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Top Ten Undeserving Best Picture Winners

Written by Guillermo Troncoso. Generally speaking, the Academy Awards pick a worthy film to be honored with the all-important Best Picture award, but every now and then they leave us scratching our heads in disbelief. Mind you, most of these

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Lincoln REVIEW

Written by Guillermo Troncoso. Steven Spielberg has been wanting to make this film for over ten years. At one point he even had Liam Neeson ready to don the top hat and beard. Now the question is, was it worth

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Silver Linings Playbook REVIEW

Written by Guillermo Troncoso David O. Russell (Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees, The Fighter) writes and directs this impressive comedy-drama starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. Cooper plays Pat Solitano, a former teacher who has just moved in with his

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Zero Dark Thirty REVIEW

Written by Guillermo Troncoso. Kathryn Bigelow became the first female to win the Academy Award for Best Achievement In Directing for her 2008 war-drama The Hurt Locker. She once again joins screenwriter Mark Boal (who took home an Oscar for

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Flight REVIEW

Written by Guillermo Troncoso. A pilot manages to save a plane from crashing, but the investigation that follows shows that the pilot may not be a complete hero after all. The marketing for Flight  has focused heavily on the plane

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Django Unchained REVIEW

Written by Guillermo Troncoso. The mere mention of his name is enough to conjure up images of suited up men walking in slo-mo, John Travolta and Uma Thurman dancing in a bar, Samuel L. Jackson getting Chris Tucker into the

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Jack Reacher REVIEW

Written by Guillermo Troncoso. Tom Cruise’s latest vehicle is a decent little thriller based on Lee Child’s bestselling novel One Shot. There’s a solid cast that keeps the tight, yet increasingly farfetched, storyline grounded and believable. The film may have

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Gangster Squad REVIEW

Written by Guillermo Troncoso. If The Untouchables  and Sin City  had an attractive, fun and simple-minded love child, then Gangster Squad  would be it. Ruben Fleischer comes from the comedy genre. He went from directing episodes of Jimmy Kimmel to

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Quartet REVIEW

Written by Guillermo Troncoso. Dustin Hoffman’s directorial debut is an amiable but ultimately tedious love letter to opera and growing old. Being a “slow” film isn’t necessarily a problem if the plot and subject matter are good enough to carry

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Wreck-It Ralph REVIEW

Written by Guillermo Troncoso. Wreck-It Ralph  tells the story of a video game villain who becomes tired of being the bad guy and decides to go on a quest to become a hero. John C. Reilly, Jane Lynch and Jack

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