The Imitation Game

Cumberbatch cracks a code with aid from his beautiful mechanical mind and seems right at holme with crackling clever dialog and a supporting team who are undeniably Goode and Strong.  Somewhat contrived flashback structure and overly enigmatic opening voiceover are more than offset by a devastatingly powerful genre reassignment surgery.

A Single Man

Beautiful and contemplative freeform character study elevated to excellence by sublimely nuanced performance of Colin Firth. Strong supporting cast too; Goode is great, but Moore is better. True surprises are the editor and first-time director Tom Ford, who craft a piece of art. Watch, errr… listen for Jon’s Hamm-eo appearance.

Watchmen

Not actually a movie, but rather a collection of scene reenactments glued together by rough semblance of plot. Modifications to source material include consolidation or elimination of several subplots, expansion of single frame into soft-core porn scene, increased frequency of blue penis appearance, oh, and complete rewrite (improvement?) of ending.