As the tempest in the teapot over whether audiences are too
dumb to know what they like has been raging among critics I've tried to put
things in perspective for myself by recognizing that regardless of who's been
watching them the films so far this year have been well above average. It's not
even September yet and we've already seen "The Beaches of Agnès," "Tyson," "Revanche," "Limits of Control," "Tulpan," "The
Girlfriend Experience," "Up," "O'Horten," "Moon," "The Hurt Locker," "In the
Loop," "Séraphine," "Julie & Julia," "District 9," "24 City," "Inglorious
Basterds.