Actine fine in "The Company You Keep"; ages don't add up

Robert Redford directs and performs in "The Company You Keep." Jackie Evancho portrays his daughter.

'Amour' delicately depicts a woman's deterioration

Emmanuelle Riva nominated for an Academy Award for best actress for her role in "Amour," which traces with great grace the slow, steady deterioration of an elderly woman.

A different kind of hope in 'Rust and Bone'

A de-glammed Marion Cotillard, who transformed herself into Edith Piaf in "La Vie en Rose," is Stephanie, and Matthias Schoenaerts is Ali, a mixed-martial-arts wannabe in "Rust and Bone."

A different kind of hope in 'Rust and Bone'

Marion Cotillard plays Stephanie, a whale trainer who works at Marineland in Antibes in the south of France who loses the lower parts of both legs in a horrifying accident.

'Chicken With Plums' is a feast

Nasser-Ali Khan in "Chicken With Plums."

'Sugar Man' a moving story of enigmatic US troubadour

Rodriguez's music became a rallying cry in apartheid-era South Africa, a story told in "Searching for Sugar Man."

No need to spend an evening with flimsy 'Celeste and Jesse'

Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg portray the cute-as-a-button but thinly imagined titular couple in "Celeste and Jesse Forever," which offers little that is original to think about.

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Leila Hatami and Peyman Moadi star in "A Separation," director Asghar Farhadi's domestic drama that won the 2012 Oscar for best foreign-language film.

Neil Young's mystical music redeems flawed documentary

The camera in Jonathan Demme's documentary, "Neil Young Journeys," comes so close you can identify the colors in the stubble on Young's chin.

Longing for the rigors of 'Paris' in 'Rome'

"To Rome With Love" is a return to acting for Woody Allen, center, who directs the film. He is flanked by Judy Davis, left, and Alison Pill and Flavio Parenti, right. "To Rome," as most of Allen's films, feels autobiographical.

'Hysteria' aims high, hits giggles

In this film image released by Sony Pictures Classics, Maggie Gyllenhaal portrays Charlotte Dalrymple in a scene from "Hysteria." (AP Photo/Sony Pictures Classics, Liam Daniel)

'Darling' a thin story of searching, renewal

Beth (Diane Keaton) finds unconditional love in Freeway the collie, but when Freeway goes missing, she and others find they are looking for themselves, too, in "Darling Companion."

'Darling' a thin story of searching, renewal

Beth (Diane Keaton) finds unconditional love in Freeway the collie, but when Freeway goes missing, she and others find they are looking for themselves, too, in "Darling Companion."

Little distress in Stillman's accessible, frothy 'Damsels'

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'A Separation' exhilarating cinema

Totally foreign, achingly familiar: Leila Hatami and Peyman Moadi in "A Separation."

Psychoanalysis gets a workout in haunting 'Dangerous Method'

Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) is the picture of maniacal torment, and Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) strives to help, in "A Dangerous Method."

'Carnage' is 'Virginia Woolf' for today's helicopter parents

John C. Reilly, left, as Michael Longstreet, Jodie Foster as his wife, Penelope, Christoph Waltz as Alan Cowan and Kate Winslet as Nancy Cowan in Roman Polanski's "Carnage."

Golden Globe nominations

In this image released by Sony Pictures Classics, Elena Anaya is shown in a scene from the film, "The Skin I Live In." The film was nominated Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011, for a Golden Globe award for best foreign language film. (AP Photo/Sony Pictures Classics, Jos� Haro)

Golden Globe nominations

In this film image released by Sony Pictures Classics, from left, John C. Reilly, Jodie Foster, Christoph Waltz and Kate Winslet are shown in a scene from "Carnage." Foster and Winslet were nominated Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011 for a Golden Globe award for best actress in a musical or comedy for…

Golden Globe nominations

In this film image released by Sony Pictures Classics, Leila Hatami, left, and Peyman Moadi are shown in a scene from "A Separation." The film was nominated Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011, for a Golden Globe award for best foreign language film. (AP Photo/Sony Pictures Classics, Habib Madjidi)

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Antonio Banderas, left, plays Dr. Robert Ledgard and Elena Anaya appears as Vera in "The Skin I Live In," playing at the El Con 20.

'Skin' beautiful to behold but lacks emotional impact

Antonio Banderas as Dr. Robert Ledgard, a tormented plastic surgeon, and Elena Anaya as Vera in Pedro Almodovar's "The Skin I Live In."

