Sam Adams

L.A. Times

Sam Adams is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Onion A.V. Club, and a Contributing Editor at Philadelphia City Paper, where he served as Film Editor from 1999 to 2007. His writing has appeared in Entertainment Weekly, the Boston Globe, the Hollywood Reporter and Film Comment. He is a member of the National Society of Film Critics, and his essays on Two Lane Blacktop and Greendale appear in the NSFC anthology The B List. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and daughter.

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From Sam's Twitter

Best of the Decade Critics Survey 2000s »

Best of the Decade »

1) In the Mood for Love

2) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

3) Elephant

4) Syndromes and a Century

5) Black Book

6) The Gleaners and I

7) What Time Is It There

8) The House of Mirth

9) Grizzly Man

10) No Country for Old Men

Annual Critics Survey 2009 »

Best Film »

1) Still Walking

2) A Serious Man

3) The Sun

4) Fantastic Mr. Fox

5) Coraline

6) The Hurt Locker

7) The Limits of Control

8) The Headless Woman

9) Two Lovers

10) Crank: High Voltage

Best Lead Performance »

1) Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist

2) Issei Ogata, The Sun

3) Matt Damon, The Informant!

4) Joaquin Phoenix, Two Lovers

5) Tom Hardy, Bronson

Best Supporting Performance »

1) Peter Sarsgaard, An Education

2) Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air

3) Jemaine Clement, Gentlemen Broncos

4) Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air

5) Glenn Kenny, The Girlfriend Experience

Best Director »

1) Hirokazu Kore-eda, Still Walking

Best Documentary »

No Responses

Best Screenplay »

1) Joel & Ethan Coen, A Serious Man

Best First Feature »

No Responses

Best Undistributed Film »

No Responses

Films

35 Shots of Rum B+

A Serious Man A-

Adam B-

Adventureland B+

Ajami B-

Amelia D (Review)

Amreeka B (Review)

An Education B

Antichrist A- (Review)

Anvil! The Story of Anvil B

Away We Go D

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans C+

Big Fan B-

Bright Star B+

Broken Embraces (Los abrazos rotos) B+

Bronson A- (Review)

Bruno B- (Review)

Capitalism: A Love Story C+ (Review)

Cheri B-

Coco Before Chanel B-

Dare B- (Review)

Daybreakers C+

Drag Me to Hell B

Fantastic Mr. Fox A-

Gentlemen Broncos B-

Get Low B+

Goodbye Solo B+

Humpday B+

In the Loop A- (Review)

Inglourious Basterds B- (Review)

Invictus B-

It Might Get Loud B- (Review)

Julia B+

La Danse B (Review)

Life During Wartime B-

Lymelife C+

Me and Orson Welles C+

Micmacs A-

Moon B (Review)

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done C-

Nine C

Outrage B

Passing Strange A-

Pirate Radio (aka The Boat That Rocked) C- (Review)

Police, Adjective B

Ponyo A-

Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” By Sapphire B+

Restrepo B+

Serious Moonlight D+ (Review)

Shock Doctrine F

Summer Hours B+

Sunshine Cleaning C+ (Review)

Taking Woodstock C-

Tetro B+ (Review)

The Beaches of Agnès (Les Plages d’Agnès) B

The Brothers Bloom F (Review)

The Cove B+

The Girlfriend Experience B (Review)

The Hurt Locker A- (Review)

The Informant A- (Review)

The Limits of Control A-

The Lovely Bones C-

The Men Who Stare at Goats C+

The Messenger B

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee C-

The Road B

The September Issue C+

The Sun (Solntse) A

The White Ribbon (Das weisse Band) B+

The Yellow Handkerchief C+

Thirst (Bakjwi) B+

Trash Humpers B

Up B (Review)

Up in the Air A-

We Live in Public C+

Whatever Works B+ (Review)

Whip It B-

White Material B+

World’s Greatest Dad B

9 A- (Review)
Recent criticWIRE Ratings
A-
Putty Hill
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
C
Earthling
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
B-
Cold Weather
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
A-
Mother
R. Emmet Sweeney, Movie Morlocks
C
The Exploding Girl
R. Emmet Sweeney, Movie Morlocks
B
Shutter Island
R. Emmet Sweeney, Movie Morlocks
B+
The Ghost Writer
R. Emmet Sweeney, Movie Morlocks
B+
Saturday Night
Peter Knegt, indieWIRE
D
Lebanon
Danny Kasman, The Auteurs
A
Les Herbes folles
Danny Kasman, The Auteurs
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