How Do You Know

Paul Rudd, Reese Witherspoon
Directed by James L Brooks
[Three stars]

True Grit

Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld
Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen
[Three and a half stars]

Rabbit Hole

Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart
Directed by John Cameron Mitchell
[Three and a half stars]

Hereafter

Matt Damon
Directed by Clint Eastwood
[Three stars]

127 Hours

Getting trapped with James Franco in a Utah canyon is – imagine that – pure exhilaration

James Franco
Directed by Danny Boyle
[Three and a half stars]

Movies of the Year

Let us praise movies that didn’t suck in 2010. Begone, sequels to Twilight and Sex and the City. Begone, chick flicks that bossed us around (what if I don’t want to eat, pray, love?). Begone, epics Hollywood made in 3D because they couldn’t make them good. This space is for 10 films that earned a place in the year’s time capsule.

Nowhere Boy

Aaron Johnson
Directed by Sam Taylor-Wood
[Two and a half stars]

The Social Network

Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake
Directed by David Fincher
[Four stars]

Going the Distance

Drew Barrymore, Justin Long
Directed by Nanette Burstein
[One and a half star]

The Other Guys

Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg
Directed by Adam McKay
[Three stars]

Eat Pray Love

Julia Roberts
Directed by Ryan Murphy
[One star]

I’m Still Here

Joaquin Phoenix
Directed by Casey Affleck
[Two and a half stars]

The Town

Ben Affleck, Jon Hamm
Directed by Ben Affleck
[Three and a half stars]

The Losers

[Two and a half stars]
Zoë Saldana, Chris Evans, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Jason Patric
Directed by Sylvain White

Jonah Hex

[One star]
Josh Brolin, Megan Fox
Directed by Jimmy Hayward

Knight and Day

[Two stars]
Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard
Directed by James Mangold

Inception

[Three and a half stars]
Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Directed by Christopher Nolan

A Nightmare on Elm Street

[One and a half star]
Jackie Earle Haley
Directed by Samuel Bayer

Robin Hood

[Three stars]
Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Max von Sydow
Directed by Ridley Scott

The Book of Eli

[Two and a half stars]
Denzel Washington
Directed by the Hughes Brothers

A Serious Man

[Three and a half stars]
Michael Stuhlbarg
Directed by Joel & Ethan Coen

Shutter Island

[Three and a half stars]
Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Michelle Williams
Directed by Martin Scorsese

Nine

[Three and a half stars]
Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Coltillard, Penélope Cruz
Directed by Rob Marshall

It’s Complicated

[Two and a half stars]
Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin
Directed by Nancy Meyers

The Lovely Bones

[Three stars]
Saoirse Ronan, Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci
Directed by Peter Jackson

10 Best Movies of the Decade

Buzz off, Hollywood fluff and Oscar glitter. These are the 10 that deepened with time and dug their way into your head and heart

12 DVDs of 2009

Peter Travers Picks the Top 12 Dvds Of 2009 To Rock Your Home Theater

The 10 Best Movies Of 2009

1. Precious No movie this year hit me harder than this powerhouse, named for an obese Harlem teen (glorious newcomer Gabourey Sidibe) knocked up by her daddy, battered by her mother (an Oscar-ready Mo’Nique) and laughed at by a world that looks right through her. Director Lee Daniels makes sure you look this time. And [...]

High School Musical 3

[One star]
Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens
Directed by Kenny Ortega

Lakeview Terrace

[Two stars]
Samuel L Jackson, Patrick Wilson
Directed by Neil LaBute

Pineapple Express

[Three stars]
Seth Rogen, James Franco and Danny McBride
Directed by David Gordon Green