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3.5/5
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52%
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Safe House (2012) |
"
It ... shows how much can be done with a business-as-usual CIA-thriller script when it's bolstered by effective acting and expert direction."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 9, 2012
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4/5
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82%
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Crazy Horse (2012) |
"
It is a deft revelation of shared humanity, the kind of thing no one does better than Frederick Wiseman."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 2, 2012
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4/5
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95%
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Pina (2011) |
"
Whether you're familiar with Pina Bausch's work or not, the new film "Pina" is a knockout."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 12, 2012
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4/5
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83%
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In Heaven Underground: The Weissensee Jewish Cemetery (2011) |
"
A playful, poetic and all-around charming documentary, an off-center look at an unusual institution."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 12, 2012
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4/5
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99%
|
A Separation (2011) |
"
It's a thrilling domestic drama that offers acute insights into human motivations and behavior as well as a compelling look at what goes on behind a particular curtain that almost never gets raised."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 29, 2011
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2.5/5
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54%
|
In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011) |
"
Unfortunately, "Blood and Honey" has script problems: Its core story is less compelling than its overall atmosphere."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 22, 2011
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2.5/5
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87%
|
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) |
"
This film's cold, almost robotic conception of Salander as a twitchy, anorexic waif feels more like a stunt than a complete character, and so the best part of the reason we care enough to endure all that mayhem has gone away."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 20, 2011
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3.5/5
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71%
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Carnage (2011) |
"
This kind of material is never going to warm anyone's heart, but done as well as it is here, this pitiless verbal farce can provide bleak satisfactions of its own."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 15, 2011
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3.5/5
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93%
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Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011) |
"
Bird has done a stylish and involving job here, turning in an entertaining production that's got considerable visual flair, especially in its action-heavy Imax sections."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 15, 2011
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4/5
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80%
|
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2012) |
"
It's a domestic horror story that literally gets to us where we live, a disturbing tale told with uncompromising emotionality and great skill by filmmaker Lynne Ramsay."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 9, 2011
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|
—
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56%
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Edge of Darkness (2010) |
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 9, 2011
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4/5
|
85%
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In Darkness (2012) |
"
In a world where everyone was looking for an angle, hoping to survive the nightmare and maybe even turn other people's misery into a tidy profit, the fact that a fragile humanity survived at all is little short of a miracle."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 8, 2011
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4/5
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84%
|
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) |
"
This is a film to which very close attention must be paid, but the rewards of doing so are considerable."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 8, 2011
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4/5
|
80%
|
Shame (2011) |
"
This is a psychologically claustrophobic film that strips its characters bare literally and figuratively, leaving them, and us, nowhere to hide."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 1, 2011
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3/5
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58%
|
Crazy Wisdom (2011) |
"
Demetrakas has decided to simply present the man in all his demanding complexities and let him and his encounters with associates speak for themselves."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 1, 2011
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4/5
|
97%
|
The Artist (2011) |
"
"The Artist" is the wonder of the age, as much a miracle as "Avatar," though it comes at things from the totally opposite direction."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 25, 2011
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3.5/5
|
94%
|
Hugo (2011) |
"
"Films have the power to capture dreams," Méliès said, and the way they've captured Scorsese's can't be denied."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 22, 2011
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3.5/5
|
77%
|
A Dangerous Method (2011) |
"
It's fascinating to see the exceptionally charismatic Fassbender squeeze himself into the role of the aristocratic, restrained Jung, and it's just as enjoyable to see Mortensen bring an unexpected virility to his sybaritic, cigar-chomping Freud."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 22, 2011
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4/5
|
85%
|
Eames: The Architect And The Painter (2011) |
"
There couldn't be a better time to examine the complex and absorbing history of this designing couple, and "Eames: The Architect and the Painter" couldn't be a better vehicle for that examination."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 17, 2011
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2/5
|
44%
|
Happy Feet Two (2011) |
"
It's hard to resist dancing penguins, but "Happy Feet Two" may make you want to try."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 17, 2011
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|
—
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82%
|
The Other Conquest (2007) |
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 11, 2011
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4/5
|
100%
|
An African Election (2011) |
"
The film team had a gift for being where the electoral action was, and for seeing what was transpiring with an astute eye."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 11, 2011
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4/5
|
77%
|
The Conquest (2011) |
"
A smart, involving and strikingly adult drama about Sarkozy's rise to power..."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 10, 2011
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4/5
|
44%
|
J. Edgar (2011) |
"
"J. Edgar" is a somber, enigmatic, darkly fascinating tale, and how could it be otherwise?"
