2012

1.The Ides of March (2011)

   7.2/10  
An idealistic staffer for a new presidential candidate gets a crash course on dirty politics during his stint on the campaign trail. (101 mins.)
Director: George Clooney
Stars: Paul Giamatti, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ryan Gosling



2.The Artist (2011)

   8.1/10  
A silent movie star meets a young dancer, but the arrival of talking pictures sends their careers in opposite directions. (100 mins.)
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Stars: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell

3.The Descendants (2011)

   7.4/10  
A land baron tries to re-connect with his two daughters after his wife is seriously injured in a boating accident. (115 mins.)
Director: Alexander Payne
Stars: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller, Nick Krause

4.Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011)

   7.5/10  
A middle-aged husband's life changes dramatically when his wife asks him for a divorce. He seeks to rediscover his manhood with the help of a newfound friend, Jacob, learning to pick up girls at bars. (118 mins.)
Director: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
Stars: Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone

5.Like Crazy (2011)

   6.7/10  
A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa. (90 mins.)
Director: Drake Doremus
Stars: Felicity Jones, Anton Yelchin, Jennifer Lawrence, Charlie Bewley

6.One Day (2011)

   6.8/10  
After spending the night together on the night of their college graduation Dexter and Em are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, sometimes not, on that day. (107 mins.)
Director: Lone Scherfig
Stars: Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Patricia Clarkson, Tom Mison

7.The Iron Lady (2011)

   6.4/10  
An elderly Margaret Thatcher talks to the imagined presence of her recently deceased husband as she struggles to come to terms with his death while scenes from her past life, from girlhood to British prime minister, intervene. (105 mins.)
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Stars: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Richard E. Grant, Susan Brown

8.Albert Nobbs (2011)

   6.6/10  
Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most posh hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape the lie she has been living. (113 mins.)
Director: Rodrigo García
Stars: Glenn Close, Mia Wasikowska, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Antonia Campbell-Hughes

9.The Help (2011)

   8/10  
An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African-American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis. (146 mins.)
Director: Tate Taylor
Stars: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Bryce Dallas Howard

10.Drive (2011)

   7.9/10  
A mysterious Hollywood stuntman, mechanic and getaway driver lands himself in trouble when he helps out his neighbour. (100 mins.)
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Stars: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks

11.The Debt (2010)

   6.8/10  
1965, three Mossad agents cross into East Berlin to apprehend a notorious Nazi war criminal. Thirty years later, the secrets the agents share come back to haunt them. (113 mins.)
Director: John Madden
Stars: Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, Tom Wilkinson, Ciarán Hinds