What is Best in Life

Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in August.

Stats

• Movies watched – 25
• Movies that were new to me – 21
• Short films to pad my numbers – 2
• Monthly Masterpieces - Rain, All Quiet on the Western Front, City Girl

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Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in June.

Stats

• Movies watched – 30
• Movies that were new to me – 25
• Movies about the offspring of royalty – 7
• Monthly Masterpieces - Dazed and Confused, Philadelphia Story

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Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in April.

Stats

• Movies watched – 43
• Movies that were new to me – 35
• Remakes reviewed/Franchises Finished – 5/7
• Monthly Masterpieces -  The White Ribbon, Red River, The Old Dark House

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Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in March.

Stats

• Movies watched – 28
• Movies that were new to me – 20
• National Treasure movies watched and mostly enjoyed – 2
• Monthly Masterpieces - Our Hospitality, Le Samourai, The Tarnished Angels, My Darling Clementine, Out of the Past

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Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in January.

Stats

• Movies watched – 30
• Movies that were new to me – 23
• Movies from my guilty pleasure bucket list watched and enjoyed – 2
• Monthly Masterpieces - Wages of Fear, Blade Runner (more…)

Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in January.

Stats

• Movies watched – 33
• Movies that were new to me – 27
• Remakes and Sequels watched – 5 (counting Avatar)
• Monthly Masterpieces - Chloe in the Afternoon, La Collectionneuse, Pauline at the Beach, Viridiana

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Because today marks the one year anniversary of my Monthly Movie Review segment, I thought I’d spend a bit of time looking back over my year in movies.  And when I say in movies, I mean a lot of movies…like an embarrassing amount.  It’s almost as if I have a bit of free time on my hands.

How many movies did I watch in the last year?  According to my calculations: (more…)

Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in December.

Stats

• Movies watched – 35
• Movies that were new to me – 22
• Most movies from the last decade watched in a month ever – 25
• Monthly Masterpieces – The White Ribbon, It’s a Wonderful Life, In the Mood for Love

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Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in November.

Stats

• Movies watched – 27
• Movies that were new to me – 23
• Movies that featured an abusive relationship as a plot element – 14
• Monthly Masterpieces – Killer of Sheep, The Red Shoes, It’s a Gift

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Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in October.

Stats

• Movies watched – 35
• Movies that were new to me – 24
• New record for 80s movies watched – 10
• Monthly Masterpieces - Black Narcissus, Love Me Tonight, Raging Bull

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Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in September.

Stats

• Movies watched - 24
• Movies that were new to me - 19
• Movies about dudes falling in love with their daughters - 2
• Monthly Masterpieces - Invasion of the Body Snatchers, A Touch of Evil, The Aviator’s Wife,  Louisiana Story, The Fireman’s Ball, La Roue

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Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in August.

Stats

• Movies watched - 41
• Movies that were new to me - 33 
• New record for movies watched in a single day - 7
• Monthly Masterpieces – Les Diaboliques, The 39 Steps, Footlight Parade, She Done Him Wrong, The End of St. Petersburg, Love Me Tonight,  The Children of Paradise 

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Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in July.

Stats

• Movies watched - 31
• Movies that were new to me - 26 
• Percent Romantic Comedies watched - 52%
• Monthly Masterpieces - Henry V, Shanghai Express, It Happened One Night, Paris Texas, Rebecca, The Wages of Fear

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Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in June.

Stats

• Movies watched – 25
• Movies that were new to me – 16
• Romantic Comedies I was embarrassed to review – 4
• Monthly Masterpieces - His Girl Friday, Scarface , The Dark Glow of the Mountains , Pickpocket

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Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in May.

Stats

• Movies watched – 20
• Movies that were new to me – 11
• All time favorite movies rewatched - 4
• Monthly Masterpieces – White Heat, Z, The Awful Truth, In a Lonely Place, Morocco, Our Hospitality, Stagecoach, Dazed and Confused

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Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in April.

Stats

• Movies watched – 39
• Movies that were new to me – 27
• Supposed classics I’d never seen that were just ok - 7
• Monthly Masterpieces - Cabin in the Sky, The Godfather II, Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror, Nosferatu, Phantom of the Night

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Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in March, 2009.

Stats

• Movies watched – 26
• Movies that were new to me – 20
• Versions of a Western I didn’t really like - 2
• Monthly Masterpieces - Some Like it Hot, All That Heaven Allows, The Maltese Falcon, Mon Oncle

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Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in February.

Stats

• Movies watched – 37
• Movies that were new to me – 31
• Silent Film Fest movies - 11
• Monthly Masterpieces - There Will Be Blood

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Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in January, 2009.

Stats

• Movies watched – 27ish (missing data from the first week of the month)
• Movies that were new to me – 11
• Silent comedies about backstage hijinx on the set of a play – 6
• Monthly Masterpieces – Le Deuxième Souffle

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