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Please Give (Nicole Holofcener) It's a Nicole Holofcener film. Which means it cobbles Woodyisms around a sympathetic-mode Catherine Keener-centered plot. It's most entertaining in its tangential first half, after which it plays it far too safe. This is a film that wants to be accepting of human beh...

I think Iron Man 2 is going to A) outgross the first Iron Man, B) prove to be the biggest film of the year until Tron Legacy, and C) I know this because word of mouth is coming in that it's not very good, that it's both under- and overly ambitious, and when sequels like that happen (Shrek 2, Dead M...

/Dark City/ (Alex Proyas) - 6.5/10 Alex Proyas kinda sucks. With Dark City, he sucks in a fairly endearing way. I like future noir so I'm inherently going to be down for a lot of the stuff going on in Dark City, but it's heavy on loud sound effects that exist to hurry along a flatly-shot film. It h...

Olivia Williams is outstanding. I'm quite the fan of hers and I haven't seen this side of her yet. I've been very lukewarm on Tom Wilkinson since In the Bedroom. I don't think he's a bad actor but I don't buy him and George Clooney as college colleagues for a moment in Michael Clayton. But his few ...

1. Replace Walter Huston for Yankee Doodle Dandy with Sig Ruman for To Be Or Not To Be in Best Supporting Actor. IIa. Preserve "There's a Breeze on Lake Louise" from The Mayor of 44th Street in Best Original Song. The kids can't get enough of it! IIb. Preserve that glorious color cinemato...

Yes, but what really cinched the Oscar for Lemmon was his humble apology for his obvious drunkenness at the Golden Globes that year. Ironic that he won an Oscar that belonged to Al Pacino for the superior Serpico and lost an Oscar he should have won 18 years later for Glengarry Glen Ross to Pacino ...

/The Apostle/ (Robert Duvall) - 6/10 Yeah, I really don't love this. On the one hand, it's one of the few affectionate portraits of the American South and an American South that's too often marginalized if not demonized. It's a labor of admittedly indulgent love that does seems to come from the hea...

Pass. I've seen five movies from this year.



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GROUP I Preston Sturges had a great year. Let's reflect that. He replaces Mervyn LeRoy in Best Director again for his direction of The Palm Beach Story. GROUP IIA The Invaders replaces One of Our Aircraft is Missing in Best Original Screenplay. GROUP IIB Now, Voyager has produced some incredibly me...

Hot Tub Time Machine (Steve Pink) I remember watching Monkeybone and thinking "Never is this movie not Monkeybone. And that's kind of a good thing." When I was watching Hot Tub Time Machine, I was astonished at how consistently it was aware of its Hot Tub Time Machine-ness. This is not a ...