Best Movies of 2012

Voting on the best movies of the year.

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    1. Life of Pi

      Life of Pi

      Directed by Ang Lee. With Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain, Tabu. The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.

    2. The Dark Knight Rises

      The Dark Knight Rises

      Blog post at Are You Screening? : This week we took on The Dark Knight Rises, and it was an interesting conversation. As usual, one of us sounded rather negative, and one of [..]

    3. Looper

      Looper

      Blog post at Are You Screening? : This week we took on Looper, which we loved, and it turned into an interesting show, as you might expect, because there were so many aspects[..]

    4. The Avengers

      The Avengers

      Blog post at Are You Screening? : The Avengers hardly needs introduction or review at this point, and the Blu-Ray release is an awfully easy sell, but for those not automatic[..]

    5. Les Misérables

      Les Misérables

      Directed by Tom Hooper. With Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter. An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France, in which a paroled prisoner named Jean Valjean seeks redemption.

    6. The Bourne Legacy

      The Bourne Legacy

      Blog post at Are You Screening? : Almost caught up from vacation here, and The Bourne Legacy found us sitting once again with very nearly the same rating.

      It has a very sl[..]

    7. Argo

      Argo

      Blog post at Are You Screening? : Ben Affleck's big effort this year has been the cause of a fair amount of buzz, and even still, I think it surprised us a bit. We had even h[..]

    8. Cloud Atlas

      Cloud Atlas

      Directed by Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski. With Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Hugo Weaving. An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.

    9. Django Unchained

      Django Unchained

      Directed by Quentin Tarantino. With Jamie Foxx, Don Johnson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington. With the help of his mentor, a slave-turned-bounty hunter sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

    10. The Hunger Games

      The Hunger Games

      Blog post at Are You Screening? : As seemingly irrelevant as it may be - to review - (as is the case with Twilight and Harry Potter), there is more to explore in The Hunger G[..]