My Favorite Awards from Jim Emerson

Please Make Her Head Explode Award: Natalie Portman, who manages to maintain the same expression on her face (fear, distress, about-to-cry) up until the last few minutes of “Black Swan” (Darren Aronofsky), when her one-note performance finally becomes a one and one-thirty-second-note performance.

Basil Exposition Award for explaining everything (at least) three times, even when it doesn’t matter: “Inception”

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