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In sportscasting and sports betting terminology the word \u201cchalk\u201d denotes a team or program with a long history of success and that is thus a prohibitive favorite to emerge victorious over underdogs or dark horses. Betting on chalk means predicting that all your number one seeds will advance in a tournament or all your heavily favored teams will win.<\/p>\n

The 2009 Toronto International Film Festival was chock full of chalk, and while that\u2019s not a bad thing\u2014it\u2019s actually a good thing for those who like quality films\u2014no pretentious film critic ever made himself look smarter than everyone else (or ahead of the curve) by walking out of a major film festival shouting, \u201cCampion! Hornby! Kore-eda!\u201d or \u201cme too!\u201d<\/p>\n

Then again, maybe the point is not to make myself look clever or to say what I liked so much as to try to highlight what different readers might like. So for my festival wrap at Christianity Today Movies<\/a><\/em>, I tried to highlight some films that might appeal to different tastes. To play with the sports metaphor, call it a final four of quality films representing best bets for different viewing temperaments.<\/p>\n

One caveat\u2013I probably would have picked Bright Star<\/em> as my commercial, narrative \u201cbest bet,\u201d but as that film is already out in select cities, I tried to adhere to the spirit of the piece, which was to highlight good films to look for down the road.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"