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Tilda Swinton & Dakota Johnson: A Match Made in Nudity Heaven

Every now and again, a May/December pairing lights the world on fire, and based on the early word and reviews surrounding Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton ‘s work in the upcoming erotic film A Bigger Splash , we think there’s something spectacular on the horizon! Hit the jump for more pics and info…

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Tilda Swinton & Dakota Johnson: A Match Made in Nudity Heaven

Tilda Swinton & Dakota Johnson: A Match Made in Nudity Heaven

Every now and again, a May/December pairing lights the world on fire, and based on the early word and reviews surrounding Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton ‘s work in the upcoming erotic film A Bigger Splash , we think there’s something spectacular on the horizon! Hit the jump for more pics and info…

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Tilda Swinton & Dakota Johnson: A Match Made in Nudity Heaven

Talkback: Which Oscar Contenders Do You Irrationally Refuse to See This Year?

It’s the most wonderful time of year — that calm October blip where Oscar season’s best films are coming up and we dream about how overrated many of them will be. I feel like a little kid again! While this season is far less objectionable than last year’s , I can think of a couple movies I’d normally (and irrationally) resist if it weren’t my job to deal with them. Can you?

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Stephanie Zacharek’s 10 Best Movies of 2010

There’s probably no good reason to read any movie critic’s Top 10 list, but lots of people — including myself — read them anyway. Let’s not be falsely modest about it: It’s an honor to be able to compile a list and to have a place, online or otherwise, to moor it. But everyone who cares about movies has his or her own private list, posted online or not, which may include some or all of the usual suspects in a given year (like The Social Network or The King’s Speech , pictures which lots of people, though not all people, seem to love) as well as a selection of fiercely protected personal favorites.

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Stephanie Zacharek’s 10 Best Movies of 2010

Michelle Orange’s Top 10 Films of 2010

Asking what films I’ve seen recently is a good way to wipe my brain clean. Once, in a job interview where it was clear the answer would determine my fate, all I could come up with was Calendar Girls , which would have been a poor choice even as a recent release, which it was not. Tabulation is not a strong suit. Rubrics wear me out. A recent report on people with brains like databases with total recall made me itch, and yet the chemistry made sense: An abundance of adrenaline caused ordinary events to imprint in their memories the way only extraordinary events — or even amazing shots, bravura scenes, and other bits of movie magic — do for the rest of us.

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Michelle Orange’s Top 10 Films of 2010

All Your Summer Favorites Trashed in New n+1 Film Section

The aesthetes at n+1 always seem to come back to movies in their long history of cultural criticism. (Come on; six years is forever these days.) And now look at them with their brand-new film section led by A.S. Hamrah , who delivers nothing but the finest takes on The Kids Are All Right (“only slightly less conservative than Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds “), Sex and the City 2 (“a low point in the history of American pop culture”), Inception (“People whose dream movie is a bad movie about dreams that are like bad movies are f*cked”), and more. At least they liked Winter’s Bone . [ n+1 via Looker ]

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All Your Summer Favorites Trashed in New n+1 Film Section

REVIEW: Tilda Swinton Dazzles in Virtuosic I Am Love

A clamorous Italian counterpart to Summer Hours, last year’s lyrical meditation on French tradition in decline, I Am Love also examines fading nationalist notions of legacy and institution through the story of a prominent family’s slow slide from grace. Or that’s one way to look at it: Bold, weird, and a little stalkerish in its intensity, Luca Guadagnino’s third feature is an open cinematic buffet, as ready to satisfy as it is to displease, depending on your taste and appetite. It lends itself to a number of persuasive primary readings — from proto-feminist awakening to sexual-identity crisis; bitter cultural critique to soaring infidelity melodrama; sui generis tour de force to sweaty exercise in the ecstasy of aesthetic influence — and has plenty of flaws that might be dwelled on as well. It’s a lot of movie; the choice is really yours.

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