#7 - A few short reviews from the past:

"Once" (movie) - Beautiful and intimate. Grade: A
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"Wall-E" (movie) - At once intimate and epic. Slightly disjointed in pace. Grade: A-
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"Hellboy 2" (movie) - Unashamedly fun. Visually gorgeous. A medium weight movie done by a heavyweight director. Grade: B+
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"The Dark Knight" (movie)- A dark crisp feature. "Depth" mainly when compared to other "comic book movies". Not the masterpiece people say it is. But still... Grade: B+
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"Persepolis" (movie) - Beautiful. A subdued animated masterpiece. The art style, while slightly different from the comic, is gloriously realized. Grade: A
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"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" (movie) - You'd think it'd be easy to make another movie about a dude who basically runs from Nazis and it's immediately cool. NOPE. Apparently it is impossible. At least to anything involving George Lucas. The movie at least TRIES. Or DOES IT? Grade: C-
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Lil Wayne "The Carter III" (music) - A great diverse album from one of hip hop's most original (yet still gangsta) voices. Some songs a bit too R&B-ish. His mixtapes (WHICH ARE FREE) are better. Grade: B-
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Bon Iver "For Emma, Forever Ago" (music) - A bleak and gorgeous album. Beautiful vocals, amazing simple production. A sad long painful goodbye to pain. Grade: A
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Beirut "The Flying Club Cup" (music) - The band has one of the most beautiful sounds in modern music. Unfortunately the songs begin to sound a bit samey, and no song here is as solid as earlier 'hits' "Elephant Gun" and "Postcards From Italy". It seems that they are sometimes coasting on a formula they nearly perfected. But not quite. Grade: B
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Weezer "The Red Album" (music) - Good Weezer albums are becoming more of a surprise nowadays. This album is not a surprise. It is more disheartening than ever. Most embarrassing tracks than usual. Grade: D
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REM - "Accelerate" (music) - Less a return to form and more a swing in the right direction, this album sees REM doing what it did best (and better) in it's IRS records heyday. Throwing out seemingly simple but rousing pop/rock numbers. Unfortunately, none of the songs are as good as before and it just seems like "Document"-lite. Still, that's better than 80% of what is out there. Grade: C
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Seether - any albums (music?) - Grade: n/a Material reviewed must serve as some form of art or entertainment to have any sort of grade allocated to it.
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