This makes the second film from 2009 that I think was critically, criminally overlooked. I understand it was a banner year for movies and I don't grudge The Hurt Locker any of its awards, but seriously: I am supposed to believe Sandra Bullock was better than Abbie Cornish? Stanley Tucci (in The Lovely Bones; I am informed he was quite wonderful in Julie & Julia) than Paul Schneider? Or that the cinematography of Bright Star was nothing to write home about? I had never heard of Ben Whishaw, and now I am looking forward to his Ariel. What wasn't the Academy thinking?
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This makes the second film from 2009 that I think was critically, criminally overlooked. I understand it was a banner year for movies and I don't grudge The Hurt Locker any of its awards, but seriously: I am supposed to believe Sandra Bullock was better than Abbie Cornish? Stanley Tucci (in The Lovely Bones; I am informed he was quite wonderful in Julie & Julia) than Paul Schneider? Or that the cinematography of Bright Star was nothing to write home about? I had never heard of Ben Whishaw, and now I am looking forward to his Ariel. What wasn't the Academy thinking?