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Friday, December 30, 2011

The Silver Screen

The 'Silver Screen’s' Top Films of 2011

Our movie critic, Stephen Silver, takes a look back at the very best movies of the year.

Celebrating the close of 2011, here are my top ten movie choices of the year: 1. The Artist The year's most unlikely film is also its best – a black and white, silent film set in 1920s Hollywood. Michel Hazanavicius' film is just plain beautiful, both thematically and aesthetically, and sports standout performances from Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo. And the dog, Uggie, should win Best Supporting Actor. (In theaters now.) 2. Certified Copy This most international of films, shot in Italy with English and French leads by an Iranian director, is also the mind bender of the year. Directed by master filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, Certified Copy looks at a couple (William Shimell and Juliette Binoche) who may be strangers or may be an estranged …

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Movie Review: Holiday Movie Round-Up, 'Certified Copy' is the Real Deal (in Upper Moreland-Willow Grove Patch), 'Drive' Leaves 'Fast and Furious' in the Dust (in Upper Moreland-Willow Grove Patch), and 10 more ›

Bob Guzzardi

11:10 am on Saturday, December 31, 2011

dr. bob and I saw Mission Impossible at Franklin Mills IMAX. terrific movie.   more ›

Friday, December 9, 2011

The Silver Screen

Movie Reviews: 'The Sitter' and 'Shame'

A tale of two films not fit for the kids.

Here's a truly odious and repugnant comedy, a semi-remake of Adventures in Babysitting that subtracts most of the laughs and replaces them with heavy doses of negligence and sociopathy. The Sitter is perhaps the worst "one crazy night" movie of all time, and almost certainly the worst movie of 2011 that doesn't feature the words "Adam Sandler" above the title. It's also the first comedy I can remember in which I spent the entire running time rooting for the hero to get arrested. The film's plot makes the miscalculation that Superbad – in which Jonah Hill's hero spends an entire night going to great lengths to try to get laid – would've been funnier if Hill had ditched Michael Cera and instead dragged three young kids around with him for …

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'Drive' Leaves 'Fast and Furious' in the Dust (in Upper Moreland-Willow Grove Patch)

James Brown

10:56 pm on Saturday, December 10, 2011

I will never ever forget that I saw Steve McQueen's Shame on this night. Given the well-deserved NC-17 rating for the film, there's a lot of material with which I can play here on Sobriety Test. It's like Steve McQueen went into this film thinking about all the different ways and positions in which his star Michael Fassbender could have sex or jerk off. When looking at the menu of options, he …   more ›

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