“Not a lot of movies leave you sobbing in the opening reel, but Pixar’s masterpiece Up begins with such a breathtaking montage that just hearing snippets of Michael Giacchino’s score is enough to make me misty. In the end it is about letting go, saying goodbye, and starting over. Pretty heady stuff for a movie with talking dogs.” – The Muriel Awards, 02/28/2010

“You won’t find a finer example of pure, nuts-and-bolts cinematic skill this year than The Hurt Locker. A collection of almost unbearably intense set-pieces shot on shaky 16mm cameras, the movie elicits gasps not through groundbreaking special effects or cutting edge 3-D technology, but with simple, old-fashioned juxtapositions of image and sound.” – The Muriel Awards, 02/27/2010