Back in April, I offered a first quarter wrap-up of my favorite movies from the first three months of 2009, and -- but for the impending demise of the Screengrab -- I would have returned on July 1 with my second quarter wrap-up, which surely would have included the ridiculously entertaining Star Trek reboot, the moving biopic Grey Gardens (which counts towards my film list since I saw it on the big screen and also because it’s HBO, which is apparently not TV) and the festival favorite Winnebago Man, all of which have been previously reviewed and justly praised on this blog.

The other Q2 movie I’ve seen with a good chance of winding up on my year-end Top Ten is the documentary Every Little Step, a chronicle of the 1975 origin and 2006 revival of A Chorus Line built around the stories of the young hopefuls and veteran gypsies involved in the real-life audition process for Broadway’s classic musical about the audition process.

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