Steven Chaitman wrote: "When you write/blog about movies, there are two non-verbally accepted truths: 1.) It's never too early give Oscar predictions (just ask our own Julian Stark about that one) and 2.) There's no unacceptable time to evaluate the year's best movies."
This is the only year I can think of where the winter/spring movies were better than the summer ones. It started off great then went straight into the toilet, but at least we have Inception.