AltWeeklies Wire
The Ten Best Movies of 2012new
This year, it was all about genre.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
12-25-2012 |
Movies
The Year in Film 2012new
Was this the year of the doc? PLUS: 5 Top 10s; It came from the South; On the cutting room floor
Tags: 2012 in Movies
Elevator Muzaknew
“Playing for Keeps” is a blasé work spiked with trifling comic bits and smoothed out with a mellow dilemma that works to limp the film to a predestined conclusion of awkward family bliss.
Jackson Free Press |
Anita Modak-Truran |
12-13-2012 |
Movies
Oh the Agony They Don’t Call it “Les Mis” for Nothing
Audiences new to Boubil & Schoenberg’s stage musical — based on Victor Hugo’s novel of historical fiction — may be surprised to discover the wooly narrative isn’t as compelling as they imagined it might be.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
12-13-2012 |
Reviews
Collateral Damage: Kathryn Bigelow Tows the Party Line, Mostly
Kathryn Bigelow’s cinematic version of the U.S. military’s absurdly protracted ten-year hunt for Osama bin Laden is not what you would expect.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
12-13-2012 |
Reviews
Apatow’s Complaint: Midlife Crisis is a Bundle of Laughs
Three years is too long to go without a Judd Apatow comedy. That’s how long it’s been since the comic genius of American cinema gave us his last written-and-directed movie (“Funny People”).
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
12-13-2012 |
Reviews
'The Hobbit', a less unexpected journey than you might thinknew
If there's one word that describes The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey it's "more." More action. More digital effects. More characters. More background exposition.
San Antonio Current |
Jeff Meyers |
12-13-2012 |
Reviews
The Fitzgerald Family Christmasnew
Ed Burns writes, directs and stars in a holiday tale of forgiveness and grace.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
12-12-2012 |
Reviews
Blurring Linesnew
In “Life of Pi,” a tiger named Richard Parker and 16-year-old Pi (Irfan Kahn) struggle to survive—and coexist—on a lifeboat.
Jackson Free Press |
Anita Modak-Truran |
12-10-2012 |
Movies
A Documentary Explores the Peculiar Visual Fictions of Photographer Gregory Crewsdsonnew
review of doc about Crewdson
Hartford Advocate |
John Adamian |
12-06-2012 |
Reviews
A Q&A with director Sacha Gervasinew
For filmmaker Sacha Gervasi, reinvention has been both an inevitable professional trajectory and a personal test of will.
San Antonio Current |
Jeff Meyers |
12-05-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Hitchcock
Hitchcock is less about birds, more about the man — and the woman behind himnew
Sacha Gervasi's Hitchcock, based on the lauded 1990 book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, might've been somewhat better served if, while plumbing its source material for story arc and character beats, its crafters had just gone ahead and borrowed the title, as well.
San Antonio Current |
Brian Villalobos |
12-05-2012 |
Reviews
Surviving sobriety in Smashednew
A less naïve viewer (than myself) might readily see Smashed for what it is: a vehicle for an ambitious young talent to escape the straitjacket of typecasting. This is Mary Elizabeth Winstead's movie, and she's a charmer.
All That Glittersnew
Memo to the Academy: When you're handing out kudos, please don't forget these gems.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
12-05-2012 |
Movies
