The best film of the Oscar Best Picture nominees...But...

Rating: 8/10 (26 February 2012)

I wonder if this is a film that's winning people over with an absolutely storming final 20 minutes rather than being wholly all that special. Cos, to be perfectly honest, much of the rest of it is watching a very cute dog acting everyone else off the screen.
I did like it, it's certainly the best of the 9 Oscar contenders, but I think it's perhaps more a feat of derring do than an actual great film. I can't help but admire it a bit more than like it. It's all very admirably spartan, making a film in 2012 with about 50 lines of dialogue that emotionally engaging.
But great? Mm..maybe not.