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The best incredible hulk film ever made.

You could pick the dark knight rises to pieces. To do that would be ignoring the craft of Nolan, his crew and his cast. This is the zenith of action cinema, blockbusters, comic book heroes, and probably Nolan's best film yet. Even better than the Dark Knight. Rises is a staggering achievement. The escalation and the end of this trilogies story makes the word thrilling feel redundant. I could have happily sat through it a second time. The perfect end to a perfect trilogy.

Daniel Craig is bringing much to his role whereby he is strongly challenging ‘the best bond’ Timothy Dalton for the top spot. Skyfall isn’t as good as Casino Royale; nevertheless this is a brilliant entry into Bond lore that makes bedfellows out of emotional depth and the sheer entertainment of the spectacle.

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I have an analogy for this film. Looper is a really cool and well conceived motorbike that is going super fast, but its far from stable, it's barely staying vertical. It doesn't fall over but it constantly threatens to. Or in less oblique terms. It has so many new angles and threads that it constantly threatens to collapse under its own weight, but credit to Willis, Levitt and Director Rian Johnson it never does.

A superbly disappointing watch given all the praise heaped upon it. Argo is best defined by its bookmarks; the sequences which open and close the film are incredible in their tension. The rest of the film is defined by its lack of threat or stakes, bar a few exceptions here and there. The politics are well-travelled and therefore uninteresting, the Hollywood satire toothless and above all it was a mistake for Affleck to cast himself in the lead role. As a director Ben Affleck is best in Boston.

Flawed, imperfect, problematic and po faced with a constant stream of wondrous moments, a terrifying performance from Ledger and a real flair for tension, character and action. It’s all too easy to bash the dark knight, for what it does wrong. On the other hand, the good stuff make Nolan’s film one of the greatest blockbusters ever made, and the greatest comic book movie, bar none. The Dark Knight is an endlessly rewarding movie that has me ecstatic for the climax of the trilogy.

The only surprise is that Silver Linings Playbook is this good. Much better than O' Russell's previous film, the fighter, Silver Linings is a romantic drama with a deceptively modest relationship with mental health. Bradley Cooper is a fantastic lead and De Niro shows he still has the chops that he once had. However, the real star is Jennifer Lawrence, that girl has talent. While it’s true, the film doesn't really surprise you in any way, you could easily predict all the plot beats, but the performances and the drama therein made Silver Linings Playbook the nicest of surprises.

The first two acts had some brilliant moments full of nasty body horror. The visuals were phenomenal, with the same rich set design that defines the ALIEN franchise combined with gorgeous CG. Michael Fassbender and Noomi Rapace carried the film when everything else was a mess of bad narrative design. the third act which felt like any other simple minded sci-fi action spectacle which just so happened to try really hard to shoehorn in a relevance to a classic in its mythology. Wasteful.

Wow, 2012 has an early runner for film of the year. There is a cabin and its in the woods, after that we see just how far the rabbit hole goes. A masterful exercise in controlled chaos by Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon. The best new horror film in years, which I'd love to talk about more, but to go into great detail would spoil the film and this is a must see, every surprise and twist needs to be new.