Posts Tagged ‘Avatar’
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Joshua Rothkopf
Time Out New York |
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A Serious Man |
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Still Walking |
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Two Lovers |
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Star Trek |
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The Hurt Locker |
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Anvil! The Story of Anvil |
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Summer Hours |
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The House of the Devil |
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Somers Town |
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Funny People |
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Keith Uhlich
Time Out New York |
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The Limits of Control |
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Night and Day |
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California Dreamin’ |
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Two Lovers |
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My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done |
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Lorna’s Silence |
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Public Enemies |
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A Christmas Carol |
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The Box |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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Rex Reed
NY Observer |
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An Education |
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The Road |
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Up in the Air |
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Julie & Julia |
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Public Enemies |
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Precious |
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The Last Station |
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The Hurt Locker |
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The Messenger |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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David Fear
Time Out New York |
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35 Shots of Rum |
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Summer Hours |
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The Hurt Locker |
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Sugar |
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The Headless Woman |
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A Serious Man |
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Hunger |
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Still Walking |
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Treeless Mountain |
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Bronson |
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Erik Morse
SF Bay Guardian |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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The Missing Person |
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The Beaches of Agnes |
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Coraline |
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Still Walking |
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The Hurt Locker |
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The White Ribbon |
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Mother |
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Broken Embraces |
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Thirst |
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Ty Burr
Boston Globe |
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A Serious Man |
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Avatar | 35 Shots of Rum |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox | Up |
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The Hurt Locker | The Messenger |
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Up in the Air | Summer Hours |
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Bright Star | The Last Station |
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Precious | An Education |
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A Single Man | Bad Lieutenant |
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Star Trek | Antichrist |
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Afghan Star | Big Fan |
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Keith Phipps
The AV Club |
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A Serious Man |
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In the Loop |
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Where the Wild Things Are |
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Gomorrah |
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Broken Embraces |
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Antichrist |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox |
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Summer Hours |
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The White Ribbon |
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The Hurt Locker |
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Cheryl Eddy
SF Bay Guardian |
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Bad Lieutenant |
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Beeswax |
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Cropsey |
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District 9 |
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Drag Me To Hell |
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An Education |
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Goodbye Solo |
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The Hurt Locker |
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Inglorious Basterds |
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Tokyo Sonata |
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Ken Eisner
Georgia Straight |
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UP in the Air |
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Me & Orson Welles |
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Broken Embraces |
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An Education |
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Summer Hours |
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The Necessities of Life |
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Food, Inc |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox |
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A Serious Man |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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Noel Murray
The AV Club |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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A Serious Man |
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Public Enemies |
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Up |
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Still Walking |
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Julia |
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Duplicity |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox |
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Funny People |
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Passing Strange |
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Ty Burr | Cheryl Eddy | David Fear | Ken Eisner | Erik Morse | Noel Murray | Keith Phipps | Rex Reed | Joshua Rothkopf | Keith Uhlich
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, 12, 2012, 24 City, 35 Shots of Rum, A Prophet, A Serious Man, A Single Man, A Town Called Panic, Adventureland, Afterschool, An Education, Antichrist, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Avatar, Away We Go, Bad Lieutenant, Beeswax, Big Fan, Bright Star, Broken Embraces, Bronson, Brothers, Bruno, Burma VJ, Capitalism: A Love Story, Cheri, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Collapse, Coraline, Crank: High Voltage, Crazy Heart, Departures, Disgrace, District 9, Drag Me to Hell, Duplicity, Everlasting Moments, Every Little Step, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Frontier of Dawn, Funny People, Gommorah, Good Hair, Goodbye Solo, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, House of the Devil, Humpday, Hunger, I Killed My Mother, I Love You Man, I'm Gonna Explode, Il Divo, Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, In the Loop, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julia, Julie & Julia, Knight and Day, Knowing, La Danse, Lake Tahoe, Liverpool, Loren Cass, Lorna's Silence, Mary & Max, Me and Orson Welles, Moon, Mother, Mystery Team, Nine, O'Horten, Of Time and the City, Paradise, Paranormal Activity, Passing Strange, Phoebe in Wonderland, Pirate Radio, Police Adjective, Pontypool, Ponyo, Precious, Princess and the Frog, Privates Live of Pippa Lee, Public Enemies, Red Cliff, Revanche, Seraphine, Serbis, Sherlock Holmes, Silent Light, Sin Nombre, Sita Sings the Blues, Somers Town, Star Trek, State of Play, Still Walking, Sugar, Summer Hours, Sunshine Cleaning, Taking Woodstock, Tetro, The Baader Meinhof Complex, The Beaches of Agnes, The Blind Side, The Brothers Bloom, The Cove, The Hangover, The Headless Woman, The Hurt Locker, The Informant, The Limits of Control, The Lovely Bones, The Maid, The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Messenger, The Road, The Soloist, The White Ribbon, Thirst, Three Monkeys, Tulpaan, Two Lovers, Up, Up in the Air, Waltz with Bashir, Watchmen, Where the Wild Things Are, World's Greatest Dad, You the Living
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Scott Foundas
LA Weekly |
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The White Ribbon |
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Inglourious Basterds | Police, Adjective |
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The Hurt Locker |
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Public Enemies |
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Avatar |
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District 9 | Invictus |
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24 City | Up in the Air |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox | Where the Wild Things Are |
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The Headless Woman |
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Beaches of Agnes | Passing Strange | Tyson |
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Kyle Buchanan
Movieline |
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Coraline |
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Where the Wild Things Are |
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Antichrist |
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A Prophet |
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Humpday |
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Funny People |
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Precious |
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A Single Man |
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The Hurt Locker |
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The Messenger |
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Eugene Hernandez
IndieWIRE |
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The Beaches of Agnes |
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Broken Embraces |
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Frontier of Dawn |
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Fados |
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I’m Gonna Explode |
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La Danse |
