Movie Reviews: Gangster Squad, Zero Dark Thirty, Django Unchained, Les Miserables and More

Editor's Note: All reviews and information aggregated from Moviefone.

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Gangster Squad

• Run Time: 113min.
• Starring: Sean Penn , Ryan Gosling , Josh Brolin , Michael Pena , Anthony Mackie
• Director(s): Ruben Fleischer
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"The cops play things as dirty as the crooks in Gangster Squad, an impressively pulpy underworld-plunger that embellishes on a 1949 showdown between a dedicated team of LAPD officers and Mob-connected Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) for control of the city." Peter Debruge of Variety. Full Review

"Typified by Penn's blustery performance, Gangster Squad is sleek, stylish but superficial. Easy on the eye, even easier on the brain, it doesn't last long in the memory." James Mottram of Total Film Full Review

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Zero Dark Thirty

• Run Time: 157min.
• Starring: Joel Edgerton , Jessica Chastain , Edgar Ramirez , Kyle Chandler , Mark Strong
• Director(s): Kathryn Bigelow
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"Telling a nearly three-hour story with an ending everyone knows, Bigelow and Boal have managed to craft one of the most intense and intellectually challenging films of the year." The Guardian. Full Review

"Bigelow delivers an acute realization of the mission's execution that's eerily in sync with the way it played in the popular imagination. Visually, the events unfold as a mashup of shadowy movements with flashes of green night vision. It's simultaneously predictable and tense." Eric Kohn of indieWIRE. Full Review

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A Haunted House

• Run Time: 86min.
• Starring: Nick Swardson , Marlon Wayans , David Koechner , Essence Atkins , Cedric the Entertainer
• Director(s): Rick Alvarez , Marlon Wayans
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Texas Chainsaw 3D

• Run Time: 92min.
• Starring: Alexandra Daddario , Scott Eastwood , Tania Raymonde , Trey Songz , Keram Malicki-Sanchez
• Distributor: Lionsgate
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"A sign of how desperate the series' producers have become is that the big twist here is that Leatherface, the slobby butcher-boy demon in his mask of human skin, is now...the good guy. (That's a ''jump the chainsaw'' concept if ever there was one.) Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly. Full Review

"Unlike the restrained 1974 film which cleverly relied mainly on suggestion, this version piles on the graphic, often CGI-enhanced gore." Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter. Full Review

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This is 40

• Run Time: 134min.
• Starring: Paul Rudd , Leslie Mann , Megan Fox ,Albert Brooks , Chris O'Dowd
• Director(s): Judd Apatow
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"This Is 40 isn't always hilarious, but it's ticklishly honest and droll about all the things being a parent can do to a relationship. And why it's still worth it." Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly. Full Review.

"Judd Apatow's instincts have rarely been sharper, wiser or more relatable than in This Is 40, an acutely perceptive, emotionally generous laffer about the joys and frustrations of marriage and middle age." Justin Chang of Variety. Full Review.  

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Django Unchained

• Run Time: 165min.
• Starring: Jamie Foxx , Leonardo DiCaprio ,Christoph Waltz , Samuel L. Jackson , Gerald McRaney
• Director(s): Quentin Tarantino
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"A sharp shock of a film in an Awards season very full of movies so noble they become immobile. It's wildly unlikely to get much love from the Academy, and that's fine-bluntly, it's too good for them. With its bloody stew of history and hysteria, action taken from movies and atrocities taken from fact, Django isn't just a movie only America could make-it's also a movie only America needs to." Boxoffice Magazine. Full Review.

"Exactly what you might expect from the fearless, controversial director of "Pulp Fiction" - it's overlong, raunchy, shocking, grim, exaggerated, self-indulgently over-the-top and so politically incorrect it demands a new definition of the term. It is also bold, original, mesmerizing, stylish and one hell of a piece of entertainment." Rex Reed of New York Observer. Full Review.

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Les Miserables

• Run Time: 157min.
• Starring: Hugh Jackman , Russell Crowe , Anne Hathaway , Helena Bonham Carter , Sacha Baron Cohen 
• Director(s): Tom Hooper
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"Stirring and striking, Hooper's epic musical won't be wanting for awards and plaudits. Danny Cohen's cinematography is stunning and Hathaway's Oscar is guaranteed." Neil Smith of Total Film. Full Review.

"Russell Crowe's pained vocal stylings (they sound more like barks) as relentless Inspector Javert can be forgiven after hearing Hugh Jackman's old-pro fluidity in the central role of Jean Valjean, hiding a criminal past." Joshua Rothkopf of Time Out New York. Full Review.

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Parental Guidance

• Run Time: 104min.
• Starring: Billy Crystal , Bette Midler , Marisa Tomei ,Tom Everett Scott , Bailee Madison
• Director(s): Andy Fickman
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