Marwencol (Malmberg, 2010)
Marwencol is a fascinating blend of two different genres, the artist documentary and the therapy film, with Mark acting as his own therapist--probing and prodding and--this is key for me--moving towards an end.
Category: Disclosure
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Easy A (Gluck, 2010)
Smart, funny, and unexpectedly sweet, Will Gluck's Easy A is the most pleasant surprise of my film year, a high school comedy with wit rather than snark, charm rather vulgarity, and heart rather than hormones.
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Eat Pray Love (Murphy, 2010)
I was able to accept this not as a blueprint for how to live my life but as one woman's story about how she chose to try to live hers and things that she learned while doing it.
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I Am an American: The Making of an Anthem (Lott, 2009)
I would say then that one of the values of "I Am an American" and its attendant documentary is to show black and white together espousing and celebrating patriotism through song and honoring the influences in their lives who have helped to instill that patriotism in them. In fact, I will say it.