Creation is an unusually complicated movie in its conception, linking (Charles) Darwin’s many struggles—physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual—as they lead, essentially, to his theory of evolution, termed here “the biggest single idea in the history of thought.” Read more>>

AWFJ highlights films made by and about women: Read more

Maybe it’s men who “just aren’t funny”; sexy Star Wars lack imagination; how not to depict girl geeks and Read more

Tallied from the individual lists of AWFJ members, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists’ top ten films of 2009 are, in alphabetical order: Read more

In Fish Tank, director Andrea Arnold’s follow-up to her mesmerizing Red Road, the primary and much-repeated point is that limited vision is costly. Read more>>

No one should ever underestimate the importance of timing, so being the third sci-fi end-of-the-world film in the past few months is a heavy cross this hybrid concept must bear. After “2012” and “The Road,” there’s not much new to say about the post-apocalypse, or is there? Read more

Eli (Denzel Washington) is headed west. No matter who asks him or what gets in his way, he keeps on—walking, walking, walking west. What he expects to find out there is unclear, as the world has been destroyed by “The Flash” some 31 years ago. Read more>>

1. The Hurt Locker
2. Up in the Air
3. An Education
4. (500) Days of Summer
5. The Road
6. Precious
7. Inglourious Basterds
8. Up
9. A Single Man
10. Bright Star

1. THE HURT LOCKER
2. THE LAST STATION
3. PRECIOUS
4. UP
5. STAR TREK
6. CRAZY HEART
7. DISTRICT 9
8. NINE
9. UP IN THE AIR
10. AWAY WE GO
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1. A Single Man
2. The Hurt Locker
3. Hunger
4. Crazy Heart
5. Food, Inc.
6. Gomorrah
7. The Hangover
8. Precious
9. The White Ribbon
10. Sin Nombre