Though it’s hampered by some formulaic touches, Flight is one unique, audacious studio movie.
This is a rogues gallery that runs the gamut from clingy patient to schizo serviceman.
No unaffectedly celebrates faith in democracy, and, surprisingly, truth in advertising.
The film emerged from Toronto as virtually every pundit’s Best Picture frontrunner.
Gayby might be political by virtue of its existence, but that’s about where the statement-making ends.
See which cake-loving whippersnappers we corralled for this list, a celebration of the filmic fat kid
Does Looper have a prayer in the Visual Effects race, where tigers and hobbits and Avengers will be sprinting, neck-in-neck?
For better or worse, Lee Daniels delivers one of the year’s most unforgettable movies.
Water is the key element in Ang Lee’s Life of Pi, employed by the director to flaunt a grand aesthetic and express grand existential themes.
From L.A. to Vegas to Thailand, the stops on our list boast some very memorable hotels, which vary in their abilities to accommodate, relax, and terrify.
The means by which the film provides the facts is its weakest aspect, but it’s more a narrative snafu than a half-assed political statement.
Conventional wisdom says this film would surely have the sound categories in the bag.
The moral that it impresses on us is that there’s great value in “special relationships,” be them between world leaders or illicit lovers.
The one-sheet for Hitchcock may turn out to be the 2012 poster that makes the strongest statement.
The film is a precious banality best suited for 1950s television.
Time will tell if the Academy’s newest rule adjustment will throw off the mojo of latecomers like Les Misérables.
Currently appearing in Josh Radnor’s Liberal Arts, Janney is the actorly equivalent of jumper cables.
You thought Dolph Lundgren, Meryl Streep, and Darth Sidious couldn’t co-habitate. You were wrong, Padawan.
Will the Academy really go for a star-free, Sendak-esque allegory, whose rugged charms are tied to its loose lack of answers?
It’s not Tolstoy, but it’ll do.