Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (film)

Many critics have blamed the new Best Picture rules for the nomination. John Young at "Entertainment Weekly" says that when it comes to the new rules, "it's better to be loved by a small and passionate group instead of liked by a much larger group", and Jen Chaney at "The Washington Post", believes that, "the Academy should've just stuck to the 10 rule so that films like "Dragon Tattoo" or "Harry Potter" could've joined the other worthy contenders, because if you’re going to create a bunch of drama around the number of nominees and then come up one shy of what has become the typical total, that just feels like a letdown." "The Week" writes that the new rules are a failure, as it lets "smaller, divisive movies that the Academy had hoped to weed out, like "Tree of Life" and "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" in, but prevents praised crowd pleasers like "Bridesmaids" and "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" from being nominated."