San Diego Film Critics Awards

Best Picture
Far from Heaven

Best Director
Jill Sprecher, Thirteen Conversations About One Thing

Best Actress
Julianne Moore - Far from Heaven

Best Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis - Gangs of New York

Complete List and runners up

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Pride, Unprejudiced
By Ray Pride

Martin Scorsese and innumerable conspirators have struggled for almost three decades to produce Gangs of New York, and yet it is a terrible movie. This hellish horror of failed ambition should freeze the blood of any artist who has held too long to a primal obsession and fears that a life's work will be shown up as a Promethean folly. (more)

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25th Hour
Review by Leonard Klady

This may seem trite, but the 25^th Hour, literally and cinematically, follows the 24^th. It also happens to be the name of a new film directed by Spike Lee based on a book by Daniel Benioff and adapted for the screen by the author. Anything beyond these simple and evident truths surrounding the film is considerably more haphazard.

Gangs of New York Review
LOTR: The Two Towers Review

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Seattle Film Critics Awards
Best Picture: Far from Heaven
Best Director: Todd Haynes - Far from Heaven
Best Actress: Julianne Moore - Far from Heaven
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis - Gangs of New York

Complete List and runners up

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15 Weeks To Oscar
Week 2, Post-Globes
by David Poland

There is little doubt that this year's Golden Globe nominations will be somewhat of a precursor to the Oscar nominations. After all, between The Hours, The Pianist, About Schmidt, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Gangs of New York and Chicago, you are certainly looking at a minimum of three nominees for Oscar's Best Picture. A monkey could tell you that, even if his only method of analysis was randomly throwing used banana peels at a chalkboard of titles..

Current Rankings - Update 12/19

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Golden Globe Awards Nominees
Complete List
Commentary by Leonard Klady

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The Awards So Far ...
London Film Critics Nominees
Toronto Film Critics Awards
International Press Academy Awards
San Francisco Critics Inaugural Awards
Broadcast Film Critics Nominees
Boston Film Critics Awards
NY Film Critics Awards
NY Film Critics Online Awards
LA Film Critics Awards
NBR Awards

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Gross Behavior
by Leonard Klady

When I began reviewing professionally it soon became apparent that there were as many bad movies as good ones. But the majority of films being made were simply mediocre - perhaps 60% of commercially released movies. And as time has worn on, that number - admittedly difficult to quantify - has risen closer to 70%. (more)

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LOTR: THE TWO TOWERS Rotten Tomatoes News & Links

ANTWONE FISHER Rotten Tomatoes Trailer

GANGS OF NEW YORK Rotten Tomatoes Reviews & Links

MORVERN CALLAR Rotten Tomatoes

NARC Rotten Tomatoes Trailer

25th HOUR Rotten Tomatoes Len Klady Review

TWO WEEKS NOTICE Rotten Tomatoes Trailer

THE WILD THORNBERRYS Rotten Tomatoes Trailer

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Will We Get To See Smeagal?

Friday Guardian Package
Chicago Review
Phillip Glass Interview
Oliver Stone Reflects On NBK
Bergman's Last Film?
Patterson chews on 2002

Thursday Rings Estimate - $13.9m For A $40m Domestic Total

Johnston On Amazing Miss Morton

Nikki Finke's Political View Of The Political View Of Hollywood

Get the Odds: Best Picture, Actor & Actress

Probably The Most Impressive Trailer Ever For a Movie Just Wrapping Principle Photography

Odd (for NYT) Gossipy Thing W/DD-L, Hanks, Latifah

Seattle Film Critics Awards Announced

Holden On Antwone

LOTR: The Two Towers Reports $42 Million Wednesday Worldwide

Klady On Globes

Waxman On Globe Greed

A Little Long in the Production Pipeline

Awards Have Eastern Flavor

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly of Gangs

"I go to RPA -- Rings of Power Anonymous -- once a week."

Another Easter Egg Hunt

T3 Trailer

More Trouble at the Mouse House

Alien, Boyz N the Hood, Spinal Tap Chosen for National Film Registry

Disney's Characters Not Watered Down By French

"It would be totally inappropriate for the Film Commission to be participating in this event." / "I consider it appalling that Peter Jackson would so soon forget his roots"

DiBonaventura's First Producing Hit- "Far From Warner Bros"

Movie Quiz 2002

Agents Who Care Pitch In

Goldstein Wrestles With Hitler

A New Way To Indie

Brad Pitt's Face An Insult To Malaysians

Trailer Of The Day - Tuesday

Thomson in review

NZ Capitalizing On Rings

Soto Knocks Out A Bratt

German Fantasy All-Time Top 50

IndieWire's 10 Best Distributor-Free Films Of 2002

The Sunday Papers
The New York Times
LOTR As Political Metaphor
Please, Baby, Please Buy A Ticket
Bullock Tries To Produce
Kehr's DVD Choices Of Note
You Should Know Leo McCarey
Queenan Mocks The Many Gangs Of New York & More
Studying Bing Crosby
DV Mania With Hirschbergh / Sternbergh

The Los Angeles Times
Real Orlean On Screen Orlean
Munoz Goes Ouroboros W/ Bernal
Jackson's Ring Controls Global Effort
Fiennes Plays Mad | His Method
Data's Last Interview?
Samantha Morton: Budding Icon
Making A Convoluted Situation More Convoluted

Indiana Jones News
The Girls | The Grandpa

What Happened To Diablo?

A Sit-Down With The Catch Crew

Behind Antwone Fisher

First Look At The Hulk

X-Men 2 Trailer Arrives In QuickTime

The Real Abagnale

Liz Loves Harvey!

America's Evolving Urban Sell

Peter Bradshaw's Best Of The Year... On A U.K. Release Schedule Delay

Thompson On Spike Lee

Noyce Goes Back To Vietnam

Gangs Details From A NY Guy

A Tough Interview With Richard Gere

13 People At AFI Pick 10 "Best" Films And Expect Someone To Care

Rating Leo's Christmas Offerings

Sean Penn's Peace Mission
Just Don't Take His Picture

El Vez Closes Havana

Copping To Narc

Christmas Movie Quiz

Phillip Seymour Hoffman Feature...
And Q&A

Independent Spirit Awards

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