Tin Times Two

The Adventures of Tintin ★★★
Mo-cap animated adventures of Hergé's curious boy/man Tintin and his seaman (that's seaman) friend.
Non-stop roller coaster ride? Not quite but imagine how sickening a 107 minute roller coaster ride would be.
The animation is excellent and lets Spielberg create some excellent action sequences but the whole thing just feels a bit weird with strangely deformed characters.
Near photo-realistic computer generated human characters seem more inhuman than less well rendered ones.

Number Five is Alive and a Muppet

The Muppets ★★★★
It is a truth universally acknowledged that there are only three good musical films:
Little Shop of Horrors, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.
This is the fourth (almost enough for a top five).
Hard to separate out the nostalgia effect of something that was so well known and liked from back in the day (the day being 1976) but it's clear that the people who have made it were also fans from then.

Cinematic

Hugo ★★★★
Scorsese's tribute to early cinema wrapped up in a fairly simple kids story about a boy who lives in the Paris train station fixing the clocks.
Not that the story is all that important, this is all about the visuals, from the seamless extended opening sequence (like in Goodfellas but with less pen stabbing), through the frequent references to other films, events and techniques (Harold Lloyd, the derailment of the Granville-Paris Express in 1895, stop motion animation) to the painstakingly recreated Méliès films.
Technically this seems unbelievably complicated and well constructed, although it is a bit let down by a fairly straightforward story and some odd choices of actors.
Still it's one of the more interesting Oscar contenders and must be a cert for best Director.

Fly

Chronicle ★★★★
Unpopular troubled teenager accidentally develops telekinetic powers becoming more and more unbalanced as his powers grow, resulting in city wide mayhem with him flying around in a hospital gown crushing cars and destroying buildings.
Tribute, homage and just nicking stuff is ok but it should be properly credited.
This takes two of the nerd trinity, Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira and Alan Moore's Marvelman, adds the slightly annoying 'found footage' style and the result is one of the more interesting and enjoyable superhero films even if it isn't doing anything that wasn't done better in other formats over twenty years ago.

Jenga

Tower Heist ★★★
Throwback to the eighties, a straightforward comedy/action type film that does exactly what you'd expect.
A dysfunctional group of people get ripped off by evil Alan Alda and plan a robbery to reclaim their pension fund.
Unlikely, unrealistic and lacking even a basic understanding of how heavy gold is, but amusing and entertaining enough as long as your expectations aren't too high.

The Littlest WoHo

War Horse ★★
Five or six episodes of little horse on the prairie set in a strange bloodless World War One.
Look at the sad horse, look in its eyes, it's SAD, now cry for the sad horse.
Poor, far too long and about a horse.

Non

Midnight In Paris ★★★

Mary Sue, in literary criticism and particularly in fanfiction, is a fictional character with overly idealized and hackneyed mannerisms, lacking noteworthy flaws, and primarily functioning as a wish-fulfillment fantasy for the author or reader.(wikipedia definition).

This is the Woodster using Owen Wilson as his most obvious Mary Sue, his stunt cock, so we don't all feel too sick when he starts leering over a teenager.
The film isn't terrible even if it does seem like a pastiche of earlier better efforts, it has something to say about nostalgia and the central joke where every person in the past is ridiculously famous and they all hang around together is a good joke.
The problems with the film are that it's so light and flimsy it seems like a stretched short story and this idea that Paris is so wonderful. 
It isn't. 
It's a bit shit.

Pythagorean expectation

Moneyball ★★★★

Knowing almost nothing about the rules or history of baseball actually helped.
I genuinely didn't know how it was going to turn out whilst obviously hoping for a triumph of statistics over traditional methods whatever they were.
Decent story, didn't go for the soft-focus, slow-mo, soft-rock clichés that ruin most sports films.
Made me want to watch a game and keep some stats.