The awards train keeps on rolling; this time making stops in Toronto, Houston and Dallas Fort-Worth. I’m sure by the time I finished pasting and formatting these, there were like five more, but we’ll get to those tomorrow.
Toronto:

Picture: Wendy and Lucy
Runners-up: Rachel Getting Married and WALL-E
Actor: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Runners-up: Sean Penn, Milk and Jean-Claude [...]

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Meryl Streep in Doubt
The first line of attack against Doubt by its detractors is that a certain staginess has carried over from director John Patrick Shanley’s original Pulitzer Prize-winning play. It’s true, the performances are a little too broad, the dialogue is a bit too precise and the plot and characters are a little too [...]

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