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In sports, rooting for the underdog is fun; with movies, it’s torture. When a flick you like is critically panned, the common response among cinephiles is to assume a defensive crouch, ready to spring whenever the movie comes up in conversation. By now, acquaintainces pretty much know not to raise ‘A.I. Artificial Intelligence’](A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) - Movie | Moviefone) or ‘The Village’](The Village (2004) - Movie | Moviefone) in my presence.
Here, in that same friendly-but-cantankerous spirit, we submit for your consideration seven poorly reviewed films from 2010 that deserve a chance, even though the Tomatometer may suggest otherwise.
Alphabetically:
‘Agora’](Agora (2009) - Movie | Moviefone) (Alejandro Amenabar) - Alejandro Amenabar’s modestly budgeted historical epic is grand, sweeping, old-fashioned entertainment as well as a stirring paean to rational thought and humanity’s continuing quest to discover its place in the universe. Lukewarm reviews and a hideously botched domestic theatrical release by Newmarket Films doomed this movie to obscurity (it won’t even be available on Blu-Ray), but please: if you catch up to only one 2010 obscurity next year, make it this one.