2012 NCFCA Awards
The North Carolina Film Critics Association (NCFCA) will announce its awards for the best films and performances of 2012 next week.
The North Carolina Film Critics Association (NCFCA) will announce its awards for the best films and performances of 2012 next week.
Film critics get asked what movie they hate the most almost as much as what movie they love the most. Such superlatives are more about defining your tastes than objectively separating the bad from the abysmal. The Life of David Gale has served as my go to answer for that question for the last few years, so revisiting it had its own trepidation. It couldn't possibly be that bad, could it? And if it wasn't, would I have to find a new whipping boy?
It was pretty apparent for me early on that 2012 was a banner year for documentaries.
I imagine that if I had told fans of Signs that ten years after its release the film's most successful alumnus would be Joaquin Phoenix--followed by Abigail Breslin--I would have been looked at as being as nutty as one of the film's characters wearing a tinfoil hat.
Watching Les Misérables is a bit like listening to a young pop star do a cover of a Beatles classic. She can have all the talent in the world, but it still sounds somehow wrong.
Parts are camp comedy, parts CGI sword slashing, parts solemn intonations about fate and when not to kill.
The most depressing thing about The Central Park Five, for me, was its only hazy familiarity.
Love is the secular American religion. It is the consideration around which all decisions are made and by which all questionable decisions are justified. Its pursuit is the pursuit of happiness, its attainment the validation of whatever process is used to achieve it.
The same thing that makes The Sessions better than expected is what makes it naggingly incomplete: it takes sex seriously.
Love Birds is an innocuous romantic comedy from New Zealand featuring a sad mope (Rhys Darby) who adopts and nurses a duck and eventually falls for the woman (Sally Hawkins) to whom he turns for advice.