Noel Murray

A.V. Club

Noel Murray is an Arkansas-based freelance writer who contributes regularly to The Onion’s A.V. Club section and to The Los Angeles Times. When he’s not obsessing over movies, music, television or comics, he’s watching sports, cooking for his wife and two kids, or trying to sneak in a nap.

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Best of the Decade Critics Survey 2000s »

Best of the Decade »

1) The Royal Tenenbaums

2) There Will Be Blood

3) No Country for Old Men

4) The Prestige

5) Morvern Callar

6) 25th Hour

7) Crimson Gold

8) Adaptation

9) Spirited Away

10) A Prairie Home Companion

Annual Critics Survey 2009 »

Best Film »

1) Inglourious Basterds

2) A Serious Man

3) Public Enemies

4) Up

5) Still Walking

6) Julia

7) Duplicity

8) Fantastic Mr. Fox

9) Funny People

10) Passing Strange

Best Lead Performance »

1) Tilda Swinton, Julia

2) Tom Hardy, Bronson

3) Willem Dafoe, Antichrist

4) Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist

5) Joaquin Phoenix, Two Lovers

Best Supporting Performance »

1) Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

2) Mo'Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" By Sapphire

3) Diane Kruger, Inglourious Basterds

4) Marion Cotillard, Nine

5) James Gandolfini, In the Loop

Best Director »

1) Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds

Best Documentary »

1) Anvil! The Story of Anvil

Best Screenplay »

1) Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds

Best First Feature »

1) Robert Siegel, Big Fan

Best Undistributed Film »

1) Videocracy

2) Soul Kitchen

3) The Loved Ones

4) The Disappearance Of Alice Creed

5) Solomon Kane

6) Deliver Us From Evil

7) Don't Let Me Drown

8) Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno

9) The Ape

10) Cleanflix

Films

A Prophet A- (Review)

A Serious Man A-

Ajami B+ (Review)

Animal Kingdom B+

Boy B (Review)

Bran Nue Dae B (Review)

Buried B

Cane Toads: The Conquest B+

Catfish A- (Review)

Creation C

Cyrus C

Exit Through The Gift Shop A-

Frozen C+

George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead B-

Get Low B (Review)

Happy Tears B- (Review)

Hesher C (Review)

His & Hers B+ (Review)

I Am Love B-

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child B

Les Herbes folles B+

Louis C.K.: Hilarious B+

Lucky C+

Mother A- (Review)

My Perestroika B+ (Review)

October Country B- (Review)

Please Give A- (Review)

Restrepo A- (Review)

Shutter Island B+

Smash His Camera A-

Solitary Man B

Splice B+ (Review)

Stolen C (Review)

Terribly Happy B+ (Review)

The Company Men B (Review)

The Exploding Girl B (Review)

The Extra Man B

The Good The Bad The Weird B+

The Joneses B

The Killer Inside Me B-

The Men Who Stare at Goats B

The Most Dangerous Man In America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers B+

The Perfect Host C+

The Runaways B-

The Taqwacores B-

The Tillman Story B+

Up in the Air B+

Videocracy A- (Review)

Vincere B+

Waiting for Armageddon B

Waking Sleeping Beauty B+

Winter’s Bone A

Youth in Revolt B+

happythankyoumoreplease B (Review)

Recent criticWIRE Ratings
D
Danny Kasman, The Auteurs
B+
Danny Kasman, The Auteurs
B
Danny Kasman, The Auteurs
C
Danny Kasman, The Auteurs
C+
C
Danny Kasman, The Auteurs



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