Wesley Morris & Ty Burr's top movies of 2010
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- full story No greats, but plenty of goodness in 2010 (By Wesley Morris, Globe Staff)
- Full story In this pivotal year, documentaries had the most movie mystery (By Ty Burr, Globe Staff)
"The Kids Are All Right"
“Kids’’ is a remarkable balancing act — a light and lusty social farce about the profound failure of the progressive upper middle classes to live up to their own ideals and/or not become their parents. Lisa Cholodenko nails the self-deluding language of organica-veggie LA and extends forgiveness to every one of her laid-back, freaked-out strivers. The kids (Mia Wasikowska and Josh Hutcherson) are all right, but Annette Bening is astounding as a hipster mom with control issues and a bottomless glass of Merlot.
“Kids’’ is a remarkable balancing act — a light and lusty social farce about the profound failure of the progressive upper middle classes to live up to their own ideals and/or not become their parents. Lisa Cholodenko nails the self-deluding language of organica-veggie LA and extends forgiveness to every one of her laid-back, freaked-out strivers. The kids (Mia Wasikowska and Josh Hutcherson) are all right, but Annette Bening is astounding as a hipster mom with control issues and a bottomless glass of Merlot.
— T.B.