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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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'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 The Impossible Movie Review](http://movieline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/the-impossible-review-naomi-watts-120x86.jpg)
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 — is…
![REVIEW: FDR Gets A Handy In Dismal 'Hyde Park on Hudson' − And Moviegoers Get Hosed Hyde Park On Hudson Review](http://movieline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/hyde-park-on-hudson-120x86.jpg)
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…
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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…
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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' Best Films 2012 Alison Willmore](http://movieline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/rust-120x58.jpg)
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 world…
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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…
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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 'Silver Linings Playbook' review](http://movieline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/silver1-120x58.jpg)
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…