TOP 20 FILMS OF 2012
[#1-10]
- 1. Oslo, August 31st [Review]
- 2. The Grey [Review]
- 3. The Master [Review]
- 4. Lincoln [Review]
- 5. Amour [Review]
- 6. The Turin Horse [Review]
- 7. Elena [Review]
- 8. Zero Dark Thirty [Review]
- 9. Tabu [Review]
- 10. Beasts of the Southern Wild [Review]
[#11-20]
- 11. The Snowtown Murders
- 12. Flight [Review]
- 13. Magic Mike [Review]
- 14. Holy Motors
- 15. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia [Review]
- 16. Rust and Bone [Review]
- 17. The Color Wheel
- 18. Looper [Review]
- 19. On the Road [Review]
- 20. The Loneliest Planet [Review]
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Tag Archives: The Tree of Life
Oscar Predictions: Taking Stock of What We’ve Seen
With August approaching, and the summer movie season beginning to wind down a bit, it’s the time of year when speculation about the upcoming awards season begins to mount an increasing momentum — a momentum that’s no doubt been put … Continue reading
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Tagged Batman Begins, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin, Bernie, Brave, Brian De Palma, Christopher Nolan, Derek Cianfrance, Jack Black, John Madden, Magic Mike, Matthew McConaughey, Midnight in Paris, Moonrise Kingdom, Passion, Reid Carolin, Richard Linklater, Steven Soderbergh, Terrence Malick, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, The Place Beyond the Pines, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Tree of Life, To the Wonder, Wes Anderson, Woody Allen
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Teaser Trailer for Zack Snyder’s ‘Man of Steel’
Zack Snyder fan or not, you almost have to be down, on some level, with his helming of Man of Steel, because you know at the very least he’s going to bring a singular visual style to the summer-blockbuster arena. … Continue reading
Oscar Predictions: Wrapping it Up
Sunday will bring us the 84th Academy Awards, and with it, the end of an awards season that began with an intriguing open-endedness — “surely that black-and-white silent thing from France won’t hang on forever,” seemed to be the status … Continue reading
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Tagged Awards, Billy Crystal, Moneyball, Oscar Predictions, Oscars, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Artist, The Tree of Life
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Oscar Nominations Announced: ‘Hugo’ Tops the Field with 11 Nods, ‘The Artist’ Places Second with 10
The complete list of nominees for the 84th Academy Awards, which were announced via the Oscar site’s live stream about an hour ago, can be found after the jump. I’ll update this post later today — probably sometime in the … Continue reading
Oscar Predictions: One Last Refinement Before Tuesday’s Announcement
Heading into tomorrow’s unveiling of this year’s Oscar nominations, the question remains, as it has all season, as to how the Academy’s freshly revised Best Picture regulations will affect the number of nominees in the category. It’s a fitting place … Continue reading
Hoyte van Hoytema’s ‘Tinker, Tailor’ Lensing Among the Crop of ASC Nominees
The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) announced their five feature-film nominees this morning, and the rewarded crop marked another bullet to the chest for War Horse, as Janusz Kaminski’s photography of Steven Spielberg’s critically divisive stage adaptation was merely the … Continue reading
Oscar Predictions: Spielberg’s ‘War Horse’ Trying to Build Late-Year Momentum
With both The Adventures of Tintin and War Horse hitting theaters this holiday season, Steven Spielberg will undoubtedly be the focus of much year-end movie discussion, both Oscar- and box-office-related. His inflated stage adaptation, without question, is the more major … Continue reading
The Best Films of 2011
In terms of depth, the cinematic year of 2011 may have been somewhat slim — indeed, I noticed myself stretching just a bit when thinking of ten worthy honorable mentions — but, at the tip of the iceberg, it managed … Continue reading
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Tagged 2011 in Review, A Separation, Certified Copy, Contagion, Drive, Hanna, Into the Abyss, Margaret, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Midnight in Paris, Moneyball, Rampart, Shame, Take Shelter, The Descendants, The Guard, The Tree of Life, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Top Tens, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Weekend, Win Win
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Double Dipping in 2011
After the jump, I’ve listed the films I’ve seen multiple times in theaters this year. No screwing around with torrents or screeners for this list. I’m interested solely in those few films that forced you to dip into your pocket … Continue reading
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Tagged Double Dipping, Drive, Moneyball, Shame, The Descendants, The Tree of Life, We Need to Talk About Kevin
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Precursor Roundup: BFCA Nominations, Plus Winners for African American and Las Vegas Film Critics
Rather than continuing to churn out an article for every single precursor group that announces their year-end winners, I’m going to start keeping tally of the accumulating nominees and winners over at the Precursor Roundup, which, from now on, can … Continue reading