Posts Tagged ‘Silent Light’

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Thursday, January 21st, 2010

AFI | John Anderson | Jackie Cooper | Dallas Ft. Worth Film Critics | Houston Film Critics | Drew McWeeny | Joe Morgenstern | Stephen Schaefer | Betsy Sharkey | Dana Stevens

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John Anderson
IndieWIRE

1 Fantastic Mr. Fox
2 Precious
3 Food Inc
4 Star Trek
5 Anvil! The Story of Anvil
6 The Hurt Locker
7 The Windmill Movie
8 Bronson
9 Burma VJ
10 The Messenger
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DFW Film Critics

1 Up in the Air
2 The Hurt Locker
3 Precious
4 Up
5 An Education
6 A Serious Man
7 Inglourious Basterds
8 District 9
9 Avatar
10 Fantastic Mr. Fox
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AFI

1 Coraline
2 The Hangover
3 The Hurt Locker
4 The Messenger
5 Precious
6 A Serious Man
7 A Single Man
8 Sugar
9 Up
10 Up in the Air
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Houston Film Critics

1 The Hurt Locker
2 Up in the Air
3 Star Trek
4 Precious
5 Inglourious Basterds
6 Up
7 (500) Days of Summer
8 Avatar
9 Invictus
10 District 9
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Betsy Sharkey
Los Angeles Times

1 Up in the Air
2 Precious
3 The Hurt Locker
4 The Beaches of Agnes
5 Fantastic Mr. Fox
6 An Education
7 District 9
8 Bright Star
9 A Single Man
10 Two Lovers
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Jackie Cooper
WPGA-TV

1 Avatar
2 Nine
3 Brothers
4 The Hurt Locker
5 The Blind Side
6 Inglourious Basterds
7 Invictus
8 Star Trek
9 The Last Station
10 The Damned United
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Dana Stevens
Slate

1 Adventureland
2 The Beaches of Agnes
3 Crazy Heart
4 Drag Me To Hell
5 Fantastic Mr. Fox
6 The Hurt Locker
7 In the Loop
8 Lorna’s Silence
9 The maid
10 Ponyo
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Stephen Schaefer
Boston Herald

1 An Education
2 Inglourious Basterds
3 Up in the Air
4 Two Lovers
5 The Hurt Locker
6 The White Ribbon
7 Precious
8 Brothers
9 The Young Victoria
10 Avatar
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Joe Morgenstern
The Wall Street Journal

1 The Hurt Locker
2 An Education
3 Avatar
4 Crazy Heart
5 District 9
6 Precious
7 Sin Nombre
8 Summer Hours
9 Up in the Air
10 Where the Wild Things Are
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Drew McWeeny
HitFix

1 Enter the Void
2 Where the Wild Things Are
3 Inglourious Basterds
4 Fantastic Mr. Fox
5 A Serious Man
6 District 9
7 World’s Greatest Dad
8 Up in the Air
9 Avatar
10 In the Loop

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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
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Kathleen Murphy
MSN

1 The Hurt Locker
2 Inglourious Basterds
3 A Serious Man
4 Liverpool
5 Bright Star
6 35 Rhums
7 Summer Hours
8 Still Walking
9 Up in the Air
10 Bad Lieutenant
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Mary Pols
MSN

1 The Hurt Locker
2 The White Ribbon
3 Up in the Air | Adventureland
4 Up | Coraline
5 A Serious Man
6 Beaches of Agnes
7 Where the Wild Things Are
8 The Messenger
9 Fantastic Mr. Fox
10 An Education
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James Rocchi
MSN

1 The Hurt Locker
2 Fantastic Mr. Fox
3 The White Ribbon
4 Anvil! The Story of Anvil
5 A Serious Man
6 In the Loop
7 Up in the Air
8 The Messenger
9 The Maid
10 The Brothers Bloom
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Glenn Whipp
MSN

1 The Hurt locker
2 Fantastic Mr. Fox
3 Up
4 A Serious Man
5 Where the Wild Things Are
6 Tulpan
7 Bright Star
8 Coraline
9 35 Shots of Rum
10 In the Loop
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Peter Debruge
Variety

