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Slate announces its poll of the all-time worst movies. With special emphasis on westerns, musicals and biopics.

The best film I saw all last year, by a long way, was Downfall, Oliver Hirschbiegel's account of Hitler's final days. Yesterday I finally caught up with another Götterdämmerung drama, Sophie Scholl, the Oscar-nominated portrayal of the student protestor executed by the Nazis. One of those movies you sit through with a knot in your stomach - the final scenes are almost unbearably poignant. My only criticism is that the script's focus on the hour-by-hour events following her arrest leaves you wondering about how she became the person she was. But that's a quibble. You can watch the trailer here.

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[JOel]

I saw "Sophie Scholl:The Final Days" last week. It was a marvelous picture that deserves to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Film. Unfortunately the terrorist sympathisizing "Paradise Now" will probably win.