You gotta love the cruel joke Spring Breakers will pull on unsuspecting audiences looking for disposable teen-friendly entertainment
Searching for Sugar Man details how fans and amateur detectives attempted to track down a forgotten musician
Robert Zemeckis’ Flight effortlessly mixes genres and styles in its story of an alcohol and drug-addicted airline pilot
Maniac is sick, disturbing, incredibly violent – and also a significant work with genuine artistic vision
Juan Antonio Bayona’s The Impossible is a gripping true-story account of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami that devastated Thailand
Lincoln is a star-studded, expertly filmed and directed period piece, the majority of which is engrossing and enlightening
Frankenweenie is a gorgeously animated feature-length version of Tim Burton’s (live-action) 1984 short of the same name
Jack Reacher is an especially solid ride that deserves a lot more credit than it has received
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey give fans the chance to spend some more time in Peter Jackson’s vision of Middle Earth
In Anna Karenina, director Joe Wright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard put a bold, dazzlingly original take on a classic piece of literature
A vibrant, fast-paced ride, Disney has a real winner in Wreck-It Ralph, which should entertain parents just as much as their kids
Acting is what elevates End of Watch from generic police drama into the realm of something special
Sinister features a traditional narrative that helps make the found footage – 8mm home movie murder films – all the more terrifying
Skyfall, the 23rd (official) entry in the EON Production series of James Bond films, is a welcome return to the big screen
Martin Scorsese’s sprawling, expansive George Harrison: Living in the Material World is a real delight
A gorgeously-animated stop-motion feature, Paranorman makes up for a leisurely pace with its beautiful hand-crafted feel
The Dark Knight Rises is Christopher Nolan’s highly-anticipated follow-up to The Dark Knight and final chapter in his Batman trilogy
Obscurantist and His Lineage is an overwhelming, almost indecipherable deluge of religious, spiritual, and metaphysical gobbledygook
The Pirates! Band of Misfits is easily the best of 2012’s early crop of animated films, ribald fun on the open seas and in London
The Avengers brings together all of these characters – and more – for a superhero smash-up that sets a new standard for comic book movies
Alois Nebel was the Czech Republic’s official submission to the 2012 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
The Grey is a raw, gritty, and surprisingly poetic tale of survival in the Alaskan wilderness that recalls stories by Jack London
War Horse is a journey from the English meadows to the trenches of World War I told through the eyes of a horse named Joey
Phantom Menace is big, sprawling, and visionary, and while it can’t hope to live up to the original trilogy it still has plenty to like