Posts Tagged ‘Up’

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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
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Chas Andrews
Louisville Mojo

1 Star Trek
2 The Hangover
3 District 9
4 Inglourious Basterds
5 Capitalism: A Love Story
6 Paranormal Activity
7 The Blind Side
8 Me & Orson Welles
9 Avatar
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Mick LaSalle
SF Chronicle

1 Inglourious Basterds
2 The Hurt Locker
3 Up in the Air
4 Two Lovers
5 Revanche
6 Funny People
7 Precious
8 Cheri
9 Summer Hours
10 Food, Inc
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Stephen Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer

1 Avatar
2 Bright Star
3 An Education
4 Fantastic Mr. Fox
5 Goodbye Solo
6 The Hurt Locker
7 A Serious Man
8 Sugar
9 35 Shots of Rum
10 Up in the Air
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Mick LaSalle
SF Chronicle

1 Inglourious Basterds
2 The Hurt Locker
3 Up in the Air
4 Two Lovers
5 Revanche
6 Funny People
7 Precious
8 Cheri
9 Summer Hours
10 Food, Inc

Chas Andrews | Mick LaSalle | Stephen Rea |

Page 10

Thursday, January 21st, 2010
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Joshua Rothkopf
Time Out New York

1 A Serious Man
2 Still Walking
3 Two Lovers
4 Star Trek
5 The Hurt Locker
6 Anvil! The Story of Anvil
7 Summer Hours
8 The House of the Devil
9 Somers Town
10 Funny People
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Keith Uhlich
Time Out New York

1 The Limits of Control
2 Night and Day
3 California Dreamin’
4 Two Lovers
5 My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
6 Lorna’s Silence
7 Public Enemies
8 A Christmas Carol
9 The Box
10 Inglourious Basterds
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Rex Reed
NY Observer

1 An Education
2 The Road
3 Up in the Air
4 Julie & Julia
5 Public Enemies
6 Precious
7 The Last Station
8 The Hurt Locker
9 The Messenger
10 Inglourious Basterds
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David Fear
Time Out New York

1 35 Shots of Rum
2 Summer Hours
3 The Hurt Locker
4 Sugar
5 The Headless Woman
6 A Serious Man
7 Hunger
8 Still Walking
9 Treeless Mountain
10 Bronson
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Erik Morse
SF Bay Guardian

1 Inglourious Basterds
2 The Missing Person
3 The Beaches of Agnes
4 Coraline
5 Still Walking
6 The Hurt Locker
7 The White Ribbon
8 Mother
9 Broken Embraces
10 Thirst
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Ty Burr
Boston Globe

1 A Serious Man
2 Avatar | 35 Shots of Rum
3 Fantastic Mr. Fox | Up
4 The Hurt Locker | The Messenger
5 Up in the Air | Summer Hours
6 Bright Star | The Last Station
7 Precious | An Education
8 A Single Man | Bad Lieutenant
9 Star Trek | Antichrist
10 Afghan Star | Big Fan
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Keith Phipps
The AV Club

1 A Serious Man
2 In the Loop
3 Where the Wild Things Are
4 Gomorrah
5 Broken Embraces
6 Antichrist
7 Fantastic Mr. Fox
8 Summer Hours
9 The White Ribbon
10 The Hurt Locker
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Cheryl Eddy
SF Bay Guardian

1 Bad Lieutenant
2 Beeswax
3 Cropsey
4 District 9
5 Drag Me To Hell
6 An Education
7 Goodbye Solo
8 The Hurt Locker
9 Inglorious Basterds
10 Tokyo Sonata
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Ken Eisner
Georgia Straight

1 UP in the Air
2 Me & Orson Welles
3 Broken Embraces
4 An Education
5 Summer Hours
6 The Necessities of Life
7 Food, Inc
8 Fantastic Mr. Fox
9 A Serious Man
10 Inglourious Basterds
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Noel Murray
The AV Club

1 Inglourious Basterds
2 A Serious Man
3 Public Enemies
4 Up
5 Still Walking
6 Julia
7 Duplicity
8 Fantastic Mr. Fox
9 Funny People
10 Passing Strange

Ty Burr | Cheryl Eddy | David Fear | Ken Eisner | Erik Morse | Noel Murray | Keith Phipps | Rex Reed | Joshua Rothkopf | Keith Uhlich

