Given that the depiction of movie violence is inexorably evolving -- constantly seeking to shock audiences in new and more graphic ways -- what are we going to be watching 10 years from now?

And so begins my annual 'films of 2012' list round-up, where I try to do more than merely compile the '10 best and 10 worst' of the year. It's often just as much fun to talk about films somewhere in the middle, the underrated gems, the hidden gems, and the overrated would-be critical darlings.

Killing Them Softly does a wonderful job of creating a realistic, lived-in world in the post-Katrina wreckage of New Orleans, without a lot of frills or even much music. While it is no fast-paced bulletfest, when the violence comes, it's scary, gory, and brutal, as it should be.

Brad Pitt's latest movie, "Killing Them Softly," isn't exactly killing it at the box office. Directed by Andrew Dominik ("Chopper"), "Killing Them ...

From Rage Against the Machine to Alicia Keys' new album and Brad Pitt's new flick, the critics had a large amount of entertainment offerings to pick a...

LOS ANGELES — "Killing Them Softly" is a stylish and violent dark comedy about low-level gangsters and thugs, set squarely within the U.S. econo...

NEW YORK — The face is hardly wrinkled and the long blond locks appear unchanged, but Brad Pitt, who will turn 49 in December, is increasingly p...

-- Writer-director Andrew Dominik's "Killing Them Softly" is an incredibly stylish genre exercise set in the world of mobsters, junkies and lowlifes,...

Now comes Killing Them Softly, which may be the best hard-boiled crime film since The Departed. Directed by Andrew Dominik, Killing Them Softly brings things back to the exceptionally mean streets of South Boston.

Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly has, from a conversational standpoint, one of the finest screenplays of the last few years. It is a relatively low-key crime drama, filled with crusty character actors doing chewy character turns.

I never would have guessed that Ray Liotta hasn't seen "Field of Dreams," in which he plays Shoeless Joe Jackson. It's true that some actors don't enj...

Don't let "Killing Them Softly" get lost in the throng of year-end prestige releases. The new film, from year-end specialists The Weinstein Company, i...

By arbitrarily inserting token love interests into movies that neither require them nor benefit from them, you not only insult the actresses involved, but harm your own movie in the process.

"Killing Them Softly," Brad Pitt's latest collaboration with director Andrew Dominik, is about more than just a low-rent mob hitman. The film, which T...

This past weekend, Paul Thomas Anderson's new movie "The Master" broke the record for the highest per-screen box office of any art house in history, b...

For the second time in two months, Brad Pitt's "Killing Them Softly" is changing its release date. According to Deadline.com, TWC has shifted the film...

If the end of summer has you down, there's some good news on the horizon: With fall comes the release of many, many new films -- from the highly antic...

The Jolie-Pitt family continues to make waves in the film world. Just one day after Disney announced that Brad Pitt's daughter Vivienne Jolie-Pitt wil...

The next five months could bear great fruit for The Weinstein Company. Between now and New Year's Eve, Harvey Weinstein's studio will release "Lawless...

This weekend is surely as shining an example as anything that the mainstream film landscape has somewhat self-corrected. We may like to say 'they don't make 'em like they used to.' That may have been true for a time, but it's not true anymore.

Embattled, tired and bittersweet, the final days at Cannes slow down to a mild jog, allowing those who've watched the films and interviewed the filmmakers to take stock in all that's just happened.

Brad Pitt's newest film, "Killing Them Softly," debuted at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday to rave reviews and some budding controversy. One c...

"Killing Them Softly": crime drama as treatise on American capitalism? Brad Pitt's newest film debuted at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday, and ...