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<\/a>\u00a0Honorable Mention: The Ghost Writer, Let Me In, The Last Exorcism, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Despicable Me, The Town<\/p>\n
Hot Tub Time Machine, Just Wright, Agora, Cairo Time, Step Up 3D, Who is Harry Nilsson and Why is Everybody Talkin\u2019 About Him?, Catfish, City Island, Devil, Life As We Know It, Unstoppable, The Losers<\/p>\n
I loathe boxing.\u00a0 I am uninterested in stories about scrappy underdog fighters.\u00a0 And I\u2019d rather jam poison-dipped upholstery tacks into my gums than sit through another too-much-acting-per-square-inch performance by Christian Bale.\u00a0 The Fighter may be the greatest film ever made.\u00a0 I\u2019ll never know.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Asterisk indicates the winner.\u00a0 Thank you for playing.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n Robert Duvall, Get Low<\/p>\n Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network<\/p>\n James Franco, 127 Hours<\/p>\n *Colin Firth, The King\u2019s Speech<\/p>\n Jeff Bridges, True Grit<\/p>\n Honorable Mention: Ryan Gosling in Blue Valentine Andy Garcia in City Island, Alexander Siddig in Cairo Time<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Jennifer Lawrence, Winter\u2019s Bone<\/p>\n Tilda Swinton, I Am Love<\/p>\n Noomi Rapace, The Girl Who Got the International Book And Movie Franchise<\/p>\n *Annette Bening in Mother and Child<\/p>\n Natalie Portman, Black Swan<\/p>\n Honorable Mention:\u00a0 Michelle Williams in Blue Valentine<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n John Hawkes, Winter\u2019s Bone<\/p>\n *Geoffrey Rush, The King\u2019s Speech<\/p>\n Josh Brolin, True Grit<\/p>\n Barry Pepper, True Grit<\/p>\n Honorable Mention:\u00a0 Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield and Armie Hammer in The Social Network, Henry Thomas (yeah, from E.T.) in Dear John, Joel Edgerton in The Square and Animal Kingdom, Lucas Black in Get Low<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Dale Dickey, Winter\u2019s Bone<\/p>\n Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom<\/p>\n Chloe Moretz, Let Me In<\/p>\n *Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit<\/p>\n Helena Bonham Carter, The King\u2019s Speech<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Debra Granik, Winter\u2019s Bone<\/p>\n Joel and Ethan Coen, True Grit<\/p>\n Tom Hooper, The King\u2019s Speech<\/p>\n *David Fincher, The Social Network<\/p>\n Christopher Nolan, Inception<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n *Winter\u2019s Bone<\/p>\n True Grit<\/p>\n Inception<\/p>\n Tron Legacy<\/p>\n Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Winter\u2019s Bone<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Winter\u2019s Bone<\/p>\n *Inception<\/p>\n True Grit<\/p>\n Tron: Legacy<\/p>\n The Social Network<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Inception (Christopher Nolan)<\/p>\n *The King\u2019s Speech (David Seidler)<\/p>\n Despicable Me (Ken Daurio and Cinco Paul)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Winter\u2019s Bone (Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini)<\/p>\n Never Let Me Go (Alex Garland)<\/p>\n True Grit (Joel and Ethan Coen)<\/p>\n How To Train Your Dragon (William Davies, Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders)<\/p>\n *The Social Network (Aaron Sorkin)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Special Mention to Rob Cron for getting his first on-screen credit in Tron: Legacy!<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n *Inception<\/p>\n The Social Network<\/p>\n Tron: Legacy<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Waking Sleeping Beauty.\u00a0 The excellent string of documentaries about Disney continues.\u00a0 Remember when Disney feature animation hit its nadir in the 1980s with The Black Cauldron.\u00a0 This sprightly film is about how the Mouse House made it from there to the glories of The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast.<\/p>\n Casino Jack and the United States of Money.\u00a0 Our government:\u00a0 for sale!<\/p>\n Joan Rivers:\u00a0 A Piece of Work.\u00a0 Indeed.\u00a0<\/p>\n 8:\u00a0 The Mormon Proposition.\u00a0 The movie that clearly shows the Mormon Church\u2019s vast violations of its tax-exempt status by sponsoring and supporting the notorious California Proposition 8.<\/p>\n Stonewall Uprising.\u00a0 Hear about the beginning of the revolution from people who where there.<\/p>\n The Tillman Story.\u00a0 The story of the iconclastic and heroic Pat Tillman and the shameful military and governmental coverup regarding the circumstances of his death in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n *Freakanomics.