekali waktu bisa jadi guide bagi yang berselera dan berpandangan sama. Namun sebaiknya jangan melihat hanya dari rating tanpa tahu dimana letak poin mereka memberikan rating itu, karena sebuah review, dengan argumen yang benar sekali pun, bisa jadi sangat subjektif. Ini sebenarnya yang jauh lebih perlu dari sebuah review film, ketimbang hanya rating tanpa alasan. The rest, adalah informasi untuk mendapat gambaran demi ekspektasi terhadap pilihan tontonan Anda. Personally, for me, saya lebih memilih tujuan yang terakhir ini untuk menuangkan sebuah passion sejak lama pada penulisan review atau resensi. That’s why, meski ada sebagian yang menyarankan, khusus buat review per judul dalam blog ini, I still choose not to judge by rating the movies. So this list too, is just a simplest guide to share, from movies I watched all through this year, which I noted every titles in my ‘Movie Journal’ (see pics). Some might be missed, incl. still coming soon titles in Indonesian theatres. Sebagian ada yang sudah di-review secara lengkap di blog ini, sebagian lagi berupa one or two line short reviews atau yang tertinggal bisa dilihat di profil gomiso saya . And theseabout 350 movies on the list, mostly had original release date in each own country from December 2010-December 2011. Happy New Year & Enjoy!

AMERICAN/BRITISH MOVIES (BASED ON ORIGINAL RELEASE DATES JAN 11-DEC 11)

