Posts Tagged ‘Changeling’
Monday, September 6th, 2010
William Goldman is one of the greatest screenwriters of all-time, but he was also a fantastic essayist and one of the most insightful minds when it came to writing about films. His collection of essays, The Big Picture, has been read so many times by me that the pages are starting to break free from the binding. But one of the questions he came back to was: who is the biggest star in the world right now? Almost every year during the ’90s, he tried his best to answer that very question.
For whatever reason, Goldman’s not writing (or at least not publishing) his essays about film and I decided that I would try to answer the question as we wind down the year 2010. Just like Goldman, I won’t use a ton of numbers or charts and graphs, but I’ll present my evidence as best as I can.
Last year, I think the answer would have been a bit easier. James Cameron was clearly the biggest star in the world in 2009 and it wasn’t even close. The man released his first film in twelve years and just happened to make a movie that broke every box office record imaginable. It is now clear that any year in which Cameron releases a film, he will be the biggest star in that year. One could make a case that he’s the biggest star of this current year since Avatar raked in most of its dough after the calendar flipped to 2010, but by the time this year ends, I don’t think he’ll still be on anyone’s mind.
As for those in front of the camera, it would be easy to name folks like George Clooney or Brad Pitt. Up in the Air and Inglourious Basterds were hits both critically and commercially and it’s reasonable to expect every film to which one of these handsome men is attached will at least make its money back. People will go to the movies specifically because they hear the names “Clooney” or “Pitt” and that’s becoming increasingly rarer.
If you need evidence of this, check out this weekend’s grosses for The American. It was the number one film of the weekend, despite the fact that Clooney was the only actor anybody heard of and despite the fact that it’s a deliberately-paced film that most American audiences would usually find dull. I doubt it’ll have strong legs next weekend, when word of mouth spreads, but the bottom line is that Clooney put butts in seats this weekend. Audiences in this country feel comfortable with Pitt and Clooney, that they will deliver the goods in projects that are worthy of their time and money.
Johnny Depp might want in on this conversation.
I personally think he’s fading as an actor I trust, but Alice in Wonderland still made a ton of money. Although, I don’t know how much if it is Depp and how much of it is Burton and how much of it is the recognizable brand. Depp certainly didn’t help Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus get seen by very many people, and while Public Enemies did okay, it didn’t do as well as expected in a cushy Independence Day slot. The Tourist will be a good test for him, where he’s paired with one of the top female stars out there.
Speaking of Angelina Jolie, could she be the biggest star in the world? She’s certainly one of the most recognizable faces, gracing the covers of magazines on newsstands around the globe. She was the only major draw in Salt and that film has grossed over a hundred million dollars at the box office. Jolie and action is a formula for success, as she had already proved with Wanted. Unfortunately, put her in a serious drama – even one she’s excellent in, like Changeling – and audiences turn away.
Speaking of Clint Eastwood, I must make mention of him because I think he was on William Goldman’s list every single year he made it. And the weird thing is that you could probably still put him somewhere on the list. The guy has been a commodity for about forty years already and has shown no signs of slowing, releasing a film every single year. When he actually gets in front of the camera, (a rare sight these days) people tend to show up, even if it’s something as dumb as Gran Torino.
Box office gross of the aforementioned film: nearly 150 million bucks and Eastwood was the only draw. Dude is nearly eighty and he still gets audiences to come out. His next film, Hereafter, reunites him with Invictus star Matt Damon and comes out in the fall.
Matt Damon, you say? Why yes, I did. I’d love to put him somewhere on this list, but the truth of the matter is that while he’s a recognizable face and name and he gives any film he stars in the air of respectability…he’s not quite in the running for biggest movie star status. The Bourne films were cash-cows, of course, but the truth of the matter is that he’s too much of a damned artist to be a movie star.
He’s the kind of guy who gains forty pounds to star in a Soderbergh film, the kind of guy who brings subtlety to his pitch-perfect performance in The Good Shepherd (one of my favorite performances of the last twenty years). He’s the kind of guy who will take time out of his schedule to film cameos in Soderbergh’s Che or Coppola’s Youth Without Youth. He doesn’t seem especially motivated by money or fame; instead it seems his one big desire is to work with as many great directors as possible.
The guy has worked with Scorsese, Coppola, Soderbergh, Minghella, Van Sant, Gilliam, Redford, Eastwood, and has a film coming up with the Coen Brothers. He might be one of the finest popular actors of his generation, but he’s not one of its biggest movie stars.
Damon also worked with Steven Spielberg on Saving Private Ryan and Spielberg used to be a staple on this list. You could always put him on it because he’s easily the most famous film director in the history of motion pictures. If you ask any bozo off the street to name a film director, they’ll definitely be able to mention Steven Spielberg. Unfortunately the man hasn’t released a film since Munich (What Indiana Jones film? I keep telling you, it doesn’t exist!).
He’s got a couple of projects on the horizon, including War Horse and Tintin, but I can’t put him anywhere near the top until he finally makes that damned Abraham Lincoln movie. Or, you know, if War Horse is brilliant and makes a ton of money. But he deserves a place on this list, even as just a producer. Hell, every Transformers movie is a gigantic hit and he’s one of the men responsible for it.
How about the star of that hit franchise? No, not Michael Bay or Optimus Prime, but Shia LaBeouf. He’s only 24 years old and he’s the lead actor in a franchise that has grossed a kajillion dollars (he was also in that Spielberg movie that doesn’t exist and grossed a lot of money). But, come on, we know people weren’t going to the theater for a chance to see LaBeouf. And while Disturbia was a decent-sized hit, Eagle Eye was a disappointment. We’ll see how he does with the Wall Street sequel, but even if it’s a huge success, it probably won’t be due to him. He might be the biggest star in the world in five to ten years, but he’s not there yet.
There’s no natural transition to this one, so I’m going to try not to snap my neck with this segue: Will Smith! What about Big Willie? He’s still getting jiggy with audiences, whether it’s in the atrocious Hancock or the even more atrocious Seven Pounds. It’s actually an amazing testament to his star power that the latter film managed to gross seventy million dollars, despite its subject matter.
I mean, that’s not an easy film to sell and basically they marketed it as “Will Smith…in a movie!” Nobody had any clue what it was about, but the promise of Will Smith drew people in. That’s pretty impressive. But he’s been absent from screens for two years now and Men in Black III isn’t coming out until 2012, so he’s taking a break from his throne.
No, Jaden Smith isn’t where I’m going next.
I don’t know who to blame or praise for the success of Twilight, so I can’t really put any of those kids or filmmakers on here. I’ll chalk that one up to “phenomenon” and move on. Same goes for the much better Harry Potter films.
Leonardo DiCaprio? He’s the star of one of the most talked-about movies of the year, Inception, which will end up with around 300 million bucks in the bank. Not too shabby. He’s also Scorsese’s favorite actor and DiCaprio has helped turn Scorsese into a legitimate box office favorite. Or maybe it was the other way around? Unfortunately, he couldn’t help turn Revolutionary Road or Body of Lies into hits.
In the right project, DiCaprio is gold. And Inception might have been more about Christopher Nolan than DiCaprio. I think his turn as the title character in Eastwood’s J. Edgar Hoover biopic will probably garner some awards buzz, but we’ll see if he can take it to the top of the box office.
Adam Sandler was the answer to this question for a while. But that was back when his movies cost nothing to make and grossed insane sums of money. Now the movies cost more, he costs more and he can’t even guarantee a hit when he’s working with Judd Apatow. Grown Ups grossed about $160 million, but it definitely cost quite a bit to make and market. He’s near the top of the list, but it seems he’s veering closer towards modern-day Eddie Murphy family-movie territory. And that’s a hit or miss world to live in.
Okay, enough beating around the bush, the answer to the biggest movie star in the world? Well, who could it be other than Sandra Bullock? She’s gracing the cover of Entertainment Weekly this week despite the fact that she’s got nothing to promote and she wasn’t even interviewed. She starred in two massive hits last year, got an Oscar and could get anything greenlit immediately. She was the star of 2009 and is the biggest movie star to grace a cinema screen right now.
But that’s not the answer. She might be the biggest actor in the world, but the biggest movie star right now (and I would argue, for the last decade) is very simple…
PIXAR.
Name me another company, actor, director, etc. in the history of cinema that has never made a film that bombed either critically or commercially. You can’t do it. (Okay, maybe John Cazale?) Every year, Pixar releases a film that grosses a ton of money and tops critics lists. This year, they put out Toy Story 3 and it grossed over 400 million dollars. I don’t think any movie star on the planet can guarantee you half that. Well, except for Pixar. I’m putting the over/under on the next five Pixar releases at 250 million and I’ll take the over. I’ll win every time.
Without a doubt, the biggest movie star in the world is Pixar. And it’s not even close.
