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Life Of Pi is an undeniably impressive film-going experience that delivers both the visceral thrills and subtler joys to be found in any great movie. To pretend it’s perfect would be unfair though. As grounded as diretctor Ang Lee and his cast try make the story, there’s no denying that this is a stylized allegorical fantasy with all of the potential audience alienation that implies.
Silver Linings Playbook Review
While he continues to court the mainstream following the success of The Fighter, director David O. Russell and Bradley Cooper in the best performance of his career help make Silver Linings Playbook one of the best Hollywood portrayals of mental illness to date, even if the film's final third is a really standard sort of romantic comedy.
Red Dawn Review
By the already low standards that a Red Dawn remake would have, it's not very good, but not as flat out awful as one would secretly suspect. It's stupid, has a small handful of good action scenes, is unevenly acted, and is still pretty xenophobic despite it being more ridiculous this time out.
The New Old: 20 Years of Tarantino
We take a look back on the career of Quentin Tarantino as Reservoir Dogs celebrates it's 20th anniversary with a blu-ray box set including almost all of the feature films he's been a part of.
Rise of the Guardians Review
While it looks great, Rise of the Guardians teams up some of your favourite childhood hits in a film that's annoying, chaotic, and terribly written. It's as if Michael Bay decided to up and make a film for the under 10 crowd.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 Review
For all the bluster and gossip that surrounds the release of the final instalment of The Twilight Saga, only two things can be said about it for sure: it’s all over and it ends on a pretty decent high note by series standards.
Citadel Review
Despite peaking after a terrifying opening sequence, the Irish horror thriller Citadel is a solid genre effort that will thrill audiences effectively.
Assassin’s Creed 3: Liberation Review
Assassin’s Creed 3: Liberation features multiple locations and a new, compelling female protagonist. But a litany of glitches and bugs will test even the most ardent fans of the parkour-and-daggers series.
Lincoln Review
It might still have Steven Spielberg's trademark streak of sentimentality, but Lincoln might be the director's most satisfying historical drama to date,
The Oranges Review
While not terrible and despite a solid cast of pros, The Oranges is a limp comedy that trods over the same ground as countless suburban based comedies and dramas that came before it.
Chasing Ice Review
One of the best environmental docs of the year and unfortunately timely in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Chasing Ice is more of a personal story of man interacting with nature that's refreshingly free of didactic lecturing on the subject of climate change. It's one thing to hear about how glaciers are melting. It's another thing to actually see it like you do here.
Dangerous Liaisons Review
Despite moving the events of Pierre Choderlos De Lacois' timeless Dangerous Liasons to Shanghai, this sumptuous looking production is still only exactly what one would expect this adaptation of a literary classic to be.
The Man With the Iron Fists Review
RZA's directorial debut The Man With the Iron Fists might only appeal to lovers of old school kung-fu, but in that same respect, it ain't nothin' to fuck with.
Wreck-It Ralph Review
While not as original as one would hope and overlong, Wreck-It Ralph still holds a high amount of entertainment value for gamers both old and young.
Flight Review
Despite an excellent leading performance from Denzel Washington, Robert Zemeckis' Flight is an odd duck of a movie, lurching wildly between crowd pleasing Oscar bait and an intense and far better look at the nature of addiction.