{"id":373,"date":"2009-02-03T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2009\/02\/ct-movies-picks-2008s-critics-choice-awards\/"},"modified":"2009-02-03T13:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T13:37:00","slug":"ct-movies-picks-2008s-critics-choice-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2009\/02\/ct-movies-picks-2008s-critics-choice-awards.html","title":{"rendered":"CT Movies picks 2008&#8217;s &#8220;critics&#8217; choice awards&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span style=\"font-family: georgia\"><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/ct-movies-picks-2008s-most-redeeming.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Last week<\/a>, CT Movies posted its list of the ten \u201cmost redeeming\u201d films of the past year.  Today, we posted \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/movies\/commentaries\/criticschoice08.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The 2008 Critics\u2019 Choice Awards<\/a>\u201d \u2014 and, as one of the participating critics, I am happy to say that I like most of the finalists myself.  I also submitted a paragraph on <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/happy-go-lucky-reviews-up.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">one pick of mine<\/a> that did <i>not<\/i> make the final list.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>FEB 6 UPDATE: Click <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.christianitytoday.com\/podcasts\/upload\/ctaudio_movies_2-4-09.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a> for a podcast in which CT Movies editor Mark Moring and Todd Hertz discuss this list with Stan Guthrie.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, CT Movies posted its list of the ten \u201cmost redeeming\u201d films of the past year. Today, we posted \u201cThe 2008 Critics\u2019 Choice Awards\u201d \u2014 and, as one of the participating critics, I am happy to say that I like most of the finalists myself. 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