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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
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Scott Foundas
LA Weekly

1 The White Ribbon
2 Inglourious Basterds | Police, Adjective
3 The Hurt Locker
4 Public Enemies
5 Avatar
6 District 9 | Invictus
7 24 City | Up in the Air
8 Fantastic Mr. Fox | Where the Wild Things Are
9 The Headless Woman
10 Beaches of Agnes | Passing Strange | Tyson
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Kyle Buchanan
Movieline

1 Coraline
2 Where the Wild Things Are
3 Antichrist
4 A Prophet
5 Humpday
6 Funny People
7 Precious
8 A Single Man
9 The Hurt Locker
10 The Messenger
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Eugene Hernandez
IndieWIRE

1 The Beaches of Agnes
2 Broken Embraces
3 Frontier of Dawn
4 Fados
5 I’m Gonna Explode
6 La Danse
7 A Single Man
8 Still Walking
9 Summer Hours
10 Throw Down Your Heart
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Bruce Ingram
Pioneer Press

1 Avatar
2 Coraline
3 Fantastic Mr. Fox
4 The Hurt Locker
5 In the Loop
6 Moon
7 Public Enemies
8 Star Trek
9 Up
10 Up in the Air
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Brian Brooks
IndieWIRE

1 The Hurt Locker
2 A Serious Man
3 The Beaches of Agnes
4 Precious
5 Antichrist
6 A Single Man
7 Burma VJ
8 The Cove
9 Broken Embraces
10 Inglourious Basterds
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Peter Knegt
IndieWIRE

1 Bright Star
2 Summer Hours
3 Up
4 A Serious Man
5 35 Shots of Rum
6 Inglourious Basterds
7 The Hurt Locker
8 Julia
9 A Single Man
10 In the Loop
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Rick Kaplan
National Posts

1 Fantastic Mr. Fox
2 Up in the Air
3 Inglourious Basterds
4 A Serious Man
5 Funny People
6 The Informant!
7 Bruno
8 Tyson
9 Zombieland
10 Away We Go
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Bob Mondello
All Things Considered

1 The Hurt Locker
2 The Messenger
3 In the Loop
4 Precious
5 The Cove
6 Up
7 Up in the Air
8 Seraphine
9 Summer Hours
10 A Single Man
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Kyle Smith
The Dispatch

1 Antichrist
2 Still Walking
3 Munyurangabo
4 Goodbye Solo
5 35 Shots of Rum
6 The White Ribbon
7 Tokyo Sonata
8 Revanche
9 Summer Hours
10 Fantastic Mr. Fox
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Scott Tobias
The AV Club

1 35 Shots of Rum
2 Duplicity
3 Humpday
4 Collapse
5 Julia
6 Afterschool
7 Revanche
8 House of the Devil
9 Fantastic Mr. Fox
10 The Hurt Locker

Brian Brooks | Kyle Buchanan | Scott Foundas | Eugene Hernandez | Bruce Ingram | Rick Kaplan | Peter Knegt | Bob Mondello | Kyle Smith | Scott Tobias |

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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
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Matthew Lucas
The Dispatch

1 Antichrist
2 Still Walking
3 Munyurangabo
4 Goodbye Solo
5 35 Shots of Rum
6 The White Ribbon
7 Tokyo Sonata
8 Revanche
9 Summer Hours
10 Fantastic Mr. Fox
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Scott Tobias
The AV Club

1 35 Shots of Rum
2 Duplicity
3 Humpday
4 Collapse
5 Julia
6 Afterschool
7 Revanche
8 House of the Devil
9 Fantastic Mr. Fox
10 The Hurt Locker
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Steve Warren
Windy City Times

1 Up
2 Inglourious Basterds
3 The Hurt Locker
4 Precious
5 Goodbye Solo
6 Summer Hours
7 Fantastic Mr. Fox
8 A Serious man
9 District 9
10 Every Little Step
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Kim Morgan
Sunset Gun

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

1 Up in the Air
2 Departures
3 (500) Days of Summer
4 Inglourious Basterds
5 Avatar
6 Sugar
7 The Hurt Locker
8 Hunger
9 The Road
10 Away We Go
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Shlomo Schwartzberg
Bloor Cinema Magazine

