"There Will Be Blood" is stuck in my head as a recent example. Slow, long, and sort of episodic in feel, it still manages to keep me riveted whenever I watch it.

On that note, the recent "Prisoners" has a similar feel to it in my mind. Both movies contain superb acting (in particular Day-Lewis and Hugh Jackman are absolutely tremendous), dissonant and scaled-back music, scenes that are allowed to sit and draw you in, slow precise camerawork, stunning cinematography by Elswit and Deakins, And great use of silence to build tension.

"Life Of Pi" also strikes me as an almost perfect movie of recent years, with some stunning effects work, not just clean and believable but also beautiful and used for artistic purpose.

I have some issues with ROTK that are mostly book purist based, although some of the colour grading is a bit too obvious. Still, a good nomination (and wow, it's more than 10 years old already).

The closest that I have seen recently has been Gravity, although actually thinking about it, Europa Report is probably closer to being 'perfect'.

Tough call! I thought the Korean movie A Bittersweet Life was perfect.

I would definitely go along with adding Dredd to the list. I haven't seen much of anything else lately though.

How does The Thing fit into that?

The Thing 2011 is a prequel, though. Yeah, it has similar elements to Carpenter's classic but its events lead up to the start of the 1982 film.

They should have went for a different title......

The latest news I read said it's still Terminator 5.
It's all wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey at this point, who knows what they're trying to do.

The way I see it (as I'm sure many others do), anything after T2 is just a fanfilm anyway.
I'll still go watch some silvery, red-eyed androids shoot up some stuff, why not. Salvation was pretty neat, what I saw of the Sarah Connor show was alright. (We don't talk about T3.)

THE INSIDER does check all the boxes on the perfect movie form. Good call there. That movie is remarkable.

I don't see anything about HER that should prevent it from being called a perfect movie. Just saw TOY STORY 3 again, too, and I'd slap the perfect movie label on that one as well.