Since the early 1990s, I’ve been rating every movie I see according to the DTMTBD system: how it compares to Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead. DTMTBD is my movie equivalent of what sports statheads call a “replacement-level player” – what you could expect to pick up off the waiver wire if your starter went down.
Best Movies of the Year
- Silver Linings Playbook
- Magic Mike
- Chronicle
Much Better than Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead
- The Hunger Games
- Cloud Atlas
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- The Queen of Versailles
- Haywire
- Life of Pi
- Beasts of the Southern Wild
- Wreck-It Ralph
Better than Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead
- Snow White and the Huntsman
- Wanderlust
- Ted
- The Secret World of Arietty
- Pitch Perfect
- Django Unchained
- Argo
- Looper
- The Man with the Iron Fists
- The Five-Year Engagement
- 21 Jump Street
- Friends with Kids
- The Campaign
- Men in Black III
About as Good as Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead
- Rock of Ages
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
- The Avengers
- Brave
- Skyfall
- The Dark Knight Rises
- Prometheus
Worse than Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead
- Celeste and Jesse Forever
- Bachelorette