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A Single Man |
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Still Walking |
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Summer Hours |
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Throw Down Your Heart |
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Bruce Ingram
Pioneer Press |
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Avatar |
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Coraline |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox |
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The Hurt Locker |
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In the Loop |
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Moon |
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Public Enemies |
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Star Trek |
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Up |
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Up in the Air |
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Brian Brooks
IndieWIRE |
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The Hurt Locker |
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A Serious Man |
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The Beaches of Agnes |
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Precious |
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Antichrist |
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A Single Man |
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Burma VJ |
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The Cove |
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Broken Embraces |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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Peter Knegt
IndieWIRE |
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Bright Star |
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Summer Hours |
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Up |
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A Serious Man |
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35 Shots of Rum |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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The Hurt Locker |
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Julia |
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A Single Man |
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In the Loop |
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Rick Kaplan
National Posts |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox |
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Up in the Air |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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A Serious Man |
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Funny People |
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The Informant! |
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Bruno |
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Tyson |
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Zombieland |
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Away We Go |
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Bob Mondello
All Things Considered |
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The Hurt Locker |
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The Messenger |
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In the Loop |
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Precious |
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The Cove |
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Up |
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Up in the Air |
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Seraphine |
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Summer Hours |
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A Single Man |
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Kyle Smith
The Dispatch |
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Antichrist |
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Still Walking |
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Munyurangabo |
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Goodbye Solo |
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35 Shots of Rum |
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The White Ribbon |
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Tokyo Sonata |
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Revanche |
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Summer Hours |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox |
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Scott Tobias
The AV Club |
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35 Shots of Rum |
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Duplicity |
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Humpday |
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Collapse |
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Julia |
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Afterschool |
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Revanche |
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House of the Devil |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox |
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The Hurt Locker |
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Brian Brooks | Kyle Buchanan | Scott Foundas | Eugene Hernandez | Bruce Ingram | Rick Kaplan | Peter Knegt | Bob Mondello | Kyle Smith | Scott Tobias |
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, 12, 2012, 24 City, 35 Shots of Rum, A Prophet, A Serious Man, A Single Man, A Town Called Panic, Adventureland, Afterschool, An Education, Antichrist, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Avatar, Away We Go, Bad Lieutenant, Beeswax, Big Fan, Bright Star, Broken Embraces, Bronson, Brothers, Bruno, Burma VJ, Capitalism: A Love Story, Cheri, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Collapse, Coraline, Crank: High Voltage, Crazy Heart, Departures, Disgrace, District 9, Drag Me to Hell, Duplicity, Everlasting Moments, Every Little Step, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Frontier of Dawn, Funny People, Gommorah, Good Hair, Goodbye Solo, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, House of the Devil, Humpday, Hunger, I Killed My Mother, I Love You Man, I'm Gonna Explode, Il Divo, Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, In the Loop, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julia, Julie & Julia, Knight and Day, Knowing, La Danse, Lake Tahoe, Liverpool, Loren Cass, Lorna's Silence, Mary & Max, Me and Orson Welles, Moon, Mother, Mystery Team, Nine, O'Horten, Of Time and the City, Paradise, Paranormal Activity, Passing Strange, Phoebe in Wonderland, Pirate Radio, Police Adjective, Pontypool, Ponyo, Precious, Princess and the Frog, Privates Live of Pippa Lee, Public Enemies, Red Cliff, Revanche, Seraphine, Serbis, Sherlock Holmes, Silent Light, Sin Nombre, Sita Sings the Blues, Somers Town, Star Trek, State of Play, Still Walking, Sugar, Summer Hours, Sunshine Cleaning, Taking Woodstock, Tetro, The Baader Meinhof Complex, The Beaches of Agnes, The Blind Side, The Brothers Bloom, The Cove, The Hangover, The Headless Woman, The Hurt Locker, The Informant, The Limits of Control, The Lovely Bones, The Maid, The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Messenger, The Road, The Soloist, The White Ribbon, Thirst, Three Monkeys, Tulpaan, Two Lovers, Up, Up in the Air, Waltz with Bashir, Watchmen, Where the Wild Things Are, World's Greatest Dad, You the Living
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Matthew Lucas
The Dispatch |
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Antichrist |
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Still Walking |
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Munyurangabo |
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Goodbye Solo |
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35 Shots of Rum |
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The White Ribbon |
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Tokyo Sonata |
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Revanche |
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Summer Hours |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox |
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Scott Tobias
The AV Club |
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35 Shots of Rum |
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Duplicity |
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Humpday |
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Collapse |
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Julia |
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Afterschool |
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Revanche |
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House of the Devil |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox |
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The Hurt Locker |
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Steve Warren
Windy City Times |
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Up |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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The Hurt Locker |
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Precious |
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Goodbye Solo |
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Summer Hours |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox |
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A Serious man |
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District 9 |
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Every Little Step |
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Kim Morgan
Sunset Gun |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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Bad Lieutenant |
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Antichrist |
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Observe and Report |
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A Serious Man |
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The Road |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox |
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Broken Embraces |
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The Hurt Locker |
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Thirst |
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Edward Douglas
ComingSoon.net |
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Up in the Air |
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Departures |
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(500) Days of Summer |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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Avatar |
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Sugar |
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The Hurt Locker |
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Hunger |
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The Road |
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Away We Go |
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Shlomo Schwartzberg
Bloor Cinema Magazine |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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Summer Hours |
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The Beaches of Agnes |
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The Hurt Locker |
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Two Lovers |
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It’s hard Being Loved by Jerks |
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The Class |
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Genius Within |
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Everlasting Moments |
