Morning Links, 12-15-06

• That Little Round-Headed Boy has produced the first end-of-year wrap list that I actually enjoyed reading.
• The Dreamgirls backlash marches on: Ryan Stewart, Aaron Hillis and Tony Scott collectively shrug. As usual, Dave Kehr has the best 25-words-or-less summation: "Jamie Foxx is in it because he won an Oscar a couple of years ago, and Eddie Murphy is in it to prove he’s not turning into Bill Cosby."
• This is interesting: Variety asks a few critics to name films that shouldn't have won Oscars, and films that didn't that should have.
• Manohla's really on a roll lately. She neatly sums up the problem with The Good German thusly: "Yet while the language routinely waxes raw in The Good German, the most striking difference between it and a Hollywood film like Casablanca aren’t the expletives, the new film’s calculated cynicism or even that glimpse of bedroom coupling; it’s that the older film feels as if it was made for the satisfaction of the audience while the other feels as if it was made for that of the director alone."