Those who got a thrill last spring when the SEALS took out Osama bin Laden will have more of the same covert ass-kicking to look forward to in theaters as we enter 2012 (check out Safe House, Safe, This Means War, and Act of Valor, among others). Unfortunately, operations don’t always run as smoothly in the movies as they do in real life. In fact you’ll find some of the secret agents — in Haywire, for example — pondering a job change. There’s a lot of this kind of second-guessing going on in the films coming up, from the Manhattan couple relocating to a commune in Wanderlust to John Carter’s trip to Mars.
JANUARY
There’s nothing like a civil war to spoil a relationship. In Angelina Jolie’s IN THE LAND OF BLOOD AND HONEY (January 6) a Serbian soldier meets an old Bosnian friend in a POW camp. Awkward.
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- Review: Another Earth
Apparently it's getting harder to meet compatible partners these days in independent movies.
- Review: Straw Dogs
Remaking, polishing, and in effect housebreaking what should've remained untamed and feral, Rod Lurie's new version of the Peckinpah classic follows the original's story beats closely, and so the devil is in the details.
- Review: Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
From Deliverance to the new Straw Dogs , elitist Hollywood hasn't shown rednecks any respect.
- Review: The Iron Lady
Meryl Streep's two films with Phyllida Lloyd, Mamma Mia and this silly biopic, demonstrate that even when the world's greatest actress is at the peak of her powers — whether dramatic, comic, or musical — it's not enough.
- Review: Carnage
As befits someone with jail time hanging over his head, Roman Polanski does his best work in close quarters. From Knife in the Water , to Repulsion , to The Tenant and The Pianist , he's a master of claustrophobic close encounters, and as such has a good time adapting Yasmin Reza's play, God of Carnage .
- Review: The Divide
Many a teleplay for The Twilight Zone threatened atomic Armageddon, and though Frontier(s) director Xavier Gens nukes New York in the opening shots of his latest thriller, he finds more inspiration in the horrors of human nature as seen in the old TV show's episode "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street."
- Review: Dreileben
Taking a cue from Kieslowski's Three Colors by way of the British Red Riding series, this TV trilogy from three German directors of the Berlin School starts out with a creepy aura of dread and mystery and ends with contrived and unsatisfying resolutions.
- Review: The Devil Inside
William Brent Bell's film opens with a disclaimer that "the Vatican does not endorse this movie." No kidding — the Catholic Church isn't exactly known for its sense of humor.
- Review: Joyful Noise
There's not much joy but there's plenty of noise of the rafter-rocking gospel singing variety in Tony Graff's musical dramedy.
- Review: In the Land of Blood and Honey
Jolie has loosely reworked the story of Romeo and Juliet in an infamous setting familiar from CNN but here seen from the inside.
- Reivew: Resident Evil: Afterlife
Within the first 15 minutes of Resident Evil: Afterlife , an army of Milla Jovovich clones have ripped 500 bad guys to shreds and Tokyo has been reduced to a smoking crater. The action gets only more gonzo from there.
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