Film critic Dana Stevens of
Slate is out with her top-10 list for the year, though she says that pickings were generally slim in 2011. A sampling:
- Buck: This documentary by Cindy Meehl about Buck Brannaman, the real-life inspiration for the Horse Whisperer, includes an encounter with a nasty stallion and its owner that "made for some of the year's most affecting unscripted drama."
- Certified Copy:
Abbas Kiarostami's film starring Juliette Binoche "is an insoluable
puzzle of a movie about the insoluble puzzle of love." In other words,
plan on two viewings.
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes:
Yeah, much was typical blockbuster fare, but things changed whenever
Caesar, played by Andy Sirkis in a motion-capture suit, came on screen.
It "definitively established the mo-cap technique as an exciting new art
form." Plus, the Golden Gate Bridge scene was terrific.
- Tree of Life:
Not everything worked, but the middle part focusing on a Waco childhood
"felt like a rediscovery (or maybe a reinvention) of what cinema was
made to do."
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full list.
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