The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
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The Croods (2013)
The Croods is a featherweight animated comedy perched somewhere between Ice Age and “The Flintstones.” It’s not as funny as the former or as endearing...
The Call (2013)
Brad Anderson’s The Call is a thriller that, for about the first hour or so, runs on a degree of tension and efficient writing. The...
Promised Land (2012)
Gus Van Sant’s Promised Land is a social message drama that leaves you wondering if you couldn’t learn more about its subject in a documentary. ...
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...
Taken 2 (2012)
Bryan Mills, the hero at the center of Taken 2, is apparently the most brilliant man in the history of international espionage. He can triangulate...
ParaNorman (2012)
ParaNorman is an odd and unsatisfying animated adventure that is probably too scary for little kids and definitely too frustrating and uneven for adults. It has...