TITLE	DIRECTOR	RATING
Season of the Witch	Dominic Sena	**
Country Strong	Shana Feste	***
The Dilemma	Ron Howard	**1/2
The Green Hornet	Michael Gondry	***
Barney’s Version	Richard J. Lewis	***1/2
No Strings Attached	Ivan Reitman	**
The Way Back	Peter Weir	***1/2
The Company Men	John Wells	***1/2
The Mechanic	Simon West	***
The Rite	Mikael Håfström	**1/2
From Prada to Nada	Angel Gracia	**
The Roommate	Christian E. Christiansen	*
Sanctum	Alister Grierson	*1/2
Waiting for Forever	James Keach	**1/2
The Eagle	Kevin McDonald	**
Gnomeo & Juliet	Kelly Asbury	***
Just Go with It	Dennis Dugan	**
Justin Bieber: Never Say Never	Jon Chu	***1/2
Cedar Rapids	Miguel Arteta	***
Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son	John Whitesell	*
I Am Number Four	D.J. Caruso	**1/2
Unknown	Jaume Collet-Serra	****
Drive Angry 3D	Patrick Lussier	**1/2
Hall Pass	The Farrely Brothers	**
The Adjustment Bureau	George Nolfi	****
Beastly	Daniel Barnz	**
Rango	Gore Verbinski	****1/2
Take Me Home Tonight	Michael Dowse	***
Ironclad	Jonathan English	***
Battle: Los Angeles	Jonathan Liebesman	***
Mars Needs Moms	Simon Wells	***1/2
Red Riding Hood	Catherine Hardwicke	*
Jane Eyre	CaryFukunaga	****
Kill the Irishman	Jonathan Hensleigh	**
Limitless	Neil Burger	****
The Lincoln Lawyer	Brad Furman	***
Paul	Greg Mottola	****
Win Win	Thomas McCarthy	***
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules	David Bowers	**1/2
Sucker Punch	Zack Snyder	****
Hobo with a Shotgun	Jason Eisener	****
Hop	Tim Hill	***
Insidious	James Wan	****
Source Code	Duncan Jones	****1/2
Super	James Gunn	***1/2
The King’s Speech	Tom Hooper	*****
Arthur	Jason Winer	*
Hanna	Joe Wright	****
Soul Surfer	Sean McNamara	***1/2
Your Highness	David Gordon Green	**
The Conspirator	Robert Redford	***
Rio	Carlos Saldanha	****
Scream 4	Wes Craven	***1/2
Water for Elephants	Francis Lawrence	***
Dylan Dog: Dead of Night	Kevin Munroe	*
Fast Five	Justin Lin	****
Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil	Michael D’Isa Hogan	***
Prom	Joe Nussbaum	**
Something Borrowed	Luke Greenfield	**1/2
Thor	Kenneth Branagh	****
The Beaver	Jodie Foster	***1/2
Bridesmaids	Paul Feig	****
Priest	Scott Stewart	*
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides	Rob Marshall	***
Midnight in Paris	Woody Allen	***
The Hangover Part II	Todd Phillips	***1/2
Kung Fu Panda 2	Jennifer Yuh Nelson	****
The Tree of Life	Terrence Malick	*****
X-Men: First Class	Matthew Vaughn	*****
Beginners	Mike Mills	****
Super 8	J.J. Abrams	*****
The Art of Getting By	Gavin Wiesen	***
Green Lantern	Martin Campbell	**
Mr. Popper’s Penguins	Mark Waters	***
Bad Teacher	Jake Kasdan	*
Cars 2	John Lasseter & Brad Lewis	****
Transformers: Dark of the Moon	MichaelBay	****
Larry Crowne	Tom Hanks	***
Monte Carlo	Tom Bezucha	***
Horrible Bosses	Seth Gordon	***
Zookeeper	Frank Coraci	**
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2	David Yates	****1/2
Winnie the Pooh	Steven J. Anderson & Don Hall	***
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan	Wayne Wang	***
Captain America: The First Avenger	Joe Johnston	****
Friends with Benefits	Will Gluck	****
Another Earth	Mike Cahill	****
Cowboys & Aliens	Jon Favreau	***
Crazy, Stupid, Love.	John Requa & Glenn Ficarra	****
The Smurfs	Raja Gosnell	***
Attack the Block	Joe Cornish	****
The Devil’s Double	Lee Tamahori	****
The Change-Up	David Dobkin	**
Rise of the Planet of the Apes	Rupert Wyatt	****1/2
The Whistleblower	Larysa Kondracki	***
The Help	Tate Taylor	*****
Final Destination 5	Steven Quale	***1/2
Glee: The 3D Concert Movie	Kevin Tancharoen	***
30 Minutes or Less	Ruben Fleischer	***
Conan the Barbarian	Marcus Nispel	**1/2
Fright Night	Craig Gillespie	***
One Day	Lone Scherfig	****
Spy Kids 4D: All the Time in the World	Robert Rodriguez	*
Colombiana	Olivier Megaton	***1/2
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark	Troy Nixey	***1/2
Our Idiot Brother	Jess Peretz	***
The Debt	John Madden	****
Apollo 18	Gonsalo Lopez-Gallego	***
Shark Night 3D	David R. Ellis	*
Contagion	Steven Soderbergh	*****
Warrior	Gavin O’Connor	****
Drive	Nicolas Winding Refn	*****
I Don’t Know How She Does It	Douglas McGrath	**1/2
Straw Dogs	Rod Lurie	***
The Lion King 3D	Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff	*****
Burke and Hare	John Landis	***
Abduction	John Singleton	*
Dolphin Tale	Charles Martin Smith	***1/2
Killer Elite	Gary McKendry	****
Moneyball	Bennett Miller	****
Red State	Kevin Smith	***
Puncture	Adam & Mark Kassen	****
Dream House	Jim Sheridan	***
50/50	Jonathan Levine	****
What’s Your Number?	Mark Mylod	*
The Ides of March	George Clooney	****
Real Steel	Shawn Levy	****
The Thing	Matthijs Van Heijningen	**
The Skin I Live In	Pedro Almodovar	****1/2
Trespass	Joel Schumacher	**
Johnny English Reborn	Oliver Parker	***
The Three Musketeers	Paul W.S. Anderson	***
Margin Call	J.C. Chandor	****
Martha Marcy May Marlene	Sean Durkin	***
In Time	Andrew Niccol	***
Puss in Boots	Chris Miller	***
The Rum Diary	Bruce Robinson	**
Like Crazy	Drake Doremus	***
Tower Heist	Brett Ratner	**1/2
Immortals	Tarsem Singh	**
Jack and Jill	Dennis Dugan	**1/2
Melancholia	Lars Von Trier	****
Happy Feet Two	George Miller	*
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1	Bill Condon	***
Arthur Christmas	Sarah Smith	****
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked	Mike Mitchell	**
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows	Guy Ritchie	***1/2
Carnage	Roman Polanski	****
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol	Brad Bird	****
The Adventures of Tintin	Steven Spielberg	*****