Tags: adam sandler, Alice in Wonderland, Angelina Jolie, Avatar, Brad Pitt, Changeling, christopher nolan, clingt eastwood, George Clooney, Gran Torino, Grown Ups, Hereafter, Inception, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, James Cameron, Johnny Depp, judd apatow, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, men in black III, Michael Bay, pixar, Salt, Sandra Bullock, shia labeouf, Steven Spielberg, The American, Tim Burton, Toy Story 3, Twilight, Up in the Air, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, wanted, Will Smith, william goldman
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
CO-PICKS OF THE WEEK: NEW
Changeling (Four Stars)
U. S.; Clint Eastwood (Universal)
Changeling is another very fine late-career movie from director Clint Eastwood: a scary, blood-chillingly clear look at (more…)
Tags: Body of Lies, Changeling, Choke, Faces, Flash of Genius, Gumshoe, High School Musical 3: Senior Year, Hobson's Choice, I Served the King of England, Shadows, The Romance of Astrea and Celadon
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Tags: 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, A Christmas Tale, Ballast, Burn After Reading, Changeling, Che, Dear Zachary, Doubt, Elegy, Encounters at the End of the World, Flight of the Red Balloon, Frost/Nixon, Frozen River, Gomorrah, Gran Torino, Happy-Go-Lucky, Hunger, I've Loved You So Long, In Bruges, In the City of Silvia, Iron Man, Let the Right One In, Man on Wire, Milk, My Winnipeg, Paranoid Park, Pineapple Express, Rachel Getting Married, Reprise, Revolutionary Road, Silent Light, Slumdog Millionaire, Standard Operating Procedure, Still Life, Synechdoche NY, Tell No One, The Class, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Edge of Heaven, The Fall, The Reader, The Visitor, The Wrestler, Trouble the Water, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Wall-E, Waltz with Bashir, Wendy and Lucy
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
NP Thompson
Movies Into Film |
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Unrelated |
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Sita Sings the Blues |
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Breath |
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The Gates |
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Flight of the Red Balloon |
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The Band’s Visit |
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Persepolis |
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Trouble the Water |
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Opera Jawa |
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Priceless |
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Andy Klein
Los angeles CityBeat |
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The Dark Knight |
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Gran Torino |
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In Bruges |
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Let the Right One In |
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My Winnipeg |
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Roman de Gare |
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Stuck |
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Synecdoce, NY |
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Tropic Thunder |
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Wall-E |
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Blackfilm.com
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The Dark Knight |
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Slumdog Millionaire |
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Milk |
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Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
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Tell No One |
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Vicky Cristina Barcellona |
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Ballast |
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Rachel Getting Married |
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Gommorah |
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Let the Right One In |
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TT Stern-Enzi
Dayton City Paper |
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The Visitor |
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The Dark Knight |
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W |
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I’ve Loved You So Long |
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Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
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Slumdog Millionaire |
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Synecdoche, NY |
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Man on Wire |
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Rachel Getting Married |
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The Wrestler |
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Lisa Miller
Imperial Valley News |
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The Dark Knight |
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Wall-E |
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Iron Man |
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Frozen River |
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Appaloosa |
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Mamma Mia! |
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The Bank Job |
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Traitor |
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Burn After Reading |
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Ghost Town |
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Chris Knight
National Post |
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Wall-E |
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Doubt |
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Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
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Synecdoche, NY |
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Encounters at End of the World |
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Man on Wire |
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JCVD |
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Son of Rambow |
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Tell No One |
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The Visitor |
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Blackfilm.com | Andy Klein | Chris Knight | Lisa Miller | TT Stern-Enzi | NP Thompson
Tags: 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, A Christmas Tale, Ballast, Burn After Reading, Changeling, Che, Dear Zachary, Doubt, Elegy, Encounters at the End of the World, Flight of the Red Balloon, Frost/Nixon, Frozen River, Gomorrah, Gran Torino, Happy-Go-Lucky, Hunger, I've Loved You So Long, In Bruges, In the City of Silvia, Iron Man, Let the Right One In, Man on Wire, Milk, My Winnipeg, Paranoid Park, Pineapple Express, Rachel Getting Married, Reprise, Revolutionary Road, Silent Light, Slumdog Millionaire, Standard Operating Procedure, Still Life, Synechdoche NY, Tell No One, The Class, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Edge of Heaven, The Fall, The Reader, The Visitor, The Wrestler, Trouble the Water, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Wall-E, Waltz with Bashir, Wendy and Lucy
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Peter Martin
Cinematical |
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Let the Right One In |
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Tell No One |
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Man on Wire |
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Wall-E |
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Timecrimes |
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The Pool |
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Encounters at End of the World |
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Burn After Reading |
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Astropia |
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Dance of the Dead |
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Erik Davis
Cinematical |
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Slumdog Millionaire |
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The Dark Knight |
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Dear Zachary |
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Burn After Reading |
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Let the Right One In |
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The Wrestler |
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Doubt |
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Tropic Thunder |
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The Living Wake |
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Milk |
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Jette Kernion
Cinematical |
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Synecdoche, NY |
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Milk |
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Let the Right One In |
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The Wrestler |
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JCVD |
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Dear Zachary |
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Medicine for Melancholy |
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Standard Operating Procedure |
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Hellboy II |
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Slumdog Millionaire |
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Richard von Busack
Cinematical |
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Wall-E |
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The Dark Knight |
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Happy Go Lucky |
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The Fall |
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Revolutionary Road |
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My Winnipeg |
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A Christmas Tale |
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Up the Yangtze |
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Milk |
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Around the Bay |
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Pat Graham
Chicago Reader |
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Still Life |
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Of Time and the City |
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There WIll Be Blood |
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Flight of the Red Balloon |
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4 Mos, 3 Wks & 2 Days |
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The Duchess of Langeais |
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Hellboy II |
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Let the Right One In |
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A Christmas Tale |
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Happy Go Lucky |
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Eric D. Snider
Cinematical |
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Wall-E |
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Synecdoche, NY |
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Dear Zachary |
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Son of Rambow |
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The Wrestler |
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Tropic Thunder |
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Young at Heart |
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The Dark Knight |
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Cloverfield |
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Boy A |
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Craig Phillips
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Let the Right One In |
