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
A cynical, pessimistic tale, The Ides of March is an all-too pertinent reminder of the state of the political game
The Descendants gets a lot of things right, but its strongest asset is honesty: these characters feel real
Leaving (Odcházení) sees former Czech president Václav Havel turn debut director in a surprisingly refined piece of intellectual surrealism
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows isn’t likely to win any converts, but it’s an especially fun ride that just about equals its predecessor
Immortals, a Greek mythology spectacle coming in the wake of 300 and Clash of the Titans, is a guilty pleasure; very guilty
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 is glorious trash that fully embraces the sheer silliness of its source material and very nearly transcends it
In Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Werner Herzog has been given unprecedented access to the Chauvet Cave
The Skin I Live In represents a change of pace for Pedro Almodóvar, perhaps Spain’s most prolific contemporary filmmaker
In Pina, Wim Wenders uses 3D to replicate a theatrical stage, giving the performers infinitely more room to work with
Super 8 is set in 1979 and captures the spirit of the era better than anything Spielberg himself has directed in the past two decades
Katka, a documentary by Helena Třeštíková, gives a name, and more importantly, a face, to one of Prague’s lost and forgotten souls
Win Win is an engaging, likable comedy-drama that does one thing especially right: it never takes the easy way out
Rise of the Planet of the Apes is a near-great film that ultimately settles for being merely good