Best of 2011: Movies
Film: 50/50
Director: Jonathan Levine
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Bryce Dallas Howard, Anna Kendrick 

50/50 wasn’t the funniest film of the year, by any stretch. In fact, the only times I do remember it being funny were mainly scenes with Seth Rogen in them. It was more of a feel-good/feel-extremely-bad drama. JGL shone as usual, further cementing himself as one of the best actors in our day and age. Seth Rogen dialed it back a bit, and produced probably the best performance of his career. Anna Kendrick brought her usual, quirky, adorable self, and Bryce Dallas Howard played the sympathetic bitch quite well. 50/50 was a movie that knew how to tug your heartstrings and how to punch you in the gut all at the same time, and that’s the reason it’s in my top ten.