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Edge of Heaven |
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The Wrestler |
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4 Mos, 3 Wks & 2 Days |
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Hellboy II |
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La France |
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Encounters at End of the World |
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Ballast |
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Wall-E / The Dark Knight |
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Wendy & Lucy |
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Yair Raveh
Cinemascopian |
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Synecdoche, NY |
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Wall-E |
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The Dark Knight |
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Waltz with Bashir |
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Three Monkeys/Silent Light/The Fall |
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Pineapple Express |
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Paranoid Park |
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Burn After Reading/In Bruges |
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Hunger/Standard Op. Procedure |
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Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
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Chris Vetter
Leader-Telegram |
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Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
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Changeling |
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Wall-E |
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Boy in the Striped Pajamas |
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The Dark Knight |
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Doubt |
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Tropic Thunder |
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Iron Man |
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Traitor |
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Rachel Getting Married |
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Boo Allen
Denton Record-Chronicle |
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The Visitor |
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Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
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I’ve Loved You So Long |
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Milk |
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Frost/Nixon |
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Happy Go Lucky |
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Elegy |
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The Wrestler |
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Che |
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Smart People |
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Boo Allen | Erik Davis | Pat Graham | Jette Kernion | Peter Martin | Craig Phillips | Yair Raveh | Eric D. Snider | Chris Vetter | Richard von Busack
Tags: 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, A Christmas Tale, Ballast, Burn After Reading, Changeling, Che, Dear Zachary, Doubt, Elegy, Encounters at the End of the World, Flight of the Red Balloon, Frost/Nixon, Frozen River, Gomorrah, Gran Torino, Happy-Go-Lucky, Hunger, I've Loved You So Long, In Bruges, In the City of Silvia, Iron Man, Let the Right One In, Man on Wire, Milk, My Winnipeg, Paranoid Park, Pineapple Express, Rachel Getting Married, Reprise, Revolutionary Road, Silent Light, Slumdog Millionaire, Standard Operating Procedure, Still Life, Synechdoche NY, Tell No One, The Class, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Edge of Heaven, The Fall, The Reader, The Visitor, The Wrestler, Trouble the Water, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Wall-E, Waltz with Bashir, Wendy and Lucy
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Bob Mondello
NPR |
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Slumdog Millionaire |
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Wall-E |
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Milk |
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4 Mos, 3 Wks & 2 Days |
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
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Rachel Getting Married |
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The Class |
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Man on Wire |
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The Dark Knight |
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A Christmas Tale |
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Steve Prokopy
Gapers Block |
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Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
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Wall-E |
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Let the Right One In |
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Slumdog Millionaire |
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The Wrestler |
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The Dark Knight |
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The Fall |
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Snow Angels |
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Milk |
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Tropic Thunder |
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George Lang
The Oklahoman |
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Rachel Getting Married |
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The Dark Knight |
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Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
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The Wrestler |
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Wall-E |
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Slumdog Millionaire |
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Milk |
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Forgetting Sarah Marshall |
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The Visitor |
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In Bruges |
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Matthew Price
The Oklahoman |
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The Dark Knight |
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Slumdog Millionaire |
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The Wrestler |
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Frost/Nixon |
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Iron Man |
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Wall-E |
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Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
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Milk |
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Happy Go Lucky |
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Gran Torino |
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Lawrence Toppman
Charlotte Observer |
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The Visitor |
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Jodhaa Akbar |
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The Dark Knight |
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Wall-E |
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Waltz with Bashir |
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Frost/Nixon |
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Let the Right One In |
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Mongol |
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Milk |
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Man on Wire |
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Ron Wynn
Nashville City Paper |
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Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
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Iron Man |
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The Dark Knight |
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Milk |
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Doubt |
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Wall-E |
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Shine a Light |
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Tropic Thunder |
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The Bank Job |
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Miracle at St. Anna |
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Michael Janusonis
Providence Journal |
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Frost/Nixon |
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Doubt |
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Milk |
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Burn After Reading |
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Changeling |
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Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who |
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Kung Fu Panda |
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Nick & Nora’s Infinite Playlist |
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Iron Man |
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Young at Heart |
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Michael Nowotny
Mountain Home News |
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The Dark Knight |
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Iron Man |
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Forgetting Sarah Marshall |
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Tropic Thunder |
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Kung Fu Panda |
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Burn After Reading |
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Quantum of Solace |
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Wall-E |
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Incredible Hulk |
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Get Smart |
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Jeffrey K. Lyles
Gazette |
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The Dark Knight |
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Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
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Iron Man |
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Tropic Thunder |
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Forgetting Sarah Marshall |
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The Wrestler |
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Frost/Nixon |
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Cloverfield |
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Doubt |
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Be Kind Rewind |
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Sally Kline
DC Examiner |
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Wall-E |
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Milk |
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The Reader |
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Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
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The Dark Knight |
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In Bruges |
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Frost/Nixon |
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The Bank Job |
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Slumdog Millionaire |
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Man On Wire/Religulous/Trumbo |
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Michael Janusonis | Sally Kline | George Lang | Jeffrey K. Lyles | Bob Mondello | Michael Nowotny | Matthew Price | Steve Prokopy | Lawrence Toppman | Ron Wynn
