The World's End

Hot World of the Dead delivers outstandingly funny and deeply poignant first act before abruptly transitioning into brilliantly choreographed string of slightly self-indulgent robot fights.  Clever in-jokes and addiction parallels propel Pegg’s performance until giant barcode scanner signals the end is Nighy and blasts the world into an incongruous epilogue.

Attack the Block

Shawn of the Worlds looks like a Fincher film, feels like a British Spielberg, and sounds like… something Americans can’t understand.  Brilliant shot composition and clever creature design make up for two smoking barrels of fast paced cockney hood slang.  Remember writers, if you show moth pheromones in act one…

The Adventures of Tintin

Spielberg infuses 3D animated venture with the energy and tone that Crystal Skull sorely lacked.  A clever fast-paced story with witty dialogue and clever exploitation of motion-capture technology make for a fantastically fun film.  Bad guy who looks like Spielberg and good guy Peter Jackson evoke questions of producer-director relationship.