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5/5
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88%
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Life of Pi (2012) |
"
There are always moral crosscurrents in Lee's most provocative work, but so magical and mystical is this parable, it's as if the filmmaker has found the philosopher's stone."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 20, 2012
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5/5
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93%
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127 Hours (2010) |
"
In the end, "127 Hours" is one man's incredible, unforgettable journey; it took the extraordinary alchemy of Boyle and Franco to also make it ours."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 4, 2010
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5/5
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96%
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Restrepo (2010) |
"
Just how close the filmmakers were to the action, and the risks they took with the project, filter into virtually every scene. We hear the bullets whizzing past, breaking branches in nearby trees."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jun 24, 2010
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5/5
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95%
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No One Knows About Persian Cats (Les Chats Persans) (2010) |
"
The film has a remarkably exuberant spirit that is impossible to resist..."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 23, 2010
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4.5/5
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80%
|
Something in the Air (2013) |
"
In creating a mashup of a Paris rocked by political storms and a young man in just as much turmoil, the director has given us a glimpse of an imperfect moment and an imperfect life in a slightly imperfect but wonderful film."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 3, 2013
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4/5
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98%
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Before Midnight (2013) |
"
If anything, the films have only gotten better by letting the relationship marinate. "Midnight's" more disgruntled edge reflects what creeps up on couples as years pass, regrets stack up, kids factor in, real life intervenes."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 23, 2013
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4/5
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87%
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What Maisie Knew (2013) |
"
Without losing the 19th century author's sensibility, screenwriters Carroll Cartwright and Nancy Doyne have brought into the modern age James' unforgiving examination of the effect of a messy divorce on a child."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 16, 2013
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4/5
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99%
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Mud (2013) |
"
One of the most creatively rich and emotionally rewarding movies to come along this year."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 25, 2013
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4/5
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88%
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In the House (2013) |
"
The final scene is so open-ended that like Germain, you won't want the story to end."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 18, 2013
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4/5
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42%
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To The Wonder (2013) |
"
There is no new ground, really, the distinction is in the way Malick covers it with glorious imagery, symphonies of sound, a cacophony of moods."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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4/5
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94%
|
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters (2012) |
"
Though his work is dark, on camera at least, Crewdson is a delight."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 7, 2013
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4/5
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89%
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Koch (2013) |
"
Though the film, more than two years in the making, was never intended as such, it plays like the kind of eulogy Koch would have approved - neither fawning nor eviscerating but always compelling."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 1, 2013
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4/5
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100%
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Tristana (1970) |
"
You can almost sense the director's pleasure in taking apart the duplicities of a patriarchal Spanish society, the long-standing sexual double standard for men and one young woman's revolt against convention."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 21, 2013
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4/5
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87%
|
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2013) |
"
Herzog has become a master of the understatement - knowing just how long the images can sustain you without a word being said."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 14, 2013
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4/5
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100%
|
The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2013: Live Action (2013) |
"
If you're primed for the sudden shifts in tone, style, story and look, the payoff is one provocative and evocative film after another."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 1, 2013
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4/5
|
95%
|
The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2013: Animation (2013) |
"
If you're primed for the sudden shifts in tone, style, story and look, the payoff is one provocative and evocative film after another."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 1, 2013
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4/5
|
88%
|
Django Unchained (2012) |
"
In "Django," Tarantino is a man unchained, creating his most articulate, intriguing, provoking, appalling, hilarious, exhilarating, scathing and downright entertaining film yet."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 24, 2012
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4/5
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81%
|
The Impossible (2012) |
"
It is the kind of ode to the human spirit that you hope comes along, and not just during the holiday season."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 21, 2012
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4/5
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92%
|
Skyfall (2012) |
"
In "Skyfall," Mendes has given us a thrilling new chapter in a franchise that by all rights should have been gasping for air - which really makes him the hero of this saga."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 7, 2012
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4/5
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86%
|
Wreck-it Ralph (2012) |
"
The movie's subversive sensibility and old-school/new-school feel are a total kick."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 2, 2012
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4/5
|
70%
|
The Loneliest Planet (2012) |
"
Shot on location by cinematographer Inti Briones, "Planet" is a piece of art even without Bernal and Furstenberg, who are like moving portraits of themselves in this film."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 25, 2012
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4/5
|
94%
|
The Sessions (2012) |
"
In a country that embraces cinematic violence with such ease but blushingly prefers to keep sex in the shadows or under the sheets, the grown-up approach of "The Sessions" is rare."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 18, 2012
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4/5