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In the Loop |
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Kevin Laforest
Montreal Film Journal |
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Avatar |
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Where the Wild Things Are |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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(500) Days of Summer |
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The Hurt Locker |
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District 9 |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox |
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Watchmen |
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Antichrist |
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A Serious Man |
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Billups Allen
Tucson Citizen |
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Gomorrah |
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Red Cliff |
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Drag Me To Hell |
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Tyson |
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The Hangover |
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World’s Greatest Dad |
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A Serious Man |
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The Invention of Lying |
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Antichrist |
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Bad Lieutenant |
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Linda Barnard
Toronto Star |
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Up in the Air |
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The Hurt Locker |
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An Education |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox |
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District 9 |
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A Single Man |
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Up |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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The Road |
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The Hangover |
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John Urbanich
Sun Papers |
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A Serious Man |
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The Hurt Locker |
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Precious |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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(500) Days of Summer |
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The Road |
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Invictus |
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The Messenger |
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Star Trek |
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Anvil! The Story of Anvil |
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Billups Allen | Linda Barnard | Edward Douglas | Kevin Laforest | Matthew Lucas | Kim Morgan | Shlomo Schwartzberg | Scott Tobias | John Urbanich | Steve Warren
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, 12, 2012, 24 City, 35 Shots of Rum, A Prophet, A Serious Man, A Single Man, A Town Called Panic, Adventureland, Afterschool, An Education, Antichrist, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Avatar, Away We Go, Bad Lieutenant, Beeswax, Big Fan, Bright Star, Broken Embraces, Bronson, Brothers, Bruno, Burma VJ, Capitalism: A Love Story, Cheri, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Collapse, Coraline, Crank: High Voltage, Crazy Heart, Departures, Disgrace, District 9, Drag Me to Hell, Duplicity, Everlasting Moments, Every Little Step, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Frontier of Dawn, Funny People, Gommorah, Good Hair, Goodbye Solo, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, House of the Devil, Humpday, Hunger, I Killed My Mother, I Love You Man, I'm Gonna Explode, Il Divo, Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, In the Loop, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julia, Julie & Julia, Knight and Day, Knowing, La Danse, Lake Tahoe, Liverpool, Loren Cass, Lorna's Silence, Mary & Max, Me and Orson Welles, Moon, Mother, Mystery Team, Nine, O'Horten, Of Time and the City, Paradise, Paranormal Activity, Passing Strange, Phoebe in Wonderland, Pirate Radio, Police Adjective, Pontypool, Ponyo, Precious, Princess and the Frog, Privates Live of Pippa Lee, Public Enemies, Red Cliff, Revanche, Seraphine, Serbis, Sherlock Holmes, Silent Light, Sin Nombre, Sita Sings the Blues, Somers Town, Star Trek, State of Play, Still Walking, Sugar, Summer Hours, Sunshine Cleaning, Taking Woodstock, Tetro, The Baader Meinhof Complex, The Beaches of Agnes, The Blind Side, The Brothers Bloom, The Cove, The Hangover, The Headless Woman, The Hurt Locker, The Informant, The Limits of Control, The Lovely Bones, The Maid, The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Messenger, The Road, The Soloist, The White Ribbon, Thirst, Three Monkeys, Tulpaan, Two Lovers, Up, Up in the Air, Waltz with Bashir, Watchmen, Where the Wild Things Are, World's Greatest Dad, You the Living
Posted in Awards Watch, The Top Tens - Critics Pages | Comments Off on Page 8
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Bob Strauss
LA Daily News |
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Inglorious Basterds |
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Antichirst |
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Thirst |
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The Secret of the Grain | 35 Shots of Rum |
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The White Ribbon |
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In the Loop |
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The Hurt Locker | The Messenger |
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Visual Acoustics |
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Up in the Air |
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Funny People |
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Peter Howell
Toronto Star |
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The Hurt Locker |
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Up in the Air |
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The White Ribbon |
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The Cove |
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An Education |
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The Hangover |
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Coraline |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox |
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A Serious Man |
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Todd Gilchrist
Cinematical |
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Hunger |
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A Serious Man |
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Summer Hours |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox |
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Goodbye Solo |
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Star Trek |
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The Cove |
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Somers Town |
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Avatar |
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Andrew O’Hehir
Salon |
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Hunger |
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Bronson |
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Il Divo |
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A Serious Man |
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The White Ribbon |
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The Limits of Control |
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Serbis |
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35 Shots of Rum |
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Gomorrah |
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The Headless Woman |
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Marc Mohan
The Oregonian |
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Hunger |
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A Serious Man |
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Summer Hours |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox |
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Goodbye Solo |
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Star Trek |
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The Cove |
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Somers Town |
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Avatar |
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Mike Russell
The Oregonian |
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In the Loop |
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A Serious Man |
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Star Trek |
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Whip It |
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Drag Me to Hell |
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Moon |
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District 9 |
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Bad Lieutenant |
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Stan Hall
The Oregonian |
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Bad Lieutenant |
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Gomorrah |
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Broken Embraces |
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The Beaches of Agnes |
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Still Walking |
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Passing Strange |
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Seraphine |
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Revanche |
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Anvil! The Story of Anvil |
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Silent Light |
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Shawn Levy
The Oregonian |
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An Education |
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The Beaches of Agnes |
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Avatar | Star Trek |
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A Serious Man |
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The Damned United |
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Broken Embraces |
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Revanche |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox | Coraline |
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The Lovely Bones |
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Up in the Air |
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Matt Brunson
Creative Loafing |
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Up in the Air |
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A Serious Man |
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An Education |
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Up |
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(500) Days of Summer |
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Bright Star |
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In the Loop |
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The Messenger |
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Not Quite Hollywood |
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Star Trek |
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Chris Hewitt
Pioneer Press |
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Up |
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Chaser |
