65.) The Intern [9/30/2015]

Maybe I am expecting too much: Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway were both pretty good, the story had some interesting elements, and I wasn't bored, so I should probably call this a win; that said, for a movie that went as far as to have the characters state, loudly and often, that women could have it all, it sure focused a lot on a dude, albeit a helpful one, who underwent no significant life changes while a woman with a complete arc about self-acceptance and forgiveness was literally marginalized; with a few narrative shifts in focus, this might have been a really great, uplifting movie about women in the work place, but instead we get a movie about an old guy who helps people by just being himself.

64.) Pawn Sacrifice [9/29/2015]

Chess as a metaphor in films has been done before, and I generally find them tedious; here, though, the complexity of chess is far more nuanced, and thus its use as a metaphor for the enigmatic (and problematic) is more nuanced than the typical motif of chess-as-war conceit; Toby MacGuire does crazy pretty well as he works to distance himself further from Spider-Man, and Liev Schreiber is a nice counter-balance to that insanity (as I am sure Spassky was to Fischer).

63.) Sleeping with Other People [9/24/2015]

This movie was tricky to review: Alison Brie and Jason Sudeikis made for pretty good leads in this fast-talking romantic comedy about two impossibly charming people with conflicting attitudes about sex and relationships; I remember liking it, but I feel like I'll likely forget I saw the movie (which would be a shame, because I remember liking it when I left the theater).

62) No Escape [9/23/2015]

Set against the vague backdrop of a rioting Asian country, this movie featured a lot of running with little context as to why anything was happening (why was Owen Wilson taking a shady job when he had a nearly successful patent; what was Pierce Brosnan supposed to be; why were the Asian people rioting; etc.), leaving the movie feeling tense, but mostly confusing; surprisingly, Luke Wilson was okay as the frantic action star, and it's always nice to see Lake Bell get work.

61.) Everest [9/19/2015]

Like Into the Wild, this was a movie about the most predictable tragedy imaginable, but unlike Chris McCandless, Rob Hall seemed like a thoughtful and careful person who was caught in an unfortunate (though not unpredictable) circumstance; it was, not surprisingly, a difficult movie at times, watching what seemed like a really good guy freeze to death.

60.) A Walk in the Woods [9/17/2015]

An old-man version of Wild but lacking the clarity in metaphors and character arcs; if you liked all the walking scenes in The Hobbit but hated the fantasy aspects of the film, then A Walk in the Woods is for you.

59.) Mistress America [9/15/2015]

Noah Baumbach again releases a movie where someone (this time co-writer and star Greta Gerwig) is living a stunted adulthood, refusing to see the world as it is while aimlessly drifting through life and being admired for it; so if that is your bag, this will probably be alright by you; Gerwig is pretty good, though the machine gun dialogue is full of pretty words that mean nothing (which might be the point).