Review: Beautiful Boy

A few too many on-the-nose needle drops make Beautiful Boy play like a schmaltz-infused music-video-cum-alarmist-anti-drug-PSA.

Review: Breathe In

Drake Doremus’s film is an inert, thinly plotted melodrama premised on trite characterizations that would be offensive if they weren’t so absurd.

Review: Escape Plan

The film preaches a familiar strain of cynical, unchallenged self-righteousness in the face of widespread abuse of civil liberties.

Review: Win Win

The film just barely balances its everyone-learns-something uplift with ragged emotional dynamics and unexpected humor.

Oscar 2011 Winner Predictions: Supporting Actress

And so it is that Oscar bloggers, seeking to itch the scratch Leo’s blatant assertion that campaigning, not prognosticating, is what wins Oscars, have collectively shifted the balance of power back to the plucky 14-year-old girl who tore through every scene (every. scene.)