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Every Little Step |
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The White Ribbon |
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Where the Wild Things Are |
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Orphan |
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The Hurt Locker |
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State of Play |
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Antichrist |
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District 9 |
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Matt Brunson | Todd Gilchrist | Stan Hall | Chris Hewitt | Peter Howell | Shawn Levy | Marc Mohan | Andrew O’Hehir | Mike Russell | Bob Strauss
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, 12, 2012, 24 City, 35 Shots of Rum, A Prophet, A Serious Man, A Single Man, A Town Called Panic, Adventureland, Afterschool, An Education, Antichrist, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Avatar, Away We Go, Bad Lieutenant, Beeswax, Big Fan, Bright Star, Broken Embraces, Bronson, Brothers, Bruno, Burma VJ, Capitalism: A Love Story, Cheri, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Collapse, Coraline, Crank: High Voltage, Crazy Heart, Departures, Disgrace, District 9, Drag Me to Hell, Duplicity, Everlasting Moments, Every Little Step, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Frontier of Dawn, Funny People, Gommorah, Good Hair, Goodbye Solo, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, House of the Devil, Humpday, Hunger, I Killed My Mother, I Love You Man, I'm Gonna Explode, Il Divo, Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, In the Loop, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julia, Julie & Julia, Knight and Day, Knowing, La Danse, Lake Tahoe, Liverpool, Loren Cass, Lorna's Silence, Mary & Max, Me and Orson Welles, Moon, Mother, Mystery Team, Nine, O'Horten, Of Time and the City, Paradise, Paranormal Activity, Passing Strange, Phoebe in Wonderland, Pirate Radio, Police Adjective, Pontypool, Ponyo, Precious, Princess and the Frog, Privates Live of Pippa Lee, Public Enemies, Red Cliff, Revanche, Seraphine, Serbis, Sherlock Holmes, Silent Light, Sin Nombre, Sita Sings the Blues, Somers Town, Star Trek, State of Play, Still Walking, Sugar, Summer Hours, Sunshine Cleaning, Taking Woodstock, Tetro, The Baader Meinhof Complex, The Beaches of Agnes, The Blind Side, The Brothers Bloom, The Cove, The Hangover, The Headless Woman, The Hurt Locker, The Informant, The Limits of Control, The Lovely Bones, The Maid, The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Messenger, The Road, The Soloist, The White Ribbon, Thirst, Three Monkeys, Tulpaan, Two Lovers, Up, Up in the Air, Waltz with Bashir, Watchmen, Where the Wild Things Are, World's Greatest Dad, You the Living
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Kent Tentschert
Webster-Kirkwood Times |
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(500) Days of Summer |
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Avatar |
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Crazy Heart |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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The Lovely Bones |
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The Messenger |
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Precious |
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The Road |
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Sherlock Holmes |
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Up/Up in the Air |
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Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun |
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Bad Lieutenant |
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Crazy Heart |
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An Education |
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The Hurt Locker |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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Knowing |
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Precious |
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A Serious Man |
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Up in the Air |
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The White Ribbon |
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Joe Neumaier
New York Daily News |
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Up in the Air |
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The Hurt Locker |
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Where the Wild Things Are |
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Crazy Heart |
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A Serious Man |
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Star Trek |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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Duplicity |
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An Education |
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District 9 |
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Ann Hornaday
Washington Post |
1 |
The Hurt Locker |
2 |
Up in the Air |
3 |
Precious |
4 |
Sugar |
5 |
The Baader Meinhof Complex |
6 |
Anvil! The Story of Anvil |
7 |
Star Trek |
8 |
District 9 |
9 |
Where the Wild Things Are |
10 |
Humpday |
|
|
|
|
Phoenix Film Critics |
1 |
Avatar |
2 |
District 9 |
3 |
(500) Days of Summer |
4 |
The Hurt Locker |
5 |
Inglourious Basterds |
6 |
Precious |
7 |
Sherlock Holmes |
8 |
Star Trek |
9 |
Up |
10 |
Up in the Air |
|
|
Greg Ellwood
HitFix |
1 |
Precious |
2 |
The Hurt Locker |
3 |
Inglourious Basterds |
4 |
In the Loop |
5 |
Avatar |
6 |
A Prophet |
7 |
District 9 |
8 |
A Single Man |
9 |
Up in the Air |
10 |
Bad Lieutenant |
|
|
|
|
Brian Johnson
MacLeans |
1 |
Up in the Air |
2 |
Fantastic Mr. Fox |
3 |
An Education |
4 |
The Road |
5 |
Bright Star |
6 |
A Serious Man |
7 |
Inglourious Basterds |
8 |
The Hurt Locker |
9 |
The Cove |
10 |
Avatar |
|
|
Tim Lammers
WCVB TV |
1 |
Up |
2 |
Inglourious Basterds |
3 |
Avatar |
4 |
Precious |
5 |
Star Trek |
6 |
Up in the Air |
7 |
District 9 |
8 |
Invictus |
9 |
Nine |
10 |
The Hurt Locker |
|
|
|
|
Stephen Farber
The Hollywood Reporter |
1 |
Up in the Air |
2 |
The Last Station |
3 |
The Hurt Locker |
4 |
Precious |
5 |
The Cove |
6 |
The Princess and the Frog |
7 |
My One and Only |
8 |
Lemon Tree |
9 |
Adam |
10 |
Seraphine |
|
|
Frank Scheck
The Hollywood Reporter |
1 |
Up in the Air |
2 |
The Hurt Locker |
3 |
Precious |
4 |
Up |
5 |
Inglourious Basterds |
6 |
A Single Man |
7 |
(500) Days of Summer |
8 |
Invictus |
9 |
The Messenger |
10 |
The Last Station |
|
|
|
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Roger Ebert | Greg Ellwood | Steven Farber | Ann Hornaday | Brian Johnson | Tim Lammers | Joe Neumaier | Phoenix Film Critics | Frank Scheck | Ken Tentschert
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, 12, 2012, 24 City, 35 Shots of Rum, A Prophet, A Serious Man, A Single Man, A Town Called Panic, Adventureland, Afterschool, An Education, Antichrist, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Avatar, Away We Go, Bad Lieutenant, Beeswax, Big Fan, Bright Star, Broken Embraces, Bronson, Brothers, Bruno, Burma VJ, Capitalism: A Love Story, Cheri, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Collapse, Coraline, Crank: High Voltage, Crazy Heart, Departures, Disgrace, District 9, Drag Me to Hell, Duplicity, Everlasting Moments, Every Little Step, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Frontier of Dawn, Funny People, Gommorah, Good Hair, Goodbye Solo, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, House of the Devil, Humpday, Hunger, I Killed My Mother, I Love You Man, I'm Gonna Explode, Il Divo, Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, In the Loop, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julia, Julie & Julia, Knight and Day, Knowing, La Danse, Lake Tahoe, Liverpool, Loren Cass, Lorna's Silence, Mary & Max, Me and Orson Welles, Moon, Mother, Mystery Team, Nine, O'Horten, Of Time and the City, Paradise, Paranormal Activity, Passing Strange, Phoebe in Wonderland, Pirate Radio, Police Adjective, Pontypool, Ponyo, Precious, Princess and the Frog, Privates Live of Pippa Lee, Public Enemies, Red Cliff, Revanche, Seraphine, Serbis, Sherlock Holmes, Silent Light, Sin Nombre, Sita Sings the Blues, Somers Town, Star Trek, State of Play, Still Walking, Sugar, Summer Hours, Sunshine Cleaning, Taking Woodstock, Tetro, The Baader Meinhof Complex, The Beaches of Agnes, The Blind Side, The Brothers Bloom, The Cove, The Hangover, The Headless Woman, The Hurt Locker, The Informant, The Limits of Control, The Lovely Bones, The Maid, The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Messenger, The Road, The Soloist, The White Ribbon, Thirst, Three Monkeys, Tulpaan, Two Lovers, Up, Up in the Air, Waltz with Bashir, Watchmen, Where the Wild Things Are, World's Greatest Dad, You the Living
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Ray Bennett
The Hollywood Reporter |
1 |
Up in the Air |
2 |
The Hurt Locker |
3 |
Tulpan |
4 |
Bright Star |
5 |
Moon |
6 |
Summer Hours |
7 |
Up |
8 |
Star Trek |
9 |
Broken Embraces |
10 |
Avatar |
|
|
Michael Rechtshaffen
The Hollywood Reporter |
1 |
Up in the Air |
2 |
The Hurt Locker |
3 |
Up |
4 |
An Education |
5 |
Everlasting Moments |
6 |
Coraline |
7 |
The Cove |
8 |
Broken Embraces |
9 |
The Hangover |
10 |
Avatar |
|
|
|
|
Kirk Honeycutt
The Hollywood Reporter |
1 |
The White Ribbon |
2 |
Up |
3 |
Precious |
4 |
The Hurt Locker |
5 |
District 9 |
6 |
Avatar |
7 |
The Cove |
8 |
In the Loop |
9 |
A Serious Man |
10 |
Up in the Air |
|
|
Sheri Linden
The Hollywood Reporter |
1 |
The White Ribbon |
2 |
District 9 |
3 |
Police, Adjective |
4 |
Summer Hours |
5 |
Bright Star |
6 |
Fantastic Mr. Fox |
7 |
Big Fan |
8 |
Of Time and the City |
9 |
The Cove |
10 |
Up |
|
|
|
|
Oklahoma
Film Critics |
1 |
The Hurt Locker |
2 |
Up in the Air |
3 |
Inglourious Basterds |
4 |
(500) of Summer |
5 |
Precious |
6 |
A Serious Man |
7 |
Up |
8 |
District 9 |
9 |
Fantastic Mr. Fox |
10 |
Avatar |
|
|
Sean O’Connell
FilmCritic.com |
1 |
Up |
2 |
(500) Days of Summer |
3 |
Up in the Air |
4 |
This is It |
5 |
District 9 |
6 |
A Serious Man |
7 |
Away We Go |
8 |
Harry Potter: Half-Blood Prince |
9 |
Star Trek |
10 |
Big Fan |
|
|
|
|
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly |
1 |
The Hurt Locker |
2 |
Up |
3 |
Coraline |
4 |
Up in the Air |
5 |
Where the Wild Things Are |
6 |
Fantastic Mr. Fox |
7 |
A Serious Man |
8 |
Big Fan |
9 |
District 9 |
10 |
Everlasting Moments |
|
|
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly |
1 |
Up in the Air |
2 |
Inglourious Basterds |
3 |
Precious |
4 |
I Love You, Man |
5 |
Food, Inc |
6 |
(500) Days of Summer |
7 |
Fantastic Mr. Fox |
8 |
The Girlfriend Experience |
9 |
The Hurt Locker |
10 |
Adventureland |
|
|
|
|
Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune |
1 |
Up |
2 |
Where the Wild Things Are |
3 |
Waltz with Bashir |
4 |
Of Time and the City |
5 |
The Hurt Locker |
6 |
A Serious Man |
7 |
In the Loop |
8 |
Sugar |
9 |
Me & Orson Welles |
10 |
A Single Man |
|
|
Houston Film Critics |
1 |
The Hurt Locker |
2 |
Up in the Air |
3 |
Star Trek |
4 |
Precious |
5 |
Inglourious Basterds |
6 |
Up |
7 |
(500) Days of Summer |
8 |
Avatar |
9 |
Invictus |
10 |
District 9 |
|
|
|
|
Ray Bennett | Owen Gleiberman | Kirk Honeycutt | Houston Film Critics | Sheri Linden | Sean O’Connell | Oklahoma Film Critics | Michael Phillips | Michael Rechtshaffen | Lisa Scwharzbaum