\u00a0 Delightful film adaptation of the fascinating best-selling book.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Micmacs (France)<\/p>\n Patrik, Age 1.5 (Sweden)<\/p>\n *Rare Exports.\u00a0 You\u2019ve got to rent this insane Christmas horror film from Finland.\u00a0 No, seriously, you really have to rent it.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The talented young star of How To Train Your Dragon, She\u2019s Out of My League, The Sorcerer\u2019s Apprentice, Good Neighbors (Canadian) and The Trotsky.\u00a0 Mr. Baruchel is a major talent and I expect big things from him.\u00a0<\/p>\n 2010 saw not one but two really good movies that centered on the ubiquitous social network:\u00a0 Catfish and, well, The Social Network.<\/p>\n Both Catfish and Exit Through the Gift Shop blurred the lines between where a documentary ends and cinematic scam begins.\u00a0 If you just remember Ray\u2019s mantra (All movies are fiction!) you can sit back and relax these two crazy stories.\u00a0 Who cares whether they\u2019re true or not?<\/p>\n Owen: But how old are you, really?\u00a0\u00a0 Abby: Twelve. But… I’ve been twelve for a very long time.\u00a0 (A deliciously creepy and telling moment from Let Me In.)<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m six-five, 220, and there\u2019s two of me.\u201d \u2013 Twin talk from The Social Network.<\/p>\n Craig Robinson gets to work in the title of the movie (and then steal a glance at the camera) in Hot Tub Time Machine<\/p>\n Dwayne Johnson and and Samuel L. Jackson cluelessly jump off a tall building in The Other Guys.<\/p>\n The mounted wall d\u00e9cor inside the evil mansion in Despicable Me.<\/p>\n Agora<\/p>\n Craig Robinson.\u00a0 I can\u2019t watch The Office, so I need him to make more movies.<\/p>\n Chloe Moretz.\u00a0 After terrific performances in (500) Days of Summer and Let Me In, I am eager to see more work from this talented young lady.<\/p>\n City Island\u2019s Steven Strait.\u00a0 I\u2019m only human.<\/p>\n Yaniv Schulman, the subject (or star?) of the fascinating hybrid film Catfish.<\/p>\n Jenny O\u2019Hara.\u00a0 This veteran character woman has got it goin\u2019 on, and she made the surprisingly good Devil even better.<\/p>\n Channing Tatum.\u00a0 He proved in Dear John that he\u2019s got actual movie star charisma.\u00a0 He\u2019s not just another Abercrombie model who got lucky.<\/p>\n Hot Tub Time Machine.\u00a0 Believe it or not.\u00a0 It\u2019s a real hoot, and Craig Robinson is hilarious.<\/p>\n Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel in Life As We Know It<\/p>\n Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal in Love and Other Drugs<\/p>\n Alex O\u2019Loughlin, a handsome actor never known for having much of a physique, got into RIDICULOUSLY good shape for his lead role opposite Jennifer Lopez in The Back-Up Plan.\u00a0 Well done.<\/p>\n Common, who buffed up admirably for his turn as a professional basketball player in Just Wright.<\/p>\n Jake Gyllenhaal, who paid careful attention to the Ray and Tayler Rule for both Prince of Persia and Love and Other Drugs<\/p>\n Did Christopher Egan not read the script of Letters to Juliet when he got the job?\u00a0 And, you know, notice the scene in Act III in which he went swimming?\u00a0 What was he thinking?<\/p>\n Why was Guy Pearce, who is seven years Colin Firth\u2019s junior, get cast as his older brother in The King\u2019s Speech?\u00a0 He also wasn\u2019t very good.<\/p>\n I\u2019m not saying Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time was a great movie, but it was the best movie I\u2019ve ever seen based on a video game franchise.\u00a0 At the very least, it was a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n \u00a0. . despite the sappiness of Charlie St. Cloud.\u00a0 And bonus points to Zac for his faithful compliance with the Ray and Tayler Rule.<\/p>\n Hot Tub Time Machine<\/p>\n The Ghost Writer\u2019s Roman Polanski<\/p>\n I can\u2019t get that excited about the books or the movies.\u00a0 But they\u2019re okay if you like that sort of thing.<\/p>\n Devil<\/p>\n The Last Exorcism<\/p>\n Life As We Know It<\/p>\n An good American remake of a well-received European film.\u00a0 Really?\u00a0 Yep, that\u2019s just what Let Me In is.\u00a0 Check it out.<\/p>\n Easier With Practice.\u00a0 This movie had a terrible title, but it\u2019s a surprisingly sweet exploration of the unorthodox relationship that grows between two people who only know each other through the telephone.\u00a0 Brian Geraghty, who was so good in The Hurt Locker, stars.<\/p>\n Both The Last Exorcism and Paranormal Activity 2 did a terrific job of scaring audiences without special effects or much of a budget.