Tags: 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, A Christmas Tale, Ballast, Burn After Reading, Changeling, Che, Dear Zachary, Doubt, Elegy, Encounters at the End of the World, Flight of the Red Balloon, Frost/Nixon, Frozen River, Gomorrah, Gran Torino, Happy-Go-Lucky, Hunger, I've Loved You So Long, In Bruges, In the City of Silvia, Iron Man, Let the Right One In, Man on Wire, Milk, My Winnipeg, Paranoid Park, Pineapple Express, Rachel Getting Married, Reprise, Revolutionary Road, Silent Light, Slumdog Millionaire, Standard Operating Procedure, Still Life, Synechdoche NY, Tell No One, The Class, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Edge of Heaven, The Fall, The Reader, The Visitor, The Wrestler, Trouble the Water, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Wall-E, Waltz with Bashir, Wendy and Lucy
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
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A Christmas Tale |
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The Class |
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Frost/Nixon |
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Frozen River |
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Happy Go Lucky |
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Rachel Getting Married |
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Man on Wire |
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Tell No One |
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Wall-E |
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Steve Salles
Standard Examiner
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The Dark Knight |
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Slumdog Millionaire |
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Iron Man |
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Rachel Getting Married |
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Frost/Nixon |
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Waltz with Bashir |
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Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
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Let the Right One In |
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Wall-E |
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Boy in the Striped Pajamas |
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Janos Gereben
San Francisco Examiner
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Mongol |
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Frost/Nixon |
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Traitor |
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Milk |
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Iron Man |
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I’ve Loved You So Long |
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Love and Honor |
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Seven Pounds |
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All Together Now |
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Nanking |
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Anna Katz
San Francisco Examiner
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4 Mos, 3 Wks & 2 Days |
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Encounters at End of the World |
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Trouble the Water |
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Happy Go Lucky |
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The Edge of Heaven |
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Transsiberian |
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Frozen River |
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Flight of the Red Balloon |
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Revolutionary Road |
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A Christmas Tale |
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Marco Cerritos
FirstShowing.net
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Elegy |
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In Bruges |
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Wall-E |
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The Fall |
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The Dark Knight |
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Wanted and Desired |
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Frost/Nixon |
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Redbelt |
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The Bank Job |
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Speed Racer |
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Rossiter Drake
San Francisco Examiner
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1 |
The Wrestler |
2 |
Wall-E |
3 |
Let the Right One In |
4 |
In Bruges |
5 |
Frost/Nixon |
6 |
Hellboy II |
7 |
W |
8 |
The Dark Knight |
9 |
The Reader |
10 |
JCVD |
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Carol Hemphill
Webster-Kirkwood Times
|
1 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
1 |
The Dark Knight |
3 |
Frost/Nixon |
4 |
Man on Wire |
5 |
Milk |
6 |
Paranoid Park |
7 |
Revolutionary Road |
8 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
9 |
The Visitor |
10 |
Wall-E |
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Joanne Thornborough
The Daily Journal
|
1 |
Frost/Nixon |
2 |
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day |
3 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
4 |
Rachel Getting Married |
5 |
Milk |
6 |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
7 |
In Bruges |
8 |
The Visitor |
9 |
Persepolis |
10 |
The Dark Knight |
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Kent Tentschert
Webster-Kirkwood Times
|
1 |
Changeling |
1 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
3 |
The Dark Knight |
4 |
Doubt |
5 |
Miracle at St. Anna |
6 |
The Reader |
7 |
Revolutionary Road |
8 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
9 |
Wall-E |
10 |
The Wrestler |
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Liam Lacey
Globe & Mail
|
1 |
Wall-E |
2 |
Happy Go Lucky |
3 |
Flight of the Red Balloon |
4 |
Man on Wire |
5 |
Paranoid Park |
6 |
Waltz with Bashir |
7 |
My Winnipeg |
8 |
A Christmas Tale |
9 |
Milk |
10 |
Up the Yangtze |
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Marco Cerritos | Rossiter Drake | Janos Gereben | Carol Hemphill | Anna Katz | Liam Lacey | Steve Salles | Kent Tentschert | Joanne Thornborough | Kenneth Turan
Tags: 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, A Christmas Tale, Ballast, Burn After Reading, Changeling, Che, Dear Zachary, Doubt, Elegy, Encounters at the End of the World, Flight of the Red Balloon, Frost/Nixon, Frozen River, Gomorrah, Gran Torino, Happy-Go-Lucky, Hunger, I've Loved You So Long, In Bruges, In the City of Silvia, Iron Man, Let the Right One In, Man on Wire, Milk, My Winnipeg, Paranoid Park, Pineapple Express, Rachel Getting Married, Reprise, Revolutionary Road, Silent Light, Slumdog Millionaire, Standard Operating Procedure, Still Life, Synechdoche NY, Tell No One, The Class, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Edge of Heaven, The Fall, The Reader, The Visitor, The Wrestler, Trouble the Water, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Wall-E, Waltz with Bashir, Wendy and Lucy
Posted in Awards Watch, The Top Tens - Critics Pages | Comments Off on Page 26
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Mike Scott
Times-Picayune |
1 |
Wall-E |
1 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
3 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
4 |
Rachel Getting Married |
5 |
The Dark Knight |
6 |
Trouble the Water |
7 |
Milk |
8 |
Encounters at End of the World |
9 |
The Band’s Visit |
10 |
Blindness |
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Rick Groen
Globe & Mail |
1 |
A Christmas Tale |
2 |
Wall-E |
3 |
Rachel Getting Married |
4 |
I’ve Loved You So Long |
5 |
My Winnipeg |
6 |
The Edge of Heaven |
7 |
Up the Yangtze |
8 |
Happy Go Lucky |
9 |
Waltz with Bashir |
10 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
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|
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Mark Medley
National Post |
1 |
Wall-E |
1 |
The Wrestler |
3 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
4 |
Let the Right One In |
5 |
The Dark Knight |
6 |
Step Brothers |
7 |
Anvil! |
8 |
Forgetting Sarah Marshall |
9 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
10 |
Iron Man/JCVD |
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Brandy McDonnell
The Oklahoman |
1 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
2 |
Frozen River |
3 |
Wall-E |
4 |
Frost/Nixon |
5 |
Boy in Striped Pajamas |
6 |
The Dark Knight |
7 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
8 |
The Wrestler |
9 |
The Fall |
10 |
The Visitor |
|
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|
Bob Thompson
National Post |
1 |
Iron Man |
1 |
The Dark Knight |
3 |
RocknRolla |
4 |
Frost/Nixon |
5 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
6 |
Milk |
7 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
8 |
Doubt |
9 |
Wall-E |
10 |
Tropic Thunder |
|
|
Germain Lussier
Times Herald-Record |
1 |
The Wrestler |
2 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
3 |
The Dark Knight |
4 |
Revolutionary Road |
5 |
Milk |
6 |
Rachel Getting Married |
7 |
Wall-E |
8 |
Dear Zachary |
9 |
The Wackness |
10 |
The Class |
|
|
|
|
Lynn Venhaus
Belleville News-Democrat |
1 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
1 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
3 |
Frost/Nixon |
4 |
Milk |
5 |
The Dark Knight |
6 |
Doubt |
7 |
The Wrestler |
8 |
Iron Man |
9 |
The Visitor |
10 |
Rachel Getting Married |
|
|
Gene Triplett
The Oklahoman |
1 |
The Wrestler |
2 |
Milk |
3 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
4 |
Frost/Nixon |
5 |
Rachel Getting Married |
6 |
Appaloosa |
7 |
Burn After Reading |
8 |
The Visitor |
9 |
Doubt |
10 |
The Dark Knight |
|
|
|
|
Charles Cassidy, Jr.
Cleveland Scene |
1 |
Iron Man |
2 |
Cloverfield |
3 |
Bab’Aziz |
4 |
Young at Heart/Shine a Light |
5 |
Sangre de mi sangre |
6 |
Standard Operating Procedure |
7 |
The Bank Job |
8 |
Constantine Sword |
9 |
Wall-E |
10 |
Kenny |
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Josh Larsen
Southtown Star |
1 |
The Promotion |
2 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
3 |
Trouble the Water |
4 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
5 |
The Dark Knight |
6 |
Wall-E |
7 |
Ballast |
8 |
Cloverfield |
9 |
Be Kind Rewind |
10 |
Tropic Thunder |
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|
Charles Cassidy, Jr. | Rick Groen | Josh Larsen | Germain Lussier | Brandy McDonnell | Mark Medley | Mike Scott | Bob Thompson | Gene Triplett | Lynn Venhaus
Tags: 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, A Christmas Tale, Ballast, Burn After Reading, Changeling, Che, Dear Zachary, Doubt, Elegy, Encounters at the End of the World, Flight of the Red Balloon, Frost/Nixon, Frozen River, Gomorrah, Gran Torino, Happy-Go-Lucky, Hunger, I've Loved You So Long, In Bruges, In the City of Silvia, Iron Man, Let the Right One In, Man on Wire, Milk, My Winnipeg, Paranoid Park, Pineapple Express, Rachel Getting Married, Reprise, Revolutionary Road, Silent Light, Slumdog Millionaire, Standard Operating Procedure, Still Life, Synechdoche NY, Tell No One, The Class, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Edge of Heaven, The Fall, The Reader, The Visitor, The Wrestler, Trouble the Water, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Wall-E, Waltz with Bashir, Wendy and Lucy
Posted in Awards Watch, The Top Tens - Critics Pages | Comments Off on Page 25
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Chris Bumbray
JoBlo.com |
1 |
The Dark Knight |
2 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
3 |
The Wrestler |
4 |
Wall-E |
5 |
Let the Right One In |
6 |
Hamlet 2 |
7 |
The Hurt Locker |
8 |
In Bruges |
9 |
Boy A |
10 |
Snow Angels |
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Ryan Pike
The Gauntlet |
1 |
The Dark Knight |
2 |
Wall-E |
3 |
Iron Man |
4 |
Tropic Thunder |
5 |
Quantum of Solace |
6 |
Be Kind Rewind |
7 |
Forgetting Sarah Marshall |
8 |
Zack & Miri Make A Porno |
9 |
Wanted |
10 |
Nick & Nora’s Infinite Playlist |
|
|
|
|
Neil Morris
Independent Weekly |
1 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
2 |