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, 12, 2012, 24 City, 35 Shots of Rum, A Prophet, A Serious Man, A Single Man, A Town Called Panic, Adventureland, Afterschool, An Education, Antichrist, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Avatar, Away We Go, Bad Lieutenant, Beeswax, Big Fan, Bright Star, Broken Embraces, Bronson, Brothers, Bruno, Burma VJ, Capitalism: A Love Story, Cheri, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Collapse, Coraline, Crank: High Voltage, Crazy Heart, Departures, Disgrace, District 9, Drag Me to Hell, Duplicity, Everlasting Moments, Every Little Step, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Frontier of Dawn, Funny People, Gommorah, Good Hair, Goodbye Solo, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, House of the Devil, Humpday, Hunger, I Killed My Mother, I Love You Man, I'm Gonna Explode, Il Divo, Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, In the Loop, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julia, Julie & Julia, Knight and Day, Knowing, La Danse, Lake Tahoe, Liverpool, Loren Cass, Lorna's Silence, Mary & Max, Me and Orson Welles, Moon, Mother, Mystery Team, Nine, O'Horten, Of Time and the City, Paradise, Paranormal Activity, Passing Strange, Phoebe in Wonderland, Pirate Radio, Police Adjective, Pontypool, Ponyo, Precious, Princess and the Frog, Privates Live of Pippa Lee, Public Enemies, Red Cliff, Revanche, Seraphine, Serbis, Sherlock Holmes, Silent Light, Sin Nombre, Sita Sings the Blues, Somers Town, Star Trek, State of Play, Still Walking, Sugar, Summer Hours, Sunshine Cleaning, Taking Woodstock, Tetro, The Baader Meinhof Complex, The Beaches of Agnes, The Blind Side, The Brothers Bloom, The Cove, The Hangover, The Headless Woman, The Hurt Locker, The Informant, The Limits of Control, The Lovely Bones, The Maid, The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Messenger, The Road, The Soloist, The White Ribbon, Thirst, Three Monkeys, Tulpaan, Two Lovers, Up, Up in the Air, Waltz with Bashir, Watchmen, Where the Wild Things Are, World's Greatest Dad, You the Living
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
AFI | John Anderson | Jackie Cooper | Dallas Ft. Worth Film Critics | Houston Film Critics | Drew McWeeny | Joe Morgenstern | Stephen Schaefer | Betsy Sharkey | Dana Stevens
John Anderson
IndieWIRE |
1 |
Fantastic Mr. Fox |
2 |
Precious |
3 |
Food Inc |
4 |
Star Trek |
5 |
Anvil! The Story of Anvil |
6 |
The Hurt Locker |
7 |
The Windmill Movie |
8 |
Bronson |
9 |
Burma VJ |
10 |
The Messenger |
|
|
DFW Film Critics |
1 |
Up in the Air |
2 |
The Hurt Locker |
3 |
Precious |
4 |
Up |
5 |
An Education |
6 |
A Serious Man |
7 |
Inglourious Basterds |
8 |
District 9 |
9 |
Avatar |
10 |
Fantastic Mr. Fox |
|
|
|
|
AFI |
1 |
Coraline |
2 |
The Hangover |
3 |
The Hurt Locker |
4 |
The Messenger |
5 |
Precious |
6 |
A Serious Man |
7 |
A Single Man |
8 |
Sugar |
9 |
Up |
10 |
Up in the Air |
|
|
Houston Film Critics |
1 |
The Hurt Locker |
2 |
Up in the Air |
3 |
Star Trek |
4 |
Precious |
5 |
Inglourious Basterds |
6 |
Up |
7 |
(500) Days of Summer |
8 |
Avatar |
9 |
Invictus |
10 |
District 9 |
|
|
|
|
Betsy Sharkey
Los Angeles Times |
1 |
Up in the Air |
2 |
Precious |
3 |
The Hurt Locker |
4 |
The Beaches of Agnes |
5 |
Fantastic Mr. Fox |
6 |
An Education |
7 |
District 9 |
8 |
Bright Star |
9 |
A Single Man |
10 |
Two Lovers |
|
|
Jackie Cooper
WPGA-TV |
1 |
Avatar |
2 |
Nine |
3 |
Brothers |
4 |
The Hurt Locker |
5 |
The Blind Side |
6 |
Inglourious Basterds |
7 |
Invictus |
8 |
Star Trek |
9 |
The Last Station |
10 |
The Damned United |
|
|
|
|
Dana Stevens
Slate |
1 |
Adventureland |
2 |
The Beaches of Agnes |
3 |
Crazy Heart |
4 |
Drag Me To Hell |
5 |
Fantastic Mr. Fox |
6 |
The Hurt Locker |
7 |
In the Loop |
8 |
Lorna’s Silence |
9 |
The maid |
10 |
Ponyo |
|
|
Stephen Schaefer
Boston Herald |
1 |
An Education |
2 |
Inglourious Basterds |
3 |
Up in the Air |
4 |
Two Lovers |
5 |
The Hurt Locker |
6 |
The White Ribbon |
7 |
Precious |
8 |
Brothers |
9 |
The Young Victoria |
10 |
Avatar |
|
|
|
|
Joe Morgenstern
The Wall Street Journal |
1 |
The Hurt Locker |
2 |
An Education |
3 |
Avatar |
4 |
Crazy Heart |
5 |
District 9 |
6 |
Precious |
7 |
Sin Nombre |
8 |
Summer Hours |
9 |
Up in the Air |
10 |
Where the Wild Things Are |
|
|
Drew McWeeny
HitFix |
1 |
Enter the Void |
2 |
Where the Wild Things Are |
3 |
Inglourious Basterds |
4 |
Fantastic Mr. Fox |
5 |
A Serious Man |
6 |
District 9 |
7 |
World’s Greatest Dad |
8 |
Up in the Air |
9 |
Avatar |
10 |
In the Loop |
|
|
|
|
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, 12, 2012, 24 City, 35 Shots of Rum, A Prophet, A Serious Man, A Single Man, A Town Called Panic, Adventureland, Afterschool, An Education, Antichrist, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Avatar, Away We Go, Bad Lieutenant, Beeswax, Big Fan, Bright Star, Broken Embraces, Bronson, Brothers, Bruno, Burma VJ, Capitalism: A Love Story, Cheri, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Collapse, Coraline, Crank: High Voltage, Crazy Heart, Departures, Disgrace, District 9, Drag Me to Hell, Duplicity, Everlasting Moments, Every Little Step, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Frontier of Dawn, Funny People, Gommorah, Good Hair, Goodbye Solo, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, House of the Devil, Humpday, Hunger, I Killed My Mother, I Love You Man, I'm Gonna Explode, Il Divo, Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, In the Loop, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julia, Julie & Julia, Knight and Day, Knowing, La Danse, Lake Tahoe, Liverpool, Loren Cass, Lorna's Silence, Mary & Max, Me and Orson Welles, Moon, Mother, Mystery Team, Nine, O'Horten, Of Time and the City, Paradise, Paranormal Activity, Passing Strange, Phoebe in Wonderland, Pirate Radio, Police Adjective, Pontypool, Ponyo, Precious, Princess and the Frog, Privates Live of Pippa Lee, Public Enemies, Red Cliff, Revanche, Seraphine, Serbis, Sherlock Holmes, Silent Light, Sin Nombre, Sita Sings the Blues, Somers Town, Star Trek, State of Play, Still Walking, Sugar, Summer Hours, Sunshine Cleaning, Taking Woodstock, Tetro, The Baader Meinhof Complex, The Beaches of Agnes, The Blind Side, The Brothers Bloom, The Cove, The Hangover, The Headless Woman, The Hurt Locker, The Informant, The Limits of Control, The Lovely Bones, The Maid, The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Messenger, The Road, The Soloist, The White Ribbon, Thirst, Three Monkeys, Tulpaan, Two Lovers, Up, Up in the Air, Waltz with Bashir, Watchmen, Where the Wild Things Are, World's Greatest Dad, You the Living
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Kathleen Murphy
MSN |
1 |
The Hurt Locker |
2 |
Inglourious Basterds |
3 |
A Serious Man |
4 |
Liverpool |
5 |
Bright Star |
6 |
35 Rhums |
7 |
Summer Hours |
8 |
Still Walking |
9 |
Up in the Air |
10 |
Bad Lieutenant |
|
|
Mary Pols
MSN |
1 |
The Hurt Locker |
2 |
The White Ribbon |
3 |
Up in the Air | Adventureland |
4 |
Up | Coraline |
5 |
A Serious Man |
6 |
Beaches of Agnes |
7 |
Where the Wild Things Are |
8 |
The Messenger |
9 |
Fantastic Mr. Fox |
10 |
An Education |
|
|
|
|
James Rocchi
MSN |
1 |
The Hurt Locker |
2 |
Fantastic Mr. Fox |
3 |
The White Ribbon |
4 |
Anvil! The Story of Anvil |
5 |
A Serious Man |
6 |
In the Loop |
7 |
Up in the Air |
8 |
The Messenger |
9 |
The Maid |
10 |
The Brothers Bloom |
|
|
Glenn Whipp
MSN |
1 |
The Hurt locker |
2 |
Fantastic Mr. Fox |
3 |
Up |
4 |
A Serious Man |
5 |
Where the Wild Things Are |
6 |
Tulpan |
7 |
Bright Star |
8 |
Coraline |
9 |
35 Shots of Rum |
10 |
In the Loop |
|
|
|
|
Peter Debruge
Variety |
1 |
In the Loop |
2 |
The Sun |
3 |
Avatar |
4 |
Summer Hours |
5 |
The Cove |
6 |
Two Lovers |
7 |
Antichrist |
8 |
Ponyo |
9 |
District 9 |
10 |
Sugar |
|
|
Steve Erickson
Gay City News |
1 |
The Limits of Control |
2 |
Fantastic Mr. Fox |
3 |
The Sun |
4 |
Duplicity |
5 |
Tokyo Sonata |
6 |
Import Export |
7 |
Anvil! The Story of Anvil |
8 |
Police, Adjective |
9 |
Night and Day |
10 |
The Headless Woman |
|
|
|
|
Susan Gerhard
SF360.org |
1 |
Three Monkeys |
2 |
Tokyo Sonata |
3 |
Tyson |
4 |
Where the Wild Things Are |
5 |
35 Shots of Rum |
6 |
The Maid |
7 |
(500) Days of Summer |
8 |
District 9 |
9 |
An Education |
10 |
Funny People |
|
|
Robert Horton
The Herald |
1 |
A Serious Man |
2 |
You, the Living |
3 |
Inglourious Basterds |
4 |
Up |
5 |
The Hurt Locker |
6 |
Summer Hours |
7 |
35 Shots of Rum |
8 |
Liverpool |
9 |
Sunshine Cleaning |
10 |
Duplicity |
|
|
|
|
J.R. Jones
Chicago Reader |
1 |
Summer Hours |
2 |
The Hurt Locker |
3 |
You, the Living |
4 |
In the Loop |
5 |
The Baader Meinhof Complex |
6 |
The Class |
7 |
Goodbye Solo |
8 |
World’s Greatest Dad |
9 |
Fantastic Mr. Fox |
10 |
The Maid |
|
|
Eric Kohn
IndieWIRE |
1 |
Sita Sings the Blues |
2 |
Two Lovers |
3 |
The Girlfriend Experience |
4 |
The Hurt Locker |
5 |
Humpday |
6 |
Medicine for Melancholy |
7 |
Adventureland |
8 |
A Serious Man |
9 |
Tony Manero |
10 |
In the Loop |
|
|
|
|
Kathleen Murphy | Mary Pols | James Rocchi | Glenn Whipp | Peter Debruge | Steve Erickson | Susan Gerhard | Robert Horton | JR Jones | Eric Kohn
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, 12, 2012, 24 City, 35 Shots of Rum, A Prophet, A Serious Man, A Single Man, A Town Called Panic, Adventureland, Afterschool, An Education, Antichrist, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Avatar, Away We Go, Bad Lieutenant, Beeswax, Big Fan, Bright Star, Broken Embraces, Bronson, Brothers, Bruno, Burma VJ, Capitalism: A Love Story, Cheri, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Collapse, Coraline, Crank: High Voltage, Crazy Heart, Departures, Disgrace, District 9, Drag Me to Hell, Duplicity, Everlasting Moments, Every Little Step, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Frontier of Dawn, Funny People, Gommorah, Good Hair, Goodbye Solo, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, House of the Devil, Humpday, Hunger, I Killed My Mother, I Love You Man, I'm Gonna Explode, Il Divo, Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, In the Loop, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julia, Julie & Julia, Knight and Day, Knowing, La Danse, Lake Tahoe, Liverpool, Loren Cass, Lorna's Silence, Mary & Max, Me and Orson Welles, Moon, Mother, Mystery Team, Nine, O'Horten, Of Time and the City, Paradise, Paranormal Activity, Passing Strange, Phoebe in Wonderland, Pirate Radio, Police Adjective, Pontypool, Ponyo, Precious, Princess and the Frog, Privates Live of Pippa Lee, Public Enemies, Red Cliff, Revanche, Seraphine, Serbis, Sherlock Holmes, Silent Light, Sin Nombre, Sita Sings the Blues, Somers Town, Star Trek, State of Play, Still Walking, Sugar, Summer Hours, Sunshine Cleaning, Taking Woodstock, Tetro, The Baader Meinhof Complex, The Beaches of Agnes, The Blind Side, The Brothers Bloom, The Cove, The Hangover, The Headless Woman, The Hurt Locker, The Informant, The Limits of Control, The Lovely Bones, The Maid, The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Messenger, The Road, The Soloist, The White Ribbon, Thirst, Three Monkeys, Tulpaan, Two Lovers, Up, Up in the Air, Waltz with Bashir, Watchmen, Where the Wild Things Are, World's Greatest Dad, You the Living
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Richard T. Jameson
MSN |
1 |
A Serious Man |
2 |
The Hurt Locker |
3 |
Taking Woodstock |
4 |
35 Shots of Rum |
5 |
Bright Star |
6 |
Liverpool |
7 |
Up in the Air |
8 |
Inglourious Basterds | Public Enemies |
9 |
(500) Days of Summer |
10 |
Bad Lieutenant |
|
|
Don Kaye
MSN |
1 |
The Hurt Locker |
2 |
A Serious Man |
3 |
District 9 |
4 |
Anvil! The Story of Anvil |
5 |
In the Loop |
6 |
An Education |
7 |
Inglourious Basterds |
8 |
Coraline |
9 |
The Road |
10 |
Up in the Air | Watchmen |
|
|
|
|
Anne Thompson
IndieWire |
1 |
Red Cliff |
2 |
Bright Star |
3 |
A Serious Man |
4 |
A Prophet |
5 |
Up |
6 |
Summer Hours |
7 |
Coraline |
8 |
The Hurt Locker |
9 |
Up in the Air |
10 |
An Education |
|
|
Shawn Edwards
FOX-TV |
1 |
The Hangover |
2 |
Avatar |
3 |
Nine |
4 |
(500) Days of Summer |
5 |
Precious |
6 |
Where the Wild Things Are |
7 |
Up in the Air |
8 |
District 9 |
9 |
Up |
10 |
The Soloist |
|
|
|
|
Anthony Lane
New Yorker |
1 |
Anvil! The Story of Anvil |
2 |
Cloudy…Chance of Meatballs |
3 |
Coraline |
4 |
Fantastic Mr. Fox |
5 |
Gommorrah |
6 |
Star Trek |
7 |
The White Ribbon |
8 |
Up |
9 |
Up in the Air |
|
|
|
|
