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- 'Cloud Atlas' is occasionally exhilarating but mostly confusing (+trailer)'Cloud Atlas' features a large cast, and it's fun to spot who's who. But the mash-up plot of 'Cloud Atlas' is largely exasperating.
- A middle school turns out chess champions in 'Brooklyn Castle''Brooklyn Castle' has the right moves.
- Helen Hunt stars in 'The Sessions' (+trailer)John Hawkes and Helen Hunt deliver remarkable performances in 'The Sessions.'
- 'Photographic Memory': The permanence and impermanence of what we choose to preserveThis complex father-son confessional movie cuts across eras. Harvard film professor Ross McElwee adds another wonderful personal memoir, a film that is both forward-looking and elegiac.
- 'Smashed' shows a realistic recovery, with revelation'Smashed' has some powerful moments but is mostly superficial.
- Ben Affleck crafts a nail-biting thriller in 'Argo': movie review'Argo' stars Alan Arkin and John Goodman give especially strong performances in the strange-but-true story.
- 'Sister': A terrific, sad movie about childhood lived on the edge'Sister' looks inside the gumption and desperation of a 12-year old thief and his sister.
- 'The House I Live In': movie reviewThe analysis in Eugene Jarecki's documentary on the domestic war on drugs is too simplistic.
- Liam Neeson stars in 'Taken 2': movie review'Taken 2' is improbable but enjoyable as Neeson and his family are threatened again by thugs.
- Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel: movie reviewThe documentary shows a fashion editor who was a true original in a world of knock-offs.
- Maggie Gyllenhaal in 'Won't Back Down' takes on public schools'Won't Back Down': a聽hot-button topic, but too many holes.
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt time-travels in 'Looper': movie reviewBruce Willis stars as an older version of Gordon-Levitt in 'Looper.'
- Trouble with the Curve: movie reviewClint Eastwood returns for a showdown on the diamond.
- The Perks of Being A Wallflower: movie review'Perks' shows that 'Harry Potter' star Emma Watson can stand on her own.
- Cop drama with Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Pe帽a in 'End of Watch': movie review'End of Watch' actor Jake Gyllenhaal gives his most nuanced performance yet as a Los Angeles police officer.
- 'The Hobbit' 鈥 a new film trailerThe new trailer for 'The Hobbit' includes more glimpses of Gollum as well as new characters like the wizard Radagast the Brown.
- Movie review: Channing Tatum returns for reunion in '10 Years' (+trailer)The plot of '10 Years' is unoriginal, but Channing Tatum as a former prom king returning for a high school reunion provides a somewhat interesting subplot.
- Movie review: Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson's 'The Master' draws us inDirector Paul Thomas Anderson draws the audience in to a psychological and emotional maelstrom, while each performer gives a master class in acting.
- Toronto International Film Festival: Fewer political movies, more literary adaptationsA new version of a Henry James novel and a Shakespeare adaptation by Joss Whedon were standouts.
- Side By Side: movie reviewWhat do advances in tech mean for art?