I imagine the pitch meeting went like this: "Producer: We got Barbra Streisand, we got Seth Rogen, we get 'em in a car. Release it around Christmas. I mean, you gotta take grandma somewhere during the Holidays. Executive: Are there life-lessons involved? Producer: Does the Pope crap in the woods? Of course there are."
Lo and behold, a year later, these two guys found themselves at the premiere for 'The Guilt Trip,' a movie that didn't cost too much to make and won't make that much of an impact but will empower everyone involved to one day strike again.
The Weinstein Co./Marvel/Sony Pictures/Open Road Films/DreamWorks
Ed. note: What are the Top 20 Movies of 2012? We asked our film critic Jordan Hoffman (who previously put together a list of the Best Movies of the first half of the year) to compile a list of the Best of 2012 of all the many movies he saw this year.
A deep dive into paranoia, ambiguity, thought control and, who knows, time travel. Enter Brit Marling's blandly carpeted basement at your own peril! Marling's borderline-California chick line delivery is so dissonant with her elder sage persona that every moment of the film just sparkles
A charming fable set in late 50s Persia from 'Perseopolis' creators Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, 'Chicken With Plums' is so crafty and clever it takes you a minute to recognize it is about suicide
Pete Travis' satirical (oh, God, I hope it is satirical) look at crime and punishment in a future dystopia doesn't quite connect as a meaningful drama. Where it succeeds is as a fever dream. The 3D images of dopers on “slo-mo” is some of the most beautiful stuff put to film this year
Quentin Tarantino's fantasia on America's original sin of slavery has plenty of draggy parts (and not much of the edge-of-seat tension found in 'Inglorious Basterds') but when the pieces come together it really pops
Yorgos Lanthimos' follow-up to the Academy Award nominee 'Dogtooth' might be the strangest, most complex film on my list. Just between us girls, I'm not even 100% sure I understood it. The tale of freelance grief counselors who assume the identity of dead loved ones is intentionally opaque, blurring the lines of identity and motivation
Some dismissed this movie because it is so frilly and light. Yes, it does end with an invitation for the audience to get up and do some dance moves, but this film is much more sly than it first appears
It is very possible I'm letting sentimental filmmaking get the better of me, but have you listened to that music? Have you seen the adorable Quvenzhane Wallis stomping around the Bathtub, sucking crab legs and shouting “you the man?” Have you let the somewhat-overblown metaphor of invading aurochs tackle your sense of wonder? Yeah, this movie, this fable, is, indeed, something special
Rian Johnson's mind-scrambling time travel tale (which later morphs into a superhero epic) has one of the sharpest opening 20 minutes I've seen in a very long time. And even without cracking out the straws to make a diagram on the diner table, 'Looper's' internal logic actually makes sense
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