I watched a lot of movies last year, 82 if my count is right. I re-watched some favorites (Out of the Past, Alien, Back to the Future), but I kept these monthly selections focused on new-to-me stuff. Out of all of them, I think Winter's Bone and Apocalypto were really amazing movies that you'd be a fool to miss. All the links go to my tumblr, where you'll find whatever brief or sometimes rambling commentary I had in mind after watching. Right now I'm too lazy to get images like I did for my favorite albums of 2011. So here's the quick text-only run-down, mostly to give you an encouraging nudge if you get the chance to see them: January The American
February Double Indemnity The Virgin Suicides Brazil Force of Evil
March High Noon Chinatown Winter's Bone
April Some Like It Hot The Social Network
May Shotgun Stories ATL Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
June 127 Hours, by default.
July Days of Heaven
August 3:10 to Yuma The Last Days of Disco
September Apocalypto The Seventh Seal Ivan's Childhood
October Drive Mystic River Scarface (1932)
November Martha Marcy May Marlene Badlands
December D.O.A. The Purple Rose of Cairo The Artist