'Skin' beautiful to behold but lacks emotional impact

Antonio Banderas as Dr. Robert Ledgard, a tormented plastic surgeon, and Elena Anaya as Vera in Pedro Almodovar's "The Skin I Live In."

Quirky 'Restless' is trivialized by its self-conscious stylishness

Mia Wasikowska as terminally ill Annabel and Henry Hopper as morbid Enoch in "Restless."

Farmiga moves us with 'Higher Ground'

Vera Farmiga plays the character Corinne as equal parts sweetness and sharp intellect. Corinne suffers a crisis of faith in "Higher Ground."

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Don Cheadle, left, plays an FBI agent and Brendan Gleeson is an Irish police officer in "The Guard."

'The Guard'is a darkly witty Irish romp

"The Guard," starring Don Cheadle as Agent Wendell Everett and Brendan Gleeson as Sgt. Gerry Boyle, is agile, darting among the ridiculous, the sage and the suprisingly sentimental.

'Beats, Rhymes' may be good watch for hip-hop fans, but it's a tad insider

"Beats, Rhymes & Life" follows hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest - complete with its share of dysfunction - on its 2008 farewell tour.

We'll always have Woody Allen's 'Paris'

Owen Wilson as Gil and Rachel McAdams as Gil's fiancée, Inez, in Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris."

We'll always have Woody Allen's 'Paris'

Owen Wilson as Gil and Marion Cotillard as Adriana. Gil is a successful Hollywood screenwriter who yearns to give up the schlock he writes. Adriana is the bewitching lover of Pablo Picasso in "Midnight in Paris."

'Greatest Movie Ever Sold' takes amused look at on-screen shilling

Morgan Spurlock, who brought us "Super Size Me," skewers product placement in movies, and as part of the joke he financed his documentary largely with product placements.

'Winter in Wartime' more than boy's tale of heroism

Michiel (Martijn Lakemeier) skirts a Nazi unit as he secretly goes about helping an injured British pilot, in "Winter in Wartime."

Tale of monks, violent strife compelling in 'Of Gods, Men'

Trappist monks find themselves besieged in a village where Islamic rebels become a violent threat in "Of Gods and Men."

'Barney's Version' unsatisfying, but Giamatti as a jerk compels

Barney (Paul Giamatti), an inveterate lout, meets with his equally boorish father (Dustin Hoffman) in "Barney's Version."

'Illusionist' is quixotic, episodic with eccentric, unique animation

A French illusionist finds himself out of work and travels to Scotland, where he meets a young woman. Their ensuing adventure changes both their lives forever.

Five upcoming movies rich with texture, storytelling and appreciation of the art

"Of Gods and Men," which won the Grand Prix at last year's Cannes Film Festival, chronicles the real-life story of Trappist monks in Algeria.

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David Bradley and Lesley Manville appear in "Another Year," playing at the El Con 20 theater.

'Year' a layered look at life

Jim Broadbent as Tom, Lesley Manville as Mary and Ruth Sheen as Gerri in Mike Leigh's "Another Year." The screenplay won Leigh an Oscar nomination.

'Year' a layered look at life

David Bradley and Lesley Manville in a scene from "Another Year," a Mike Leigh film that follows the lives of his characters, from spring through winter, as they try to cope with middle age.

'Norma Rae' it's not, though actors elevate the material in 'Dagenham'

Sally Hawkins rises from a reserved wife and mother of two to an outspoken activist who leads her sister employees at a British Ford factory on strike in "Made in Dagenham."

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Luke Evans and Gemma Arterton have the leading roles in "Tamara Drewe."

No satire or morals, 'Tamara Drewe' a pleasant British romp with a twist

Gemma Arterton and Dominic Cooper star in "Tamara Drewe" an agreeable film in which all the characters are selfish, scheming, unlikable or busy tormenting men.

Chinese filmmaker channels Coens in 'Noodle Shop' tale

A scene from "A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop," an homage to the Coen brothers' 1985 debut, "Blood Simple."

'Animal Kingdom' actors nail parts, but grandma is particularly chilling

Australian crime noir "Animal Kingdom" follows a grandmother (played by Jacki Weaver, center) and her lawless sons.

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Robert Duvall, left, Lucas Black, center, and Bill Murray appear in "Get Low," the story of a hermit and his desire for a "living funeral."

ogre comes to town to atone

Robert Duvall portrays half-mad hermit Felix Bush, and Bill Murray is mortician Frank Quinn. They're among the quirky townsfolk of Depression-era Tennessee in "Get Low."