Richard Corliss
Time Magazine |
1 |
Princess and the Frog |
2 |
Up |
3 |
Fantastic Mr. Fox |
4 |
The Hurt Locker |
5 |
Up in the Air |
6 |
The White Ribbon |
7 |
A Single Man |
8 |
Of Time and the City |
9 |
District 9 |
10 |
Thirst |
|
|
|
|
Dave McCoy
MSN |
1 |
The Hurt Locker |
2 |
A Serious Man |
3 |
The White Ribbon |
4 |
Fantastic Mr. Fox | Where the Wild Things Are |
5 |
Bad Lieutenant |
6 |
Anvil! The Story of Anvil |
7 |
In the Loop |
8 |
Still Wallking |
9 |
The Maid |
10 |
Taking Woodstock |
|
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Kim Morgan
MSN |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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Bad Lieutenant |
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A Serious Man |
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Antichrist |
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Observe and Report |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox |
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Thirst |
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The Hurt Locker |
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The Road |
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Broken Embraces |
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Jim Emerson
MSN |
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A Serious Man |
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The Hurt Locker |
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Liverpool |
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35 Shots of Rum |
5 |
Inglourious Basterds |
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The Headless Woman |
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Police, Adjective |
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Summer Hours |
9 |
The White Ribbon |
10 |
Goodbye Solo / The Limits of Control / The Informant! / Watchmen / Fantastic Mr. Fox
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Sight & Sound
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A Prophet |
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The Hurt Locker |
2 |
35 Shots of Rum |
4 |
The White Ribbon |
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Let the Right One In |
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Up |
6 |
White Material |
8 |
Bright Star |
8 |
Antichrist |
10 |
Inglourious Basterds |
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Anne Thompson | Shawn Edwards | Anthony Lane | Richard Corliss | Sight & Sound | Jim Emerson | Richard T. Jameson | Don Kaye | Dave McCoy | Kim Morgan
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, 12, 2012, 24 City, 35 Shots of Rum, A Prophet, A Serious Man, A Single Man, A Town Called Panic, Adventureland, Afterschool, An Education, Antichrist, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Avatar, Away We Go, Bad Lieutenant, Beeswax, Big Fan, Bright Star, Broken Embraces, Bronson, Brothers, Bruno, Burma VJ, Capitalism: A Love Story, Cheri, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Collapse, Coraline, Crank: High Voltage, Crazy Heart, Departures, Disgrace, District 9, Drag Me to Hell, Duplicity, Everlasting Moments, Every Little Step, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Frontier of Dawn, Funny People, Gommorah, Good Hair, Goodbye Solo, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, House of the Devil, Humpday, Hunger, I Killed My Mother, I Love You Man, I'm Gonna Explode, Il Divo, Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, In the Loop, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julia, Julie & Julia, Knight and Day, Knowing, La Danse, Lake Tahoe, Liverpool, Loren Cass, Lorna's Silence, Mary & Max, Me and Orson Welles, Moon, Mother, Mystery Team, Nine, O'Horten, Of Time and the City, Paradise, Paranormal Activity, Passing Strange, Phoebe in Wonderland, Pirate Radio, Police Adjective, Pontypool, Ponyo, Precious, Princess and the Frog, Privates Live of Pippa Lee, Public Enemies, Red Cliff, Revanche, Seraphine, Serbis, Sherlock Holmes, Silent Light, Sin Nombre, Sita Sings the Blues, Somers Town, Star Trek, State of Play, Still Walking, Sugar, Summer Hours, Sunshine Cleaning, Taking Woodstock, Tetro, The Baader Meinhof Complex, The Beaches of Agnes, The Blind Side, The Brothers Bloom, The Cove, The Hangover, The Headless Woman, The Hurt Locker, The Informant, The Limits of Control, The Lovely Bones, The Maid, The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Messenger, The Road, The Soloist, The White Ribbon, Thirst, Three Monkeys, Tulpaan, Two Lovers, Up, Up in the Air, Waltz with Bashir, Watchmen, Where the Wild Things Are, World's Greatest Dad, You the Living
Posted in Awards Watch, The Top Tens - Critics Pages | Comments Off on Page 2
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Phil Villarreal OK! Magazine |
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(500) Days of Summer |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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Precious |
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Crazy Heart |
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A Serious Man |
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Me & Orson Welles |
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Princess & the Frog |
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Were the World Mine |
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Up |
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Kristopher Tapley In Contention |
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A Serious Man |
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Up in the Air |
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Antichrist |
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The Cove |
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Avatar |
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Precious |
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An Education |
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Mary & Max |
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Bronson |
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The Lovely Bones |
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Lou Lumenick New York Post |
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Up in the Air |
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Up |
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A Serious Man |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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Avatar |
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Invictus |
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Precious |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox |
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In the Loop |
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Ponyo |
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Kyle Smith New York Post |
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Up |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox |
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Watchmen |
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Funny People |
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Up in the Air |
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An Education |
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In the Loop |
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Of Time and the City |
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Shall We Kiss? |
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Still Walking |
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The Messenger |
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The Hurt Locker |
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The Headless Woman |
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An Education |
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Summer Hours |
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Disgrace |
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Peter Travers Rolling Stone |
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Up |
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District 9 |
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The Messenger |
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David Denby New Yorker |
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Funny People |
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Adventureland |
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Up |
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The Last Station |
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Me and Orson Welles |
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National Board of Review |
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(500) Days of Summer |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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Invictus |
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Star Trek |
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Austin Film Critics |
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Moon | The Messenger |
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Sean Axmaker MSN |
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A Serious Man |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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Summer Hours |
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Of Time and the City |
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Phil Villarreal | Kristopher Tapley | Lou Lumenick | Kyle Smith | Stephen Holden | Peter Travers | David Denby | National Board of Review | Austin Film Critics | Sean Axmaker
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, 12, 2012, 24 City, 35 Shots of Rum, A Prophet, A Serious Man, A Single Man, A Town Called Panic, Adventureland, Afterschool, An Education, Antichrist, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Avatar, Away We Go, Bad Lieutenant, Beeswax, Big Fan, Bright Star, Broken Embraces, Bronson, Brothers, Bruno, Burma VJ, Capitalism: A Love Story, Cheri, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Collapse, Coraline, Crank: High Voltage, Crazy Heart, Departures, Disgrace, District 9, Drag Me to Hell, Duplicity, Everlasting Moments, Every Little Step, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Frontier of Dawn, Funny People, Gommorah, Good Hair, Goodbye Solo, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, House of the Devil, Humpday, Hunger, I Killed My Mother, I Love You Man, I'm Gonna Explode, Il Divo, Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, In the Loop, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julia, Julie & Julia, Knight and Day, Knowing, La Danse, Lake Tahoe, Liverpool, Loren Cass, Lorna's Silence, Mary & Max, Me and Orson Welles, Moon, Mother, Mystery Team, Nine, O'Horten, Of Time and the City, Paradise, Paranormal Activity, Passing Strange, Phoebe in Wonderland, Pirate Radio, Police Adjective, Pontypool, Ponyo, Precious, Princess and the Frog, Privates Live of Pippa Lee, Public Enemies, Red Cliff, Revanche, Seraphine, Serbis, Sherlock Holmes, Silent Light, Sin Nombre, Sita Sings the Blues, Somers Town, Star Trek, State of Play, Still Walking, Sugar, Summer Hours, Sunshine Cleaning, Taking Woodstock, Tetro, The Baader Meinhof Complex, The Beaches of Agnes, The Blind Side, The Brothers Bloom, The Cove, The Hangover, The Headless Woman, The Hurt Locker, The Informant, The Limits of Control, The Lovely Bones, The Maid, The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Messenger, The Road, The Soloist, The White Ribbon, Thirst, Three Monkeys, Tulpaan, Two Lovers, Up, Up in the Air, Waltz with Bashir, Watchmen, Where the Wild Things Are, World's Greatest Dad, You the Living
Posted in Awards Watch, The Top Tens - Critics Pages | Comments Off on Page 1
