The New York Film Critics Circle also liked The Artist and Brad Pitt
Back in October, the New York Film Critics Circle made the bold decision to move up its annual selection of the year’s best, believing that this would allow them to get the jump on all the other critical bodies doing the same. Of course, this ignored the fact that a) today has seen at least two other groups parsing out judgmental lists already, and b) that’s not even counting all the other as-yet-unofficial accolades that have been handed out for months now, such as the Confrontational Guy On The Comment Board Awards and the Coworker Who Apparently Only Saw The Help Awards. But no matter: Aside from delaying its decision by a day in order to accommodate a special screening of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, the NYFCC pushed full steam ahead with its decision to declare that the year is officially over, and that they probably weren’t even going to like Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close anyway.
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