RECENT REVIEWS // (134 Commercial Releases Screened from 2012) Happy 2012: Celebrating Best Actress nominees on their birthdays: The Postman Always Rings Twice,       The Importance of Being Earnest, The Laramie Project, The Actress, The Sea Gull, and Tim Recent Cinema: Sleep Furiously delights but could do with a bit more shape; Leap Year is a corker The Past: Cannes 1986, featuring The Sacrifice, After Hours, She's Gotta Have It, and Fool for Love The 00s: Decade's best, key films to reassess, and indelible moviegoing memories from across the decade   ONGOING SPECIAL FEATURES // Winter 2011 The Best Actress Archive: The women of 1944, 2009, and 2010; essays on the careers of Annette Bening,       Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Julie Christie, Katharine Hepburn, and Emma Thompson Favorite Films Countdown: Georgia (#25), Late Marriage (#27), Howards End (#28), Solaris x 2 (#29),       Sherman's March (#30), Peel (#35), Pickpocket (#68), and a sneak-peak at Junebug (#18)   FIRST TIME VISITING? // Lovely to have you! Quick Tour: Recent reviews of Black Swan, Precious, and Vicky Cristina Barcelona; older pieces       about The Black Dahlia, Before Sunset, Far from Heaven, and Holiday; "Favorites" ranging from       Hyenas to Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!; the Best Actress Oscar section; and notes on how I grade Ideal Settings: Mozilla Firefox; browser scaled to 1280 x 800; default font Times 16pt Disclaimer: © 1998-2011. No material may be reproduced without the author's permission.