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I think I liked all the movies I saw this year. My top three would probably go to Skyfall, The Hobbit, and Wreck-it-Ralph. Honorable mentions to Brave and The Avengers.
EDIT: I completely forgot about The Dictator somehow and am putting that in second place. That movie was HILARIOUS.
1. The Hobbit
2. Les Mis
3. Think Like a Man
4. DKR
5. Skyfall
In no order.
Dark Knight Rises
The Avengers
The Hobbit
Silver Linings Playbook
21 Jump Street (Had to add a comedy :D)
Honorable Mentions:
Django Unchained, Looper, Prometheus (even though I thought it was slightly ridiculous.)
I hated the Hunger Games and Skyfall...Putting that out there.
21 Jump Street was great haha
Only new movies I think I saw were Avengers and Paranorman. Both are awesome.
And Paranorman is surprisingly dark. It's great!
OH MAN I forgot about Prometheus. Loved that movie JUST BECAUSE OF DAVID, what a great character.
Oh, I almost forgot Amazing Spiderman! Also a wonderful movie.
Actually smurf Lincoln. I'm all about Hitchcock, Argo, Avengers, Brave, Wreck-it-Ralph, and Prometheus.
I have absolutely zero desire to see Zero Dark Thirty because it is a torture-endorsing fabrication. Several other films people have listed do look intriguing though.
That Guardian column is a load of nonsense. I really can't see Kathryn Bigelow being a torture-endorsing fanatic. And I really doubt it would be getting rave reviews if it was some neo-con fantasy. Besides they started making the film before Bin Laden was killed, it was originally going to end with the search for him still ongoing. I can't wait to see the film personally.
Greenwald is far from the only one who has seen it as pro-torture. For example, Jane Mayer, who has conducted possibly the most thorough investigation of torture by the U.S. government, came away with exactly the same conclusions. She is far from the only one. By all accounts, the film clearly depicts waterboarding being used and directly leading to the discovery of Osama Bin Laden's location, when in reality no useful information whatsoever was discovered through torture.
And you apparently underestimate how shallow the film industry is today. Film critics don't seem to give a damn about message these days.
Well it's not by all accounts though is it, since clearly many people have seen the film and don't think it endorses torture at all. And it's ludicrous to claim that film reviewers don't care about this sort of thing, you only have to see the differing reviews about the new film The Impossible and whether it marginalises the Asian victims of the tsunami disaster. Not to mention the (pretty daft) way The Dark Knight Rises was accused in different quarters of being too left-wing and too right-wing. Critics love spotting messages, whether real or imagined.
The film clearly depicts waterboarding being used and clearly depicts that as leading to the capture of Osama bin Laden. I'm not really sure how anyone could read that as not being an endorsement of torture. But if you want to pretend that all the people who have reported the film as doing exactly that are just hallucinating it, then obviously I'm not going to convince you of anything.
And I didn't say all film critics don't give a damn about message, but there are quite a substantial contingent who clearly don't care, as evidenced by their indifference to this film's complete historical fabrications.
The Dark Knight Rises
The Avengers
the hobbit
amazing spiderman
It's a movie. Water boarding was an iconic controversy from the War on Terror that many filmmakers have used to sensationalize and timestamp the onscreen drama. If you were anti-torture at the time, it will probably repulse you. If you were pro-torture, you'll probably romanticize it.
If you're in the middle, I guess it could go either way. I don't really see it as an endorsement.