2012--What a bad year it was for U.S. cinema, as far as quality goes. The films were lackluster enough to make me want to tear up my press card and train for the New York City marathon. Thankfully, I was able to weather this sticky storm of boredom by riding out the year in France, world capital of cinephilia and malodorous cheeses, where citizens can access seriously good cinema and evil brie-type concotions. Where did

A romantic comedy may feel like a strange new direction for director David O. Russell (“I Heart Huckabees,” “The Fighter") but his adaptation of Matthew Quick’s namesake novel is a winner, serving up equal parts romance and uplifting drama. What of Bradley Cooper 2.0? He plays a demanding role to perfection. His Pat Solatino, a bipolar Philadelphia man who spent eight months in a psych ward after a brutal beating put on

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“Killing them Softly” is an expression I never understood but I'll guess that if one needed to kill softly, Brad Pitt’s Jackie would be the right man for the job. “Softly,” writer-director Andrew Dominik’s adaptation of the George V. Higgins novel “Cogan’s Trade," (itself a follow-up to “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford") is the Weinstein Company contender for an Academy Award this year. It’s not going to

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Intro: I'll see you in my dreams, Django Reinhardt / background music: Dancehall Tornado (Original Mix), Way Out West / Outro: It's like that, RUN DMC (Dance version) / MAIN Snappy Lipstick, original music by Angelo Badalamenti (Holy Smoke), 1999 / The Falls, original music by Ennio Morricone (The Mission), 1986 / I am sorry, original music by James Newton Howard (I Am Legend), 2007 / It's like that, RUN DMC (Dogma), 1999 / Move to Dungkar, original music by Phillip Glass (Kundun), 1997 / Rise, original music by Hans Zimmer (The Dark Knight Rises) 2010 / Coeur de Dieu Monastic Choir (Of Gods and Men), 2010 / Main theme, original music by Brad Fiedel (The Serpent and the Rainbow) 1998.