Steven Spielberg directs Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln, a revealing drama that focuses on the 16th President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come. For full review and more click here for full review

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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2

Bella (Kristen Stewart), at long last, leaps off the sidelines and gets to be a vampire, demonstrating some of that mega-bloodpower every other Paleface Redeye just throws around like it's no big deal. All prior (and completely justified) feminist mortification regarding this young woman's agency and self-direction can now be laid to rest. When she pulls Edward (Robert Pattinson) toward her in the opening moments and nearly shatters his sternum, then wipes the floor with walking MET-Rx bar Emmett (Kellen Lutz) in a friendly arm-wrestling match before punching a giant boulder and turning it into gravel, you realize that she is now Wreck-It Ralph. This is extremely satisfying. click here for full review

Killing Them Softly

That buzzing sound you hear in the background, the one that takes up nearly every available second of soundtrack that isn't already populated by the wisecracks of this or that gun-packing scofflaw, is the sound of 2008's financial meltdown. Wall Street types and George W. Bush and news reports and the Obama campaign all weigh in on endless TV reports about the sinking of the American economy as an underworld operetta about crime and punishment plays out amidst point-of-impact violence (none of these guys chill with repeats of Friends in between killings or shaking down people for protection cash; they're all very concerned with the news cycle). And that clanking noise accompanying the buzzing sound is the film hitting you over the head with its heavy message again and again and again. Here it is: the government and the financial sector is a brutal business full of criminals just like the mob and the mob has turned corporate and we're all doomed and you're all on your own and you might as well let James Gandolfini shoot you in the face.click here for full review