LIMITED RELEASE/NOT RELEASED YET IN US/STRAIGHT TO DVDS

TITLE	DIRECTOR	RATING
Perfect Sense	David MacKenzie	****
Hostel Part III	Scott Spiegel	*
Cat Run	John Stockwell	**
Retreat	Carl Tibbets	***
A Lonely Place To Die	Julian Gilbey	**1/2
Texas Killing Fields	Ami Canaan Mann	**
The Son Of No One	Dito Montiel	**1/2
Sleeping Beauty	Julia Leigh	***
Seeking Justice	Roger Donaldson	**
Trust	David Schwimmer	***
The Blood Bond	Michael Biehn & Bey Logan	*1/2
Freerunner	Lawrence Silverstein	**
Hesher	Spencer Susser	***
Good Neighbors	Jacob Tierney	*1/2
The Bang Bang Club	Steven Silver	**
5 Days Of War	Renny Harlin	***
Assassination Games	Ernie Barbarash	**
Bunraku	Guy Moshe	**1/2
Setup	Mike Gunther	*1/2
The Ledge	Matthew Chapman	***
Age Of Heroes	Adrian Vitoria	**
Blitz	Elliott Lester	***
Henry’s Crime	Malcolm Venville	**1/2
The Ward	John Carpenter	**1/2
Passion Play	Mitch Glazer	*
Mother’s Day	Darren Lynn Bousman	****
Last Night	Massy Tadjedin	**
London Boulevard	William Monahan	**1/2
The Resident	Antti Jokinen	*1/2
Mega Phyton vs Gatoroid	Mary Lambert	1/2
Vanishing On 7th Street	Brad Anderson	*1/2
Blue Valentine	Derek Cianfrance	****1/2
The Big Bang	Erik Jendresen	**1/2

KOREAN MOVIES

TITLE	DIRECTOR	RATING
Ghastly	Yang Yun-Ho	***
The Cat	Byun Seung-Wook	**1/2
Moby Dick	Park In-Je	***
Sunny	Kang Hyeon-Chol	***
Mama	Choe Ik-Hwan	****
Head	Jo Woon	***
Quick	Jo Beom-Gu	***
Sector 7	Kim Ji-Hun	***
Hello Ghost	Kim Yeong-Tak	****1/2
Phungsan Dog	Jeon Jae-Hung	****1/2
Haunters	Kim Min-Suk	***
The Yellow Sea	Na Hong-Jin	*****
I Saw The Devil	Kim Ji-Woon	****1/2
Bedevilled	Jang Chul-Soo	****
Natalie	Ju Kyung-Ju	*

INDIAN MOVIES

TITLE	DIRECTOR	RATING
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara	Zoya Akhtar	***
Ra-One	Anubhav Sinha	***
Dum Maaro Dum	Rohan Sippy	***
No One Killed Jessica	Raj Kuma Gupta	***
Saat (7) Khoon Maaf	Vishal Bharadwaj	***
Enthiran (Robot) (Tamil)	S. Shankar	**1/2
7aum Arivu (The Seventh Sense) (Tamil)	A.R. Murugadoss	**1/2
Game	Abhinay Deo	***
Bhuddah! Terra Hoga Baap	Puri Jagannadh	*
DelhiBelly	Abhinay Deo	****
Singham	Rohit Shetty	***1/2
Force	Nishikanth Kamath	**
The Bodyguard	Siddhique	**1/2
Dhobi Ghat	Kiran Rao	****
PatialaHouse	Nikhil Advani	***
Aarakshan	Prakash Jha	***1/2
Shaitan	Bejoy Nambiar	*
Zokkomon	Satyajit Bhatkal	**
Chalo Dilli	Shashant Shah	**
Murder 2	Mohit Suri	**
Once Upon A Warrior (Telugu)	Prakash Rao	**
The Dirty Picture	MilanLuthria	***1/2