1 In the Loop
2 The Sun
3 Avatar
4 Summer Hours
5 The Cove
6 Two Lovers
7 Antichrist
8 Ponyo
9 District 9
10 Sugar
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Steve Erickson
Gay City News

1 The Limits of Control
2 Fantastic Mr. Fox
3 The Sun
4 Duplicity
5 Tokyo Sonata
6 Import Export
7 Anvil! The Story of Anvil
8 Police, Adjective
9 Night and Day
10 The Headless Woman
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Susan Gerhard
SF360.org

1 Three Monkeys
2 Tokyo Sonata
3 Tyson
4 Where the Wild Things Are
5 35 Shots of Rum
6 The Maid
7 (500) Days of Summer
8 District 9
9 An Education
10 Funny People
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Robert Horton
The Herald

1 A Serious Man
2 You, the Living
3 Inglourious Basterds
4 Up
5 The Hurt Locker
6 Summer Hours
7 35 Shots of Rum
8 Liverpool
9 Sunshine Cleaning
10 Duplicity
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J.R. Jones
Chicago Reader

1 Summer Hours
2 The Hurt Locker
3 You, the Living
4 In the Loop
5 The Baader Meinhof Complex
6 The Class
7 Goodbye Solo
8 World’s Greatest Dad
9 Fantastic Mr. Fox
10 The Maid
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Eric Kohn
IndieWIRE

1 Sita Sings the Blues
2 Two Lovers
3 The Girlfriend Experience
4 The Hurt Locker
5 Humpday
6 Medicine for Melancholy
7 Adventureland
8 A Serious Man
9 Tony Manero
10 In the Loop

Kathleen Murphy | Mary Pols | James Rocchi | Glenn Whipp | Peter Debruge | Steve Erickson | Susan Gerhard | Robert Horton | JR Jones | Eric Kohn

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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
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Richard T. Jameson
MSN

1 A Serious Man
2 The Hurt Locker
3 Taking Woodstock
4 35 Shots of Rum
5 Bright Star
6 Liverpool
7 Up in the Air
8 Inglourious Basterds | Public Enemies
9 (500) Days of Summer
10 Bad Lieutenant
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Don Kaye
MSN

1 The Hurt Locker
2 A Serious Man
3 District 9
4 Anvil! The Story of Anvil
5 In the Loop
6 An Education
7 Inglourious Basterds
8 Coraline
9 The Road
10 Up in the Air | Watchmen
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Anne Thompson
IndieWire

1 Red Cliff
2 Bright Star
3 A Serious Man
4 A Prophet
5 Up
6 Summer Hours
7 Coraline
8 The Hurt Locker
9 Up in the Air
10 An Education
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Shawn Edwards
FOX-TV

1 The Hangover
2 Avatar
3 Nine
4 (500) Days of Summer
5 Precious
6 Where the Wild Things Are
7 Up in the Air
8 District 9
9 Up
10 The Soloist
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Anthony Lane
New Yorker

1 Anvil! The Story of Anvil
2 Cloudy…Chance of Meatballs
3 Coraline
4 Fantastic Mr. Fox
5 Gommorrah
6 Star Trek
7 The White Ribbon
8 Up
9 Up in the Air
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Richard Corliss
Time Magazine

1 Princess and the Frog
2 Up
3 Fantastic Mr. Fox
4 The Hurt Locker
5 Up in the Air
6 The White Ribbon
7 A Single Man
8 Of Time and the City
9 District 9
10 Thirst
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Dave McCoy
MSN

1 The Hurt Locker
2 A Serious Man
3 The White Ribbon
4 Fantastic Mr. Fox | Where the Wild Things Are
5 Bad Lieutenant
6 Anvil! The Story of Anvil
7 In the Loop
8 Still Wallking
9 The Maid
10 Taking Woodstock
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Kim Morgan
MSN

