Roger Ebert:
It doesn’t take a crystal ball to see that this year’s Academy Awards will amount to a shootout between “Hugo,” with 11 nominations, and “The Artist,” with 10. Fittingly, they are two movies inspired by love of movie history, the first about the inventor of the cinema, the second about the transition from silent films to talkies. …
I admire The Artist. It’s brave and well-done.
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Ebert:
Best actor: I was all wound up to select George Clooney for “The Descendants,” but some last-minute instinct leads me to Jean Dujardin, as “The Artist.” …
Dujardin is excellent as is his co-star Bérénice Bejo, wife of director Michel Hazanavicius.
She’s nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
The Artist probably will win. But I don’t rank it anywhere near the best Best Pictures all time.
It’s OK.
Rick McCharles 