JAPANESE MOVIES

TITLE	DIRECTOR	RATING
13 Assassins	Takashi Miike	*****
Space Battleship Yamato	Takashi Tamazaki	***
Confessions (Kokuhaku)	Tetsuya Nakashima	*****

THAI MOVIES

TITLE	DIRECTOR	RATING
LaddaLand	Sophon Sakdaphisit	***
Crazy Little Thing Called Love	Puttipong Promsaka Na Sakolnakom & Wasin Pokpong	****
Lud 4 Lud (Four)	Ekkasith Thairath, Chookiat Sakveerakul, Phawat Panangkasiri, Kongkiat Khomsiri	**
The Little Comedian	Vithaya Thongyuyong	***
Bangkok Knockout	Panna Rittikrai	**

CHINESE MOVIES

TITLE	DIRECTOR	RATING
1911	Jackie Chan & Zhang Li	****
Sex And Zen:Extreme Ecstasy	Christopher Suen	*
A Beautiful Life	Andrew Lau	***
A Chinese Fairy Tale	Wilson Yip	*1/2
The Detective 2	Oxide Pang	***
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart	Johnnie To	***
Hi, Fidelity	Calvin Poon	**
Lan Kwai Fong	Wilson Chin	*
The Lost Bladesman	Alan Mak & Felix Chong	***
Mr & Mrs Incredible	Vincent Kok	**1/2
Mural	Gordon Chan	**
Overheard 2	Alan Mak & Felix Chong	**1/2
Shaolin	Benny Chan	****
Beginning Of A Great Revival aka Founding Of The Party	San Pinghan & Jian Xinhuang	***1/2
Let The Bullets Fly	Jiang Wen	****
The Sorcerer And The White Snake	Tony Ching Siu-Tung	**
Wu Xia	Peter Chan	****
White Vengeance	Daniel Lee	***
The Legendary Amazons	Frankie Chan	**
Life Is A Miracle	Gu Changwei	***
No. 32, B District	Lu Jianmin	*
What Women Want	Chen Daming	***
Sacrifice	Chen Kaige	***1/2
Flying Swords Of Dragon Gate	Tsui Hark	****

EUROPEAN & NON-AMERICAN/BRITISH MOVIES

TITLE	DIRECTOR	RATING
Livid (French)	Julien Maury & Alexandre Bustillo	***1/2
Forces Spéciales (French)	Stéphane Rybojad	***
Point Blank (French)	Fred Cavayé	****
Of Gods And Men (French)	Xavier Beauvois	****1/2
Incendies (Canadian)	Dennis Villeneuve	*****
Requiem For A Killer (French)	Jerôme Le Gris	***
Pina (German)	Wim Wenders	***
The Trollhunter (Norwegian)	André Øvredal	***
Rare Exports : A Christmas Tale (Finnish)	Jalmari Helander	****
The Loft (Nederland)	Antoinette Beumer	****
Manuale d’Amore 3 (Italian)	Giovanni Veronesi	***
Secuestrados aka Kidnapped (Spanish)	Miguel Angel Vivas	***1/2
Tropa de Elite 2 aka Elite Squad : The Enemy Within	Jose Padilha	**

MALAYSIAN MOVIES

TITLE	DIRECTOR	RATING
Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa	Yusry Abd Halim	**1/2

