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Kenneth Turan

Agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

Publications:: Journal News (Westchester, NY) , Los Angeles Daily News , Los Angeles Times , Newsday , NPR's Morning Edition
Critics' Group:: Los Angeles Film Critics Association, National Society of Film Critics

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3.5/5	78%	The Ambassador (2012)	" Part muckraking nonfiction film, part performance piece, it is a nervy documentary guaranteed, depending on who you are, to enlighten, disturb or offend." — Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 30, 2012
3/5	——	Of Two Minds (2012)	" "Of Two Minds" does give a vivid picture of what life is like for these folks, though it has a tendency to take unnecessary detours to other interviewees and to reveal a little too much about the intimate lives of the three key subjects." — Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 27, 2012
4/5	87%	Robot & Frank (2012)	" Charming, playful and sly, it makes us believe that a serene automaton and a snappish human being can be best friends forever." — Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 23, 2012
4/5	83%	You've Been Trumped (2012)	" "You've Been Trumped" is a potent study of the intimidating power of money not in theory but on the ground, an examination of how a wealthy man with a boundless sense of entitlement can strong-arm all opposition without really breaking a sweat." — Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 16, 2012
2.5/5	62%	It Is No Dream: The Life of Theodor Herzl (2012)	" Although director Trank is an Oscar winner for the documentary "The Long Way Home," some of the choices made here are awkward." — Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 16, 2012
2/5	34%	The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012)	" Not only is the story dreamed up by producer Ahmet Zappa even odder than the title indicates, its execution gets increasingly irritating as the film goes on." — Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 15, 2012
4/5	56%	The Bourne Legacy (2012)	" Complex, unexpected and dazzling, alternating relentless tension with resonant emotional moments, this is an exemplary espionage thriller that has a strong sense of what it wants to accomplish and how best to get there." — Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 9, 2012
4/5	——	La Source (2013)	" Some documentaries just make you feel good about the world and the people in it, and "La Source" is definitely one of those." — Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 9, 2012
4/5	90%	The Green Wave (2012)	" [Shows] us a moment in history that reveals more about itself each time it is examined." — Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 9, 2012
3.5/5	65%	The Campaign (2012)	" This cynical and funny film hits more often than it misses." — Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 9, 2012
4/5	97%	Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012)	" The story is enthralling, but it's not over, and there's no telling where it's going. Which makes what we see on screen all the more involving." — Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 3, 2012
4/5	95%	The Imposter (2012)	" This is a train wreck you think you see coming, but no matter how prepared you are the nature and extent of the damage will overwhelm you." — Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 2, 2012
2.5/5	31%	Total Recall (2012)	" The fun is fun while it lasts, it just doesn't last long enough." — Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 2, 2012
4/5	90%	The Well Digger's Daughter (2012)	" Let "The Well-Digger's Daughter" take you back in time, not once but several times over." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 26, 2012
4/5	94%	Wagner's Dream (2012)	" You don't need to be a fan of Wagner, or even opera, to find this a fascinating glimpse of a dauntingly complex human endeavor." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 26, 2012
4/5	90%	Portrait of Wally (2012)	" By showing how difficult and problematic righting a wrong can turn out to be, "Portrait of Wally" does itself proud." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 19, 2012
5/5	87%	The Dark Knight Rises (2012)	" A disturbing experience we live through as much as a film we watch, this dazzling conclusion to director Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy is more than an exceptional superhero movie, it is masterful filmmaking by any standard." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 18, 2012
4/5	88%	Ballplayer: Pelotero (2012)	" It's an eye-opening look at a flawed, potentially exploitative system and how it is being gamed from all sides of the table -- the story of the collision of youthful dreams and a cutthroat adult cartel." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 16, 2012
3.5/5	92%	Farewell, My Queen (2012)	" Matching the strength of these actresses and their personal drama is the film's masterful sense of time and place - the way it makes us feel that this was how it was during four pivotal days in July 1789 as the wheels came off the French monarchy." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 12, 2012
3.5/5	87%	Easy Money (2012)	" This jazzy crime melodrama is engrossing and exhilarating because of Espinosa's impressive command of a wide range of filmmaking skills." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 12, 2012
2.5/5	51%	Savages (2012)	" You might not think that a motion picture called "Savages" could be too violent, too savage, but you would be wrong." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 5, 2012
3/5	73%	The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)	" Garfield and Stone are good enough to ensure that you won't miss their predecessors, but you may well wonder where Doc Ock is now that we really need him." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 1, 2012
4/5	76%	Unforgivable (2012)	" Literate, intelligent and a model of accomplished European filmmaking, "Unforgivable" showcases the kind of emotional complexity that is all but gone from the screen these days." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 28, 2012