The Wrestler |
3 |
Rachel Getting Married |
4 |
Milk |
5 |
Wall-E |
6 |
Revolutionary Road |
7 |
Chop Shop |
8 |
Iron Man/Dark Knight |
9 |
Cloverfield |
10 |
Young at Heart |
|
|
Michael Compton
Bowling Green Daily News |
1 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
2 |
The Wrestler |
3 |
The Dark Knight |
4 |
Man on Wire |
5 |
Snow Angels |
6 |
In Bruges |
7 |
Milk |
8 |
Frozen River |
9 |
Tell No One |
10 |
Gran Torino |
|
|
|
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Sara Vilkomerson
NY Observer |
1 |
The Visitor |
2 |
Wanted & Desired |
3 |
The Dark Knight |
4 |
Revolutionary Road |
5 |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
6 |
Burn After Reading |
7 |
Rachel Getting Married |
8 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
9 |
Milk |
10 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
|
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Mike Giuliano
Howard County Times |
1 |
Milk |
2 |
Shine a Light |
3 |
Frost/Nixon |
4 |
Happy Go Lucky |
5 |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
6 |
Let the Right One In |
7 |
I’ve Loved You So Long |
8 |
Frozen River |
9 |
The Visitor |
10 |
Encounters at End of the World |
|
|
|
|
J. Hoberman
Village Voice |
1 |
Flight of the Red Balloon |
2 |
Razzle Dazzle |
3 |
Paranoid Park |
4 |
Che |
5 |
Waltz with Bashir |
6 |
Silent Light |
7 |
4 Mos, 3 Wks & 2 Days |
8 |
In the City of Sylvia |
9 |
Wall-E |
10 |
Wendy & Lucy |
|
|
Jim Brunzell
TC Daily Planet |
1 |
Wall-E |
2 |
Let the Right One In |
3 |
The Edge of Heaven |
4 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
5 |
Happy Go Lucky |
6 |
The Dark Knight |
7 |
Anvil! |
8 |
Milk |
9 |
Revanche |
10 |
Wendy & Lucy |
|
|
|
|
Ella Taylor
LA Weekly |
1 |
Waltz with Bashir |
2 |
Milk |
3 |
Still Life/Up the Yangtze |
4 |
Wendy & Lucy |
5 |
The Class/A Christmas Tale |
6 |
Wall-E |
7 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
8 |
The Counterfeiters |
9 |
Moving Midway/Order of Myths |
10 |
9.99 |
|
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Scott Foundas
LA Weekly |
1 |
Still Life/Fengming |
2 |
Gran Torino |
3 |
Che/Hunger |
4 |
Silent Light |
5 |
The Dark Knight |
6 |
Heartbeat Detector |
7 |
A Christmas Tale/Secret of the Grain |
8 |
Diary of the Dead/Let the Right One In |
9 |
Shine a Light/Synecdoche, NY |
10 |
Happy Go Lucky/Slumdog Millionaire/Wall-E |
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Jim Brunzell | Chris Bunbray | Michael Compton | Scott Foundas | Mike Giuliano | J. Hoberman | Neil Morris | Ryan Pike | Ella Taylor | Sara Vilkomerson
Tags: 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, A Christmas Tale, Ballast, Burn After Reading, Changeling, Che, Dear Zachary, Doubt, Elegy, Encounters at the End of the World, Flight of the Red Balloon, Frost/Nixon, Frozen River, Gomorrah, Gran Torino, Happy-Go-Lucky, Hunger, I've Loved You So Long, In Bruges, In the City of Silvia, Iron Man, Let the Right One In, Man on Wire, Milk, My Winnipeg, Paranoid Park, Pineapple Express, Rachel Getting Married, Reprise, Revolutionary Road, Silent Light, Slumdog Millionaire, Standard Operating Procedure, Still Life, Synechdoche NY, Tell No One, The Class, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Edge of Heaven, The Fall, The Reader, The Visitor, The Wrestler, Trouble the Water, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Wall-E, Waltz with Bashir, Wendy and Lucy
Posted in Awards Watch, The Top Tens - Critics Pages | Comments Off on Page 24
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
John M. Urbancich
Cleveland Sun-News |
1 |
In Bruges |
2 |
Doubt |
3 |
The Dark Knight |
4 |
Happy Go Lucky |
5 |
Frozen River |
6 |
The Wrestler |
7 |
Gran Torino |
8 |
Nothing but the Truth |
9 |
I Served the King of England |
10 |
Frost/Nixon \ W |
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|
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News |
1 |
The Dark Knight |
2 |
The Go-Getter |
3 |
Happy Go Lucky |
4 |
Rachel Getting Married |
5 |
Reprise |
6 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
7 |
Tropic Thunder |
8 |
Wall-E |
9 |
The Wrestler |
10 |
Young at Heart |
|
|
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Kimberly Jones
Austin Chronicle |
1 |
Synecdoche, NY |
2 |
A Christmas Tale |
3 |
Elegy |
4 |
Happy Go Lucky |
5 |
Rachel Getting Married |
6 |
Let the Right One In |
7 |
Tell No One |
8 |
Son of Rambow |
9 |
In Search of Midnight Kiss |
10 |
Wall-E |
|
|
Barry Hertz
National Post Ampersand |
1 |
Synecdoche, NY |
2 |
Wall-E |
3 |
Man on Wire |
4 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
5 |
Wendy & Lucy |
6 |
Redbelt |
7 |
The Visitor |
8 |
I’ve Loved You So Long |
9 |
The Dark Knight |
10 |
Shotgun Series |
|
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|
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Marc Savlov
Austin Chronicle |
1 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
2 |
Let the Right One In |
3 |
The Wrestler |
4 |
My Winnipeg |
5 |
Gomorrah |
6 |
Man on Wire |
7 |
Waltz with Bashir |
8 |
Blindness |
9 |
Son of Rambow |
10 |
Funny Games |
|
|
Josh Rosenblatt
Austin Chronicle |
1 |
A Christmas Tale |
2 |
Gomorrah |
3 |
Wendy & Lucy |
4 |
The Counterfeiters |
5 |
I’ve Loved You So Long |
6 |
Synecdoche, NY |
7 |
Man on Wire |
8 |
Che |
9 |
The Wrestler |
10 |
Trouble the Water |
|
|
|
|
Duncan Shepherd
San Diego Reader |
1 |
Happy Go Lucky |
2 |
Roman de Gare |
3 |
The Promotion |
4 |
Burn After Reading |
5 |
Ciudad en Celo |
6 |
Cloverfield |
7 |
X-Files: I Want to Believe |
8 |
Appaloosa |
9 |
Redbelt |
10 |
The Unknown Woman |
|
|
Christopher Orr
New Republic |
1 |
Wall-E |
2 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
3 |
The Dark Knight |
4 |
Synecdoche, NY |
5 |
Revolutionary Road |
6 |
The Wrestler |
7 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
8 |
Iron Man |
9 |
Be Kind Rewind |
10 |
Man on Wire |
|
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|
|
Steven Snyder
Greater Milwaukee Today |
1 |
The Wrestler |
2 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
3 |
The Fall |
4 |
Man on Wire |
5 |
The Dark Knight |
6 |
4 Mos, 3 Wks & 2 Days |
7 |
The Visitor |
8 |
Milk |
9 |
My Winnipeg |
10 |
Wall-E |
|
|
Gary Cogill
KVUE |
1 |
The Dark Knight |
2 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
3 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
4 |
Milk |
5 |
Frost/Nixon |
6 |
Wall-E |
7 |
The Wrestler |
8 |
Man on Wire |
9 |
Doubt |
10 |
Let the Right One In |
|
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|
|
Gary Cogill | Barry hertz | Kimberley Jones | Christopher Orr | Josh Rosenblatt | Marc Savlov | Duncan Shepherd | Steven Snyder | John M. Urbacnich | Elizabeth Weitzman
Tags: 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, A Christmas Tale, Ballast, Burn After Reading, Changeling, Che, Dear Zachary, Doubt, Elegy, Encounters at the End of the World, Flight of the Red Balloon, Frost/Nixon, Frozen River, Gomorrah, Gran Torino, Happy-Go-Lucky, Hunger, I've Loved You So Long, In Bruges, In the City of Silvia, Iron Man, Let the Right One In, Man on Wire, Milk, My Winnipeg, Paranoid Park, Pineapple Express, Rachel Getting Married, Reprise, Revolutionary Road, Silent Light, Slumdog Millionaire, Standard Operating Procedure, Still Life, Synechdoche NY, Tell No One, The Class, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Edge of Heaven, The Fall, The Reader, The Visitor, The Wrestler, Trouble the Water, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Wall-E, Waltz with Bashir, Wendy and Lucy
Posted in Awards Watch, The Top Tens - Critics Pages | Comments Off on Page 23
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Amy Biancolli
Houston Chronicle |
1 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
2 |
Wall-E |
3 |
The Dark Knight |
4 |
Milk |
5 |
Frozen River |
6 |
Rachel Getting Married |
7 |
Happy Go Lucky |
8 |
Standard Operating Procedure |
9 |
Gomorrah |
10 |
Elegy |
|
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Dwight Brown
Seattle Medium |
1 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
2 |
Cadillac Records |
3 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
4 |
The Dark Knight |
5 |
Frost/Nixon |
6 |
Milk |
7 |
Nothing Like the Holidays |
8 |
Pineapple Express |
9 |
Traitor |
10 |
Wall-E |
|
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|
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Ron Yamauchi
Georgia Straight |
1 |
Iron Man |
2 |
Happy Go Lucky |
3 |
Wall-E |
4 |
Under the Bombs |
5 |
Son of Rambow |
6 |
Cloverfield |
7 |
Speed Racer |
8 |
Kit Kittredge |
9 |
Ghost Town |
10 |
Redbelt |
|
|
Patty Jones
Georgia Straight |
1 |
Wall-E |
2 |
Frost/Nixon |
3 |
Milk |
4 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
5 |
Man on Wire |
6 |
Let the Right One In |
7 |
Tell No One |
8 |
Happy Go Lucky |
9 |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
10 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
|
|
|
|
Janet Smith
Georgia Straight |
1 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
2 |
Standard Operating Procedure |
3 |
Milk |
4 |
In Bruges |
5 |
Cloverfield |
6 |
Let the Right One In |
7 |
Funny Games |
8 |
Man on Wire |
9 |
Frost/Nixon |
10 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
|
|
Mark Harris
Georgia Straight |
1 |
Waltz with Bashir |
2 |
Tell No One |
3 |
I’ve Loved You So Long |
4 |
Persepolis |
5 |
The Band’s Visit |
6 |
My Winnipeg |
7 |
In Bruges |
8 |
The Last Mistress |
9 |
The Duchess of Langeais |
10 |
A Secret |
|
|
|
|
Tom Tangney
KIRO Radio |
1 |
The Edge of Heaven |
2 |
Synecdoche, NY |
3 |
Cherry Blossoms – Hanami |
4 |
Boy A |
5 |
I’ve Loved You So Long |
6 |
Man on Wire |
7 |
Funny Games |
8 |
Towelhead |
9 |
Wall-E |
10 |
Rachel Getting Married |
|
|
Ken Eisner
Georgia Straight |
1 |
Milk |
2 |
Happy Go Lucky |
3 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
4 |
Flight of the Red Balloon |
5 |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
6 |
The Visitor |
7 |
Frost/Nixon |
8 |
Man on Wire |
9 |
Boy in the Striped Pajams |
10 |
I’ve Loved You So Long |
|
|
|
|
Richard Crouse
Canada AM |
1 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
2 |
Wall-E |
3 |
Let the Right One In |
4 |
My Winnipeg |
5 |
Iron Man |
6 |
The Dark Knight |
7 |
Frost/Nixon |
8 |
JCVD |
9 |
9 |
10 |
10 |
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|
Acquarello
Auteur’s Notebook |
1 |
Heartbeat Detective |
2 |
Alexandra |
3 |
A Christmas Tale |
4 |
The Duchess of Langeais |
5 |
In the City of Sylvia |
6 |
4 Mos, 3 Wks and 2 Days |
7 |
Love Songs |
8 |
Before I Forget |
9 |
Reprise |
10 |
A Girl Cut in Two |
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Acquarello | Amy Biancolli | Dwight Brown | Richard Crouse | Ken Eisner | Mark Harris | Patty Jones | Janet Smith | Tom Tangney | Ron Yamauchi
Tags: 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, A Christmas Tale, Ballast, Burn After Reading, Changeling, Che, Dear Zachary, Doubt, Elegy, Encounters at the End of the World, Flight of the Red Balloon, Frost/Nixon, Frozen River, Gomorrah, Gran Torino, Happy-Go-Lucky, Hunger, I've Loved You So Long, In Bruges, In the City of Silvia, Iron Man, Let the Right One In, Man on Wire, Milk, My Winnipeg, Paranoid Park, Pineapple Express, Rachel Getting Married, Reprise, Revolutionary Road, Silent Light, Slumdog Millionaire, Standard Operating Procedure, Still Life, Synechdoche NY, Tell No One, The Class, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Edge of Heaven, The Fall, The Reader, The Visitor, The Wrestler, Trouble the Water, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Wall-E, Waltz with Bashir, Wendy and Lucy
Posted in Awards Watch, The Top Tens - Critics Pages | Comments Off on Page 22
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Stuart Levine
RBI-US |
1 |
Revolutionary Road |
2 |
Frost/Nixon |
3 |
The Wrestler |
4 |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
5 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
6 |
Doubt |
7 |
Forgetting Sarah Marshall |
8 |
I’ve Loved You So Long |
9 |
Wendy & Lucy |
10 |
The Dark Knight |
|
|
Michael Rechtshaffen
The Hollywood Reporter |
1 |
Milk |
2 |
Wall-E |
3 |
The Dark Knight |
4 |
Man on Wire |
5 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
6 |
A Secret |
7 |
Frost/Nixon |
8 |
Frozen River |
9 |
Encounters at End of the World |
10 |
Doubt |
|
|
|
|
Matt Brunson
