TRAVIS BYRAM'S MOVIE REVIEWS

It's 2013!  Hooray!  It's that time again for me to gather the films I've seen this year, and somehow sort them into a dignified list of the most quality films I've seen in 2012.  As noted already, in the history of cinema, 2012 has been one of its greatest years, financially or otherwise.  Bloated sequels and bland remakes still crowded the cinemas, but the majority of films managed to blow me away.  Keep in mind I'm not a professional critic, and only count movies released this year I've seen from 1/1/12-12/31/12.  On my wish list are "Zero Dark Thirty," "Silver Linings Playbook" and "The Impossible," but I welcome criticism.  Let's begin, and don't forget to see the ones that juuuuuuust missed the mark, and the ones that were, well.... un remarkable. 5. BERNIE I didn't review this or the following film on my list because I saw them way too late, but I caught it on DVD over winter break.  Jack's nomination fo...

Critics reviewing "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," the teenage high school film have a distinct disadvantage by just writing it: they're not teenagers.  To fully relate to this film it helps to be currently enrolled in high school, and see some of the challenges that you face presented on the screen.  I have beef with what's presented in the film, but the good exceedingly outweighs the bad in this thoughtful, challenging movie, something the great John Hughes would have devised back in the day. The douche tearing Charlie's book The movie opens in with the not too familiar sounds of a typewriter click-clacking away, and from that beginning you realize this is going to be no ordinary film.  2012 films nowadays wouldn't dare throw in a typewriter, unless it was ironically vintage and you had a hipster with a cup of coffee in his hands and a Smart Phone in his pocket.  Though not explicitly stated, the film takes place around the early 90's, and don...