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Best and Worst: Critics Choice Awards 2011
'The Social Network' wins Critics' Choice Movie Award for best film
Photos: 16th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards
Video: Christian Bale backstage at the Critics' Choice Awards
Michael Bay ready to make you forget 'Transformers 2': 'It was kind of a mess'
Chloe Sevigny is happy to be a sister wife on 'Big Love'
Critical Mass: 'The Green Hornet'
On the Media: Key chain with Sarah Palin sound bites raises free speech issues
After Christian Bale's victory at Critics' Choice Awards - Oscar next?
James Franco's 'Rise of the Apes' will now mutate on Thanksgiving

Best and Worst: Critics Choice Awards 2011

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 08:45 PM PST

The "Jackass" guys get gross, Spielberg sees double and Schwarzenegger returns.

'The Social Network' wins Critics' Choice Movie Award for best film

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 08:27 PM PST

The drama about the birth of Facebook has won the majority of critics honors this year.

Photos: 16th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 07:59 PM PST

Justin Bieber, Mila Kunis and more on the Critics' Choice red carpet.

Video: Christian Bale backstage at the Critics' Choice Awards

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 08:41 PM PST

Bale gets exhuberant backstage at the Critics' Choice Awards.

Michael Bay ready to make you forget 'Transformers 2': 'It was kind of a mess'

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 02:14 PM PST

The director still talks about the blockbuster in tones of regret: "Look, the movie had some good things in it ... but it also failed in some key ways."

Chloe Sevigny is happy to be a sister wife on 'Big Love'

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Known for playing cool characters in indie films, she took the part in 'Big Love' on HBO hoping it would lead to roles in mainstream movies.

Five years ago, few people would have pictured Chloë Sevigny as a prairie skirt-clad polygamist.

Critical Mass: 'The Green Hornet'

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 05:55 PM PST

If the movie is good for anything, it gives normally mild-mannered film critics a chance to excercise their ability to draw blood (rhetorically, anyway).

On the Media: Key chain with Sarah Palin sound bites raises free speech issues

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Does Sarah Palin have a right to control her image or does the key chain maker of 'Sarah Palin in Your Pocket' have a free-speech right to produce them?

Sarah Palin kills a caribou and provokes a debate over animal rights and whether she really knows how to shoot. She jumps into the furor about the mass shooting in Arizona and sets off a second tempest about anti-Semitism. Now a gadget maker has begun selling a talking key chain that spouts recorded Sarah-isms. Could a discussion about free speech versus an individual's right to control their image be far behind?