Best movies of 2012: 'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' 'Dark Knight Rises,' more

If the movies are a feast or famine business — and they are — we are in the heart of the feast at the moment. Both the studios and the smaller distributors, having hidden away their strongest films like squirrels hoarding especially tasty nuts, release them all in a rush in the last months of the year.

By Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times Film Critic

December 14, 2012