Creative Loafing |
1 |
Milk |
2 |
The Wrestler |
3 |
The Dark Knight |
4 |
In Search of Midnight Kiss |
5 |
Elegy |
6 |
Wall-E |
7 |
Revolutionary Road |
8 |
Bigger, Stronger, Faster |
9 |
Frost/Nixon |
10 |
Tropic Thunder |
|
|
Frank Scheck
The Hollywood Reporter |
1 |
The Dark Knight |
2 |
Milk |
3 |
Wall-E |
4 |
Frost/Nixon |
5 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
6 |
Man on Wire |
7 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
8 |
Waltz with Bashir |
9 |
Young @ Heart |
10 |
|
|
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|
|
Jason Gargano
Cincinnati City Beat |
1 |
Che |
2 |
A Christmas Tale |
3 |
Man on Wire |
4 |
Momma’s Man |
5 |
My Winnipeg |
6 |
Bigger, Stronger Faster |
7 |
Reprise |
8 |
Wall-E |
9 |
Wendy & Lucy |
10 |
The Wrestler |
|
|
Steven Rosen
Cincinnati City Beat |
1 |
Frozen River |
2 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
3 |
Man on Wire |
4 |
Revolutionary Road |
5 |
The Wrestler |
6 |
Happy Go Lucky |
7 |
Wendy & Lucy |
8 |
Milk |
9 |
Synecdoche, NY |
10 |
Tell No One |
|
|
|
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Erica Abeel
IndieWire |
1 |
Waltz with Bashir |
2 |
Happy Go Lucky |
3 |
A Christmas Tale |
4 |
Paranoid Park |
5 |
The Duchess of Langeais |
6 |
The Last Mistress |
7 |
The Class |
8 |
Alexandra |
9 |
The Reader |
10 |
The Band’s Visit |
|
|
Howard Feinstein
IndieWire |
1 |
Gran Torino |
2 |
The Secret of the Grain |
3 |
Alexandra |
4 |
Silent Light |
5 |
Wall-E |
6 |
Milk |
7 |
My Winnipeg |
8 |
Still Life |
9 |
Standard Operating Procedure |
10 |
Rachel Getting married |
|
|
|
|
Eugene Hernandez
IndieWire |
1 |
A Christmas Tale |
2 |
Derek |
3 |
Frozen River |
4 |
Gomorrah |
5 |
Man on Wire |
6 |
Milk/Paranoid Park |
7 |
Trouble the Water |
8 |
Synecdoche, NY |
9 |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
10 |
Waltz with Bashir |
|
|
Brian Brooks
IndieWire |
1 |
Wanted & Desired |
2 |
The Class |
3 |
Che |
4 |
Milk |
5 |
Man on Wire |
6 |
Gomorrah |
7 |
Encounters at End of the World |
8 |
I’ve Loved You So Long |
9 |
Ballast |
10 |
Slumdog Millioniare |
|
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|
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Erica Abeel | Brian Brooks | Matt Brunson | Howard Feinstein | Jason Gargano | Eugene Hernandez | Stuart Levine | Michael Rechtshaffen | Steven Rosen | Frank Scheck
Tags: 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, A Christmas Tale, Ballast, Burn After Reading, Changeling, Che, Dear Zachary, Doubt, Elegy, Encounters at the End of the World, Flight of the Red Balloon, Frost/Nixon, Frozen River, Gomorrah, Gran Torino, Happy-Go-Lucky, Hunger, I've Loved You So Long, In Bruges, In the City of Silvia, Iron Man, Let the Right One In, Man on Wire, Milk, My Winnipeg, Paranoid Park, Pineapple Express, Rachel Getting Married, Reprise, Revolutionary Road, Silent Light, Slumdog Millionaire, Standard Operating Procedure, Still Life, Synechdoche NY, Tell No One, The Class, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Edge of Heaven, The Fall, The Reader, The Visitor, The Wrestler, Trouble the Water, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Wall-E, Waltz with Bashir, Wendy and Lucy
Posted in Awards Watch, The Top Tens - Critics Pages | Comments Off on Page 21
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Jason Guerrasio
Filmmaker Magazine |
1 |
The Betrayal/Che |
2 |
The Class |
3 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
4 |
The Dark Knight |
5 |
Elegy/Man on Wire |
6 |
Milk/Momman’s Man |
7 |
Paranoid Park |
8 |
Roman Polanski: Wanted & Desired |
9 |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
10 |
Wall-E/The Wrestler |
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Kristian Lin
Ft. Worth Weekly |
1 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
2 |
The Dark Knight |
3 |
Wall-E |
4 |
Forgetting Sarah Marshall |
5 |
Reprise |
6 |
Rachel Getting Married |
7 |
Pineapple Express |
8 |
Happy Go Lucky |
9 |
Let the Right One In |
10 |
Bigger, Stronger, Faster |
|
|
|
|
Matthew Lucas
The Dispatch |
1 |
Silent Light |
2 |
4 Mos, 3 Wks & 2 Days |
3 |
Synecdoche, NY |
4 |
Gran Torino |
5 |
Wall-E |
6 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
7 |
Waltz with Bashir |
8 |
The Wrestler |
9 |
Let the Right One In |
10 |
Still Life |
|
|
Tom Meek
Boston Phoenix |
1 |
Encounters at End of the World |
2 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
3 |
Waltz with Bashir |
4 |
The Visitor |
5 |
Wall-E |
6 |
Milk |
7 |
Let the Right One In |
8 |
Man on Wire |
9 |
The Pool |
10 |
The Bank Job |
|
|
|
|
Joe Neumaier
NY Daily News |
1 |
The Dark Knight |
2 |
Doubt |
3 |
I’ve Loved You So Long |
4 |
The Lucky Ones |
5 |
Religulous |
6 |
Revolutionary Road |
7 |
Synecdoche, NY |
8 |
W. |
9 |
Wall-E |
10 |
The Wrestler |
|
|
Dave Kehr
DaveKehr.com |
1 |
A Christmas Tale |
2 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
3 |
Diary of the Dead |
4 |
The Fall |
5 |
Gran Torino |
6 |
Sparrow |
7 |
Still Life |
8 |
Tropic Thunder |
9 |
Wall-E |
10 |
Wendy & Lucy |
|
|
|
|
Barbara Vancheri
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
1 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
2 |
The Dark Knight |
3 |
Wall-E |
4 |
Frost/Nixon |
5 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
6 |
Frozen River |
7 |
The Wrestler |
8 |
Man on Wire |
9 |
Doubt |
10 |
The Visitor |
|
|
Anne Hornaday
Washington Post |
1 |
The Visitor |
2 |
Wall-E |
3 |
Milk |
4 |
The Edge of Heaven |
5 |
Man on Wire |
6 |
Chicago 10 |
7 |
Happy Go Lucky |
8 |
Rachel Getting Married |
9 |
I’ve Loved You So Long |
10 |
Tell No One |
|
|
|
|
Bob Strauss
LA Daily News |
1 |
The Dark Knight |
2 |
Towelhead |
3 |
Still Life |
4 |
Milk / Paranoid Park |
5 |
The Exiles |
6 |
Frost/Nixon |
7 |
Let the Right One In |
8 |
Trouble the Water |
9 |
Hunger |
10 |
Pineapple Express/Tropic Thunder |
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Sean O’Connell
WBTV |
1 |
Wall-E |
2 |
Man on Wire |
3 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
4 |
Rachel Getting Married |
5 |
Frost/Nixon |
6 |
Dear Zachary |
7 |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
8 |
Son of Rambow |
9 |
Tropic Thunder |
10 |
Let the Right One In |
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Jason Guerrasio | Anne Hornaday | Dave Kehr | Kristian Lin | Matthew Lucas | Tom Meek | Joe Neumaier | Sean O’Connell | Bob Strauss | Barbara Vancheri
Tags: 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, A Christmas Tale, Ballast, Burn After Reading, Changeling, Che, Dear Zachary, Doubt, Elegy, Encounters at the End of the World, Flight of the Red Balloon, Frost/Nixon, Frozen River, Gomorrah, Gran Torino, Happy-Go-Lucky, Hunger, I've Loved You So Long, In Bruges, In the City of Silvia, Iron Man, Let the Right One In, Man on Wire, Milk, My Winnipeg, Paranoid Park, Pineapple Express, Rachel Getting Married, Reprise, Revolutionary Road, Silent Light, Slumdog Millionaire, Standard Operating Procedure, Still Life, Synechdoche NY, Tell No One, The Class, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Edge of Heaven, The Fall, The Reader, The Visitor, The Wrestler, Trouble the Water, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Wall-E, Waltz with Bashir, Wendy and Lucy
Posted in Awards Watch, The Top Tens - Critics Pages | Comments Off on Page 20
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Brad Brevet
Rope of Silicon |
1 |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
2 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
3 |
The Wrestler |
4 |
The Dark Knight |
5 |
Wall-E |
6 |
The Class |
7 |
In Bruges |
8 |
Tropic Thunder |
9 |
I’ve Loved You So Long |
10 |
The Reader |
|
|
Whitney Matheson
USA Today |
1 |
Iron Man |
2 |
The Dark Knight |
3 |
The Wrestler |
4 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
5 |
Rachel Getting Married |
6 |
Pineapple Express |
7 |
Wendy & Lucy |
8 |
Milk |
9 |
Young at Heart |
10 |
Nights and Weekends |
|
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|
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Dana Stevens
Slate |
1 |
A Christmas Tale |
2 |
The Class |
3 |
The Edge of Heaven |
4 |
Encounters at End of the World |
5 |
Frozen River |
6 |
Man on Wire |
7 |
Milk |
8 |
Wall-E |
9 |
Wendy & Lucy |
10 |
The Wrestler |
|
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Pam Grady
FilmStew |
1 |
My Winnipeg |
2 |
The Wrestler |
3 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
4 |
JCVD |
5 |
Wall-E |
6 |
What we do is Secret |
7 |
Boy A |
8 |
The Visitor |
9 |
Milk |
10 |
In Bruges |
|
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|
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Harry Knowles
AICN |
1 |
Let the Right One In |
2 |
The Dark Knight |
3 |
The Wrestler |
4 |
Wall-E |
5 |
Brothers Bloom |
6 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
7 |
Milk |
8 |
Pineapple Express |
9 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
10 |
Burn After Reading |
|
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Peter Knegt
IndieWire |
1 |
Wendy & Lucy |
2 |
Happy Go Lucky |
3 |
Wall-E |
4 |
The Dark Knight |
5 |
Waltz with Bashir |
6 |
Milk |
7 |
A Christmas Tale |
8 |
Synecdoche, NY |
9 |
Ballast |
10 |
Let the Right One In |
|
|
|
|
Michael Hawley
Twitch |
1 |
A Christmas Tale |
2 |
Synecdoche, NY |
3 |
The Duchess of Langeais |
4 |
Still Life |
5 |
Stranded |
6 |
The Pool |
7 |
My Father, My Lord |
8 |
Stuck |
9 |
The Last Mistress |
10 |
4 Mos, 3 Wks & 2 Days |
|
|
Dennis Harvey
Variety |
1 |
Encounters at End of the World |
2 |
Battle for Haditha |
3 |
My Brother is an Only Child |
4 |
Kenny |
5 |
The Class |
6 |
A Christmas Tale |
7 |
The Signal |
8 |
I Served the King of England |
9 |
Happy Go Lucky |
10 |
Planet B-Boy |
|
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|
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Paul Gallagher
FutureMovies |
1 |
The Dark Knight |
2 |
Wall-E |
3 |
No Country for Old Men |
4 |
There Will Be Blood |
5 |
Waltz with Bashir |
6 |
Juno |
7 |
Son of Rambow |
8 |
In Bruges |
9 |
The Visitor |
10 |
Man on Wire |
|
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Dennis Lim
Moving Image Source |
1 |
Flight of the Red Balloon |
2 |
Before I Forget |
3 |
Still Life |
4 |
In the City of Sylvia |
5 |
Paranoid Park |
6 |
Wendy & Lucy |
7 |
The Duchess of Langaeis |
8 |
Hunger |
9 |
My Winnipeg |
10 |
Milk |
|
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|
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Brad Brevet | Paul Gallagher | Pam Grady | Dennis Harvey | Michael Hawley | Peter Knegt | Harry Knowles | Dennis Lim | Whitney Matheson | Dana Stevens
Tags: 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, A Christmas Tale, Ballast, Burn After Reading, Changeling, Che, Dear Zachary, Doubt, Elegy, Encounters at the End of the World, Flight of the Red Balloon, Frost/Nixon, Frozen River, Gomorrah, Gran Torino, Happy-Go-Lucky, Hunger, I've Loved You So Long, In Bruges, In the City of Silvia, Iron Man, Let the Right One In, Man on Wire, Milk, My Winnipeg, Paranoid Park, Pineapple Express, Rachel Getting Married, Reprise, Revolutionary Road, Silent Light, Slumdog Millionaire, Standard Operating Procedure, Still Life, Synechdoche NY, Tell No One, The Class, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Edge of Heaven, The Fall, The Reader, The Visitor, The Wrestler, Trouble the Water, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Wall-E, Waltz with Bashir, Wendy and Lucy
Posted in Awards Watch, The Top Tens - Critics Pages | Comments Off on Page 19
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Alison Brophy-Champion
Culpeper Star-Exponent |
1 |
There Will Be Blood |
2 |
Iron Man |
3 |
City Lights |
4 |
The Dark Knight |
5 |
Maltese Falcon |
6 |
All Quiet on the Western Front |
7 |
U2 3D |
8 |
Indiana Jones: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull |
9 |
Burn After Reading |
10 |
Cloverfield |
|
|
Marcus Hu
Strand Releasing |
1 |
Before I Forget |
2 |
Milk |
3 |
The Class |
4 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
5 |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
6 |
Be Kind Rewind |
7 |
The Edge of Heaven |
8 |
Hunger |
9 |
Savage Grace |
10 |
Ballast |
|
|
|
|
Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer |
1 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
2 |
The Edge of Heaven |
3 |
The Visitor |
4 |
Wendy & Lucy |