1 Inglourious Basterds
2 Summer Hours
3 The Beaches of Agnes
4 The Hurt Locker
5 Two Lovers
6 It’s hard Being Loved by Jerks
7 The Class
8 Genius Within
9 Everlasting Moments
10 In the Loop
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Kevin Laforest
Montreal Film Journal

1 Avatar
2 Where the Wild Things Are
3 Inglourious Basterds
4 (500) Days of Summer
5 The Hurt Locker
6 District 9
7 Fantastic Mr. Fox
8 Watchmen
9 Antichrist
10 A Serious Man
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Billups Allen
Tucson Citizen

1 Gomorrah
2 Red Cliff
3 Drag Me To Hell
4 Tyson
5 The Hangover
6 World’s Greatest Dad
7 A Serious Man
8 The Invention of Lying
9 Antichrist
10 Bad Lieutenant
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Linda Barnard
Toronto Star

1 Up in the Air
2 The Hurt Locker
3 An Education
4 Fantastic Mr. Fox
5 District 9
6 A Single Man
7 Up
8 Inglourious Basterds
9 The Road
10 The Hangover
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John Urbanich
Sun Papers

1 A Serious Man
2 The Hurt Locker
3 Precious
4 Inglourious Basterds
5 (500) Days of Summer
6 The Road
7 Invictus
8 The Messenger
9 Star Trek
10 Anvil! The Story of Anvil

Billups Allen | Linda Barnard | Edward Douglas | Kevin Laforest | Matthew Lucas | Kim Morgan | Shlomo Schwartzberg | Scott Tobias | John Urbanich | Steve Warren

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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
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Bob Strauss
LA Daily News

1 Inglorious Basterds
2 Antichirst
3 Thirst
4 The Secret of the Grain | 35 Shots of Rum
5 The White Ribbon
6 In the Loop
7 The Hurt Locker | The Messenger
8 Visual Acoustics
9 Up in the Air
10 Funny People
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Peter Howell
Toronto Star

1 The Hurt Locker
2 Up in the Air
3 The White Ribbon
4 The Cove
5 An Education
6 The Hangover
7 Coraline
8 Inglourious Basterds
9 Fantastic Mr. Fox
10 A Serious Man
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Todd Gilchrist
Cinematical

1 Hunger
2 A Serious Man
3 Summer Hours
4 Inglourious Basterds
5 Fantastic Mr. Fox
6 Goodbye Solo
7 Star Trek
8 The Cove
9 Somers Town
10 Avatar
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Andrew O’Hehir
Salon

1 Hunger
2 Bronson
3 Il Divo
4 A Serious Man
5 The White Ribbon
6 The Limits of Control
7 Serbis
8 35 Shots of Rum
9 Gomorrah
10 The Headless Woman
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Marc Mohan
The Oregonian

1 Hunger
2 A Serious Man
3 Summer Hours
4 Inglourious Basterds
5 Fantastic Mr. Fox
6 Goodbye Solo
7 Star Trek
8 The Cove
9 Somers Town
10 Avatar
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Mike Russell
The Oregonian

1 In the Loop
2 A Serious Man
3 Star Trek
4 Whip It
5 Drag Me to Hell
6 Moon
7 District 9
8 Bad Lieutenant
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Stan Hall
The Oregonian

1 Bad Lieutenant
2 Gomorrah
3 Broken Embraces
4 The Beaches of Agnes
5 Still Walking
6 Passing Strange
7 Seraphine
8 Revanche
9 Anvil! The Story of Anvil
10 Silent Light
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Shawn Levy
The Oregonian

1 An Education
2 The Beaches of Agnes
3 Avatar | Star Trek
4 A Serious Man
5 The Damned United
6 Broken Embraces
7 Revanche
8 Fantastic Mr. Fox | Coraline
9 The Lovely Bones
10 Up in the Air
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Matt Brunson
Creative Loafing

1 Up in the Air
2 A Serious Man
3 An Education
4 Up
5 (500) Days of Summer
6 Bright Star
7 In the Loop
8 The Messenger
9 Not Quite Hollywood
10 Star Trek
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Chris Hewitt
Pioneer Press

1 Up
2 Chaser
3 Every Little Step
4 The White Ribbon
5 Where the Wild Things Are
6 Orphan
7 The Hurt Locker
8 State of Play
9 Antichrist
10 District 9

