Silver Linings Playbook
mentally addled
meets lovely dancing woman
improbably healed
Les Miserables
Once, I dreamed a dream
that I had never seen such
inconsistency
Life of Pi
CGI Tiger
surprising adaptation
nabs Ang Lee a nom
Amour
devastating love
enduring through pain and loss
vintage Haneke
Django Unchained
revisionist tale
vicious antebellum South
his name is Django
Argo
TSA checkpoints
don’t look so bad now, do they?
Hollywood still sucks
Zero Dark Thirty
chronicled manhunt
unflinching: final thirty
honors SEAL Team Six
Lincoln
hunched shoulders, meek voice,
constrained movements portend calm;
tumult underneath
Beasts of the Southern Wild
stunning fairy tale
veers off rail: confused ethos
breeds murky narrative