1 Inglourious Basterds
2 Bad Lieutenant
3 A Serious Man
4 Antichrist
5 Observe and Report
6 Fantastic Mr. Fox
7 Thirst
8 The Hurt Locker
9 The Road
10 Broken Embraces
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Jim Emerson
MSN

1 A Serious Man
2 The Hurt Locker
3 Liverpool
4 35 Shots of Rum
5 Inglourious Basterds
6 The Headless Woman
7 Police, Adjective
8 Summer Hours
9 The White Ribbon
10 Goodbye Solo / The Limits of Control / The Informant! / Watchmen / Fantastic Mr. Fox
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Sight & Sound

1 A Prophet
2 The Hurt Locker
2 35 Shots of Rum
4 The White Ribbon
5 Let the Right One In
6 Up
6 White Material
8 Bright Star
8 Antichrist
10 Inglourious Basterds

Anne Thompson | Shawn Edwards | Anthony Lane | Richard Corliss | Sight & Sound | Jim Emerson | Richard T. Jameson | Don Kaye | Dave McCoy | Kim Morgan

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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
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Phil Villarreal OK! Magazine

1 (500) Days of Summer
2 Inglourious Basterds
3 Precious
4 Crazy Heart
5 A Serious Man
6 Me & Orson Welles
7 Princess & the Frog
8 Were the World Mine
9 Up
10 Up in the Air
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Kristopher Tapley In Contention

1 A Serious Man
2 Up in the Air
3 Antichrist
4 The Cove
5 Avatar
6 Precious
7 An Education
8 Mary & Max
9 Bronson
10 The Lovely Bones
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Lou Lumenick New York Post

1 Up in the Air
2 Up
3 A Serious Man
4 Inglourious Basterds
5 Avatar
6 Invictus
7 Precious
8 Fantastic Mr. Fox
9 In the Loop
10 Ponyo
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Kyle Smith New York Post

1 Inglourious Basterds
2 Up
3 Fantastic Mr. Fox
4 Watchmen
5 Funny People
6 Up in the Air
7 An Education
8 In the Loop
9 Of Time and the City
10 Shall We Kiss?
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Stephen Holden New York Times

1 Up in the Air
2 The White Ribbon
3 Still Walking
4 The Messenger
5 35 Shots of Rum
6 The Hurt Locker
7 The Headless Woman
8 An Education
9 Summer Hours
10 Disgrace
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Peter Travers Rolling Stone

1 Precious
2 Up in the Air
3 The Hurt Locker
4 An Education
5 Up
6 Where the Wild Things Are
7 A Serious Man
8 District 9
9 (500) Days of Summer
10 The Messenger
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David Denby New Yorker

1 The Hurt Locker
2 The White Ribbon
3 The Messenger
4 Funny People
5 Adventureland
6 Up
7 The Last Station
8 Me and Orson Welles
9 Fantastic Mr. Fox
10 Up in the Air
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National Board of Review

1 An Education
2 (500) Days of Summer
3 The Hurt Locker
4 Inglourious Basterds
5 Invictus
6 The Messenger
7 A Serious Man
8 Star Trek
9 Up
10 Where the Wild Things Are
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Austin Film Critics

1 The Hurt Locker
2 Star Trek
3 Up
4 A Serious Man
5 Up in the Air
6 Avatar
7 Inglourious Basterds
8 District 9
9 Where the Wild Things Are
10 Moon | The Messenger
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Sean Axmaker MSN

1 The Hurt Locker
2 A Serious Man
3 Inglourious Basterds
4 Summer Hours
5 Of Time and the City
6 Police, Adjective
7 Still Walking
8 Liverpool
9 Up in the Air
10 Where the Wild Things Are

Phil Villarreal | Kristopher Tapley | Lou Lumenick | Kyle Smith | Stephen Holden | Peter Travers | David Denby | National Board of Review | Austin Film Critics | Sean Axmaker

