- April 16, 2012
- Bonjour, Les Enfants
Troubled kids meet troubled teacher, unsentimentally, in Monsieur Lazhar.
- April 9, 2012
- Life Is a Cabaret
The preppy young women of Damsels in Distress think all the world needs is a few more tap shoes.
- March 5, 2012
- If Ingmar Bergman Were Funny
Friends With Kids is the best breeder movie in years.
- March 5, 2012
- The Patchouli Premise
Wanderlust takes a weary idea (city slickers move to a commune) and somehow gets new laughs.
- February 20, 2012
- Losing the Peace
Return avoids every cliché of the coming-home-from-battle genre�and finds power in silence.
- February 13, 2012
- Schindler in the Sewers
In Darkness tells an ethically complex story of Jews concealed under the streets of Poland.
- February 6, 2012
- A Month of Bummers
In this chilly gray season, four new films that don’t do uplift.
- January 30, 2012
- Costume Drama
In Albert Nobbs, Glenn Close becomes fear personified.
- January 9, 2012
- Iranian Devolution
In the downcast, amazing world of A Separation, every single character comes up short in life.
- January 2, 2012
- Many Happy Returns
Year-end films have it all: solemnity (War Horse), enchantment (We Bought a Zoo), and nervy tearjerking (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close).