Pete Travers review of Wild at Heart Peter Travers review of Wild at Heart

SUPPORTING ACTRESS: A tie: Amy Ryan (“Gone Baby Gone”) and Cate Blanchett (“I’m Not There”) SUPPORTING ACTOR: Andy Griffith (“Waitress”) What follows is the leading critics’ picks for their very top choices in the major categories.ĭIRECTOR: Julian Schnabel (“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”)ĪCTOR: Daniel Day-Lewis (“There Will Be Blood”)ĪCTRESS: Marion Cotillard (“La Vie en Rose”) But there is no imperative for them to see a film like ‘Waitress’ or ‘The Lookout’ or ‘Starting Out in the Evening.’ And that’s a real shame.” “When a ‘Spider-Man 3’ opens, everybody feels they want to be in the loop, even if they don’t particularly care about the films. “The discouraging trend I find is that good smaller movies come along, and it’s a Herculean effort to get people to go out and see them,” says Leonard Maltin of “Entertainment Tonight.” At the same time, they criticized the studio specialty divisions for top-loading so many good movies into such a narrow time frame at the end of the year. Unlike previous years, when the critics lamented bitterly the dearth of high-quality movies, this time around, by and large, they praised the offerings in theaters.

This year, the critics were surprisingly uniform in the films they praised, especially the Coen brothers’ “No Country for Old Men” and the comedy “Juno.” Nominees will be announced on Tuesday, and the 80th annual awards ceremony will take place on February 24. The leading critics were almost unanimous in citing the English actor for his performance as an implacable oilman in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood,” one of a number of movies that came up repeatedly as a favorite.Īlmost as popular was Julie Christie in “Away From Her,” indicating that two English performers lead the acting pack this awards season.

Pete Travers review of Wild at Heart Peter Travers review of Wild at Heart