• Julian Sancton samples and gives some commentary on his top 11 film scores of the year. [Vanity Fair]
• David Poland spends 30 minutes with “Nerakhoon” director Ellen Kuras. [The Hot Blog]
• Tom O’Neil and Dave Karger fight over the Best Actress frontrunners. [Gold Derby]
• Karger, meanwhile, spends some more time with the cast of “Doubt.” [Entertainment Weekly]
• David Carr’s “Marley and Me” mea culpa. [The Carpetbagger]
• Kim Voynar goes deep this holiday season with a look at sex with teenagers on the big screen, and she has a hell of a point. [Movie City News]
• Patrick Goldstein spotlight’s the year’s worst. [The Big Picture]
• A trio of films go into production depicting the epic Battle of Hastings. [Daily Telegraph]
• Paralleling the careers of big screen heartthrobs Tom Cruise and Leonardo DiCaprio. [MSNBC]
• Michael Cieply digs into the clash of movie moneymakers Jom Carrey and Will Smith this weekend. [New York Times]
• Brad Brevet lists the top 10 assassination movies with an inspired #1 and a #6 that has no business on any top 10 list. [Rope of Silicon]
• Speaking of lists, how about the top 10 balliest singing performances? [Premiere]
• Andrew O’Hehir on how indie film thrived in 2008. [Beyond the Multiplex]