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Robert Pattinson and his new vehicle Remember Me have been praised in The Hollywood Reporter. Following a mixed review for both Pattinson and Allen Coulter's drama in Variety, the Reporter's Kirk Honeycutt — giving some of the plot away — calls Remember Me "a smart, engaging drama about young love flourishing amid sadness and loss. The story ends on Sept. 11, 2001, in New York, [...]

Gabourey Sidibe in Precious (Anne Marie Fox / Lionsgate) (top); Alfre Woodard, Nicole Beharie in American Violet (Scott Saltzman / Samuel Goldwyn Films) (bottom) According to The Hollywood Reporter's Roger Friedman, Precious' Gabourey Sidibe may have been cheated out of a best actress award. This past Dec. 14, the African-American Film Critics Association gave Precious awards for Best Picture, Best Director (Lee Daniels), Best Supporting [...]

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 [...]

Broken Embraces: Pedro Almodóvar on the set (top); Penélope Cruz as the heroine (bottom). In the mystery-melodrama, a director and his female star begin a passionate love affair that leads to all sorts of trouble. Wendy Ide in The [London] Times: "Certainly, it is unmistakably an Almodovar film. Nobody else does richly-textured melodrama quite like him; nobody else can encourage such overwrought performances without unbalancing [...]