The Top Ten Chart for January 21, 2010

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

225 Critics. 239 Films.

The Top Ten Chart for January 12, 2010

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

225 Critics. 239 Films.

The Top Ten Chart for January 6, 2010

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

132 Critics. 161 Films. 30 New to the List.

The Top Ten Chart for January 2, 2010

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

102 Critics. 151 Films. 30 New to the List.

The Top Ten Chart for December 29, 2009

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

74 Critics . 125 Films. 20 New to the List.

The Top Ten Chart for December 23, 2009

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

54 Critics. 104 Films.

The Top Ten Chart for December 20, 2009

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

The MCN Critics

1 Chop Shop
2 Encounters at End of the World
3 In Bruges
4 Let the Right One In
5 Man on Wire
6 Milk/Paranoid Park
7 Mongol
8 Tell No One
9 The Visitor
10 Wall-E
1 A Christmas Tale
2 Paranoid Park
3 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
4 Wall-E
5 Revolutionary Road
6 Let the Right One In
7 Doubt
8 Milk
9 Miracle at St. Anna
10 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
1 Frozen River
2 A Christmas Tale
3 Happy Go Lucky
4 Slumdog Millionaire
5 Rachel Getting Married
6 Milk
7 The Visitor
8 In Bruges
9 Chop Shop
10 Adam Resurrected
1 Frozen River
2 A Christmas Tale
3 Happy Go Lucky
4 Slumdog Millionaire
5 Rachel Getting Married
6 Milk
7 The Visitor
8 In Bruges
9 Chop Shop
10 Adam Resurrected
1 Shine A Light
2 A Christmas Tale
3 Australia
4 Wall-E
5 Gran Torino
6 Happy Go Lucky
7 Milk
8 Still Life
9 The Dark Knight
10 Miracle at St. Anna

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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
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NP Thompson
Movies Into Film

1 Unrelated
2 Sita Sings the Blues
3 Breath
4 The Gates
5 Flight of the Red Balloon
6 The Band’s Visit
7 Persepolis
8 Trouble the Water
9 Opera Jawa
10 Priceless
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Andy Klein
Los angeles CityBeat

1 The Dark Knight
2 Gran Torino
3 In Bruges
4 Let the Right One In
5 My Winnipeg
6 Roman de Gare
7 Stuck
8 Synecdoce, NY
9 Tropic Thunder
10 Wall-E
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Blackfilm.com

1 The Dark Knight
2 Slumdog Millionaire
3 Milk
4 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
5 Tell No One
6 Vicky Cristina Barcellona
7 Ballast
8 Rachel Getting Married
9 Gommorah
10 Let the Right One In
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TT Stern-Enzi
Dayton City Paper

1 The Visitor
2 The Dark Knight
3 W
4 I’ve Loved You So Long
5 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
6 Slumdog Millionaire
7 Synecdoche, NY
8 Man on Wire
9 Rachel Getting Married
10 The Wrestler
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Lisa Miller
Imperial Valley News

1 The Dark Knight
2 Wall-E
3 Iron Man
4 Frozen River
5 Appaloosa
6 Mamma Mia!
7 The Bank Job
8 Traitor
9 Burn After Reading
10 Ghost Town
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Chris Knight
National Post

1 Wall-E
2 Doubt
3 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
4 Synecdoche, NY
5 Encounters at End of the World
6 Man on Wire
7 JCVD
8 Son of Rambow
9 Tell No One
10 The Visitor

Blackfilm.com | Andy Klein | Chris Knight | Lisa Miller | TT Stern-Enzi | NP Thompson

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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
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Peter Martin
Cinematical

1 Let the Right One In
2 Tell No One
3 Man on Wire
4 Wall-E
5 Timecrimes
6 The Pool
7 Encounters at End of the World
8 Burn After Reading
9 Astropia
10 Dance of the Dead
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Erik Davis
Cinematical

1 Slumdog Millionaire
2 The Dark Knight
3 Dear Zachary
4 Burn After Reading
5 Let the Right One In
6 The Wrestler
7 Doubt
8 Tropic Thunder
9 The Living Wake
10 Milk
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Jette Kernion
Cinematical

