Movie Critics: Winter releases

Enlarge image

Credit Sony Pictures

Jessica Chastain portrays the CIA analyst Maya in the new movie Zero Dark Thirty.

  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