Archive for December 20th, 2010

With the holiday hiatus fast approaching, here’s a big batch of reviews of some of December’s most interesting offerings (leading off with Sofia Coppola’s latest film Somewhere, starring Stephen Dorff), some of which will be rolling out in the next two weeks, while others have already opened.  Look for two more posts to come before the New Year, a Film Journal published reaction to Jack Black’s Gulliver’s Travels and, last but not least, my 2011 Year in Review.

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The Coen Brothers toss moviegoers another change-up, following up their brilliant black comedy A Serious Man with the meditative Western True Grit, which sports one of the year’s best screenplays and most beautifully photographed images.  Read my review over at Film Journal.