Once again, I feel relieved to be able to judge this, just as the movie it is, without comparison to the popular musical. From a filmmaking standpoint, Tom Hopper's Les Miserables is a towering achievement in creation, design, and detail.
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I've got two lists of the "Worst Movies of 2012." The first dishonors the worst movies I actually paid money to see. The surprising news here is that I (luckily) only saw three movies that ended up two-star reviews and three more with a one-star review. The second section are the movies I refused to pay money to see.
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There are two real questions fans and moviegoers should be asking when approaching Jack Reacher. The first is whether Tom Cruise can portray WHO Jack Reacher is, not WHAT he looks like. The second real question is whether the completed and compiled movie effort is entertaining.
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Stepping to the moviemaking side of Django Unchained, as aforementioned, this is Tarantino's broadest landscape yet and he nails the look and tone he was striving to achieve. This movie is a seamless western in palette and design.
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Finally, with no offense to Clint Eastwood, Hollywood has found a single movie that can attempt to tell this disaster's story with hope, respect, and power.
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Foreign films can sometimes be a mixed bag, but when Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard is involved, people should take notice.
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I applaud Apatow, Mann, and their family for airing a little of their dirty laundry as a way to help us better appreciate and examine our own loads of lights and darks.
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The breathtaking filmmaking vision on display is worth the patience to see through to the end. When it's all said and done, slower than its sequels or not, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will always be the place you seek to begin your cinematic adventure into this world. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is worthy of being placed beside the outstanding epics it will eventually lead towards.
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Played with gusto and panache by Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins, the new film Hitchcock hopes to give us a look at both the persona, the man, and the woman that loved him through and through during the time of what would be his greatest achievement.
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As we enter our story set during the fall of 2008 in New Orleans, the window dressing of a mob movie is still here in Killing Them Softly. The late model cars, slicked back hair, ugly suits without ties, derogatory Italian terminology, leather jackets, hued sunglasses, and a constant cloud of exhaled cigarette smoke are everywhere to be seen, just as you might expect. However, the pulse of this setting is driven by the history of that year and season.
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