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Who Gets Your Currently Unqualified Vote in the 2011 Oscar Race: Meryl Streep or Glenn Close?

You haven’t seen the movies. You haven’t even done the requisite research on Margaret Thatcher to judge Meryl Streep’s role in The Iron Lady . You don’t even really understand why Glenn Close is dressed in drag for Albert Nobbs yet. But you do know that Meryl Streep and Glenn Close are very likely to garner nominations for Best Actress at the next Oscars, exhuming a battle that began in 1987 when Cher beat both of them for a statue. Without any knowledge of the films’ quality, who are you rooting for?

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Who Gets Your Currently Unqualified Vote in the 2011 Oscar Race: Meryl Streep or Glenn Close?

REVIEW: Even for a Talking-Animal Movie, Zookeeper Hits a New Low

A possible calculus for Kevin James films: The more pathetic his typically schlubby, confidence-challenged character, the bigger the cash-grabbing cojones behind the production. Consider the audacity of calling Zookeeper — James’s latest interminable march through the crudest possible gestures toward character, conceit, and comedy — a movie. This “story” of a middle-aged zookeeper (James) trying to win back his status-obsessed ex (Leslie Bibb) with the help of the cheerful inmates at his animal prison — while his gorgeous, soulful co-worker (Rosario Dawson) looks on — pushes past banality and onto the surreal plane being staked out by bad movies that are bad in a new and genuinely dispiriting way.

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REVIEW: Even for a Talking-Animal Movie, Zookeeper Hits a New Low