Cinema in Focus: ‘Cloud Atlas’
Cinema in Focus: ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’
Cinema in Focus: ‘Argo’
Ben Affleck creates an accurate and compelling story of the escape of six diplomats during the Iranian Revolution of 1979Cinema in Focus: ‘Won’t Back Down’
Though a film with an agenda, this film is nevertheless an inspiring tale of courage and integrityCinema in Focus: ‘Trouble with the Curve’
Life often throws us curves; the only question is, can we handle it?Cinema in Focus: ‘Bill W.’
Documentary explores the journey of Alcoholics Anonymous founder Bill WilsonCinema in Focus: ‘Robot & Frank’
Fictional tale poses very real questions about our relationship with developing technologyCinema in Focus: ‘The Odd Life of Timothy Green’
Child raised from the garden brings hope to a couple who desperately need his loveCinema in Focus: ‘The Words’
Multilayered story missing key message, leaving the story disappointing and even depressingCinema in Focus: ‘Hit and Run’
It's a low-budget, adolescent comedy with adult language and immature resolutionsCinema in Focus: ‘The Expendables 2’
Aging action heroes reunite for a new chapterCinema in Focus: ‘Hope Springs’
Film follows a middle-age married couple on the path to sexual healingCinema in Focus: ‘The Bourne Legacy’
Fourth film in the series doesn't star Matt Damon, but does continue humans' moral struggle with evilCinema in Focus: ‘Total Recall’
Understanding that memories are a creative union of brain and experience, this film takes it into suspenseful fantasyCinema in Focus: ‘People Like Us’
Love and forgiveness are capable of overcoming pain and bewilderment of family secretsCinema in Focus: ‘Brave’
Courage is necessary to live a life in which we take responsibility for our choicesCinema in Focus: ‘The Dark Knight Rises’
In this third film, writer/director Christopher Nolan finds the appropriate balance missing in the secondCinema in Focus: ‘Nerve’
Independent film a case study in a young man's social anxiety disorder and a novice therapist who attempts to heal himCinema in Focus: ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’
Six-year-old girl provides a first-person account of her community's destructionCinema in Focus: ‘Madea’s Witness Protection’
Tyler Perry scores another hit in the latest installment of the Madea seriesCinema in Focus: ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’
One of the longest-running serial comics achieves a new level with this rebootCinema in Focus: ‘The Intouchables’
The film explores the internal and external struggles people face amid life-altering situationsCinema in Focus: ‘Moonrise Kingdom’
The lack of moral instruction and example may be funny, but the overall effect leaves us with a shallow cinematic experienceCinema in Focus: ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’
This reformulation of the Snow White tale is a creation of our modern cinematic worldCinema in Focus: ‘For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada’
It's a difficult film to watch, but nevertheless a significant representationCinema in Focus: ‘Men in Black III’
The third chapter story lacks the charm of the first film, but thankfully omits the sarcasm of the secondCinema in Focus: ‘Dark Shadows’
Enamored with the dark soap opera of their youth, Tim Burton and Johnny Depp have difficulty shedding the feeling of a TV showCinema in Focus: ‘The Avengers’
This creative bringing together of the various Marvel heroes is wonderful storytellingCinema in Focus: ‘Think Like a Man’
Steve Harvey chose a cast who created a film that is humorous, but in a way that is not respectfulCinema in Focus: ‘The Lucky One’
Romance has always felt 'larger-than-life' to those who experience its powerful presenceCinema in Focus: ‘October Baby’
With sensitivity and wisdom, the Erwin brothers present a nuanced film about abortion and adoptionCinema in Focus: ‘Being Flynn’
Film chronicles a son's journey to discovery, and the father who shadowed his every stepCinema in Focus: ‘The Hunger Games’
Deep moral courage of two combatants isn't satisfying enough to fill the film's empty voidCinema in Focus: ‘21 Jump Street’
Remake of a popular TV series is a buddy-cop movie with more slap than slap-dash humorCinema in Focus: ‘John Carter’
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