This week, Peter Travers talks a trio of Golden Globe contenders: Best Drama nominee The Reader starring Kate Winslet, Clint Eastwood’s Best Original Song candidate Gran Torino and the-Broadway-on-the-big screen drama Doubt, which scored Best Acting nods for Philip Seymour Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Viola Davis and Amy Adams. The foreign press loved these films, but did Travers? Watch this week’s reviews to find out. Also, in this week’s scum bucket, Nothing Like the Holidays!

• On The Travers Take: The Reader, Gran Torino and Doubt

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• Movie Review: The Reader

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• Movie Review: Doubt