Pacific Rim
(Guillermo del Toro, U.S.)
Whatever it is, Pacific Rim is almost certainly more than a movie.
Its lengthy, frequent scenes of robot-versus-alien fist-slugging, head-crushing,
and (literal) heart-wrenching fall somewhere on the spectrum—in scale, aesthetic sensibility
Film Comment Review http://www.filmcomment.com/entry/review-pacific-rim
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Wadjda
(Haifaa Al Mansour, Saudi Arabia/Germany)
Eschewing binaries of strong/weak female characters, outspoken radicalism and political passivity,
Haifaa Al Mansour’s debut feature presents a firm but understated social critique in the form of an endearing coming-of-age story.
Film Comment Review http://filmcomment.com/entry/review-wadjda-haifa-al-mansour
This Is the End
(Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg, U.S.)
Self-deprecation is crucial in comedy.
The more you laugh at yourself, the more laughs you'll get from your audience.
Film Comment Review http://www.filmcomment.com/entry/review-this-is-the-end
Much Ado About Nothing
(Joss Whedon, U.S.)
A young woman sleeps in an apartment. A young man gets dressed and leaves without saying goodbye.
He steps into the city street, very much the picture of what the well-dressed ambitious young businessman is wearing.
Film Comment Review http://www.filmcomment.com/article/review-much-ado-about-nothing-joss-whedon
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The Bling Ring
(Sofia Coppola, U.S.)
The Bling Ring, based on the true story of a pack of roving Adderalled teenagers
who sauntered in and out of the homes of multiple celebrity-culture superstars for a few months in 2011
Film Comment Review http://www.filmcomment.com/article/review-the-bling-ring-sofia-coppola
Room 237
(Rodney Ascher, U.S.)
Room 237's examination of the obsessions
inspired by Stanley Kubrick's The Shining raises as many questions as it answers
Film Comment Review http://filmcomment.com/article/room-237-the-shining
No
(Pablo Larraín, Chile/U.S./France)
After "Tony Manero" and "Post Mortem," his devastating portraits of the Pinochet regime,
Chilean helmer Pablo Larrain satisfyingly completes the trilogy with an affirmative victory for democracy in "No."
Variety Review http://variety.com/2012/film/reviews/no-1117947569/
Fruitvale Station
(Ryan Coogler, U.S.)
Ryan Coogler’s award-winning debut feature aptly dramatizes the 2009 killing of the unarmed Oscar Grant
in Oakland by a transit cop early on New Year’s Day.
Film Comment Review http://www.filmcomment.com/article/fruitvale-station-ryan-coogler-review
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Mud
(Jeff Nichols, U.S.)
Mud is grounded in that awkward moment of youth
where you begin testing out things you’ve seen adults do on TV—swearing, kissing,
saving the day by following your heart—and quickly discover that the world doesn’t work quite that easily.
Film Comment Review http://www.filmcomment.com/entry/review-mud-matthew-mcconaughey-jeff-nichols
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Post Tenebras Lux
(Carlos Reygadas, Mexico/France/Germany/Netherlands)
Entrancingly beautiful and calculated to confound, Carlos Reygadas’s first feature since Silent Light (07),
is as beguiling a cinematic object as one is likely to encounter this year.
Film Comment Review http://filmcomment.com/article/post-tenebras-lux-carlos-reygadas-review
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Short Term 12
(Destin Daniel Cretton, U.S.)
Written and directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, Short Term 12 tells the story of Grace (Brie Larson),
a twenty-something caretaker at a foster-care facility for emotionally disturbed, at-risk youth.
Film Comment Review http://www.filmcomment.com/entry/review-short-term-12-brie-larson
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Like Someone in Love
(Abbas Kiarostami, Japan/France)
Abbas Kiarostami’s second successive film made outside of Iran—following the Tuscan
setting of 2010’s Certified Copy—concerns a series of minor misunderstandings in and around Tokyo.
Film Comment Review http://filmcomment.com/article/like-someone-in-love-abbas-kiarostami-review
Museum Hours
(Jem Cohen, Austria/U.S.)
A warm, sensitive reflection on the relationship between art and life,
Jem Cohen’s new film Museum Hours takes place in and around Vienna’s massive Kunsthistorisches Museum,
home to a world-famous Brueghel collection.
Film Comment Review http://www.filmcomment.com/entry/museums-on-film
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Like the shadows blocking out key areas of the frame in a Val Lewton film,
or the requisite locked attic door in a haunted-house story,
the narrative ellipses that open Claire Denis’s murky, rain-soaked,
profoundly upsetting film noir could be concealing anything—
but it’s hard to imagine they’re hiding anything you’d want to see for yourself.
Film Comment Review http://www.filmcomment.com/article/claire-denis-bastards-review
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Captain Phillips
(Paul Greengrass, U.S.)
Both Greengrass and Hanks are on award-deserving form in a riveting,
emotionally complex and hugely intelligent dramatisation of a real-life ordeal.
Empire Review http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/reviewcomplete.asp?FID=138150
Computer Chess
(Andrew Bujalski, U.S.)
A dizzying plunge into ecstatic communion in the guise of a period nerdfest,
shot in black and white with a Sony AVC3260 and, for one nerve-rattling stretch, in warm color with a Bolex,
Andrew Bujalski’s Computer Chess takes place over one weekend in the early Eighties in a drab hotel.
Film Comment Review http://www.filmcomment.com/article/review-computer-chess
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Blue Is the Warmest Color
(Abdellatif Kechiche, France/Belgium/Spain)
There is a vivid party scene at the middle of Abdellatif Kechiche’s sprawling Palme d’Or winner
Blue Is the Warmest Color (aka, in France, La Vie d’Adèle: Chapitres 1 et 2)
that encapsulates some of the film’s strengths and weaknesses.
Film Comment Review http://www.filmcomment.com/article/review-blue-is-the-warmest-color-abdellatif-kechiche
American Hustle
(David O. Russell, U.S.)
Everybody is on the take or on the make in David O. Russell’s American Hustle,
shifting and grifting their way through a post-Watergate, pre-Reaganomics America.
Film Comment Review http://www.filmcomment.com/entry/review-american-hustle-david-o.-russell
The Act of Killing
(Joshua Oppenheimer, Denmark/Norway/U.K.)
In The Act of Killing,
Joshua Oppenheimer gazes into the genocidal imaginary through the eyes of a mass murderer
Film Comment Review http://www.filmcomment.com/article/the-executioners-song
Her
(Spike Jonze, U.S.)
Spike Jonze’s Her is a tender, wry, deceptively modest package—and the closer you look,
the more it reveals itself to be the proverbial Movie For Our Times.
Film Comment Review http://www.filmcomment.com/entry/her-spike-jonze-review
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nside Llewyn Davis
(Joel & Ethan Coen, U.S.)
A gifted talent just can’t catch a break in Joel and Ethan Coen’s lovingly rendered and poignant vision
of the folk scene in early-Sixties New York
Film Comment Review http://www.filmcomment.com/article/inside-llewyn-davis-cohen-review