IN THEATRES...
* 56 Up, another seven years in the life of Michael Apted's groundbreaking documentary series.
* Amour, Michael Haneke's drama of old age. Reserved and emotionally powerful.
* Barbara, an enthralling German drama about one woman exiled to the country in East Germany, ca. 1980.
* Gangster Squad. The low-bar for 2013 has been set. Here's your challenge, movie industry: don't do worse than this.
* Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunter. I'm a sucker for Gemma Arterton so I went to see her as Gretel, and now I'm a sucker for this movie.
* The Impossible, a good movie about surviving a tsunami, despite the ethnic whitewash.
* The Last Stand, teaming Arnold Schwarzenegger with awesome director Jee-woon Kim. It's not as good as his Korean movies, but it's better than most Arnie movies.
* Mama, starring recent Golden Globe winner Jessica Chastain. She had a whole week to enjoy her win before this stinker hit.
* Rust and Bone, Marion Cotillard in a dark drama from the director of A Prophet.
Dick Tracy by Brent Schoonover
ON BD/DVD...
* 5 Broken Cameras, the Oscar-nominated documentary made from one Palestinian man's personal video diary.
* Dangerous Liaisons, a 2012 Chinese update of the French novel, transplanting it to Shanghai in the 1930s and starring Zhang Ziyi and Cecilia Cheung.
* Dick Tracy, Warren Beatty's ambitious 1990 comic strip adaptation was a head of its time.
* Doctor Zhivago. Not the good David Lean version, but the boring 2002 TV version.
* Enlightened: The Complete First Season, an unfocused but entertaining HBO series from actress Laura Dern and filmmaker Mike White.
* The Good Doctor, the director who gave us Kisses returns with an ethically curious medical drama with Orlando Bloom.
* Indiscreet, the Stanley Donen romance film reteaming Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman appears to be geting better with age.
* A Man Vanishes, Shohei Imamura's 1967 breakthrough. In addition to the main film, there are also five documentaries the Japanese director made in the years leading up to Vengeance is Mine.
* Misfits: Season Two. Well, you can't win them all. Sophomore slump?
* Mrs. Miniver, sincere propaganda done as a moving drama by William Wyler, buoyed by an understanding performance from Greer Garson.
* Post Mortem, a strange kind of love story form Chile.
* The Quiet Man, John Ford's romantic classic starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara is now a stunning Blu-Ray release.
* Searching for Sugar Man, one of 2012's best documentaries is also a great rock-'n'-roll story.
* Dangerous Liaisons, a 2012 Chinese update of the French novel, transplanting it to Shanghai in the 1930s and starring Zhang Ziyi and Cecilia Cheung.
* Dick Tracy, Warren Beatty's ambitious 1990 comic strip adaptation was a head of its time.
* Doctor Zhivago. Not the good David Lean version, but the boring 2002 TV version.
* Enlightened: The Complete First Season, an unfocused but entertaining HBO series from actress Laura Dern and filmmaker Mike White.
* The Good Doctor, the director who gave us Kisses returns with an ethically curious medical drama with Orlando Bloom.
* Indiscreet, the Stanley Donen romance film reteaming Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman appears to be geting better with age.
* A Man Vanishes, Shohei Imamura's 1967 breakthrough. In addition to the main film, there are also five documentaries the Japanese director made in the years leading up to Vengeance is Mine.
* Misfits: Season Two. Well, you can't win them all. Sophomore slump?
* Mrs. Miniver, sincere propaganda done as a moving drama by William Wyler, buoyed by an understanding performance from Greer Garson.
* Post Mortem, a strange kind of love story form Chile.
* The Quiet Man, John Ford's romantic classic starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara is now a stunning Blu-Ray release.
* Searching for Sugar Man, one of 2012's best documentaries is also a great rock-'n'-roll story.
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