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Best & Worst Movies Of 2012

Was Les Miserables miserable?  Was Jack Reacher a reach?  Should anyone have taken The Guilt Trip?  These answers and more, on this week's edition of Central Standard Friday.

The Film Critics have shaken off the holiday hangover haze to take a bleary-eyed look at Hollywood offerings of 2012. 

Russ Simmons of KKFI and Fox 4 News, Loey Lockerby of suchacritic.com, and Tom Poe, Associate Professor at the University of Missouri - Kansas City, give their silver screen snubs and salutes.Critics Picks & Rating:

The Hobbit (PG-13) - 3.5

The Guilt Trip (PG-13) - 2.5

Monsters, INC. 3-D (G) - 3

Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away 3-D (PG) - 2.5

Jack Reacher (R) - 2.5

This Is 40 (R) - 3

Chasing Ice (PG-13) - 3.5

Les Miserables (PG-13) - 4

Parental Guidance (PG) - 2

Django Unchained (R) - 4

Not Fade Away (R) - 2

Promised Land (R) - 3

The Impossible (PG-13) - 3

Hyde Park On Hudson (R) - 2

Any Day Now (R) - 3.5

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