Without a doubt, Bigelow's film Zero Dark Thirty isn't aiming for that shine and sheen. It earns its R-rating and isn't the easiest film to watch. However, it is more than worth the extra effort and personal challenge to learn and realize just what stakes warfare and security have taken in the last decade.
Read MoreOnce again, I feel relieved to be able to judge this, just as the movie it is, without comparison to the popular musical. From a filmmaking standpoint, Tom Hopper's Les Miserables is a towering achievement in creation, design, and detail.
Read MoreThere are two real questions fans and moviegoers should be asking when approaching Jack Reacher. The first is whether Tom Cruise can portray WHO Jack Reacher is, not WHAT he looks like. The second real question is whether the completed and compiled movie effort is entertaining.
Read MoreStepping to the moviemaking side of Django Unchained, as aforementioned, this is Tarantino's broadest landscape yet and he nails the look and tone he was striving to achieve. This movie is a seamless western in palette and design.
Read MoreFinally, with no offense to Clint Eastwood, Hollywood has found a single movie that can attempt to tell this disaster's story with hope, respect, and power.
Read MoreForeign films can sometimes be a mixed bag, but when Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard is involved, people should take notice.
Read MoreI applaud Apatow, Mann, and their family for airing a little of their dirty laundry as a way to help us better appreciate and examine our own loads of lights and darks.
Read MorePlayed with gusto and panache by Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins, the new film Hitchcock hopes to give us a look at both the persona, the man, and the woman that loved him through and through during the time of what would be his greatest achievement.
Read MoreDespite the dark and messy problems and places these characters are in and come from, Silver Linings Playbook is an unashamed and unabashed comedy. With that mentality and development, the film truly flourishes into one of the most crowd-pleasing movies of the year.
Read MoreThe use of 3D in Life of Pi is as artistically cued and creatively appropriate as Martin Scorsese's elegant and adept use of it in Hugo from last Thanksgiving. Combined with an enthralling and exciting story, Life of Pi is one of the best and most intimate movie experiences you'll see this year.
Read MoreThe Sessions shows a heartfelt and honest portrayal what the idea of sexual satisfaction and conquest mean to a person, especially one that can't just go out and perform the way everyone else can. It's certainly an unorthodox path for a true story or a feel-good movie, but The Sessions succeeds in being extremely pleasing and thought-provoking.
Read MoreWhen I reflect on Lincoln, the top word that comes to mind is "earnest." Spielberg, his cast, and his crew set out to tell a piece of history with wholehearted purpose and never wavered. They weren't swinging for the box office fences to hit some grandiose action home run relying on gross dramatization, theatricality, or wild war battles set to a trumpeting score.
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