While the rest of your intrepid SunBreak SIFFters were putting together a lively roundtable about SIFF 2012, yours truly was submerged deeply in the Festival vortex, making up for lost moviegoing time.

I’ve seen 25 movies so far (down a bit from this point last year), and though it’s in my nature to view creative endeavors from a glass-half-full optimistic standpoint, I do have to admit that my SIFF 2012 journey’s been a bit less consistent than last year’s, so far.

One ironic trend I’ve noted: The movies that worked the best have tended to be the less-pretentious formula/genre flicks that honed in on basic storytelling, while some of the bolder experiments in form and content yielded some of the most disappointing results. No, that’s not an exhortation to filmmakers to stop experimenting and pushing the envelope–It’s a resolute plea for them to get their damned ducks in a row before they do.

Enclosed please find rundowns of everything I’ve seen so far, replete with 1 to 5 ratings (I’m a sucker for that stuff). Several of the movies are still playing later tonight, tomorrow, and Saturday, so I’ve also provided links to siff.net for those titles.

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