61. Sacrifice ( Zhao shi gu er )
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kaige Chen
Actors: Xueqi Wang, Fengyi Zhang, Xiaoming Huang, Bingbing Fan, Hai-Qing, Wenzhuo Zhao
62. Sinister
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Scott Derrickson
Actors: Ethan Hawke, ViJuliet Rylance, Michael Hall D'Addario, Clare Foley, James Ransone, Victoria Leigh
Plot: A true-crime novelist seeks clues behind the murder of the family who inhabited the house he and his family just moved into. Using found footage he begins to unravel the truth, but what he discovers puts his family in danger.
63. Barfi!
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Hindi
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anurag Basu
Actors: Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Ileana, Roopali Ganguly, Uday Tikekar, Jishu Sengupta
Plot: What is a "normal" love? For Barfii, who is hearing and speech impaired and Shruti, whose parents deny her love for the man in order to marry a "normal" person - it comes to a head years later. Barfi is searching for Jhilmil, his new love who happens to be autistic. With police on his tail, Shruti comes back into his life and in a cat-and-mouse game, will learn where true happiness lies.
64. Electrick Children
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rebecca Thomas
Actors: Julia Garner, Rory Culkin, Liam Aiken, Bill Sage, Billy Zane, Cynthia Watros
65. Stories We Tell
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Sarah Polley
Actors: Sarah Polley, Joanna Polley, Mark Polley, Michael Polley, Harry Gulkin, John Buchan
Plot: Actress/Director Sarah Polley turns the camera inwards as she interviews
her own family as she conducts interviews about events decades past.
66. Headhunters ( Hodejegerne )
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Norwegian
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Morten Tyldum
Actors: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Julie R. Ølgaard, Aksel Hennie, Synnøve Macody Lund, Baard Owe, Joachim Rafaelsen
Plot: A headhunter who moonlights as an art thief gets more than he bargains for when he targets a priceless work of art owned by a former mercenary.
67. Compliance
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Craig Zobel
Actors: Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker, Pat Healy, Bill Camp, Philip Ettinger, James McCaffrey
Plot: Based on actual events: a series of prank calls to a fast food manager leads him to interrogate a young, female employee to the point of abuse that leave no one unharmed.
68. Bernie
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Richard Linklater
Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Gary Teague, Tommy G. Kendrick, Rick Dial
Plot: When a wealthy widow he's been seeing drops dead, a local mortician will do just about anything to convince people she's still alive.
69. Safe House
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Daniel Espinosa
Actors: Ryan Reynolds, Denzel Washington, Vera Farmiga, Joel Kinnaman, Brendan Gleeson, Robert Patrick
Plot: A house under the protection of the CIA becomes a target and it is up to the facility's house sitter to extract the criminal in hiding and take him to a secure location.
70. Bully
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Lee Hirsch
Actors: Alex, Ja'Maya, Kelby, Tina Long, Kirk Smalley, David Long
Plot: A documentary that examines how bullying - be it on the playground or online - affects the more than 5 million American students it happens to each year. From the victims to the perpetrators to those who are trying to make a difference, The Bully Project takes an unflinching look at it all.
