Have you made your Oscar picks for this Sunday's Academy Awards broadcast yet? No fear, we've collected all our reviews of this year's nominated films so you can cram before the big show, and pass off Tom Carson's less-than-effusive thoughts on Midnight in Paris as your own (if you so choose). Don't forget to check in next week for our special Oscars-themed Vox and Friends podcast!
Woody Allen's Excellent Adventure
By Tom Carson
Midnight in Paris is nothing more than a dilettante's guide to the City of Lights.
In the running for: Best Picture; Best Original Screenplay
The Help's Same Old Story
By Zerlina Maxwell
The film boasts Oscar-worthy performances but spotlights black exploitation in Hollywood.
In the running for: Best Picture; Best Actress; Best Supporting Actress
From London, With Angst
By Jake Blumgart
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy chronicles the last days of Britain as a superpower.
In the running for: Best Actor
More Like Tin
By Noy Thrupkaew
The Iron Lady, short on substance and long on sentimentality, is just the sort of film Margaret Thatcher would hate.
In the running for: Best Actress
It All Falls Apart
By Noy Thrupkaew
In the beautiful A Separation, even the family is no refuge from society.
In the running for: Best Foreign Film
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
By Amanda Marcotte
