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Review of Any Day Now (2012)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 27 Dec 2012

There's joy in the small moments and fierce, humanist dignity in Alan Cumming's performance…

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Review of Save the Date (2012)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 27 Dec 2012

There's a finely-tuned sense of how difficult it can be to live life on your own terms, but the film so resolutely adheres to indie conventions…

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Review of Promised Land (2012)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 21 Dec 2012

A fracking drama that's more about the ethical dilemma facing the main character than easy answers to tricky questions…

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Review of The Impossible (2012)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 21 Dec 2012

Riveting for a spell, but imbued with a phony uplifting sensibility that detracts from the Thailand tsunami's real story…

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Review of This Is 40 (2012)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 21 Dec 2012

Judd Apatow mines recognizable thematic territory -- after all, we've all had to grapple with that big birthday and what it represents -- and…

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Review of West of Memphis (2012)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 21 Dec 2012

A definitive portrait of a real-life travesty of justice…

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Review of Not Fade Away (2012)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 21 Dec 2012

A '60s-set film that's rendered with with an eye for authenticity instead of period fetishism…

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Review of Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 17 Dec 2012

It's one of the great recent works about the investigative process, a streamlined, riveting portrait of a nuts-and-bolts inquiry over the course…

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Review of Amour (2012)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 17 Dec 2012

It's an uncompromising portrait of the aging process, with the experience of getting older rendered in a harsh light rather than a comforting…

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Review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 12 Dec 2012

It's a shame to see Peter Jackson treading water when there are so many new cinematic horizons worth exploring…

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Review of Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 07 Dec 2012

It's simultaneously an enlightening historical account and a softhearted comedy of manners, and you wish director Roger Michell had gone one…

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Review of Deadfall (2012)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 07 Dec 2012

A rare modern genre piece that doesn't shy away from being impossibly bleak and downbeat…

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Review of Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 30 Nov 2012

An arty action flick that's almost worth watching…

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Review of California Solo (2012)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 30 Nov 2012

Anchored by Robert Carlyle's strong, naturalistic performance, in which he relies on his big smile and sad eyes in equal measure…

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Review of Killing Them Softly (2012)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 30 Nov 2012

A convincing allegorical portrait of the recession-era crime business…

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Review of Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 20 Nov 2012

The film is at once heartfelt and funny, farcical and sincere, and packed with performances that pull off that difficult balancing act…

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Review of Hitchcock (2012)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 20 Nov 2012

To watch Anthony Hopkins play Alfred Hitchcock is to experience an onscreen transformation that's so complete, so comprehensive, it's as if…

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Review of Rust and Bone (2012)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 20 Nov 2012

What sounds like a movie of the week formula plays much more convincingly thanks to assured direction and powerful performances…

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Review of Anna Karenina (2012)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 15 Nov 2012

Director Joe Wright pulls off an impressive feat, taking the iconic, timeless work and making it his own…

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Review of A Royal Affair (2012)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 09 Nov 2012

It's a film about a society at a crossroads, with two competing visions of the future being hashed out against a backdrop of political intrigue…

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