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Movie Critics: Winter releases

Sony Pictures

  The movie critics take a look at recent releases from Tinseltown.  Together Russ Simmons, Fox 4; John Tibbots, professor of film at KU, and Eric Melin, Scene Stealers explore the depiction of torture in Zero Dark Thirty the craft of horror in Mama and interesting surprises from Warm Bodies.

Average critic rating out of five:

Zero Dark Thirty: 4.5
Gangster Squad: 1.5
Mama: 3.5
Broken City: 3
The Last Stand: 2
Rust and Bone: 3.5
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters: 2
Parker: 2.5
Quartet: 4
Bullet to the Head: 2
Warm Bodies: 3.5
Oscar Nominated short film Showcase: 4

Matthew Long-Middleton has been a talk-show producer, community producer, Media Training Manager and now the Community Engagement Manager at KCUR. You can reach him at Matthew@kcur.org, or on Twitter @MLMIndustries.
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