\u00a0 Well done.<\/p>\n But The Losers was really fun!<\/p>\n I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever sat through a Queen Latifah vehicle that I didn\u2019t really enjoy.\u00a0 This year\u2019s Just Wright was no exception.\u00a0 It was fun to root for her to win the heart of the studly basketball player (Common) who was her physical therapy patient.\u00a0<\/p>\n Then don\u2019t miss the highly kinetic and sexy Step Up 3D.<\/p>\n Letters to Juliet.\u00a0 Corny, predictable, and utterly charming fantasy about purloined love letters, with the added bonus of featuring a screen reuniting of real-life lovers Vanessa Redgrave and Franco Nero.<\/p>\n Life As We Know It.\u00a0 Also predictable but oddly irresistable bit of fluff about growing up against your will.<\/p>\n Instead of her excellent work in the sappy and stupidly overrated The Kids Are All Right, the supremely talented Bening should have been lauded for her stunning work in Mother and Child, which no one saw but me.<\/p>\n Mountains of praise got heaped on the mediocre \u201cThe Animal Kingdom.\u201d\u00a0 The scrappy little crime thriller from Down Under that everyone SHOULD have seen was The Square, a nasty and fascinating story of greed and murder.<\/p>\n The Green Zone<\/p>\n The Illusionist.\u00a0 The tedious new film from the creator of the breathtakingly good The Triplets of Belleville.<\/p>\n Life During Wartime.\u00a0 Todd Solondz\u2019s follow-up to his amazing film Happiness was, to be kind, lackluster.<\/p>\n A Prophet.\u00a0 This French crime film got reviews like it was the second coming of Pee Wee Herman.\u00a0 It thought it was just barely okay.<\/p>\n The Kids Are All Right.\u00a0 Dull and unconvincing.<\/p>\n Please Give.\u00a0 Dull and whiny.<\/p>\n Black Swan.\u00a0 Followed closely by Darren Aronofsky.\u00a0 This movie was overrought, pretentious and boring.<\/p>\n Animal Kingdom.\u00a0 The reviewers were wrong.<\/p>\n Restropo.\u00a0 Overrated writer Sebastian Junger reaped huge praise for holding a camera while visiting deployed soldiers in Afghanistan.\u00a0 And then complaining in interviews about having to go without sex or the internet while he was there.\u00a0 Oh, how you suffer for your art, Sebastian.<\/p>\n My Dog Tulip.\u00a0 Great reviews.\u00a0 Dull as dishwater.<\/p>\n Conviction.\u00a0 Very pedestrian treatment of a true-life legal battle.<\/p>\n Shutter Island.\u00a0 Martin Scorcese continues to be the most overrated director in American film.<\/p>\n *The Last Airbender.\u00a0 I never thought I\u2019d walk out of an M. Night Shyamalan film.\u00a0 But now it\u2019s happened.<\/p>\n Alice in Wonderland.\u00a0 Tim Burton reaches a new low in excess and bad storytelling in this quasi-3D piece of crap.<\/p>\n Hereafter.\u00a0 Shallow treatment of a potentially profound subject.\u00a0 Clint Eastwood was off his game on this one.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Barbara Billingsley<\/p>\n Leslie Nielsen<\/p>\n Peter Graves<\/p>\n Steve Landesberg<\/p>\n Blake Edwards<\/p>\n Jill Clayburgh<\/p>\n Dino De Laurentiis<\/p>\n Tony Curtis<\/p>\n Rue McClanahan<\/p>\n Dennis Hopper<\/p>\n Gary Coleman<\/p>\n Dixie Carter<\/p>\n John Forsyth<\/p>\n Corey Haim<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Please post your comments! \u00a0\u00a0Now get out there and go to the movies!!!<\/p>\n \nBest Actor<\/h2>\n
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Incredible Year for Documentaries<\/h2>\n
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A Very Good Year for Jay Baruchel<\/h2>\n
It\u2019s Facebook\u2019s World; We Just Live In It<\/h2>\n
What Kind of Movies Are These?<\/h2>\n
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Surprisingly Good!<\/h2>\n
Ridiculously Attractive Movie Couples<\/h2>\n
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Best in a Historically Weak Field<\/h2>\n
I Haven\u2019t Given Up on Zac Efron . . .\u00a0<\/h2>\n
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My Very Favorite Rapist Film Director Ever<\/h2>\n
The Girl Who Got the International Book and Movie Franchise<\/h2>\n
Better Than I Expected!<\/h2>\n
It Had to Happen Some Time<\/h2>\n
Strange, but I Liked it Anyway<\/h2>\n
Face It, I Like the Minimalist Horror Films<\/h2>\n
Thought I Would HATE It<\/h2>\n
She Never Lets Me Down<\/h2>\n
Like Dance Movies?<\/h2>\n
Sweet RomComs<\/h2>\n
They Got the Wrong Annette Bening Performance!<\/h2>\n
They Got The Wrong Aussie Noir!<\/h2>\n
Well-Meaning But Zzzzzzz<\/h2>\n
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Average Rating: 4.8<\/span> out of 5<\/span> based on 268<\/span> user reviews.<\/span><\/div><\/p>