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5/5	"To see it is to understand that Nolan and his co-writer brother Jonathan saw a chance to go deeper into familiar characters and mythology, a chance to meditate on darker-than-usual themes that have implications for the way we live now." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 16, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	95%
5/5	"Search out this vivid film in a theater. Don't let the sacrifices he [Director Lou Ye] made be in vain." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 29, 2008	Summer Palace (2008)	65%
5/5	"A meticulous examination...Taxi is impressive." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 17, 2008	Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)	100%
5/5	"It conveys unblinking and despairing emotional truth with enough intensity to leave you gasping for air." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 21, 2007	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008)	96%
4/4	"No one who sees this intriguing documentary will want to argue with reporter Greider when he forcefully insists, "We need a more mature regard for the future." We do indeed." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 14, 2008	The Unforeseen (2007)	86%
5/5	"The Israeli film that's become celebrated for what it lacks -- enough Hebrew to contend for the best foreign language Oscar -- can now be seen and appreciated for what it has in abundance: visual wit, verbal charm and a completely droll sense of humor." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 7, 2007	The Band's Visit (2007)	98%
5/5	"Intelligent, involving and conspicuously adult, "Starting Out in the Evening" is almost shocking in its distinctiveness, its ability to create high drama from an unlikely source." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 24, 2007	Starting Out in the Evening (2007)	86%
4/4	"If what you want is a star-driven sophisticated romantic comedy that is successfully aimed at actual adults, the wait can seem like forever. Until now." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 26, 2007	Dan in Real Life (2007)	65%
5/5	"Jacques Verg�s is such a compelling, complex and contradictory character that if he didn't exist someone would be obliged to invent him. It is the gift of Terror's Advocate to simply present Verg�s as is." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 12, 2007	Terror's Advocate (2007)	84%
5/5	"*It's a special pleasure to report that the French Lady Chatterley* is the most frankly sensual movie in memory.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Jul 12, 2007	Lady Chatterley (2007)	74%
5/5	"Are you looking for a little film you can make your own, an enchanting, unpretentious blend of music and romance you can watch forever? If you do, Once is about to come into your life and make it whole." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 7, 2007	Once (2007)	97%
5/5	"*A complete master of cinematic farce, [director] Veber's latest venture, The Valet, makes creating deliciously funny comedy look a lot easier than it has any right to." -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Apr 19, 2007	The Valet (2007)	68%
5/5	"Though it likely will not persuade people to join the ranks, experiencing life behind the walls has an undeniable effect. We've been allowed a glimpse of eternity. And who would not be changed by that?" -- Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 8, 2007	Into Great Silence (2007)	89%
5/5	"The laconic, pitiless way Eastwood shot the violence of battle underscores what a waste it all is, underlines the futility that so many have to die because of the misguided ideology of a few in leadership positions." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 19, 2006	Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)	91%
5/5	"his sad true story wrings you out emotionally because it's concerned with both the deaths of young men in battle and what happens when the needs of those who survive clash with what society expects and politics demands." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 19, 2006	Flags of Our Fathers (2006)	73%
5/5	"A quiet powerhouse of a film, an implacable, uncompromising French police drama, both old-fashioned and modern, that underlines the reasons impeccably made crime stories do so well on screen." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 12, 2006	Le Petit Lieutenant (2006)	79%
5/5	"Made with assurance, restraint and psychological acuity by director Ryan Fleck and anchored by Ryan Gosling's commanding performance, this paradigmatic American independent feature approaches recurring themes in a compelling new way." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 26, 2006	Half Nelson (2006)	91%
5/5	"*The exceptional thing about L'Enfant* is how intensely dramatic the film makes the consequences of Bruno's choice.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Mar 23, 2006	L'Enfant (2006)	86%
5/5	"It immerses you in its reality one toe at a time, until suddenly you are in over your head, gasping for air as the horror of the situation reveals itself in all its savage devastation." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 9, 2006	Darwin's Nightmare (2006)	92%
5/5	"In this age of feckless and unapologetic zealotry, with leaders whose passion for extremism has led to the lamentable results we see all around us, Munich's even-handed cry for peace is not an act of equivocation but one of bravery." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 22, 2005	Munich (2005)	77%
5/5	"The stories and people presented here are involving enough to enthrall anyone." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 10, 2005	Ballets Russes (2005)	91%
5/5	"Acutely observed, faultlessly acted, graced with piercing emotion and unsparing honesty, it will make you laugh because you can't bear to cry." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 13, 2005	The Squid and the Whale (2005)	94%
5/5	"Good Night, and Good Luck couldn't be more unlikely, more unfashionable -- or more compelling." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 6, 2005	Good Night, And Good Luck (2005)	94%
5/5	"Bergman has never been an ordinary filmmaker, and what he's given us is no genial last hurrah but rather an intensely dramatic, at times lacerating examination of life's conundrums that is exhilarating in its fearlessness and its command." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 7, 2005	Saraband (2005)	93%
