The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (PG, 20th Century Fox)
Walter is at his most interesting when he’s faced with challenges most people couldn’t dream of.
Sean Penn
Gangster Squad (Warner Bros. Pictures, R)
Sean Penn is basically the male equivalent to Meryl Streep in the Academy’s eyes, and costar Ryan Gosling is perhaps the best young actor to pop up in the past decade.
This Must Be the Place (The Weinstein Company, R)
I have no idea how you will feel about this movie. I’m not 100% sure I know how I feel about it.
The Tree of Life (Fox Searchlight, PG-13)
Nonlinear, ethereal, meandering, beautiful, and not always terribly easy to follow in narrative terms.
Fair Game (Summit Entertainment, PG-13)
It suffers from an identity crisis as the two halves of the whole—the political thriller on the one hand and the portrait of a marriage on the other—exist uneasily together.
Milk (Focus Features, R)
Following four successive films in experimental mode, Gus Van Sant is back in Oscar mode, and pretty full-throttle.