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2011.

The Artist
Captain America
Contagion
Descendants
Dragon Tattoo
Drive
Hanna
Hugo
Ides of March
The Iron Lady
J. Edgar
Jane Eyre (2011)
Midnight In Paris
My Week With Marilyn
2011 Live-Action
Super 8
Tinker Tailor Solder Spy
Tree of Life
War Horse
Win Win
Talk About Kevin
Young Adult
50/50

2010.

Alice In Wonderland
Black Swan
Date Night
Exit Through The Gift Shop
The Fighter
Greenberg
Harry Potter 7 Part 1
Inception
Iron Man 2
The Karate Kid (2010)
The King's Speech
The Last Airbender
Legion
Never Let Me Go
Nowhere Boy
Rabbit Hole
Scott Pilgrim
Social Network
True Grit
Toy Story 3
Wall Street 2
The Way Back
Winter's Bone
127 Hours

2009.

An Education
Black Dynamite
Brothers
Coco Before Chanel
Cold Souls
The Cove
Doctor Parnassus
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Gentlemen Broncos
Goliath
The Lovely Bones
Moon
Nine
Princess & The Frog
Sherlock Holmes
Up In The Air
2012

Other.

LA Noire
Award Projections 2012

10th September 2011

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Contagion - Film Review

Grade: C+

Proven by many films in the past: a great acting ensemble and direction usually can make any writing material - no matter how recycled it may seem - appear fresh. With Oscar season slowly amidts, director Steven Soderbergh (Ocean’s Eleven) gathers an all-star cast of Academy Award winners (Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Winslet) and nominees (Laurence Fishburne) in Contagion, a disaster film that does not simply use its cast to follow the steps of a formulaic award-winning film.  Instead, Soderbergh - known for his “style over substance” directing - puts these veteran actors into a blockbuster film depicting a ravenous killing virus, resembling past efforts such as The Last Man on Earth or more recently I Am Legend and 28 Days Later. While it does not seem that the film flaunts originality, Soderbergh crafts a stylish thriller that frightens and entertains, and does everything except provide a humanistic perspective.

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