5 |
I’ve Loved You So Long |
6 |
Frozen River |
7 |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
8 |
Hancock/Iron Man |
9 |
Happy Go Lucky |
10 |
In Bruges |
|
|
Larry Ratliff
Express-News |
1 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
2 |
Young @ Heart |
3 |
The Dark Knight |
4 |
Wall-E |
5 |
Let the Right One In |
6 |
Doubt |
7 |
Milk |
8 |
Frost/Nixon |
9 |
Burn After Reading |
10 |
Appaloosa |
|
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Edward Douglas
Coming Soon |
1 |
Man on Wire |
2 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
3 |
Wall-E |
4 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
5 |
Let the Right One In |
6 |
Dear Zachary |
7 |
Glass: A Portrait of Philip |
8 |
Iron Man |
9 |
Nothing But the Truth |
10 |
Happy Go Lucky |
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Tom Lynch
Newcity |
1 |
Milk |
2 |
The Dark Knight |
3 |
Man on Wire |
4 |
Let the Right One In |
5 |
Rachel Getting Married |
6 |
Revolutionary Road |
7 |
The Wrestler |
8 |
Iron Man |
9 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
10 |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
|
|
|
|
Josh Tyler
CinemaBlend |
1 |
The Dark Knight |
2 |
Kung Fu Panda |
3 |
Forgetting Sarah Marshall |
4 |
Milk |
5 |
Religulous |
6 |
Doubt |
7 |
Gran Torino |
8 |
Priceless |
9 |
The Wackness |
10 |
Bolt |
|
|
Philip Martin
|
1 |
The Visitor |
2 |
4 Mos, 3 Wks & 2 Days |
3 |
Shotgun Stories |
4 |
Happy Go Lucky |
5 |
Let the Right One In |
6 |
The Dark Knight |
7 |
Gran Torino |
8 |
Frozen River |
9 |
Synecdoche, NY |
10 |
Wall-E |
|
|
|
|
Sheri Linden
The Hollywood Reporter |
1 |
Man on Wire |
2 |
Ballast |
3 |
The Dark Knight |
4 |
The Pool |
5 |
Paranoid Park |
6 |
Still Life |
7 |
Che |
8 |
Waltz with Bashir |
9 |
The Last Mistress |
10 |
Encounters at End of the World |
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Robert W. Butler
Kansas City Star |
1 |
Rachel Getting Married |
2 |
The Visitor |
3 |
Milk |
4 |
Man on Wire |
5 |
Gran Torino |
6 |
Waltz with Bashir |
7 |
Happy Go Lucky |
8 |
Frost/Nixon |
9 |
Young @ Heart |
10 |
My Winnipeg |
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|
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Alison Brophy-Champion | Robert W. Butler | Edward Douglas | Marcus Hu | Sheri Linden | Tom Lynch | Philip Martin | Larry Ratliff | Steven Rea | Josh Tyler
Tags: 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, A Christmas Tale, Ballast, Burn After Reading, Changeling, Che, Dear Zachary, Doubt, Elegy, Encounters at the End of the World, Flight of the Red Balloon, Frost/Nixon, Frozen River, Gomorrah, Gran Torino, Happy-Go-Lucky, Hunger, I've Loved You So Long, In Bruges, In the City of Silvia, Iron Man, Let the Right One In, Man on Wire, Milk, My Winnipeg, Paranoid Park, Pineapple Express, Rachel Getting Married, Reprise, Revolutionary Road, Silent Light, Slumdog Millionaire, Standard Operating Procedure, Still Life, Synechdoche NY, Tell No One, The Class, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Edge of Heaven, The Fall, The Reader, The Visitor, The Wrestler, Trouble the Water, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Wall-E, Waltz with Bashir, Wendy and Lucy
Posted in Awards Watch, The Top Tens - Critics Pages | Comments Off on Page 18
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Stephen Farber
The Hollywood Reporter |
1 |
Waltz With Bashir |
2 |
Boy A |
3 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
4 |
The Reader |
5 |
Milk |
6 |
Frozen River |
7 |
The Visitor |
8 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
9 |
The Edge of Heaven |
10 |
In Search of a Midnight Kiss |
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Kirk Honeycutt
The Hollywood Reporter |
1 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
2 |
The Dark Knight |
3 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
4 |
Frozen River |
5 |
Wall-E |
6 |
Milk |
7 |
Man on Wire |
8 |
The Visitor |
9 |
Iron Man |
10 |
The Edge of Heaven |
|
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Christopher Kelly
DFW.com |
1 |
Rachel Getting Married |
2 |
The Dark Knight |
3 |
Wendy & Lucy |
4 |
Reprise |
5 |
Happy Go Lucky |
6 |
Paranoid Park |
7 |
Definitely, Maybe |
8 |
Doubt |
9 |
The Class |
10 |
W. |
|
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Ray Bennett
The Hollywood Reporter |
1 |
Synecdoche, NY |
2 |
Happy Go Lucky |
3 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
4 |
Good |
5 |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
6 |
I’ve Loved You So Long |
7 |
The Wrestler |
8 |
Appaloosa |
9 |
Brideshead Revisited |
10 |
Frost/Nixon |
|
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|
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Clint O’Connor
Cleveland Plain Dealer |
1 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
2 |
RocknRolla |
3 |
The Reader |
4 |
Tropic Thunder |
5 |
Choke |
6 |
Priceless |
7 |
Elegy |
8 |
Under the Same Moon |
9 |
Miracle at St. Ann |
10 |
Redbelt |
|
|
Matt Pais
Red Eye (Chicago) |
1 |
Happy Go Lucky |
2 |
Wendy & Lucy |
3 |
Funny Games |
4 |
The Dark Knight |
5 |
Bigger, Stronger, Faster |
6 |
Wall-E |
7 |
Paranoid Park |
8 |
The Wrestler |
9 |
Ballast |
10 |
Role Models |
|
|
|
|
Calvin Wilson
STL Today |
1 |
Boy A |
2 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
3 |
Flight of the Red Balloon |
4 |
Frost/Nixon |
5 |
Happy Go Lucky |
6 |
Milk |
7 |
Rachel Getting Married |
8 |
Revolutionary Road |
9 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
10 |
Waltz with Bashir |
|
|
Craig Outhier
Phoenix East Valley Tribune |
1 |
The Visitor |
2 |
The Dark Knight |
3 |
The Wrestler |
4 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
5 |
Rachel Getting Married |
6 |
Religulous |
7 |
U2 3D |
8 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
9 |
Roman de Gare |
10 |
Frost/Nixon |
|
|
|
|
TC Kirkham
Popcorn n Roses |
1 |
Charlie Bartlett/Cloverfield |
2 |
Crawford |
3 |
The Dark Knight |
4 |
The Forbidden Kingdom |
5 |
Frost/Nixon |
6 |
Iron Man/Milk |
7 |
My Winnipeg |
8 |
Nick & Nora’s Infinite Playlist |
9 |
Paranoid Park/Speed Racer |
10 |
Wall-E |
|
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Kim Brown
Popcorn n Roses |
1 |
Charlie Bartlett |
2 |
The Dark Knight |
3 |
In Bruges |
4 |
Iron Man |
5 |
Mamma Mia |
6 |
My Winnipeg |
7 |
Nick & Nora’s Infinite Playlist |
8 |
Paranoid Park |
9 |
Speed Racer |
10 |
Tropic Thunder |
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Ray Bennett | Kim Brown | Stephen Farber | Kirk Honeycutt | Christopher Kelly | TC Kirkham | Clint O’Connor | Craig Outhier | Matt Pais | Calvin Wilson
Tags: 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, A Christmas Tale, Ballast, Burn After Reading, Changeling, Che, Dear Zachary, Doubt, Elegy, Encounters at the End of the World, Flight of the Red Balloon, Frost/Nixon, Frozen River, Gomorrah, Gran Torino, Happy-Go-Lucky, Hunger, I've Loved You So Long, In Bruges, In the City of Silvia, Iron Man, Let the Right One In, Man on Wire, Milk, My Winnipeg, Paranoid Park, Pineapple Express, Rachel Getting Married, Reprise, Revolutionary Road, Silent Light, Slumdog Millionaire, Standard Operating Procedure, Still Life, Synechdoche NY, Tell No One, The Class, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Edge of Heaven, The Fall, The Reader, The Visitor, The Wrestler, Trouble the Water, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Wall-E, Waltz with Bashir, Wendy and Lucy
Posted in Awards Watch, The Top Tens - Critics Pages | Comments Off on Page 17
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe |
1 |
Wall-E |
2 |
The Edge of Heaven |
3 |
Ballast |
4 |
Be Kind Rewind |
5 |
The Dark Knight |
6 |
Gomorrah |
7 |
Milk |
8 |
Synecdoche, NY |
9 |
The Order of Myths |
10 |
Realism as a Theme |
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Ty Burr
Boston Globe |
1 |
Wall-E |
2 |
Slumdog Millioniare |
3 |
Man on Wire |
4 |
Milk |
5 |
Let the Right One In |
6 |
The Wrestler |
7 |
Rachel Getting Married |
8 |
Son of Rambow |
9 |
Flight of the Red Balloon |
10 |
Synecdoche, NY |
|
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|
|
Craig D. Lindsey
News & Observer |
1 |
Burn After Reading |
2 |
A Christmas Tale |
3 |
The Dark Knight |
4 |
Dear Zachary |
5 |
Encounters at End of the World |
6 |
Happy Go Lucky |
7 |
Let the Right One In |
8 |
Paranoid Park |
9 |
Rachel Getting Married |
10 |
Wall-E |
|
|
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal |
1 |
Wall-E |
2 |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
3 |
Happy Go Lucky |
4 |
Frozen Rivver |
5 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
6 |
Man on Wire |
7 |
The Visitor |
8 |
Let the Right One In |
9 |
Frost/Nixon |
10 |
Indiana Jones & Kingdom of the Crystal Skull |
|
|
|
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Peter Sobczynski
eFilmCritic |
1 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
2 |
My Blueberry Nights |
3 |
The Dark Knight |
4 |
Shine A Light |
5 |
Snow Angels |
6 |
Wall-E |
7 |
Rachel Getting Married |
8 |
Let the Right One In |
9 |
The Wrestler |
10 |
My Winnipeg |
|
|
Moira Macdonald
Seattle Times |
1 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
2 |
The Dark Knight |
3 |
Frozen River |
4 |
Man on Wire |
5 |
Milk |
6 |
Priceless |
7 |
Revolutionary Road |
8 |
Shine a Light |
9 |
Tell No One |
10 |
Wall-E |
|
|
|
|
Drew McWeeny
HitFix |
1 |
The Wrestler |
2 |
The Good, the Bad & the Weird |
3 |
Man On Wire |
4 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
5 |
Let the Right One In |
6 |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
7 |
Ex-Drummer |
8 |
The Dark Knight |
9 |
Wall-E |
10 |
Pineapple Express |
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Phil Villarreal
Arizona Star |
1 |
The Dark Knight |
2 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
3 |
The Wrestler |
4 |
Gran Torino |
5 |
Wanted |
6 |
Pineapple Express |
7 |
Zack & Miri Make a Porno |
8 |
Frost/Nixon |
9 |
Boy in the Striped Pajamas |
10 |
Milk |
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Todd Hill
Staten Island Advance |
1 |
The Reader |
2 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
3 |
The Wrestler |
4 |
Happy Go Lucky |
5 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
6 |
The Visitor |
7 |
Wall-E |
8 |
Nothing But the Truth |
9 |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
10 |
Funny Games |
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Al Alexander
Patriot Ledger |
1 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
2 |
Milk |
3 |
Frost/Nixon |
4 |
4 Mos, 3 Wks & 2 Days |
5 |
Man on Wire |
6 |
The Wrestler |
7 |
Synecdoche, NY |
8 |
Edge of Heaven |
9 |
Tell No One |
10 |
The Visitor |
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Al Alexander | Ty Burr | Carol Cling | Todd Hill | Craig D. Lindsey | Moira Macdonald | Drew McWeeny | Wesley Morris | Peter Sobczynski | Phil Villarreal
Tags: 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, A Christmas Tale, Ballast, Burn After Reading, Changeling, Che, Dear Zachary, Doubt, Elegy, Encounters at the End of the World, Flight of the Red Balloon, Frost/Nixon, Frozen River, Gomorrah, Gran Torino, Happy-Go-Lucky, Hunger, I've Loved You So Long, In Bruges, In the City of Silvia, Iron Man, Let the Right One In, Man on Wire, Milk, My Winnipeg, Paranoid Park, Pineapple Express, Rachel Getting Married, Reprise, Revolutionary Road, Silent Light, Slumdog Millionaire, Standard Operating Procedure, Still Life, Synechdoche NY, Tell No One, The Class, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Edge of Heaven, The Fall, The Reader, The Visitor, The Wrestler, Trouble the Water, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Wall-E, Waltz with Bashir, Wendy and Lucy
Posted in Awards Watch, The Top Tens - Critics Pages | Comments Off on Page 16
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal |
1 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
2 |
Wall-E |
3 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
4 |
Iron Man |
5 |
Man On Wire |
6 |
Still Life |
7 |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
8 |
The Visitor |
9 |
Waltz with Bashir |
10 |
The Wrestler |
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Ruthe Stein
San Francisco Chronicle |
1 |
Milk |
2 |
Revolutionary Road |
3 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
4 |
Frost/Nixon |
5 |
