The King’s Speech directed by Tom Hooper (Weinstein, 2010) In a season of gunslingers (True Grit) and brawlers (The Fighter), Tom Hooper has made a touching...
TV and film
Tangled Directed by Nathan Greno and Byron Howard (Disney, 2010) Like dozens of its predecessors, Disney’s 50th animated feature film transforms a fairy tale...
Hereafter Directed by Clint Eastwood (Warner Brothers, 2010) For almost half a century Clint Eastwood has been making films about death, but nearly all of...
The Town Directed by Ben Affleck (Warner Brothers, 2010) During the Depression Warner Brothers earned much of its weekly paycheck with gangster movies in which...
Directed by Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith (First Run Features, 2009) Plato believed some stories need to be told over and over, fed to our children like...
Directed by Lee Unkrich (Disney/Pixar, 2010) In the third chapter of Pixar’s saga about a boy’s toys, the plastic and wooden playthings that fill...
Directed by Niels Arden Oplev (Music Box Films, 2009) Fans of the late Stieg Larsson’s crime trilogy (a dark Harry Potter for adult murder mystery fans) will...
Babies directed by Thomas Balmés (Focus Features, 2010) French filmmaker Thomas Balmés had a simple and brilliant idea: Put four babies in...
The Green Zone Directed by Paul Greengrass (Universal Pictures, 2010) The Greek dramatist Aeschylus wrote, "In war, truth is the first casualty." But...
David Byrne and Fatboy Slim (Nonesuch Records, 2010) I lost interest in David Byrne about 20 years ago. After the Talking Heads, he became a hipster...
