This Sunday at the Golden Globes you’re going to hear a lot of films mentioned. Some of them have been drilled into your head (Daniel-Day Lewis = Lincoln = amazing. We get it.) But others may have slipped your memory. Here are all of the films nominated for more than one award, along with their ratings and reviews from The Post’s film critics, Lou Lumenick and Kyle Smith.
“LINCOLN”
Nominated for: Best Motion Picture – Drama; Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama (Daniel Day-Lewis); Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture (Sally Field); Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture (Tommy Lee Jones); Best Director – Motion Picture (Steven Spielberg); Best Screenplay – Motion Picture (Tony Kushner); Best Original Score – Motion Picture
Review excerpt: “It’s a must-see for Daniel Day-Lewis’ charismatic, subtly shaded performance as Lincoln — and an even richer one by Tommy Lee Jones — but a colleague of mine at The Post has a point in describing the film derived from Tony Kushner’s wonky script as “C-SPAN with whiskers.” ”
“ARGO”
Nominated for: Best Motion Picture – Drama; Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture (Alan Arkin); Best Director – Motion Picture (Ben Affleck); Best Screenplay – Motion Picture (Chris Terrio); Best Original Score – Motion Picture
Review excerpt: “Affleck aces the tonal shifts so flawlessly that it’s surprising this is only his third movie as a director — if you didn’t know otherwise, you’d swear this was the work of a veteran master like Steven Soderbergh.”
“DJANGO UNCHAINED”
Nominated for: Best Motion Picture – Drama; Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture (Leonardo DiCaprio); Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture (Christoph Waltz); Best Director – Motion Picture (Quentin Tarantino); Best Screenplay – Motion Picture (Quentin Tarantino)
Review excerpt: “Like all Tarantino movies, “Django” features expertly engineered surprises, plenty of big movie moments and several instances of loopy brilliance, but it’s also a rehash of “Inglourious Basterds” with slavery substituting for Nazism. Moreover, this year alone, “The Man With the Iron Fists,” the Will Ferrell comedy “Casa de Mi Padre” and the cartoon “ParaNorman” all spoofed ’70s grindhouse flicks. This line of humor is starting to take on the air of mother-in-law jokes.”
“LES MISÉRABLES”
Nominated for: Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical; Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical (Hugh Jackman); Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture (Anne Hathaway); Best Original Song – Motion Picture (“Suddenly”)
Review excerpt: “And exactly what is the point of filming the numbers live — instead of the usual practice of having actors sing to playback — if you’re going to Cuisinart many of the songs in MTV-style editing?”
“SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK”
Nominated for: Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical; Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical (Jennifer Lawrence); Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical (Bradley Cooper); Best Screenplay – Motion Picture (David O. Russell)
Review excerpt: “I must confess a relatively low tolerance for movies that romanticize, much less trivialize, serious mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder — which here is laughed off as a somewhat charming quirk that’s easily managed with medication. But that’s probably to be expected from a director like Russell, who has famous real-life issues with anger management.”
“ZERO DARK THIRTY”
Nominated for: Best Motion Picture – Drama; Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama (Jessica Chastain); Best Director – Motion Picture (Kathryn Bigelow); Best Screenplay – Motion Picture (Mark Boal)
Review excerpt: “Any smart woman who’s ever coped with a condescending male boss will relate to Kathryn Bigelow’s riveting thriller “Zero Dark Thirty,’’ — even if it takes place at a workplace where torture is routine and the heroine’s spent a decade targeting Osama bin Laden for death.”
“LIFE OF PI”
Nominated for: Best Motion Picture – Drama; Best Director – Motion Picture (Ang Lee); Best Original Score – Motion Picture
Review excerpt: “Ang Lee’s “Life of Pi” is the best-looking film I’ve seen this year, and possibly so far this century. It’s so hypnotically beautiful that people will be using it to calibrate their new TV monitors.”
“THE MASTER”
Nominated for: Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama (Joaquin Phoenix); Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture (Amy Adams); Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture (Philip Seymour Hoffman)
Review excerpt: ““The Master’’ isn’t the Scientology exposé it was rumored to be, despite speculation that its release was moved up a month to exploit the headlines surrounding the Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes divorce. Instead, it’s a sharply written, unforgettably directed character study with brilliant performances by Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams — far more intimate but no less intense than director Paul Thomas Anderson’s Oscar-winning last film, “There Will Be Blood.’’”
“SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN”
Nominated for: Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical; Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical (Emily Blunt); Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical (Ewan McGregor);
Review excerpt: ““Salmon Fishing in the Yemen’’ isn’t as sharply satirical as the epistolary Paul Torday novel on which it is based. But trust me: These are characters with whom it’s a pleasure to spend a couple of hours.”
“THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL”
Nominated for: Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical; Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical (Judi Dench);
Review excerpt: “Another source of considerable appeal is the central idea that retirement is an opportunity to start over, or at least correct a few errors, and though the portrait of Jaipur, India, is somewhat idealized, the film does give some taste of the slums and overcrowding amid the bustle of new high-rises. Someone says India is like a wave: Resist and you’ll be knocked over, but dive into it and you’ll swim out the other side. Even in countries other than India, this is not bad advice for the mellow years.”
“RUST AND BONE”
Nominated for: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama (Marion Cotillard); Best Foreign Language Film
Review excerpt: “If you hired Albert Camus to write “Rocky,” it might come out something like “Rust and Bone,” a quintessentially French effort to combine pugilism and sentimentality. But if your big lug is a big jerk, you’re not doing it right.”
“THE SESSIONS”
Nominated for: Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama (John Hawkes); Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture (Helen Hunt)
Review excerpt: “The very sex-positive “The Sessions’’ treats intimacy with an explicitness and honesty that’s very rare in movies. It may be the first film that doesn’t turn premature ejaculation into a punch line.”