Waltz with Bashir
If all you care about are the Oscars, you can probably forget about today’s awards announcement by the National Film Critics Society because their choice for best picture has only gone on to win the Oscar four times in 42 years.
Having said that, they’re a prestigious group with good taste. For 2008 they [...]

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Conventional wisdom seems to suggest that 2008 was not a great year at the cinema. I disagree. While it didn’t attain the heights of 2007 as frequently, on balance there were dozens of very good movies from all over the world this year – so many that it was difficult to choose the bottom half [...]

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