Awards Watch Archive for December, 2011
Critics Top Ten List 2011: Bilge Ebiri
Bilge Ebiri 1. The Tree of Life 2. Melancholia 3. A Separation 4. Margaret 5. Psychohydrography 6. Certified Copy 7. Poetry 8. The Adventures of Tintin 9. General Orders No. 9 10. We Need to Talk about Kevin
Read the full article »Thinking About Streep And The Silent Thatcher
Thinking About Streep And The Silent Thatcher
Read the full article »Terry Curtis Fox Misses Contagion
Terry Curtis Fox Misses Contagion
Read the full article »The Top Tens: Updated December 30
164 lists, 220 films, and The Tree of Life continues to sit on the top of the
scoreboard. As new lists come in, The Artist is closing in on the The Descendants and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is making a play for the top ten .. stay tuned.
See the individual Top Ten lists here.
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2011: Michael Compton
“Sure, there were some treasures to be found among the waves of inferior product, but it required a lot of looking and a lot of patience. “
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2011: James Ward
“2011 proved to be a solid year at the movies, with 14 films getting four-star reviews and 20 films getting three-and-a-half-star reviews from Diversions.”
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2011: Mike Giuliano
“The very best movies of the past year went back to the earliest years of cinema for their subject matter, but 100 or so years amount to just a few film frames when you consider that some of the other movies in this 10-best list went back to the dawn of time for their stories.”
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2011: Kevin Thomas
Kevin Thomas The Citizen X-Men: First Class Rise of the Planet of the Apes Souce Code 50/50 Water for Elephants Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part I The Muppets Soul Surfer The Lincoln Lawyer The Ides of March
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2011: Rene Rodriguez
“Overall, 2011 will be remembered as a mediocre year for cinema. But the bright spots burned really, really bright.”
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2011: Richard von Busack
“I’ll restate the obvious: Seeing a film in a plaster paradise of a grand old theater is a boutique experience vs. the live-tweeted mass viewing in a hundred spread-out households: one eye on the TV, half an eye on the smartphone.”
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2011: Anita Katz
Anita Katz San Francisco Examiner 1. “City of Life and Death” 2. “Hugo” 3. “Nostalgia for the Light” 4. “Bill Cunningham New York” 5. “Into the Abyss” 6. “The Tree of Life” 7. “The Cave of Forgotten Dreams” 8. “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” 9. “The Guard” 10. “Drive”
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2011: Janos Gereben
Janos Gereben San Francisco Examiner 1. “A Separation” 2. “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” 3. “The Flowers of War” 4. “Midnight in Paris” 5. “Carnage” 6. “The Mill and the Cross” 7. “Beginners” 8. “We Have a Pope” 9. “Hugo” 10. “The Adventures of Tintin”
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2011: Rossiter Drake
Number One: War Horse
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2011: Jeffrey M. Anderson
Number One: The Tree of Life
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2011: Duane Dudek
“In a year when the global revolution/s was/were televised, movies about movies and about the art of making art were like attempts to explore, explain or to understand the world from inside out. Certain other films tackled unconventional themes in surprising ways or told stories in voices rarely heard.”
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2011: Scott Feinberg
“It’s hard to believe that a black-and-white silent movie was even made in 2011; that it also turned out to be the best film of the year is simply amazing.”
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2011: Bob Strauss
“2011 was loaded with terrific performances, directorial high points, breathtaking sights, astute and angsty reflections of our tenuous circumstances, genre goodies and just plain good times.”
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2011: Andrea Gronvall
Andrea Gronvall Freelance 1. THE INTERRUPTERS 2. A SEPARATION 3. INCENDIES 4. TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY 5. A DANGEROUS METHOD 6. CERTIFIED COPY 7. TERRI 8. THE KID WITH A BIKE 9. 13 ASSASSINS 10. NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2011: Tom Charity
Tom Charity CNN.com 1. Hugo 2. Margaret 3. The Descendants 4. Source Code 5. Drive 6. Melancholia 7. Nostalgia for the Light 8. Take Shelter 9. Poetry 10. Bridesmaids
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2011: Kiko Martinez
Kiko Martinez San Antonio Current 1. Moneyball 2. The Artist 3. The Descendants 4. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 5. Hugo 6. A Separation 7. Tyrannosaur 8. Martha Marcy May Marlene 9. The Tree of Life 10. Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey
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