Archives from 2012

Good-natured road comedy plays it a little too straight — but at least you can bring along Mom

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Overkill — Cruise's latest bang off

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Tarantino-style revisionism — Last time Jews got Hitler, this time a slave mauls the Old South

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When more is less — Peter Jackson bulks up and weighs down this tale of Middle Earth

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I'm coming out — Alan Cummings gives a breakthrough performance in indie weeper

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We all fall down &mdash Rape case brought out the ugliest in us, and doc shows how five paid the price

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Tags: The Scene, trailers, Jon Goldstein, Best Director, Best of 2012, Awards, documentaries, Robert Deniro, Silver Linings Playbook, End Of Watch, Bradley Cooper

Flames, sweat and tears — Detroit's fires and the men who fight them

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All sucked up — Last sparkle gone in undead saga

News from the front — The War on Drugs as a war on 'undesirables'

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And director Sacha Gervasi goes for broke (literally) to tell his story

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Hopkins is brilliant, but the subject remains a mystery

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On the scenic sea — Gorgeous to look at, but ...

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Toys, tools and a classic box set

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Honest, Abe's vibrant — Spielberg flick brings history alive

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All sucked up — Last sparkle gone in undead saga

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Fashionably superficial — Style-maven doc isn't too deep — which may be just right

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Great Danes — How the Enlightenment came to Denmark

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Commercial success — Reason to envy those English ads

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Seeing double — Modest 12-step drama shows the hard road to recovery

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