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84%
|
Detropia (2012) |
"
City services are shutting down, schools are closing, houses are being demo'd by the thousands - like lights being turned out one by one, "Detropia" powerfully captures a city fighting not to go dark."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 4, 2012
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4/5
|
86%
|
The Iran Job (2012) |
"
"The Iran Job" is one of those documentaries that is sad and hopeful in equal measure and exceptional in its storytelling."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 27, 2012
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4/5
|
85%
|
End of Watch (2012) |
"
A visceral story of beat cops that is rare in its sensitivity, rash in its violence and raw in its humor."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 20, 2012
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4/5
|
94%
|
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel (2012) |
"
We begin to understand what created her distinctive fashion aesthetic as well as her drive."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 20, 2012
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4/5
|
76%
|
Premium Rush (2012) |
"
[It] actually doesn't sound like it would work at all as a tightly wound slice of street action, but it does, and in radically fresh ways."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Aug 23, 2012
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4/5
|
74%
|
Hope Springs (2012) |
"
This well-considered look at a long marriage that has lost its spark proves that old love is as fraught as any teenage crush and sex never fades as a source of contention."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Aug 8, 2012
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4/5
|
97%
|
Paul Williams Still Alive (2012) |
"
Filmmaker Stephen Kessler's sheer delight in following around his boyhood idol, whose music framed much of the '70s when Kessler was a lad in Queens, is thoroughly infectious."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jun 29, 2012
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4/5
|
86%
|
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) |
"
An extraordinary new drama whose fierceness, like its 6-year-old heroine Hushpuppy, grabs on and won't let go."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jun 27, 2012
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4/5
|
94%
|
Moonrise Kingdom (2012) |
"
In this tale about growing up and falling in love, it seems Anderson has found his true heart."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 24, 2012
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4/5
|
71%
|
Natural Selection (2012) |
"
In Harris' hands, Linda is guileless but believable, her smile so worn and wary that it almost hurts to see it."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 17, 2012
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4/5
|
100%
|
Under African Skies (2012) |
"
The affection between the musicians and Simon is clear. The portrait that emerges time and again is personal and a reflection of the realities of apartheid."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 10, 2012
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|
4/5
|
90%
|
Bernie (2012) |
"
A true-life Texas tale so perfectly told it seems more like eavesdropping than moviegoing."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 26, 2012
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4/5
|
74%
|
Chimpanzee (2012) |
"
[It] might as well be called "Simply Irresistible," because thanks to the mischievous monkeyshines of a baby chimp named Oscar, it comes pretty close."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 20, 2012
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4/5
|
96%
|
The Kid with a Bike (2012) |
"
A wonderfully human and humane story about one of those lost-and-found children who tend to slip through society's not-so-safe safety nets."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 16, 2012
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4/5
|
85%
|
21 Jump Street (2012) |
"
Miller and Lord clearly understand the push-and-pull and hyper-competitiveness that make guy friendships both complex and stupid."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 15, 2012
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4/5
|
86%
|
Chico & Rita (2012) |
"
A buttery rich animated tale of love, jazz, showbiz, fame and politics in the late '40s and early '50s that is as catchy as its tunes."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 8, 2012
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4/5
|
88%
|
The Turin Horse (2012) |
"
Starkly beautiful and exceedingly demanding, "The Turin Horse," which Hungarian master Béla Tarr has said will be his last film, is both easy and impossible to define."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 1, 2012
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4/5
|
50%
|
Bonsai People: The Vision of Muhammad Yunus (2012) |
"
Packed with details that somehow don't weigh it down, this is a hopeful film - about the power of honest work to confer dignity as well as put food on the table, about how the seed of an idea can take root and grow."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 9, 2012
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4/5
|
85%
|
Chronicle (2012) |
"
This mind-and-fork-bending sci-fi saga comes from the freaky imaginations of director Josh Trank and screenwriter Max Landis, who've packed their feature debut with smartness."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 2, 2012
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4/5
|
76%
|
Kill List (2012) |
"
The camera is unflinching, and so is Wheatley, as the story moves toward the unthinkable. It's left to you when and whether to look away."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 2, 2012
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4/5
|
87%
|
Miss Bala (2012) |
"
There is a larger message to be found here, but it never derails the taut vintage thriller that's been constructed."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 19, 2012
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4/5
|
95%
|
Pariah (2011) |
"
Oduye as Alike is "Pariah's" subtle center, with the actress moving seamlessly between the tomboy thrilled to play hoops with her dad to the sour-faced daughter forced to wear pink by her mom."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 28, 2011
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4/5
|
94%
|
Coriolanus (2011) |
"
Fiennes brings to scorching life on-screen, spitting out his rage with such force the words seem likely to damage literally as well as figuratively."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 1, 2011
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4/5
|
83%
|
Tyrannosaur (2011) |
"
It is the kind of film that leaves you limp, exhausted and feeling battered by the end. But its wrenching performances make the beating worth weathering."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 17, 2011
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4/5
|
89%
|
The Descendants (2011) |
"
A tragedy infused with comedy [that] calls for a balancing act from filmmaker and star alike, a tightrope they navigate with nary a wobble."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 15, 2011
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4/5
|
77%
|
Melancholia (2011) |
"
It is a lighter Von Trier, a lovely Von Trier, a seriously romantic Von Trier that emerges from "Melancholia," and I quite hope he stays around."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 10, 2011
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|
4/5
|
90%
|
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) |
"
What writer-director Sean Durkin has given us is an existential thriller about identity and just how tenuous a grasp we have on who we really are."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 20, 2011
|
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4/5
|
77%
|
The Swell Season (2011) |
"
It's an accomplished piece of filmmaking from the trio, who are making their feature-length documentary debut."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 7, 2011
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