Matt Brunson | Todd Gilchrist | Stan Hall | Chris Hewitt | Peter Howell | Shawn Levy | Marc Mohan | Andrew O’Hehir | Mike Russell | Bob Strauss

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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
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Kent Tentschert
Webster-Kirkwood Times

1 (500) Days of Summer
2 Avatar
3 Crazy Heart
4 Inglourious Basterds
5 The Lovely Bones
6 The Messenger
7 Precious
8 The Road
9 Sherlock Holmes
10 Up/Up in the Air
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Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun

1 Bad Lieutenant
2 Crazy Heart
3 An Education
4 The Hurt Locker
5 Inglourious Basterds
6 Knowing
7 Precious
8 A Serious Man
9 Up in the Air
10 The White Ribbon
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Joe Neumaier
New York Daily News

1 Up in the Air
2 The Hurt Locker
3 Where the Wild Things Are
4 Crazy Heart
5 A Serious Man
6 Star Trek
7 Inglourious Basterds
8 Duplicity
9 An Education
10 District 9
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Ann Hornaday
Washington Post

1 The Hurt Locker
2 Up in the Air
3 Precious
4 Sugar
5 The Baader Meinhof Complex
6 Anvil! The Story of Anvil
7 Star Trek
8 District 9
9 Where the Wild Things Are
10 Humpday
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Phoenix Film Critics

1 Avatar
2 District 9
3 (500) Days of Summer
4 The Hurt Locker
5 Inglourious Basterds
6 Precious
7 Sherlock Holmes
8 Star Trek
9 Up
10 Up in the Air
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Greg Ellwood
HitFix

1 Precious
2 The Hurt Locker
3 Inglourious Basterds
4 In the Loop
5 Avatar
6 A Prophet
7 District 9
8 A Single Man
9 Up in the Air
10 Bad Lieutenant
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Brian Johnson
MacLeans

1 Up in the Air
2 Fantastic Mr. Fox
3 An Education
4 The Road
5 Bright Star
6 A Serious Man
7 Inglourious Basterds
8 The Hurt Locker
9 The Cove
10 Avatar
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Tim Lammers
WCVB TV

1 Up
2 Inglourious Basterds
3 Avatar
4 Precious
5 Star Trek
6 Up in the Air
7 District 9
8 Invictus
9 Nine
10 The Hurt Locker
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Stephen Farber
The Hollywood Reporter

1 Up in the Air
2 The Last Station
3 The Hurt Locker
4 Precious
5 The Cove
6 The Princess and the Frog
7 My One and Only
8 Lemon Tree
9 Adam
10 Seraphine
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Frank Scheck
The Hollywood Reporter

1 Up in the Air
2 The Hurt Locker
3 Precious
4 Up
5 Inglourious Basterds
6 A Single Man
7 (500) Days of Summer
8 Invictus
9 The Messenger
10 The Last Station

Roger Ebert | Greg Ellwood | Steven Farber | Ann Hornaday | Brian Johnson | Tim Lammers | Joe Neumaier | Phoenix Film Critics | Frank Scheck | Ken Tentschert

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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
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Ray Bennett
The Hollywood Reporter

1 Up in the Air
2 The Hurt Locker
3 Tulpan
4 Bright Star
5 Moon
6 Summer Hours
7 Up
8 Star Trek
9 Broken Embraces
10 Avatar
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Michael Rechtshaffen
The Hollywood Reporter

1 Up in the Air
2 The Hurt Locker
3 Up
4 An Education
5 Everlasting Moments
6 Coraline
7 The Cove
8 Broken Embraces
9 The Hangover
10 Avatar
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Kirk Honeycutt
The Hollywood Reporter

1 The White Ribbon
2 Up
3 Precious
4 The Hurt Locker
5 District 9
6 Avatar
7 The Cove
8 In the Loop
9 A Serious Man
10 Up in the Air
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Sheri Linden
The Hollywood Reporter

1 The White Ribbon
2 District 9
3 Police, Adjective
4 Summer Hours
5 Bright Star
6 Fantastic Mr. Fox
7 Big Fan
8 Of Time and the City
9 The Cove
10 Up
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Oklahoma
Film Critics

1 The Hurt Locker
2 Up in the Air
3 Inglourious Basterds
4 (500) of Summer
5 Precious
6 A Serious Man
7 Up
8 District 9
9 Fantastic Mr. Fox
10 Avatar
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Sean O’Connell
FilmCritic.com

