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Worst movies of 2012: My top-10

12/28/2012 5:46 PM

These are the worst of the worst, the cinematic offenders of 2012 that you are advised to avoid at all costs:

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I don't know who said 'Let's get Ben ...

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Best movies of 2012: My top 10

12/28/2012 1:06 PM

The movie year of 2012 produced some very good films. Did it produce a classic? “Argo,” the dramatization of a rescue plan during the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, comes ...

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'Silver Linings Playbook' playing exclusive engagement

12/26/2012 1:06 PM

The Oscar-contending 'Silver Linings Playbook' is now playing at these three theaters: Cinemark Tulsa, Promenade Mall's Hollywood and in the new auditorium at Circle ...

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Test your Christmas pop culture IQ

12/20/2012 1:04 PM

Christmas is all around us, and so are the songs, the TV specials and the movies of the season. Come, all ye faithful, and see if you know what we know about some Christmas ...

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Best picture repeat: National Board of Review also selects "Zero Dark Thirty"

12/5/2012 1:53 PM

'Zero Dark Thirty,' the upcoming military drama depicting the hunt for Osama bin Laden, was named best picture of the year on Wednesday by the National Board of Review.

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New York Film Critics choose "Zero Dark Thirty," Day-Lewis, Weisz

12/3/2012 4:53 PM

'Zero Dark Thirty' is the best picture of the year according to the New York Film Critics Circle, the earliest of the awards-season groups to announce its winners.

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“I was born a poor, black child” … not me, actually, but Steve Martin’s character in the “The Jerk.” That absurd opening line is just one of the absurd number of film facts, quotes and minutiae contained in movie critic Michael Smith’s brain, at his disposal to toss out on a moment’s notice. It’s a key requirement as Tulsa World film critic to know these things. Michael learned a few other life facts along the way (seven years as a Crystal’s Pizza & Spaghetti manager) before attempting journalism and joining the Tulsa World in 1996, where he’s covered everything from a school shooting in Fort Gibson to a tornado in Stroud to witnessing an execution. A little community theater coverage was sprinkled in there, too. Movies engender many of his happiest memories, from standing in line for “Star Wars” and “Grease” at the Southroads Cinema to the James Bond and Pink Panther movies that always premiered at the enormous Continental Theater.

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Past Articles By Michael Smith

2/16/2013		Broken Arrow movie theater moves to discount showings
2/15/2013		Review: 'Amour'
2/15/2013		Review: 'A Good Day to Die Hard'
2/15/2013		Review: 'Beautiful Creatures'
2/14/2013		Review: 'Quartet'
2/14/2013		Shirley MacLaine to speak at Osage Casino
2/14/2013		Weekly rewind: February 14
2/14/2013		REVIEW: 'Beautiful Creatures'
2/12/2013		Belgian best picture hopeful 'Amour' opens in Tulsa on Friday
2/10/2013		'Die Hard' marathon at AMC Southroads on Wednesday ends with new film
2/9/2013		Review: 'Identity Thief' a stupid movie from stupid idea
2/8/2013		Oscar audit: Critics choices for best picture hold up over time

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