Recently, while wandering in Frost’s proverbial yellow woods, I came to a fork in the road and decided to take the one less traveled. After a half dozen years as a professional film critic writing about other people’s movies, I have decided it is time to start letting them write about mine.

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Best Picture
• “Black Swan”
• “The Fighter”
• “Inception” (8)
• “The Kids Are All Right”
• “The King’s Speech” (11)
• “127 Hours”
• “The Social Network” (8)
• “Toy Story 3”
• “True Grit” (10)
• “Winter’s Bone” (4)
“The King’s Speech” is the biggest winner, with 11 overall nods. That and the Producer’s Guild Award for Best Film last week really raises its chances going into the Academy Awards (I still think [...]

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My most anticipated films of 2011 are:

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Every year about this time, we critics torture ourselves (no, really, it’s quite difficult) with the impossible task of objectively categorizing works of art. Choosing the finest films of the year is an odd and ultimately unfulfilling exercise, one that invites constant second-guessing and nearly always devolves into more of a favorites list than an [...]

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Read the official press release here.

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Since independent and foreign films tend to sneak in under the radar throughout the year, lists of this nature are almost always Hollywood heavy. With that said, here are the films I am most excited to see in the coming year.

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Compiling a decade’s best list is a profoundly intimidating affair. Some films, especially the first handful, come instantly. They are as immovable as granite, as strong today as when they first appeared. But things get more complicated the further down the list you go. Some assume that one would simply review one’s Best Of lists [...]

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This may be the personally oddest and most eclectic “Best Of” list I’ve ever compiled. Half is strongly art-house and indie minded, while the other half is not simply mainstream, it is firmly entrenched in solid blockbuster territory. How to explain it? Simple. These were my favorite films of the year. These were the ones [...]

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George Clooney and Carey Mulligan Named Best Actors
Christoph Waltz and Mo’Nique Honored as Best Supporting Actors
Kathryn Bigelow is WAFCA’s First Female Best Director Winner

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