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, 12, 2012, 24 City, 35 Shots of Rum, A Prophet, A Serious Man, A Single Man, A Town Called Panic, Adventureland, Afterschool, An Education, Antichrist, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Avatar, Away We Go, Bad Lieutenant, Beeswax, Big Fan, Bright Star, Broken Embraces, Bronson, Brothers, Bruno, Burma VJ, Capitalism: A Love Story, Cheri, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Collapse, Coraline, Crank: High Voltage, Crazy Heart, Departures, Disgrace, District 9, Drag Me to Hell, Duplicity, Everlasting Moments, Every Little Step, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Frontier of Dawn, Funny People, Gommorah, Good Hair, Goodbye Solo, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, House of the Devil, Humpday, Hunger, I Killed My Mother, I Love You Man, I'm Gonna Explode, Il Divo, Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, In the Loop, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julia, Julie & Julia, Knight and Day, Knowing, La Danse, Lake Tahoe, Liverpool, Loren Cass, Lorna's Silence, Mary & Max, Me and Orson Welles, Moon, Mother, Mystery Team, Nine, O'Horten, Of Time and the City, Paradise, Paranormal Activity, Passing Strange, Phoebe in Wonderland, Pirate Radio, Police Adjective, Pontypool, Ponyo, Precious, Princess and the Frog, Privates Live of Pippa Lee, Public Enemies, Red Cliff, Revanche, Seraphine, Serbis, Sherlock Holmes, Silent Light, Sin Nombre, Sita Sings the Blues, Somers Town, Star Trek, State of Play, Still Walking, Sugar, Summer Hours, Sunshine Cleaning, Taking Woodstock, Tetro, The Baader Meinhof Complex, The Beaches of Agnes, The Blind Side, The Brothers Bloom, The Cove, The Hangover, The Headless Woman, The Hurt Locker, The Informant, The Limits of Control, The Lovely Bones, The Maid, The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Messenger, The Road, The Soloist, The White Ribbon, Thirst, Three Monkeys, Tulpaan, Two Lovers, Up, Up in the Air, Waltz with Bashir, Watchmen, Where the Wild Things Are, World's Greatest Dad, You the Living
Posted in Awards Watch, The Top Tens | Comments Off on The Top Ten Chart for January 21, 2010
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
Tags: Avatar
Posted in Film Docket, misc | Comments Off on Avatar: 22 Minutes Behind The Scenes
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
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Tags: (500) Days of Summer, A Serious Man, A Single Man, Ajami, An Education, Avatar, Burma VJ, Coraline, Crazy Heart, District 9, El Secreto de Sus Ojos, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food, Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince, In the Loop, Inc., Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, It's Complicated, Julie & Julia, Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg & the Pentagon Papers, Nine, Paris 36, Precious, Sherlock Holmes, Star Trek, The Blind Side, The Cove, The Hurt Locker, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, The Milk of Sorrow, The Princess and the Frog, The Road, The Secret of Kells, The White Ribbon, The Young Victoria, This is It, Un Prophete, Up in the Air, Which Way Home
Posted in Awards Watch, Gurus o' Gold | Comments Off on January 14
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
BEST ACTRESS
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Meryl Streep – Julie and Julia |
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Carey Mulligan – An Education |
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Helen Mirren – The Last Station |
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Marion Cotillard – Nine |
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Gabourey Sidibe – Precious |
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Zoe Saldana – Avatar |
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Emily Blunt – The Young Victoria |
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BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
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Mo’Nique – Precious |
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Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air |
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Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air |
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Penelope Cruz – Nine |
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Julianne Moore – A Single Man |
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Susan Sarandon – The Lovely Bones |
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Tags: A Serious Man, A Single Man, An Education, Avatar, Crazy Heart, District 9, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julie & Julia, Nine, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, The Blind Side, The Hurt Locker, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, Up, Up in the Air
Posted in 20 Weeks to Oscar - Charts, Awards Watch | Comments Off on Best Actress Chart
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
BEST ACTOR
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Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart |
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George Clooney – Up in the Air |
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Morgan Freeman – Invictus |
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Colin Firth – A Single Man |
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Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker |
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Viggo Mortensen – The Road |
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Peter Sarsgaard – An Education |
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Tobey Maguire – Brothers |
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Christopher Plummer – The Last Station |
His proper category… could shift |
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
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Christopher Walz – Inglourious Basterds |
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Christopher Plummer – The Last Station |
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Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones |
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Alfred Molina – An Education |
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Woody Harrelson – The Messenger |
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Alec Baldwin – It’s Complicated |
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Peter Sarsgaard – An Education |
His proper category… could change |
Tags: A Serious Man, A Single Man, An Education, Avatar, Crazy Heart, District 9, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julie & Julia, Nine, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, The Blind Side, The Hurt Locker, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, Up, Up in the Air
Posted in 20 Weeks to Oscar - Charts, Awards Watch | Comments Off on Best Actor Chart
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
BEST DIRECTOR
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James Cameron
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Avatar |
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The Hurt Locker |
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Quentin Tarantino
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Clint Eastwood
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Rob Marshall
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Nine |
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Pete Docter
Bob Petersen
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Up |
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The Coen Bros. |
A Serious Man
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
BEST PICTURE
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Studio
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Director
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Stars |
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The Frontrunners For Nomination |
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Avatar |
Fox
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Cameron
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Saldana
Weaver
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2
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2
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The Hurt Locker |
Sum
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Bigelow
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Renner
Mackie
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3
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3
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Up In The Air |
Par
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Reitman
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Clooney
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4
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8
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Inglourious Basterds |
TWC
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Tarantino
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Waltz
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5
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4
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An Education |
SPC
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Scherfig
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Mulligan
Sarsgaard
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6
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5
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Precious |
LG
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Daniels
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Sidibe
Mo’Nique
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7
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6
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Up |
Disney
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Docter
Petersen
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8
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9
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Invictus |
WB
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Eastwood
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Freeman
Damon
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9
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The Messenger |
Oscill
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Moverman
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Harrelson
Foster
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10
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7
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Nine |
TWC
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Marshall
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Day-Lewis
Cotillard
Cruz
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10
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The Last Station |
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Hoffman
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Plummer
Mirren
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The Blind Side |
WB
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Hancock
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Bullock
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A Serious Man |
Focus
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Coens
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Stuhlbarg
Kind
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Tags: A Serious Man, A Single Man, An Education, Avatar, Crazy Heart, District 9, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julie & Julia, Nine, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, The Blind Side, The Hurt Locker, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, Up, Up in the Air
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
If you are wondering why Avatar has become a prohibitive front-runner in the Best Picture race, you are right at the crux of what this season is all about.
