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BEST MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA An Education Inglourious Basterds Invictus A Single Man UP IN THE AIR Alternate! - The Hurt Locker BEST MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL or COMEDY (500) Days of Summer It's Complicated Julie and Julia NINE A Serious Man Alternate! - In the Loop (funniest movie of the year) BEST ...

I'm ashamed of you all. This may be the lowest scoring "Peter Travers Top Ten List contest" I have ever run. In 2005, the points ranged from 7 to Filmfan720's 13. In guessing The Peter Travers Top Ten, it's never OUR fault for being wrong but HIS fault for failing to deliver a better Pete...

I'll take a stab at these... BEST MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA An Education Inglourious Basterds Invictus A Single Man UP IN THE AIR BEST MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL or COMEDY (500) Days of Summer It's Complicated Julie and Julia NINE A Serious Man BEST ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA Jeff Bridges, Crazy ...

"Bonehead". AHAHAHAHA! Bonehead Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones is for morbid nerds By Armond White ....... The Lovely Bones Directed by Peter Jackson Runtime: 135 min. JUST AS PUNDITS compile assessments of the millennium’s first movie decade, The Lovely Bones arrives to remind them tha...

Armond takes down Invictus, praises A Single Man. The Distance Between Narcissism Colin Firth turns in the finest acting of his career in 'A Single Man'; and Eastwood fumbles his subject with 'Invictus' By Armond White ....... Invictus Directed by Clint Eastwood Runtime: 134 min. A Single Man Direc...

I like Eric's pick of Tilda Swinton for Julia. It's a polarizing film that I absolutely loved, and I doubt there will be a better performance this year. All it needs is one critic's group to recognize her performance. And now that I think, it's totally possible. I could see a Precious backlash. Wit...

Ils (Moreau & Palud) - 6/10 Not bad. Very similar to The Strangers; lacking the chills early on, but more cohesive. Good, nasty ending. Kinda meh. Wolf Creek (McLean) - 7.5/10 One of the most upsetting films I've ever seen. Beautiful nightmarish imagery. Impossibly bleak in equating tourists to...

Ouch. Nine (2009) Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman | Dec 09, 2009 DETAILS Release Date: Nov 25, 2009; Rated: PG-13; Length: 118 Minutes; Genres: Musical, Romance; With: Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz and Daniel Day-Lewis If there's a lesson to be learned from Nine, it's that writer's block is not a gre...

Gleeb gives it a B+. And yet it sounds like faint praise. Invictus (2009) Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman | Dec 09, 2009 DETAILS Release Date: Dec 11, 2009; Rated: PG-13; Length: 134 Minutes; Genre: Drama; With: Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon Clint Eastwood's Invictus sounds like a drama of paint-by-num...

The assassination continues...SPOILERS three paragraphs down. The Lovely Bones (2009) Reviewed by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Dec 09, 2009 ShareComments (2)Add your comment DETAILS Release Date: Jan 15, 2010; Limited Release: Dec 11, 2009; Rated: PG-13; Length: 136 Minutes; Genre: Crime; With: Saoirse Ronan...

I didn't make my final pre-Board guesses, so here we go a little late. Zahveed, is there any reason why you're ignoring this year's preeminent Oscar-pseduo-juggernaut? BEST PICTURE (500) Days of Summer The Blind Side An Education The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds Invictus The Last Station Precio...

Don't leave out Gods and Monsters. The music combined with Fraser's walk in the rain made for one of the most haunting endings of any movie I've ever seen. This is true. I prefer the Being John Malkovich score for finding an almost impossible register of pathos in such an absurd film, but Gods and ...

I love the Lord of the Rings movies, but aside from The Fellowship and much of The Two Towers I don't think it classifies as Howard Shore's best work. Shore, in my book, is the best composer not remotely nominated for his best work. The Departed, Esther Kahn, Crash, Naked Lunch, The Silence of the ...