I’ve Loved You So Long |
6 |
The Wrestler |
7 |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
8 |
Elegy |
9 |
Wendy & Lucy |
10 |
The Visitor |
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Joe Williams
St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
1 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
2 |
Revolutionary Road |
3 |
Frost/Nixon |
4 |
Milk |
5 |
Wall-E |
6 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
7 |
Up the Yangtze |
8 |
Wendy & Lucy |
9 |
Trouble the Water |
10 |
Man on Wire |
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Peter Hartlaub
San Francisco Chronicle |
1 |
The Dark Knight |
2 |
The Wrestler |
3 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
4 |
Milk |
5 |
Frost/Nixon |
6 |
The Visitor |
7 |
Tropic Thunder |
8 |
Man on Wire |
9 |
Wall-E |
10 |
Iron Man |
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Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle |
1 |
Revolutionary Road |
2 |
Milk |
3 |
4 Mos, 3 Wks and 2 Days |
4 |
I’ve Loved You So Long |
5 |
The Wrestler |
6 |
Frost/Nixon |
7 |
Roman de Gare |
8 |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
9 |
The Life Before Her Eyes |
10 |
Baghead |
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Neil Rosen
NY1 |
1 |
Wall-E |
2 |
W |
3 |
Changeling |
4 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
5 |
The Wrestler |
6 |
Man On Wire |
7 |
Towelhead |
8 |
Zack & Miri Make A Porno |
9 |
Step Brothers |
10 |
Bolt |
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Josh Bell
Las Vegas Weekly |
1 |
Funny Games |
2 |
Happy Go Lucky |
3 |
Rachel Getting married |
4 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
5 |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
6 |
Wall-E |
7 |
The Wackness |
8 |
Cloverfield |
9 |
Chop Shop |
10 |
Standard Operating Procedure |
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Jeffrey M. Anderson
Las Vegas Weekly |
1 |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
2 |
Flight of the Red Balloon |
3 |
Still Life |
4 |
The Dark Knight |
5 |
Burn After Reading |
6 |
Rachel Getting Married |
7 |
Gran Torino |
8 |
Happy Go Lucky |
9 |
My Blueberry Nights |
10 |
Encounters at End of the World |
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Rafer Guzman
Newsday |
1 |
Wall-E |
2 |
A Christmas Tale |
3 |
The Last Mistress |
4 |
The Dark Knight |
5 |
Let the Right One In |
6 |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
7 |
Rachel Getting Married |
8 |
Milk |
9 |
I’ve Loved You So Long |
10 |
The Wrestler |
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James Ward
Visalia Times-Delta |
1 |
Milk |
2 |
The Changeling |
3 |
The Dark Knight |
4 |
The Black Balloon |
5 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
6 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
7 |
The Visitor |
8 |
Doubt |
9 |
In Bruges |
10 |
RocknRolla |
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Jeffrey M. Anderson | Josh Bell | Rafer Guzman | Peter Hartlaub | Mick LaSalle
Joe Morgenstern | Neil Rosen | Ruthe Stein | James Ward | Joe Williams
Tags: 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, A Christmas Tale, Ballast, Burn After Reading, Changeling, Che, Dear Zachary, Doubt, Elegy, Encounters at the End of the World, Flight of the Red Balloon, Frost/Nixon, Frozen River, Gomorrah, Gran Torino, Happy-Go-Lucky, Hunger, I've Loved You So Long, In Bruges, In the City of Silvia, Iron Man, Let the Right One In, Man on Wire, Milk, My Winnipeg, Paranoid Park, Pineapple Express, Rachel Getting Married, Reprise, Revolutionary Road, Silent Light, Slumdog Millionaire, Standard Operating Procedure, Still Life, Synechdoche NY, Tell No One, The Class, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Edge of Heaven, The Fall, The Reader, The Visitor, The Wrestler, Trouble the Water, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Wall-E, Waltz with Bashir, Wendy and Lucy
Posted in Awards Watch, The Top Tens - Critics Pages | Comments Off on Page 15
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Sean Means
Salt Lake Tribune |
1 |
Rachel Getting Married |
2 |
The Dark Knight |
3 |
Wall-E |
4 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
5 |
Son of Rambow |
6 |
Hellboy II: Golden Army |
7 |
Tell No One |
8 |
The Visitor |
9 |
Let the Right One In |
10 |
Frozen River |
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Kevin Laforest
Montreal Film Journal |
1 |
Che |
2 |
Australia |
3 |
Pineapple Express |
4 |
The Dark Knight |
5 |
Wall-E |
6 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
7 |
Afterschool |
8 |
Silent Light |
9 |
The Wrestler |
10 |
Miroir Noir |
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Tom Long
Detroit News |
1 |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
2 |
The Wrestler |
3 |
Frost/Nixon |
4 |
Revolutionary Road |
5 |
Synecdoche, NY |
6 |
Wall-E |
7 |
Man on Wire |
8 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
9 |
Elegy |
10 |
Doomsday/Wanted |
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Chris Hewitt
St. Paul Pioneer Press |
1 |
The Edge of Heaven |
2 |
The Dark Knight |
3 |
Man on Wire |
4 |
Be Kind Rewind |
5 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
6 |
Wall-E |
7 |
Synecdoche, NY |
8 |
Surfwise |
9 |
Hunger |
10 |
OSS 117: Nest of Spies |
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Michael Sragow
Baltimore Sun |
1 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
2 |
Wall-E |
3 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
4 |
Happy Go Lucky |
5 |
The Edge of Heaven |
6 |
What Just Happened |
7 |
Rachel Getting Married |
8 |
American Teen |
9 |
Flash of Genius |
10 |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
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John Serba
|
1 |
Wall-E |
2 |
The Wrestler |
3 |
In Bruges |
4 |
Happy Go Lucky |
5 |
The Dark Knight |
6 |
Revolutionary Road |
7 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
8 |
Doubt |
9 |
Milk |
10 |
Rachel Getting Married |
|
|
|
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James Verniere
Boston Herald |
1 |
Slumdog Millionare |
2 |
Wall-E |
3 |
Changeling |
4 |
Frost/Nixon |
5 |
Gran Torino |
6 |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
7 |
Happy Go Lucky |
8 |
Tell No One |
9 |
In Bruges |
10 |
Mongol |
|
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Sonny Bunch
Washington Times |
1 |
The Dark Knight |
2 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
3 |
The Wrestler |
4 |
Wall-E |
5 |
Gran Torino |
6 |
Let the Right One In |
7 |
In Bruges |
8 |
The Strangers |
9 |
The Bank Job |
10 |
The Promotion |
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Dan Sallitt
Auteurs Notebook |
1 |
The Tracey Fragments |
2 |
Ballast |
3 |
Still Life |
4 |
Une Vielle Maitresse |
5 |
Nights and Weekends |
6 |
Woman on the Beach |
7 |
Avant que j’oublie |
8 |
The Wackness |
9 |
Silent Light |
10 |
Poor Boy’s Game |
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Carla Meyer
Sacramento Bee |
1 |
The Visitor |
2 |
Wall-E |
3 |
Milk |
4 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
5 |
Wendy & Lucy |
6 |
Happy Go Lucky |
7 |
The Wrestler |
8 |
I’ve Loved You So Long |
9 |
Frost/Nixon |
10 |
Man on Wire |
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Sonny Bunch | Chris Hewitt | Kevin Laforest | Tom Long | Sean Means | Carla Meyer | Dan Sallitt | John Serba | Michael Sragow | James Verniere
Tags: 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, A Christmas Tale, Ballast, Burn After Reading, Changeling, Che, Dear Zachary, Doubt, Elegy, Encounters at the End of the World, Flight of the Red Balloon, Frost/Nixon, Frozen River, Gomorrah, Gran Torino, Happy-Go-Lucky, Hunger, I've Loved You So Long, In Bruges, In the City of Silvia, Iron Man, Let the Right One In, Man on Wire, Milk, My Winnipeg, Paranoid Park, Pineapple Express, Rachel Getting Married, Reprise, Revolutionary Road, Silent Light, Slumdog Millionaire, Standard Operating Procedure, Still Life, Synechdoche NY, Tell No One, The Class, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Edge of Heaven, The Fall, The Reader, The Visitor, The Wrestler, Trouble the Water, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Wall-E, Waltz with Bashir, Wendy and Lucy
Posted in Awards Watch, The Top Tens - Critics Pages | Comments Off on Page 14
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Pete Howell
Toronto Star |
1 |
The Dark Knight |
2 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
3 |
My Winnipeg |
3 |
Man on Wire |
5 |
Wall-E |
6 |
Doubt |
7 |
Rachel Getting Married |
8 |
Let the Right One In |
9 |
The Wrestler |
10 |
Gran Torino |
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Stephen Witty
The Star-Ledger |
1 |
The Dark Knight |
2 |
4 Mos, 3 Wks & 2 Days |
3 |
Elegy |
4 |
Milk |
5 |
Revolutionary Road |
6 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
7 |
Taxi to the Dark SIde |
8 |
Tell No One |
9 |
Wall-E |
10 |
The Wrestler |
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Mary Pols
Women On Film |
1 |
Wall-E |
2 |
The Wrestler |
3 |
Rachel Getting Married |
3 |
I’ve Loved You So Long |
5 |
Let the Right One In |
6 |
Wendy & Lucy |
7 |
Milk |
8 |
A Christmas Tale |
9 |
Pineapple Express |
10 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
|
|
Stephen Holt
Stephen Holt Show |
1 |
Milk |
2 |
Rachel Getting Married |
3 |
Hunger |
4 |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
5 |
Shotgun Stories |
6 |
Funny Games |
7 |
The Reader |
8 |
Revolutionary Road |
9 |
Mama Mia |
10 |
Changeling |
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Tom Charity
CNN.com |
1 |
Encounters at End of the World |
2 |
In the City of Sylvia |
3 |
Still Life |
4 |
Opera Jawa |
5 |
Wall-E |
6 |
Appaloosa |
7 |
A Christmas Tale |
8 |
Paranoid Park |
9 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
10 |
Let the Right One In |
|
|
James Crawford
Revers Shot |
1 |
Silent Light |
2 |
A Christmas Tale |
3 |
Flight of the Red Balloon |
4 |
Synecdoche, NY |
5 |
Woman on the Beach |
6 |
Wall-E |
7 |
My Winnipeg |
8 |
Milk |
9 |
Let the Right One In |
10 |
Boy A |
|
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Mike D’Angelo
Las Vegas Weekly |
1 |
Silent Light |
2 |
Paranoid Park |
3 |
Rachel Getting Married |
4 |
Burn After Reading |
5 |
Wall-E |
6 |
The Brothers Bloom |
7 |
Funny Games |
8 |
The Duchess of Langeais |
9 |
In the City of Sylvia |
10 |
The Secret of the Grain |
|
|
Thelma Adams
US Magazine |
1 |
Milk |
2 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
3 |
Tropic Thunder |
4 |
Happy Go Lucky |
5 |
Frozen River |
6 |
Rachel Getting Married |
7 |
Burn After Reading |
8 |
A Christmas Tale |
9 |
The Duchess |
10 |
Revolutionary Road |
|
|
|
|
Francis Chervenak
Stephen Holt Show |
1 |
The Dark Knight |
2 |
Wall-E |
3 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
4 |
The Wrestler |
4 |
Rachel Getting Married |
6 |
Revolutionary Road |
7 |
Frost/Nixon |
8 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
9 |
Gran Torino |
10 |
Synecdoche, NY |
|
|
Merrick Bursuk
Stephen Holt Show |
1 |
Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
2 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
3 |
Milk |
4 |
The Reader |
5 |
The Visitor |
6 |
Synecdoche, NY |
7 |
The Class |
8 |
Doubt |
9 |
Defiance |
10 |
Happy Go Lucky |
|
|
|
|
Thelma Adams | Merrick Bursuk | Tom Charity | Francis Chervenak | James Crawford | Mike D’Angelo | Stephen Holt | Pete Howell | Mary Pols | Stephen Whitty
Tags: 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, A Christmas Tale, Ballast, Burn After Reading, Changeling, Che, Dear Zachary, Doubt, Elegy, Encounters at the End of the World, Flight of the Red Balloon, Frost/Nixon, Frozen River, Gomorrah, Gran Torino, Happy-Go-Lucky, Hunger, I've Loved You So Long, In Bruges, In the City of Silvia, Iron Man, Let the Right One In, Man on Wire, Milk, My Winnipeg, Paranoid Park, Pineapple Express, Rachel Getting Married, Reprise, Revolutionary Road, Silent Light, Slumdog Millionaire, Standard Operating Procedure, Still Life, Synechdoche NY, Tell No One, The Class, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Edge of Heaven, The Fall, The Reader, The Visitor, The Wrestler, Trouble the Water, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Wall-E, Waltz with Bashir, Wendy and Lucy
Posted in Awards Watch, The Top Tens - Critics Pages | Comments Off on Page 13