1 Up
2 (500) Days of Summer
3 Up in the Air
4 This is It
5 District 9
6 A Serious Man
7 Away We Go
8 Harry Potter: Half-Blood Prince
9 Star Trek
10 Big Fan
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Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly

1 The Hurt Locker
2 Up
3 Coraline
4 Up in the Air
5 Where the Wild Things Are
6 Fantastic Mr. Fox
7 A Serious Man
8 Big Fan
9 District 9
10 Everlasting Moments
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Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly

1 Up in the Air
2 Inglourious Basterds
3 Precious
4 I Love You, Man
5 Food, Inc
6 (500) Days of Summer
7 Fantastic Mr. Fox
8 The Girlfriend Experience
9 The Hurt Locker
10 Adventureland
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Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune

1 Up
2 Where the Wild Things Are
3 Waltz with Bashir
4 Of Time and the City
5 The Hurt Locker
6 A Serious Man
7 In the Loop
8 Sugar
9 Me & Orson Welles
10 A Single Man
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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

Ray Bennett | Owen Gleiberman | Kirk Honeycutt | Houston Film Critics | Sheri Linden | Sean O’Connell | Oklahoma Film Critics | Michael Phillips | Michael Rechtshaffen | Lisa Scwharzbaum

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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.

Best Actress Chart

Thursday, January 14th, 2010
BEST ACTRESS
Actress – Film
Comment
Meryl Streep – Julie and Julia
Carey Mulligan – An Education
Helen Mirren – The Last Station
Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side
Marion Cotillard – Nine
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious
Zoe Saldana – Avatar
Emily Blunt – The Young Victoria



BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Actress – Film
Comment
Mo’Nique – Precious
Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air
Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air
Penelope Cruz – Nine
Julianne Moore – A Single Man
Susan Sarandon – The Lovely Bones

Best Actor Chart

Thursday, January 14th, 2010
BEST ACTOR
Actor – Film
Comment
Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
George Clooney – Up in the Air
Morgan Freeman – Invictus
Colin Firth – A Single Man
Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker
Viggo Mortensen – The Road
Peter Sarsgaard – An Education
Tobey Maguire – Brothers
Christopher Plummer – The Last Station His proper category… could shift



BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Actor – Film
Comment
Christopher Walz – Inglourious Basterds
Christopher Plummer – The Last Station
Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones
Alfred Molina – An Education
Woody Harrelson – The Messenger
Alec Baldwin – It’s Complicated
Peter Sarsgaard – An Education His proper category… could change

Best Director Chart

Thursday, January 14th, 2010
BEST DIRECTOR
Director
Picture
Comment
The Frontrunners For Nomination
James Cameron
Avatar
Kathryn Bigelow
The Hurt Locker
Jason Reitman
Up In The Air
Quentin Tarantino
Inglourious Basterds
Lone Scherfig
An Education
Clint Eastwood
Invictus
Lee Daniels
Precious
Rob Marshall
Nine
Pete Docter
Bob Petersen
Up
The Coen Bros.
A Serious Man

Best Picture Chart

Thursday, January 14th, 2010
BEST PICTURE
Picture
Studio
Director
Stars
Comment
The Frontrunners For Nomination
1
1
Avatar
Fox
Cameron
Saldana
Weaver
2
2
The Hurt Locker
Sum
Bigelow
Renner
Mackie
3
3
Up In The Air
Par
Reitman
Clooney
4
8
Inglourious Basterds
TWC
Tarantino
Waltz
5
4
An Education
SPC
Scherfig
Mulligan
Sarsgaard
6
5
Precious
LG
Daniels
Sidibe
Mo’Nique
7
6
Up
Disney
Docter
Petersen
8
9
Invictus
WB
Eastwood
Freeman
Damon
9
The Messenger
Oscill
Moverman
Harrelson
Foster
10
7
Nine
TWC
Marshall
Day-Lewis
Cotillard
Cruz
10
The Last Station
Hoffman
Plummer
Mirren
The Blind Side
WB
Hancock
Bullock
A Serious Man
Focus
Coens
Stuhlbarg
Kind

9 Weeks To Go, The Blurry Season

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

If you are wondering why Avatar has become a prohibitive front-runner in the Best Picture race, you are right at the crux of what this season is all about.

