Best Movies of 2012: Part 1
Of hobbits, talking bears and sparkling vampires, it’s finally that time of the year to hash out the best amongst the rest!
December 24, 2012
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Of hobbits, talking bears and sparkling vampires, it’s finally that time of the year to hash out the best amongst the rest!
Which movies to see in the week ahead While the movie loses steam in the last 45 minutes, strong performances by Naomi Watts and Tom Holland (as her son) keep it worth watching.
Film critic David Edelstein surveys season’s offerings at the multiplex and brings tidings of great annoyance
Merry Christmas! Deck the halls! Ho ho ho! Let’s all go to the movies.
Every year around this time, the multiplexes start filling with so-called “serious” movies — the Oscar bait, the festival winners, the indie fan favorites.
DVD review: ‘Letters From an Unknown Woman’ Watching Jourdan play a romantic obsession in this heartbreaking melodrama, you realize there is nobody like him or his compatriots in today’s Hollywood. Jourdan plays a famous concert pianist in early 20th century Vienna who catches a glimpse of a pretty adolescent girl (Joan Fontaine) living in his building. German director Max Ophuls had a poetic …
Every year around this time, the multiplexes start filling with “serious” movies — the Oscar bait.
“Rashomon,” “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” “Brazil,” a collection of Frank Capra films and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Trilogy of Life” are screened in this month’s column, offering some last-minute holiday gift ideas.
Although created as a sermon to wake Americans up to the fact that diamond trafficking sometimes funds brutal African military groups, director Edward Zwick’s “Blood Diamond” works as more than a morality tale.
Christmas movies are a genre unto themselves: between live-action and animated features, there are literally hundreds of titles out there. Inevitably, some are pretty bad, others amusingly cheesy.