They Turn Us On, Dammit! Movieline Critic Alison Willmore's Top 10 Overlooked Gems of 2012
This December is heavy with major movies -- Zero Dark Thirty, This is 40, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Django Unchained…
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The Masters: Movieline Critic Alison Willmore's Top 10 Films of 2012
This was a terrific year for movies. I don't know that I have more to say about it as a whole than that, because 2012 was such a…
REVIEW: Apatow Grows Up, Takes A Step Back With Messy 'This Is 40'
This is 40 ends with a title card saying that it's "Based on characters created by Judd Apatow." While this is true — the film's…
REVIEW: Lizzy Caplan's Hipster Commitment-Phobe Carries Relationship Drama 'Save The Date'
Save the Date, the new film from director Michael Mohan (One Too Many Mornings), is a neat, lightweight little hipster romance…
REVIEW: Michael Haneke's Amour A Beautifully Calculated Demise
Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke has a distinctively aggressive relationship with his audience that ranges from the provocation…
REVIEW: Tarantino's Django Unchained A Bloody But Bloated Affair
Quentin Tarantino continues his quest to fight history's great oppressors by way of the movies in Django Unchained. Inglourious…
'Les Misérables' Hits High Notes, But Also Skitters
I feel I have to confess to a certain partisanship. I grew up listening to Les Misérables. I've seen it performed twice and as a…
REVIEW: 'The Impossible' Ties A Teary Bow On True Tsunami Tragedy
There's a question that The Impossible, the new film from Juan Antonio Bayona (The Orphanage), demands be asked, and that is…
REVIEW: FDR Gets A Handy In Dismal 'Hyde Park on Hudson' ' And Moviegoers Get Hosed
A dismal misfire, Hyde Park on Hudson could have been a spoof of a period prestige film, had it a little more energy and humor…
REVIEW: Kathryn Bigelow's Angular 'Zero Dark Thirty' Is A Stunning, Riveting Achievement
Kathryn Bigelow's angular thriller Zero Dark Thirty begins and ends with events that have been seared into public memory -- the…
REVIEW: Brad Pitt Makes One Glorious Bastard In Stylish, Self-Conscious 'Killing Them Softly'
Killing Them Softly is set in Boston, maybe. Someone mentions living in Somerville, a scattering of the characters have the…
REVIEW: Marion Cotillard Bares Everything In Exceptional, Bittersweet 'Rust and Bone'
Director Jacques Audiard's nifty 2009 prison epic A Prophet took a classic arc -- the rise of a young man through a criminal…
REVIEW: Crouching Tiger, Condescending Director Make For Frustrating 'Life Of Pi'
Ang Lee's Life of Pi is a doubled-edged argument for the transcendent capabilities of film. Its central section uses the latest…
REVIEW: 'Anna Karenina' Is So Wright It's Wrong ' Beautiful To Behold But Empty Inside
There's a five-minute tracking shot in the middle of Joe Wright's 2007 film Atonement that is impossible to forget once you've…
REVIEW: Less-Than-Sterling 'Silver Linings Playbook' Shines During Messy Family Moments
It speaks to just how good David O. Russell is at portraying raw, high-strung sincerity that Silver Linings Playbook is able to…
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