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At indieWIRE, Peter Knegt's "For Your Consideration: 25 Things The Academy Got Right In The 2000s." Here are three snippets: 6 nominations and 3 wins for Pan’s Labyrinth (above, with Maribel Verdú and Ivana Baquero) "… still managed to defy Academy tastes by taking the second most wins of any film in 2006 (after The Departed) and third most nominations …" 8 nominations and 2 [...]

Michael Stuhlbarg in A Serious Man (top); Joel and Ethan Coen (bottom) Peter Knegt reports that an indieWIRE poll of "more than 25" film critics and bloggers (blogging film critics?) shows that the overwhelmingly favorite film screened at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival was Joel and Ethan Coen's A Serious Man (not to be confused with Tom Ford's A Single Man or the Michael Douglas [...]

  Dave Calhoun in Time Out London, via David Hudson's The Daily: "For quite some time at the beginning of Michael Haneke's latest film, which is a two-and-a-half hour parable of political and social ideas set entirely in a north German village in 1913 and 1914, you wonder what you're watching, how its disparate parts hang together and what it all might mean. More than [...]

Peter Bradshaw on Bright Star (with Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw, above) in The Guardian: "Jane Campion has put herself in line for her second Palme d'Or here at the Cannes film festival with a film which I think could be the best of her career; an affecting and deeply considered study of the last years in the short life of John Keats, and the [...]