There was a lot of really excellent work this year. But there are virtually no “that’s The ONE!” movies, performances, or even below-the-line efforts that scream for an award. The only one that has been right there was Mo’Nique in Precious… and there is still a very good chance that she will end up winning Oscar. But even that performance is beginning to blur under the strain of time and slowly sliding memory.
If I had to pick a Best Picture on quality, I would probably have to go for The Hurt Locker’s dry, tense, black-key detail to the wide-open magic of Avatar. But there are plenty who would choose Up In The Air or Inglourious Basterds or Precious or Up or An Education on the same basis.
But which film represents what the Academy membership would like to represent them for the year? Keep in mind, Avatar is not just a major advance in technology… not just a hugely entertaining experience… not only leading the way to the (perhaps overstated) 3D revolution… but it is also about to become the second $1 billion film overseas in history. #1 is Titanic’s $1.243b. #3 is LOTR: Return of The King’s $742m.
Avatar is not just the highest grossing film of the season, as in, “Well, Gladiator is the biggest commercial movie in the group, 50% bigger than Erin Brockovich,” it is easily the biggest worldwide phenomenon of the last decade. The Academy isn’t going to pass on this opportunity, anymore than it would pass on the opportunity to celebrate LOTR’s $3 billion in worldwide grosses.
But that said… the other categories are a different set of issues.
In Best Actress, it looks like Oscar-winners Streep and Mirren vs first-time nominee “The Beloved” Bullock vs the two kids, Mulligan and Sidibe. All the performances are worthy. But is any one of them THE performance? There are no big surprises that the veterans can do what they did. Mulligan is just rising and they rarely vote for first-timers in the Lead slot. And Sidibe is probably a one-off, however personally charming she may be… again, the kind of role that wins in Supporting (see: Mo’Nique).
In Best Actor, you’re likely looking at four well-loved veterans and a newcomer in Jeremy Renner. Fine performances all, is there a real shock in the performances of Bridges, Freeman, Firth, or Clooney? This doesn’t mean that one of them won’t win. Someone has to win. But is there anything in the work that screams that we will never see any of them give a performance this good again… if not next year?
In Supporting Actor, Christoph Waltz has the edge… in part because no one has ever seen the guy before. He is a surprise. And that is such a key in this process. This goes for Mo’Nique in Supporting Actress as well. If Angela Bassett gave that performance, would she even be nominated? I wouldn’t bet on it. But Mo’Nique is a comic known for doing Sassy Black Lady in movies. Who saw it coming that she would ooze anguish in a small indie film? No one. Shock. Win.
This is not to diminish the performances. Please… don’t take it the wrong way. But winning an Oscar is not some sort of objective event. There is no such thing when comparing quality artistic work.
There is an argument to be made in reverse as well… all the reasons why this person or performance should win. But you can make them for almost every one. Streep hasn’t won in a long time. Bullock hasn’t ever been nominated before, but is a terribly positve part of the film industry family. Mirren, with Christopher Plummer, is having a ball. Carey Mulligan is a skyrocking starlet. And Gabby Sidibe exposed herself in a dark, dangerous way. And Zoe Saldana gives a great, intimate performance in spite of being surrounded by technology.
The guys? Jeff Bridges is a living legend and has it coming. But Clooney is a big star and people want to support their Cary Grant (even if they never voted Cary Cary Cary a performance Oscar). But Colin Firth is so brave playing gay when he is straight and showing the cracks in a closeted facade. But Jeremy Renner is so great in the film and we love the film and we aren’t going to give it Best Picture, so let’s show our love here (and in screenplay). But Viggo Morrtensen has is coming too… and it was such a tough movie… just him and a kid.
But there is no Charlize Theron, 30 pounds heavier than normal, lesbian, and raging. Hilary Swank wore pants this year, but she was wasn’t stuffing her pants or hitting people. Scorsese has his Oscar. No one is drinking your milkshake and channeling a former Oscar winner. And while Jeff Bridges sings, he isn’t blind and he doesn’t transform from America’s legally blind sweetheart into a dramatic actress who signs for the first time.
What I am talking about is a season loaded with a sense of appreciation… not the tone of intense passion that these things sometimes take.
Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Isn ’t the fun of it all that we all have our personal favorites, but can also enjoy a sense of healthy competition and a celebration of terrific work?
– by David Poland
January 14, 2010
Tags: A Serious Man, A Single Man, An Education, Avatar, Crazy Heart, District 9, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julie & Julia, Nine, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, The Blind Side, The Hurt Locker, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, Up, Up in the Air
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, 12, 2012, 24 City, 35 Shots of Rum, A Prophet, A Serious Man, A Single Man, A Town Called Panic, Adventureland, Afterschool, An Education, Antichrist, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Avatar, Away We Go, Bad Lieutenant, Beeswax, Big Fan, Bright Star, Broken Embraces, Bronson, Brothers, Bruno, Burma VJ, Capitalism: A Love Story, Cheri, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Collapse, Coraline, Crank: High Voltage, Crazy Heart, Departures, Disgrace, District 9, Drag Me to Hell, Duplicity, Everlasting Moments, Every Little Step, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Frontier of Dawn, Funny People, Gommorah, Good Hair, Goodbye Solo, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, House of the Devil, Humpday, Hunger, I Killed My Mother, I Love You Man, I'm Gonna Explode, Il Divo, Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, In the Loop, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julia, Julie & Julia, Knight and Day, Knowing, La Danse, Lake Tahoe, Liverpool, Loren Cass, Lorna's Silence, Mary & Max, Me and Orson Welles, Moon, Mother, Mystery Team, Nine, O'Horten, Of Time and the City, Paradise, Paranormal Activity, Passing Strange, Phoebe in Wonderland, Pirate Radio, Police Adjective, Pontypool, Ponyo, Precious, Princess and the Frog, Privates Live of Pippa Lee, Public Enemies, Red Cliff, Revanche, Seraphine, Serbis, Sherlock Holmes, Silent Light, Sin Nombre, Sita Sings the Blues, Somers Town, Star Trek, State of Play, Still Walking, Sugar, Summer Hours, Sunshine Cleaning, Taking Woodstock, Tetro, The Baader Meinhof Complex, The Beaches of Agnes, The Blind Side, The Brothers Bloom, The Cove, The Hangover, The Headless Woman, The Hurt Locker, The Informant, The Limits of Control, The Lovely Bones, The Maid, The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Messenger, The Road, The Soloist, The White Ribbon, Thirst, Three Monkeys, Tulpaan, Two Lovers, Up, Up in the Air, Waltz with Bashir, Watchmen, Where the Wild Things Are, World's Greatest Dad, You the Living
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