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And the winner is ...
Sandra Bullock takes home the Best Actress Oscar for her role in "The Blind Side." Winners | Photos
Story of the last sheepherders
Hailed by critics for its beauty, intensity and elegiac storytelling, "Sweetgrass" takes a different approach to documentary making.
Where's the wonder?
"Alice in Wonderland's" single biggest failing - an affront to Lewis Carroll and the charms of nonsense literature - is that it makes sense.
What is your favorite movie directed by Tim Burton?
Inspirations for 'Alice'
Hooray for Hollywood icons - they lent inspiration to Burton's 'Alice' Old-school diva theatrics find a prominent place in Tim Burton 's new "Alice in Wonderland" movie.
New Flicks
The documentary "Prodigal Sons"; gritty cop drama "Brooklyn's Finest"; and more.
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Building his own thing
Aasif Mandvi, best known as the "The Daily Show's" Senior Foreign-Looking Correspondent, stars in the new independent film "Today's Special."
Review: 'Un Prophete'
Drama. Starring Tahar Rahim and Niels Arestrup. Directed by Jacques Audiard. In French and Italian with English subtitles. (R. 155...
Twists, turns in 'Prodigal Sons' documentary
Documentary by Kimberly Reed. At the Lumiere in San Francisco and the Shattuck in Berkeley. Reed will appear after the early evening...
Review: Cliches handcuff 'Brooklyn's Finest'
Drama. Starring Ethan Hawke, Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ellen Barkin and Wesley Snipes. Directed by Antoine Fuqua. (R. 140 minutes. At...
DVD: 'Universal Soldier: Regeneration'
Universal Soldier: Regeneration Connoisseurs of straight-to-video mayhem will revel in the latest chapter of the "Universal Soldier...
Oscars 2010
'Avatar,' 'The Hurt Locker,' Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock — who and what won Oscar gold?
- Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg/Pentagon Papers - 8.3
- The White Ribbon - 8.3
- Up in the Air - 8.2
- Crazy Heart - 8.0
- Fish Tank - 7.9
- Precious - 7.9
- Ajami - 7.8
- An Education - 7.8
- Avatar - 7.7
- The Ghost Writer - 7.5
- Alice in Wonderland - $1163
- Brookyn's Finest - $135
- Shutter Island - $133
- Cop Out - $91
- Avatar - $77
- The Crazies - $7
- Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief - $51
- Valentine's Day - $43
- Crazy Heart - $34
- Dear John - $29