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 8, 2011
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3.5/5
|
79%
|
Pianomania (2011) |
"
All those months spent following Knüpfer pay off in this crisis, because the filmmakers have complete access to the most sensitive artistic discussions."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 3, 2011
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4/5
|
74%
|
Like Crazy (2011) |
"
Deserved winner of the grand jury prize at Sundance, this story is as simple as two people mad about each other and as complex as intense relationships inevitably get."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 27, 2011
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4/5
|
83%
|
Puss in Boots (2011) |
"
Perhaps the most engaging thing about "Puss in Boots" is that it never takes itself too seriously."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 27, 2011
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4/5
|
——
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Between Two Worlds (2011) |
"
Fascinating not because it has any answers but because of the provocative questions it raises."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 27, 2011
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4/5
|
87%
|
Kawasakiho ruze (Kawasaki's Rose) (2010) |
"
This intricate, powerful, unsettling film brings us into a world of profound moral complexities where facile judgments must be suspended because even the best people can become complicit in evil."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 26, 2011
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4/5
|
81%
|
Klitschko (2011) |
"
Though this artful film by German documentarian Sebastian Dehnhardt does not stint on inside-the-ring footage, its main attraction is the intense interpersonal dynamic between the brothers."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 21, 2011
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|
—
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89%
|
Il etait une fois le Havre, son port, ses navires () |
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 21, 2011
|
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4/5
|
98%
|
Le Havre (2011) |
"
If the name Aki Kaurismäki doesn't mean anything to you, it should, and "Le Havre" may be the film to make it happen."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 21, 2011
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|
3.5/5
|
88%
|
Margin Call (2011) |
"
"Margin Call" takes ripped-from-the-headlines events and dramatizes them for all they're worth. Which turns out to be quite a lot."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 20, 2011
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4/5
|
100%
|
Went the Day Well? (1942) |
"
One of the most subversive films to come out of World War II, a British drama that was unsettling in its day and is even more so now."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 14, 2011
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|
3/5
|
70%
|
Footloose (2011) |
"
Stays remarkably close to its predecessor in all the ways that count."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 13, 2011
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3/4
|
50%
|
The Weekend (2000) |
—
Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Oct 7, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
92%
|
Benda Bilili! (2011) |
"
"Benda Bilili!" earns its exclamation point. It's a feel-good movie that actually makes you feel good, a story that will have you shaking your head in astonishment and moving your feet to some unstoppable rhythms."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 6, 2011
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|
2.5/5
|
85%
|
The Ides of March (2011) |
"
Even though all the supporting elements of a superior film are here, the actual plot that everything is at the service of is disappointing. The texture of reality and the sheen of fine craft disguise this for a while, but not forever."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 6, 2011
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4/5
|
67%
|
The Women on the 6th Floor (2011) |
"
The French have a knack for it. They've been making funny and agreeable movie farces for forever, and seeing "The Women on the 6th Floor" makes you hope they'll never stop."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 6, 2011
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|
3.5/5
|
94%
|
Weekend (2011) |
"
A moving and empathetic look at how relationships develop, at how people fall in love and what that does and doesn't do to their lives."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 30, 2011
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4/5
|
64%
|
American Teacher (2011) |
"
As we watch the individuals in "American Teacher" struggle with the burdens the system places on them, it's hard not to feel like crying, both for them specifically and for our national culture."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 29, 2011
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|
3.5/5
|
93%
|
50/50 (2011) |
"
As a comedy about a young man with cancer, it needs to be serious enough to be real as well as light enough to be funny. Though it falls off the wagon at times, it maintains its balance remarkably well."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 29, 2011
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3/5
|
67%
|
Pearl Jam Twenty (2011) |
"
By the time "Pearl Jam Twenty" is over we can't help but be impressed by the kind of personal and professional integrity that has kept the band honest and allowed them to endure and prosper."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 22, 2011
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4/5
|
94%
|
Moneyball (2011) |
"
Starring Brad Pitt in top movie star form, it's a film that's impressive and surprising."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 22, 2011
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|
2/5
|
93%
|
Drive (2011) |
"
It's a film in love with both traditional noir mythology and ultra-modern violence, a combination that is not ideal."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 15, 2011
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4/5
|
100%
|
We Were Here (2011) |
"
This clear-eyed and soulful documentary brings us inside the contagion in a way that is so intimate, so personal, you feel like you're hearing about these catastrophic events for the first time."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 15, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
83%
|
Warrior (2011) |
"
Hits things so hard, both literally and metaphorically, that it's hard not to feel pummeled yourself by the time it's over."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 8, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
84%
|
Contagion (2011) |
"
This may not fit any conventional definition of entertainment, but it certainly keeps your eyes on the screen."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 8, 2011
|
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4/5
|
71%
|
Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2011) |
"
Unconventional, imaginative, nothing if not audacious, "Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life" is a portrait of creativity from the inside, a serious yet playful attempt to find an artistic way to tell an emotional truth."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 1, 2011
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