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Besides the major theme (there’s no hurt too big for God), Robin Good shares valuable lessons on forgiveness and friendship.

One of the year’s best family movies, Hugo ends as an engaging film-history lesson but also taps into deeper human emotions.

In the era of Occupy Wall Street, Tower Heist ends up being a perfectly-timed, wish-fulfillment caper for the 99%.

Together a little band of pilgrims walk, drink, and fight their way along the road. But do they find what they’re looking for?

Based on the true story of Immaculata College’s 1971-72 team, The Mighty Macs is the original Cinderella story in women’s basketball.

An engaging depiction of a prickly, powerful man filled with all sorts of prejudice and contradiction.

While The Rum Diary hints at themes of political and corporate corruption, it never invites deeper analysis of its story.

The first of the last of The Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn – Part 1 is a violent, sexually-charged, blood-spattered film.

Even Anglophiles might get lost in this convoluted historical drama that thinks it’s clever, but is mainly just overheated.

Unlike anything you’d see The Rock or Jason Statham starring in these days, Drive’s protagonist is far less flashy.

For all the clichéd dialogue about making time count, the filmmakers don’t make the most of their own opportunities In Time.

Despite starring comedians Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson, The Big Year is shockingly devoid of big laughs.

Not to be confused with those Transformers robots in disguise, Real Steel has an actual human pulse.

Based on screenwriter Will Reiser’s own battle with cancer, 50/50 is a funny, heartbreaking look at what happens next.

With a script that plays like a greatest hits of political parables, The Ides of March is done well. But we’ve seen this before.