Sgt. Gerry Boyle snubbed?

Arts & Leisure | By Peter McDermott | February 8th, 2012

Some eyebrows were raised recently when “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” got an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. The 9/11-themed vehicle, starring Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock, was not warmly greeted by the critics. Indeed, according to the review aggregator rottentomatoes.com, 48 percent of North American critics gave it a not too enthusiastic thumb’s up. It’s reportedly the worst reviewed Best Picture nominee since Rotten Tomatoes began in 1999. There are 10 nominees these days, so we might expect a high-profile dud or two in there. But that’s no consolation for a movie like “The Guard,” which got a 95 percent favorability rating according to the website, the same as nominee “Moneyball” and just two percentage points behind red-hot favorite “The Artist.”

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