5/5	"*With War of the Worlds* [Spielberg] has made what is arguably one of the best 1950s science fiction films ever.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Jun 28, 2005	War of the Worlds (2005)	73%
5/5	"Miyazaki's gift for wonder, an ease with fantasy that makes enchantment second nature, is so great it obliterates differences in language." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 9, 2005	Howl's Moving Castle (2005)	85%
5/5	"Has an exact sense of emotional truth and a respect for the intricacy of character." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 12, 2005	Brothers (2005)	89%
5/5	"*Combining an actor you can't take your eyes off with unapologetically emotional material makes The Ballad of Jack & Rose* a model of artistic, provocative American filmmaking.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Mar 24, 2005	The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)	46%
5/5	"Those who see it will, quite frankly, not believe their luck. It is that satisfying, that engrossing, that good." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 18, 2005	The Best of Youth (2005)	95%
5/5	"Impeccably made, uncompromising in its implacable vision of the deranging power of love, sex and controlled substances, this savage and staggering film knows how to take our breath away." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 27, 2005	Head-On (2005)	90%
5/5	"*Brilliantly discursive, filled with intriguing detours that follow connections only the director's mind could make, Los Angeles Plays Itself,* will please natives of this city more than any other.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted May 5, 2005	Los Angeles Plays Itself (2004)	94%
5/5	"A documentary that changed the lives both of subjects and filmmakers, it will reorder the worldview of whoever sees it." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 27, 2005	Born Into Brothels (2004)	96%
5/5	"Perhaps the director's most touching, most elegiac work yet, Million Dollar Baby is a film that does both the expected and the unexpected, that has the nerve and the will to be as pitiless as it is sentimental." -- Journal News (Westchester, NY) Posted Dec 14, 2004	Million Dollar Baby (2004)	91%
5/5	"[An] unprecedented film that is not just a grand feature-length cartoon but a grand feature." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 4, 2004	The Incredibles (2004)	97%
5/5	"*A film like Sideways* is the fulfillment of many hopes and desires, an audience's not least of all.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Oct 21, 2004	Sideways (2004)	96%
5/5	"A beautifully made, unapologetically artistic piece of work." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 24, 2004	Distant (2004)	89%
5/5	"Taut, atmospheric, impeccably made psychological thriller." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 9, 2004	Red Lights (2004)	83%
5/5	"Led by director Zhang Yimou and dazzling cinematographer Christopher Doyle, the unseen Hero production team has made what just might be the most artistically sophisticated, most formally beautiful martial arts film the genre has seen." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 26, 2004	Hero (2004)	95%
5/5	"A political and psychological thriller that is richer in texture and nuance than its predecessor without sacrificing impact." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 29, 2004	The Manchurian Candidate (2004)	82%
5/5	"In only 90 minutes it encourages you to reexamine the nature of cinema, the sources of creativity, the unexpected joys of the unanticipated moment. And it couldn't be more fun to watch." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 3, 2004	The Five Obstructions (2004)	89%
5/5	"*While most films are fortunate if they succeed on any level, The Return* works easily on several, making as powerful a mark emotionally as it does visually and even allegorically.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Feb 12, 2004	The Return (2004)	96%
5/5	"It's a story that haunts long after it's seen, not just because we're overpowered by what happens to its characters but because, if we're honest, we see how all of it, even the worst of it, could happen to us." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 18, 2003	House of Sand and Fog (2003)	76%
5/5	"As a model for how to bring substance, authenticity and insight to the biggest of adventure yarns, this trilogy will not soon, if ever, find its equal." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 15, 2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)	94%
5/5	"A truly out-there piece of comic animation, the most outlandishly visual film of the year, this 80-minute French treat takes us into a world that can barely be described, a world unlike any we've seen before." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 25, 2003	The Triplets of Belleville (2003)	94%
5/5	"*Eastwood's best direction since Unforgiven* and arguably the best, most mature work of his career.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Oct 8, 2003	Mystic River (2003)	87%
5/5	"This first feature ever in the Inuit language is a demanding experience. But the rewards for those who risk the journey are simply extraordinary." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 13, 2002	The Fast Runner (2002)	90%
5/5	"Time Out is not just an especially subtle and thoughtful psychological drama, it's a provocative, even an unnerving one as well." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 12, 2002	Time Out (2002)	95%
5/5	"Looking aristocratic, luminous yet careworn in Jane Hamilton's exemplary costumes, Rampling gives a performance that could not be improved upon." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 4, 2002	The Cherry Orchard (2002)	54%
5/5	"Manages to be comic, dramatic, erotic, sociological and even political, all without breaking a sweat." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 14, 2002	Y Tu Mama Tambien (2002)	91%
5/5	"A triumph of pure filmmaking, a pitiless, unrelenting, no-excuses war movie so thoroughly convincing it's frequently difficult to believe it is a staged re-creation." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 27, 2001	Black Hawk Down (2001)	75%

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