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    • The Hurt Locker

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    Queen of the world!

    How one woman crashed the boys’ club and made Hollywood history

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    AVATAR vs. HURT LOCKER: The Historical Favourite Question

    Scott Macaulay tries to explain the new Oscar voting system and how it works, with quotes from economist Justin Wolfers. Wolfers also provides some follow-explanation here. The use of ranked voting, familiar to those who follow sports MVP voting, means that a movie has the potential to win even if it doesn’t get the most first-place votes.

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    Hollywood’s big on psycho soldiers

    Ramrod military men with impulse-control issues may be rare in real life but not onscreen

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    The Top 10 movies of the year are …

    Our critic includes ‘Up in the Air,’ ‘Avatar,’ and ‘Bright Star.’ You may want to disagree.

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    Instead of a year-end list of my own

    COLBY COSH dismisses the National Board of Review’s Top 10 Movies of 2009—none of which he’s seen

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    Giving the guys a lesson in true grit

    Two female directors show their mettle with tales of war and terrorism