Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert are responsible for this blog. Don’t hold that against them. (Courtesy of The New York Times/AP)
This Saturday will be the first in my lifetime without At the Movies airing anywhere. No, U-verse isn’t having issues with channels again. Thanks to the geniuses at Buena Vista, it’s been canceled. No more thumbs (even though they’ve actually been gone for a few years). No more debates (at least not until Ebert gets his new show off the ground). No more of the reason I wanted to become a film critic. I can’t properly pay tribute to them, nor can I adequately thank them for their inspiration.
So, below I’m running down all the movies I’ve seen in the past year, with an Ebert rating (a thumb or down).
Here goes…
TWO THUMBS UP
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Inception
Cyrus
Toy Story 3
Kick-Ass
Shutter Island
The Hurt Locker
The White Ribbon
A Single Man
Up in the Air
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Where the Wild Things Are
Bronson
Toy Story/Toy Story 2 3-D Double Feature
Zombieland
The Invention of Lying
Assassination of a High School President
Inglourious Basterds
THUMBS UP
The Other Guys
Get Low
Dinner for Schmucks
Despicable Me
Iron Man 2
Date Night
Hot Tub Time Machine
The Book of Eli
Sherlock Holmes
Crazy Heart
The Blind Side
Precious
The Men Who Stare at Goats
An Education
Black Dynamite
Jennifer’s Body
The Informant!
Mystery Team
THUMBS DOWN
The Kids are All Right
Alice in Wonderland
Brooklyn’s Finest
It’s Complicated
Pirate Radio
Couples Retreat
Paranormal Activity
TWO THUMBS DOWN
Vampires Suck
Killers
Greenberg
Dear John