There was a lot of really excellent work this year. But there are virtually no “that’s The ONE!” movies, performances, or even below-the-line efforts that scream for an award. The only one that has been right there was Mo’Nique in Precious… and there is still a very good chance that she will end up winning Oscar. But even that performance is beginning to blur under the strain of time and slowly sliding memory.

If I had to pick a Best Picture on quality, I would probably have to go for The Hurt Locker’s dry, tense, black-key detail to the wide-open magic of Avatar. But there are plenty who would choose Up In The Air or Inglourious Basterds or Precious or Up or An Education on the same basis.

But which film represents what the Academy membership would like to represent them for the year? Keep in mind, Avatar is not just a major advance in technology… not just a hugely entertaining experience… not only leading the way to the (perhaps overstated) 3D revolution… but it is also about to become the second $1 billion film overseas in history. #1 is Titanic’s $1.243b. #3 is LOTR: Return of The King’s $742m.

Avatar is not just the highest grossing film of the season, as in, “Well, Gladiator is the biggest commercial movie in the group, 50% bigger than Erin Brockovich,” it is easily the biggest worldwide phenomenon of the last decade. The Academy isn’t going to pass on this opportunity, anymore than it would pass on the opportunity to celebrate LOTR’s $3 billion in worldwide grosses.

But that said… the other categories are a different set of issues.

In Best Actress, it looks like Oscar-winners Streep and Mirren vs first-time nominee “The Beloved” Bullock vs the two kids, Mulligan and Sidibe. All the performances are worthy. But is any one of them THE performance? There are no big surprises that the veterans can do what they did. Mulligan is just rising and they rarely vote for first-timers in the Lead slot. And Sidibe is probably a one-off, however personally charming she may be… again, the kind of role that wins in Supporting (see: Mo’Nique).

In Best Actor, you’re likely looking at four well-loved veterans and a newcomer in Jeremy Renner. Fine performances all, is there a real shock in the performances of Bridges, Freeman, Firth, or Clooney? This doesn’t mean that one of them won’t win. Someone has to win. But is there anything in the work that screams that we will never see any of them give a performance this good again… if not next year?

In Supporting Actor, Christoph Waltz has the edge… in part because no one has ever seen the guy before. He is a surprise. And that is such a key in this process. This goes for Mo’Nique in Supporting Actress as well. If Angela Bassett gave that performance, would she even be nominated? I wouldn’t bet on it. But Mo’Nique is a comic known for doing Sassy Black Lady in movies. Who saw it coming that she would ooze anguish in a small indie film? No one. Shock. Win.

This is not to diminish the performances. Please… don’t take it the wrong way. But winning an Oscar is not some sort of objective event. There is no such thing when comparing quality artistic work.

There is an argument to be made in reverse as well… all the reasons why this person or performance should win. But you can make them for almost every one. Streep hasn’t won in a long time. Bullock hasn’t ever been nominated before, but is a terribly positve part of the film industry family. Mirren, with Christopher Plummer, is having a ball. Carey Mulligan is a skyrocking starlet. And Gabby Sidibe exposed herself in a dark, dangerous way. And Zoe Saldana gives a great, intimate performance in spite of being surrounded by technology.

The guys? Jeff Bridges is a living legend and has it coming. But Clooney is a big star and people want to support their Cary Grant (even if they never voted Cary Cary Cary a performance Oscar). But Colin Firth is so brave playing gay when he is straight and showing the cracks in a closeted facade. But Jeremy Renner is so great in the film and we love the film and we aren’t going to give it Best Picture, so let’s show our love here (and in screenplay). But Viggo Morrtensen has is coming too… and it was such a tough movie… just him and a kid.

But there is no Charlize Theron, 30 pounds heavier than normal, lesbian, and raging. Hilary Swank wore pants this year, but she was wasn’t stuffing her pants or hitting people. Scorsese has his Oscar. No one is drinking your milkshake and channeling a former Oscar winner. And while Jeff Bridges sings, he isn’t blind and he doesn’t transform from America’s legally blind sweetheart into a dramatic actress who signs for the first time.

What I am talking about is a season loaded with a sense of appreciation… not the tone of intense passion that these things sometimes take.

Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Isn ’t the fun of it all that we all have our personal favorites, but can also enjoy a sense of healthy competition and a celebration of terrific work?

– by David Poland

January 14, 2010

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.