NYC Film Critic

My picks for what will (and should) triumph at tomorrow night’s Oscar ceremony.  Now updated with actual winners.

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Oscar Talk 2010 wraps up in suitably epic fashion with a spirited discussion of the Best Picture and Best Director races, putting particular emphasis on the Avatar vs. Hurt Locker match-up.

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Tim Burton vanishes down his own rabbit hole with his muddled take on Alice in Wonderland.  Read my review here.

The Crazies
Directed by Breck Eisner
Starring Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Joe Anderson, Danielle Panabaker
**1/2

As much as I enjoy horror movies, there’s one thing about the genre that frustrates me: all too often, the films require their characters to act like total morons in order for the axe-wielding maniac/possessed toy/ghostly apparition/scaly demon spawn to pick them off one by one.
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Oscar Talk 2010 continues with our takes on the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress races.

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Kevin Smith goes mainstream with disappointing results in the new cop comedy Cop Out.  I add to the chorus of pans here.  Better luck next time, Kev!

Prison movies don’t get much more entertaining than Jacques Audiard’s Oscar-nominated thriller A Prophet.  Read my review here.

The Good Guy
Directed by Julio DePietro
Starring Alexis Bledel, Scott Porter, Bryan Greenberg, Anna Chlumsky, Aaron Yoo and Andrew McCarthy
**

Julio DePietro’s directorial debut The Good Guy is based around a genuinely interesting idea–what happens when a person’s words don’t match up with his or her actions?

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Another year, another edition of Oscar Talk featuring myself and my fellow movie-mad pal, Nick Spagnoli.  Read our discussion of the Best Actor and Best Supporting races below.

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October Country
Directed by Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher
Featuring the Mosher Family
***

I’ve always had mixed feelings about a certain type of documentary that, for lack of a better genre label, I’ll call the “home movie doc.”

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