Top Ten 2012 - Linda Barnard
Amour
Zero Dark Thirty
The Master
Rebelle (War Witch)
Moonrise Kingdom
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Argo
Skyfall
Compliance
Safety Not Guaranteed
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Linda Barnard
Linda Barnard is a career journalist who has been covering movies at the Toronto Star and thestar.com, Canada’s largest newspaper, since 2005. In addition to reviewing films and writing interviews and features about the industry, she helps anchor the Star’s coverage of the Toronto International Film Festival and Hot Docs International and does First ReelMovies, a weekly webcast review at thestar.com with Star movie critic Peter Howell. Linda is also a top critic with rottentomatoes.com and a member of the Toronto Film Critics Association.
Articles by Linda Barnard
TURN ME ON, GODDAMIT!- Review by Linda Barnard
Runaway hormones are the stuff o fmany a teen angst story, but in Norwegian director Jannicke Systad Jacobsen’s compellingly quirky comedy “Turn Me On, Goddammit!,” it’s a teen girl who suffers for having sex on the brain. Read more>>
IN HER EYES: WOMEN IN THE DIRECTOR’S CHAIR: Linda Barnard comments
Women who work behind the camera are wondering if Kathryn Bigelow’s historic Oscar for Best Director for THE HURT LOCKER was a watershed moment or just a blip on a notoriously fickle industry’s radar.
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MEET RADIOMAN, STAR OF MORE THAN 100 MOVIES: Linda Barnard interviews
Once a homeless alcoholic, Radioman has played background roles in more than 100 New York-shot films, gaining respect and his own kind ofcelebrity. Read more>>
THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL - Review by Linda Barnard
While you can never tire of Judy Dench, this raj-raj throwback is tiresome. Read more>>
BATTLESHIP – Review by Linda Barnard
Where else but Hollywood would somebody get the bright idea to take a board game with no human characters and spend more than $200 million spinning it into an alien-invasion flick? LindaBarnard still has a headache from over-the-top BATTLESHIP. Read more>>