My Tops of 2012 - November

WRECK-IT RALPH is probably the best film about video games. The characters were lovable, the script is endless quotable, and the different animation techniques were phenomenal. One of the best of the year.

KILLER JOE was certainly an oddball. Despite a fine Matthew McConaughey, the film didn't get interesting until its controversial climax and then it just ends.

SKYFALL was quite frankly James Bond as Batman. This proved distracting to me, even if the film was really good, with exceptional cinematography and top-notch action.

A CAT IN PARIS is a cute, short animated tale. Not much else to say.

ACT OF VALOR was certainly "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: The Motion Picture", both good and bad. I can forgive the lack of acting abilities of its cast but not the putrid script.

LINCOLN was too long-winded. Great cast, with a delightful Daniel Day Lewis and James Spader, but the speeches, monologues, soliloquies, and ice-breakers were exhausting.

SMASHED had a great Mary Elizabeth Winstead and a gamey supporting cast but its basic alcoholism tale and its drastic mood shifts from dire drama to "hilarious" indie humor made the film a flat experience.



My on-going best and worst lists will now be hidden from public view, until revealing their final cuts at the start of 2013.