1 Synecdoche, NY
2 Milk
3 Let the Right One In
4 The Wrestler
5 JCVD
6 Dear Zachary
7 Medicine for Melancholy
8 Standard Operating Procedure
9 Hellboy II
10 Slumdog Millionaire
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Richard von Busack
Cinematical

1 Wall-E
2 The Dark Knight
3 Happy Go Lucky
4 The Fall
5 Revolutionary Road
6 My Winnipeg
7 A Christmas Tale
8 Up the Yangtze
9 Milk
10 Around the Bay
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Pat Graham
Chicago Reader

1 Still Life
2 Of Time and the City
3 There WIll Be Blood
4 Flight of the Red Balloon
5 4 Mos, 3 Wks & 2 Days
6 The Duchess of Langeais
7 Hellboy II
8 Let the Right One In
9 A Christmas Tale
10 Happy Go Lucky
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Eric D. Snider
Cinematical

1 Wall-E
2 Synecdoche, NY
3 Dear Zachary
4 Son of Rambow
5 The Wrestler
6 Tropic Thunder
7 Young at Heart
8 The Dark Knight
9 Cloverfield
10 Boy A
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Craig Phillips

1 Let the Right One In
2 Edge of Heaven
3 The Wrestler
4 4 Mos, 3 Wks & 2 Days
5 Hellboy II
6 La France
7 Encounters at End of the World
8 Ballast
9 Wall-E / The Dark Knight
10 Wendy & Lucy
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Yair Raveh
Cinemascopian

1 Synecdoche, NY
2 Wall-E
3 The Dark Knight
4 Waltz with Bashir
5 Three Monkeys/Silent Light/The Fall
6 Pineapple Express
7 Paranoid Park
8 Burn After Reading/In Bruges
9 Hunger/Standard Op. Procedure
10 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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Chris Vetter
Leader-Telegram

1 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2 Changeling
3 Wall-E
4 Boy in the Striped Pajamas
5 The Dark Knight
6 Doubt
7 Tropic Thunder
8 Iron Man
9 Traitor
10 Rachel Getting Married
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Boo Allen
Denton Record-Chronicle

1 The Visitor
2 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
3 I’ve Loved You So Long
4 Milk
5 Frost/Nixon
6 Happy Go Lucky
7 Elegy
8 The Wrestler
9 Che
10 Smart People

Boo Allen | Erik Davis | Pat Graham | Jette Kernion | Peter Martin | Craig Phillips | Yair Raveh | Eric D. Snider | Chris Vetter | Richard von Busack

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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
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Bob Mondello
NPR

1 Slumdog Millionaire
2 Wall-E
3 Milk
4 4 Mos, 3 Wks & 2 Days
5 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
6 Rachel Getting Married
7 The Class
8 Man on Wire
9 The Dark Knight
10 A Christmas Tale
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Steve Prokopy
Gapers Block

1 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2 Wall-E
3 Let the Right One In
4 Slumdog Millionaire
5 The Wrestler
6 The Dark Knight
7 The Fall
8 Snow Angels
9 Milk
10 Tropic Thunder
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George Lang
The Oklahoman

1 Rachel Getting Married
2 The Dark Knight
3 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
4 The Wrestler
5 Wall-E
6 Slumdog Millionaire
7 Milk
8 Forgetting Sarah Marshall
9 The Visitor
10 In Bruges
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Matthew Price
The Oklahoman

1 The Dark Knight
2 Slumdog Millionaire
3 The Wrestler
4 Frost/Nixon
5 Iron Man
6 Wall-E
7 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
8 Milk
9 Happy Go Lucky
10 Gran Torino
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Lawrence Toppman
Charlotte Observer

1 The Visitor
2 Jodhaa Akbar
3 The Dark Knight
4 Wall-E
5 Waltz with Bashir
6 Frost/Nixon
7 Let the Right One In
8 Mongol
9 Milk
10 Man on Wire
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Ron Wynn
Nashville City Paper

1 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2 Iron Man
3 The Dark Knight
4 Milk
5 Doubt
6 Wall-E
7 Shine a Light
8 Tropic Thunder
9 The Bank Job
10 Miracle at St. Anna
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Michael Janusonis
Providence Journal

