The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Compliance (2012)
Craig Zobel’s Compliance epitomizes the word “challenging. It presents a scenario that we are surprised to find is all too common and asks us to...
Hitchcock (2012)
Alfred Hitchcock may have been the closest thing to P.T. Barnum that film history ever produced. He was a showman, a trickster and a genius...
Wreck-It Ralph (2012)
Disney’s new animated feature Wreck-It Ralph is written and conceived by people who have thought a lot about video games. They have obviously put a...
Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)
Hyde Park on Hudson might just as well have been titled “What happens at Hyde Park Stays at Hyde Park.” We’d be glad if it...
Rise of the Guardians (2012)
DreamWorks new animated adventure Rise of the Guardians comes packaged as a rip-snorting adventure yarn about beloved childhood icons like Santa Claus, The Easter Bunny...
Life of Pi (2012)
Oh! And what a life it is! What a visual masterwork that Ang Lee has brought to the screen. Here is a story brimming with...
Room 237 (2012)
Is Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror classic The Shining really about the holocaust? How does it figure in the genocide of the Native Americans? Can it...
