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...behalf of all movie critics, I say: You now have our permission - indeed, the sacred obligation - to see Slumdog Millionaire, Milk, Doubt, Gran Torino and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and to catch up with Rachel Getting Married and Happy-Go-Lucky...
...best film, Slumdog was the choice of the NBR and the D.C. crowd, Milk in New York and, in L.A., Pixar's summer hit WALL-E (which won for Animated film in the other groups). Best directors were David Fincher for Benjamin Button (NBR), Danny Boyle for Slumdog (D.C. and L.A.) and Mike Leigh for Happy-Go-Lucky (New York). Screenplay prizes were allotted to Slumdog, Benjamin Button, Happy-Go-Lucky, Rachel Getting Married and Gran Torino. Art-house habituées may wish to know that Man on Wire was judged best documentary by all four groups (the only...
...political process, the voting often rewards not the films that appealed to the most people, but the ones that managed to annoy the fewest. At the New York gathering, for example, the tug of wills on early ballots for best film was between Slumdog and Rachel; each had strong adherents and, it turned out, strong detractors. By the fourth ballot, a winner had emerged: Milk, which, for many members, was the least objectionable film in the bunch. Who could cavil at the choice of a quality bio-pic about a slain gay activist...
...critics' awards. (Though some magazine reviewer named her Best Actress of 2008.) Well, she snagged a Globe nomination for Actress - Drama in Revolutionary Road and Supporting Actress in her other December drama, The Reader; both were among the five finalists for Best Motion Picture - Drama. The others were Slumdog, Benjamin Button and one film, Frost/Nixon, that didn't figure prominently in the critics' fancies. (Doubt was aced out of a Best Drama nod, but did earn nominations for all four principal actors: Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and - woo hoo! - Viola Davis...
...long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, before Hollywood started making only superhero blockbusters and art-house Oscar winners, there were big, fun, beautiful movies that were both crowd-pleasing and artistically valuable. “Slumdog Millionaire” is one of these movies. With its exuberant love story, brilliant young cast, and the constant refrain of the “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” soundtrack, “Slumdog Millionaire” is the most fun you will have at the movies until neuroscientists genetically alter our brains so we?...