1 Frost/Nixon
2 Doubt
3 Milk
4 Burn After Reading
5 Changeling
6 Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who
7 Kung Fu Panda
8 Nick & Nora’s Infinite Playlist
9 Iron Man
10 Young at Heart
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Michael Nowotny
Mountain Home News

1 The Dark Knight
2 Iron Man
3 Forgetting Sarah Marshall
4 Tropic Thunder
5 Kung Fu Panda
6 Burn After Reading
7 Quantum of Solace
8 Wall-E
9 Incredible Hulk
10 Get Smart
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Jeffrey K. Lyles
Gazette

1 The Dark Knight
2 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
3 Iron Man
4 Tropic Thunder
5 Forgetting Sarah Marshall
6 The Wrestler
7 Frost/Nixon
8 Cloverfield
9 Doubt
10 Be Kind Rewind
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Sally Kline
DC Examiner

1 Wall-E
2 Milk
3 The Reader
4 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
5 The Dark Knight
6 In Bruges
7 Frost/Nixon
8 The Bank Job
9 Slumdog Millionaire
10 Man On Wire/Religulous/Trumbo

Michael Janusonis | Sally Kline | George Lang | Jeffrey K. Lyles | Bob Mondello | Michael Nowotny | Matthew Price | Steve Prokopy | Lawrence Toppman | Ron Wynn

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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
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Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times

1 Slumdog Millionaire
2 A Christmas Tale
3 The Class
4 Frost/Nixon
5 Frozen River
6 Happy Go Lucky
7 Rachel Getting Married
8 Man on Wire
9 Tell No One
10 Wall-E
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Steve Salles
Standard Examiner

1 The Dark Knight
2 Slumdog Millionaire
3 Iron Man
4 Rachel Getting Married
5 Frost/Nixon
6 Waltz with Bashir
7 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
8 Let the Right One In
9 Wall-E
10 Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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Janos Gereben
San Francisco Examiner

1 Mongol
2 Frost/Nixon
3 Traitor
4 Milk
5 Iron Man
6 I’ve Loved You So Long
7 Love and Honor
8 Seven Pounds
9 All Together Now
10 Nanking
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Anna Katz
San Francisco Examiner

1 4 Mos, 3 Wks & 2 Days
2 Encounters at End of the World
3 Trouble the Water
4 Happy Go Lucky
5 The Edge of Heaven
6 Transsiberian
7 Frozen River
8 Flight of the Red Balloon
9 Revolutionary Road
10 A Christmas Tale
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Marco Cerritos
FirstShowing.net

1 Elegy
2 In Bruges
3 Wall-E
4 The Fall
5 The Dark Knight
6 Wanted and Desired
7 Frost/Nixon
8 Redbelt
9 The Bank Job
10 Speed Racer
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Rossiter Drake
San Francisco Examiner

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

Marco Cerritos | Rossiter Drake | Janos Gereben | Carol Hemphill | Anna Katz | Liam Lacey | Steve Salles | Kent Tentschert | Joanne Thornborough | Kenneth Turan

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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

Charles Cassidy, Jr. | Rick Groen | Josh Larsen | Germain Lussier | Brandy McDonnell | Mark Medley | Mike Scott | Bob Thompson | Gene Triplett | Lynn Venhaus

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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

Jim Brunzell | Chris Bunbray | Michael Compton | Scott Foundas | Mike Giuliano | J. Hoberman | Neil Morris | Ryan Pike | Ella Taylor | Sara Vilkomerson

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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

Gary Cogill | Barry hertz | Kimberley Jones | Christopher Orr | Josh Rosenblatt | Marc Savlov | Duncan Shepherd | Steven Snyder | John M. Urbacnich | Elizabeth Weitzman

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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

Acquarello | Amy Biancolli | Dwight Brown | Richard Crouse | Ken Eisner | Mark Harris | Patty Jones | Janet Smith | Tom Tangney | Ron Yamauchi