INDONESIAN MOVIES

MOVIE	DIRECTOR	RATING
? (Tanda Tanya)	Hanung Bramantyo	****
13 Cara Memanggil Setan	Ki Kusumo	-
Ada Apa Dengan Pocong?	Chiska Doppert	1/2
Akibat Pergaulan Bebas 2	Findo Purwono HW	1/2
Anakluh	Edward Pesta Sirait	*
Arisan! 2	Nia Dinata	***1/2
Arwah Goyang Karawang	Helfi Kardit	1/2
Arwah Kuntilanak Duyung	Yoyok Dumprink	-
Ayah, Mengapa Aku Berbeda?	Findo Purwono HW	*
Badai di Ujung Negeri	Agung Sentausa	**1/2
Baik Baik Sayang	Iding Sunadi & Dodi Mawon	***
Batas	Rudi Soedjarwo	***
Catatan Harian Si Boy	Putrama Tuta	****
Cewek Gokil	Rizal Mantovani	**1/2
Cewek Saweran	Edie Cahyono	***
Cowok Bikin Pusing	Winaldha E.Melalatoa	**
Dedemit Gunung Kidul	Yoyok Dumprink	-
Di Bawah Lindungan Ka’bah	Hanny R. Saputra	*
Garuda di Dadaku 2	Rudi Soedjarwo	****
Get Married 3	Monty Tiwa	**
Hati Merdeka (Merah Putih III)	Yadi Sugandi	**1/2
Jenglot Pantai Selatan	Rizal Mantovani	1/2
Kalung Jelangkung	Koya Pagayo	1/2
Kehormatan di Balik Kerudung	Tya Subyakto	1/2
Kejarlah Jodoh Kau Kutangkap	Benni Setiawan	**
Kentut	Aria Kusumadewa	***1/2
Kepergok Pocong	Nayato Fio Nuala	1/2
Keranda Kuntilanak	Koya Pagayo	1/2
Khalifah	Nurman Hakim	***
Kuntilanak Kesurupan	Nayato Fio Nuala	1/2
L4 Lupus	Damien Dematra	-
Langit Biru	Lasja Fauzia	***
Lima Elang	Rudi Soedjarwo	***
Lost In Papua	Irham Bachtiar	*
Love Story	Hanny R. Saputra	**1/2
Masih Bukan Cinta Biasa	Benni Setiawan	**
Mati Muda di Pelukan Janda	Helfi Kardit	*1/2
Milli & Nathan	Hanny R. Saputra	**1/2
Misteri Hantu Selular	Indra Tirtana	1/2
Mudik Lebaran	Muchyar Syamas	*
Oh Tidak!	Ardy Octaviand	**
Pacar Hantu Perawan	Yoyok Dumprink	-
Pelet Kuntilanak	Koya Pagayo	1/2
Pelukan Janda Hantu Gerondong	Yoyok Dumprink	-
Pengejar Angin	Hanung Bramantyo	***
Perempuan-Perempuan Liar	Rako Prijanto	1/2
Pirate Brothers	Asun Mawardi	***
Poconggg Juga Pocong	Chiska Doppert	***
Pocong Mandi Goyang Pinggul	Yoyok Dumprink	-
Pocong Minta Kawin	Harry Dagoe	*
Pocong Ngesot	Nayato Fio Nuala	1/2
Pupus	Rizal Mantovani	**
Purple Love	Guntur Soeharjanto	**
Rindu Purnama	Mathias Muchus	**1/2
Rumah Tanpa Jendela	Aditya Gumay	***1/2
Sang Penari	Ifa Isfansyah	*****
Semesta Mendukung	John De Rantau	**1/2
Serdadu Kumbang	Ari Sihasale	**
Setannya Kok Masih Ada	Muchtar Syamas	1/2
Si Anak Kampoeng	Damien Dematra	*
Simfoni Luar Biasa	Awi Suryadi	***
Skandal	Jose Poernomo	**
Surat Kecil Untuk Tuhan	Harris Nizam	*1/2
Suster Keramas 2	Findo Purwono HW	1/2
Tarung	Nayato Fio Nuala	1/2
Tebus	Muhammad Yusuf	*1/2
Tendangan Dari Langit	Hanung Bramantyo	****
Mentalist, The	Walmer Sitohang	-
Mirror Never Lies, The	Kamila Andini	****
Perfect House, The	Affandi Abdul Rahman	***
Tarix Jabrix 3, The	Iqbal Rais	**1/2
True Love	Dedi Setiadi	1/2
Tumbal Jailangkung	Chiska Doppert	1/2
Virgin 3: Satu Malam Mengubah Segalanya	Nayato Fio Nuala	*
X – The Last Moment	Bambi Martianto	1/2

(*) POOR

(**) FAIR  

(***) GOOD

(****) VERY GOOD  

(*****) EXCELLENT

~ by danieldokter on December 29, 2011.