In this final stretch of examining the nine Academy Award nominees for Best Picture (don't miss parts one and two), the focus switches from the large, patriotically minded spectacles to more personal endeavors. Typically, such efforts tend to be smaller in scope, which is true of the first two, Silver Linings Playbook and Amour. But the film that this series will end on, Life of Pi, is the rare case of an intensely "inner" movie on a vast cinematic scale. Preferences and opinions about these three films run to wildly varying degrees, but for my money, each is a bona fide work of greatness, each earning a spot on my 2012 year-end top ten. One is my own top pick. For further thoughts and connections...
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