2012 Top Ten
It was pretty apparent for me early on that 2012 was a banner year for documentaries.
Author: kenmorefield
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Signs — 10 Years Later
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.
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Les Misérables (Hooper, 2012)
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.
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Jackson, 2012)
Parts are camp comedy, parts CGI sword slashing, parts solemn intonations about fate and when not to kill.
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The Central Park Five (Burns, Burns, and McMahon)
The most depressing thing about The Central Park Five, for me, was its only hazy familiarity.
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For Better or Until Something Better Comes Along
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.
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The Sessions (Lewin, 2012)
The same thing that makes The Sessions better than expected is what makes it naggingly incomplete: it takes sex seriously.
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Love Birds (Murphy, 2011)
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.
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Head Games (James, 2012)
I will say that judging nobody but myself, I feel convicted for the money and time I spend that create an inducement--some might say a temptation--for other human beings to put their long-term health at risk for my pleasure.
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Chely Wright: Wish Me Away (Birleffi and Kopf, 2011)
Chely Wright is by all accounts and as represented in Wish Me Away a bright, affable, decent, serious, devout woman who did a noble and somewhat courageous thing by coming out as a lesbian after scratching out a promising career in country music.