It's here — the midpoint of the movie year — so what to do if Oscars had to be doled out now for the best of 2011 so far? My head hurts thinking about it. No way could I come up with 10 nominees for Best Picture. So far, there are only two sure bets:
Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life
The Tree of Life dwarfs the big-budget guppies swimming at the multiplex. Drown those suckers. Shot with a poet's eye, Malick's film is a groundbreaker, a personal vision that dares to reach for the stars.
Woody Allen's Midnight in ParisFor all the film's bracing humor and ravishing romance, there are also haunting shadows. That alone makes it a keeper.
Brad Pitt and Hunter McCracken (The Tree of Life)
Like the Texas-born Malick, young Jack O'Brien (the remarkable newcomer Hunter McCracken) grows up near Waco in the 1950s. His father – Brad Pitt, in a performance of indelible implosive power – raises Jack and younger brothers R.L. (Pitt spitting-image Laramie Eppler) and Steve (Tye Sheridan) with a fierce discipline visible even in rare moments of affection. This father is broken by his own sense of underachievement, and Pitt subtly lets us feel his pain.
Christopher Plummer (Beginners)A never-better Plummer is simply stupendous, refusing any call to sentiment as he shows us Hal's resonant lunge at life.
Michael Fassbender (X-Men: First Class)James McAvoy as telepathic Professor X and Michael Fassbender as the metal-bending Magneto are both dynamite. They take roles created, respectively, by Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen and give them an exuberant jolt of youth and flawed ambition.
Mel Gibson (The Beaver)If you can get past your feelings for the troubled Gibson, you get to watch a high-wire performance of the highest caliber
Best Actresses
Like the Texas-born Malick, young Jack O'Brien (the remarkable newcomer Hunter McCracken) grows up near Waco in the 1950s. His father – Brad Pitt, in a performance of indelible implosive power – raises Jack and younger brothers R.L. (Pitt spitting-image Laramie Eppler) and Steve (Tye Sheridan) with a fierce discipline visible even in rare moments of affection. This father is broken by his own sense of underachievement, and Pitt subtly lets us feel his pain.
Christopher Plummer (Beginners)A never-better Plummer is simply stupendous, refusing any call to sentiment as he shows us Hal's resonant lunge at life.
Michael Fassbender (X-Men: First Class)James McAvoy as telepathic Professor X and Michael Fassbender as the metal-bending Magneto are both dynamite. They take roles created, respectively, by Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen and give them an exuberant jolt of youth and flawed ambition.
Mel Gibson (The Beaver)If you can get past your feelings for the troubled Gibson, you get to watch a high-wire performance of the highest caliber
Jessica Chastain (The Tree of Life)For tenderness, the boys in The Tree of Life turn to their mother, given a nurturing purity by the radiant Jessica Chastain.
Mia Wasikowska (Jane Eyre)The splendid Aussie actress Mia Wasikowska, 21, is best known for playing the lead in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. And she brings innocence and carnal curiosity to the role of Jane
Elle Fanning (Super 8)Fanning, so luminous in Sofia Coppola's Somewhere, shines brighter here. She delivers a shooting-star performance that takes you places you don't see coming.
Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids)Kristen Wiig is an indisputable goddess of comedy. And this rowdy fem-friendship movie she stars in and wrote with Annie Mumolo is infused with the Wiig brand of wicked mischief.
Worst Movie of the Year
Michael Bay's Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Transformers: Dark of the Moon — high on any list of the worst blockbusters ever (move over Green Lantern, you've been bitch-slapped) — is a movie bereft of wit, wonder, imagination, and any genuine reason for being. Watching it makes you die a little inside. Is this the future of movies? God help us! Michael Bay, you've done it again
Ranked by Peter Travers from rolling stones magazine
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon — high on any list of the worst blockbusters ever (move over Green Lantern, you've been bitch-slapped) — is a movie bereft of wit, wonder, imagination, and any genuine reason for being. Watching it makes you die a little inside. Is this the future of movies? God help us! Michael Bay, you've done it again
Ranked by Peter Travers from rolling stones magazine
if you want had any opinion please share to us
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