4/5	87%	The Matchmaker (2012)	" It sounds like a throwback to an earlier, more traditional style of Israeli filmmaking but it instead provides a view of that country that's as satisfyingly eccentric and unexpected as anything we've seen." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 28, 2012
2.5/5	80%	Magic Mike (2012)	" If filmmaker Soderbergh had paid as much attention to relationship dynamics as he does to dance number mechanics, this film would have gotten closer to living up to the magic in its name." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 28, 2012
4/5	100%	The Invisible War (2012)	" What happened to these women after the rape often shocks and disturbs them as much as the physical act itself." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 21, 2012
3/5	78%	Brave (2012)	" If the Walt Disney Studios logo were the only one on "Brave," this film's impeccable visuals and valiant heroine would be enough to call it a success." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 21, 2012
2/5	35%	Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)	" Given the subject matter, an exercise in delicacy and restraint was unlikely, but it's too bad that the film's concept is way more entertaining than what has ended up on-screen." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 21, 2012
4/5	92%	Gerhard Richter Painting (2012)	" A mesmerizing look behind the curtain at a magician at work, a man who creates his enchantments not with a deck of cards or puffs of smoke but rather paint, brushes, canvas and a giant squeegee." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 15, 2012
4/5	95%	Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present (2012)	" A portrait of an artist whose life and work intertwine in ways even more compelling than might be imagined." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 14, 2012
3/5	41%	Rock of Ages (2012)	" Blessed with unstoppable energy, an undeniably bawdy sense of fun and Tom Cruise in backless leather pants, it takes songs you may never have loved and turns them into a musical that's easy to enjoy." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 14, 2012
4/5	91%	Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)	" Because nothing plays out as anticipated, this off-balance project comes fully alive on screen in a way a written summary can't capture." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 7, 2012
3/5	74%	Prometheus (2012)	" Making up for the expected nature of some of the film's plot twists is Arthur Max's spooky, H.R. Giger-influenced production design, Dariusz Wolski's fluid cinematography, as well as Scott's moment-to-moment storytelling skill." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 7, 2012
4/5	98%	Oslo, August 31st (2012)	" "Oslo" is an example of strong, confident filmmaking in which nothing is miscalculated or out of place." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 31, 2012
4/5	97%	Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise) (1945)	" To luxuriate in the film's 3-hour, 10-minute length is to experience this masterpiece as it hasn't been experienced since the day it opened." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 31, 2012
2/5	34%	Battleship (2012)	" Something of an earnest, two-hour infomercial that should do wonders for naval recruiting if not civilian entertainment." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 17, 2012
5/5	97%	La Grande illusion (Grand Illusion) (2012)	" A model of simplicity and grace, with emotional effects that move you when you least expect it, the kind of great film that only a master can pull off." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 17, 2012
2.5/5	38%	Dark Shadows (2012)	" An uncertain combination of elements that unsuccessfully tries to be half-scary, half-funny and all strange..." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 10, 2012
4/5	94%	First Position (2012)	" These performers are so young, so serious, so full of dreams and so hard on themselves that it is difficult not to be moved by their striving." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 3, 2012
4/5	92%	Marvel's The Avengers (2012)	" Whedon is the key reason why this $220-million behemoth of a movie is smartly thought out and executed with verve and precision. It may be overly long at two hours, 23 minutes, but so much is going on you might not even notice." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 2, 2012
3.5/5	89%	The Pruitt-igoe Myth: An Urban History (2012)	" The personal stories told by former residents add a poignancy to the broad trends the film examines." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 26, 2012
4/5	86%	The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012)	" A clever piece of business that is a complete pleasure to experience." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 26, 2012
4/5	92%	Headhunters (2012)	" "Headhunters" is a dark adult entertainment, a wild and bloody adrenaline rush of a movie that deals in gleeful grotesqueness and over-the-top implausibilities." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 26, 2012
4/5	80%	Goodbye First Love (2012)	" When we watch Hansen-Løve's films, we're not only experiencing a life unfolding before us, we're also realizing what a great privilege it is to be able to do that." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 19, 2012
4/5	95%	Marley (2012)	" The enormous popularity of the transcendent reggae superstar shows no signs of abating, a situation"Marley," a moving and authoritative new documentary, takes as its mission to illustrate and explain." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 19, 2012
4/5	100%	Scenes of a Crime (2012)	" If you watch "Scenes of a Crime" - and you very much should - be prepared to be outraged." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 12, 2012
4/5	97%	Monsieur Lazhar (2012)	" This film deals almost casually with a range of issues and themes, handling with a light and even affectionate touch weighty subjects like grief, guilt, community and love." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 12, 2012
4/5	98%	The Island President (2012)	" "The Island President"is heartening and unsettling by turns." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 5, 2012
3.5/5	83%	Comic-Con: Episode IV - A Fan's Hope (2012)	" "A Fan's Hope" is a look at the annual San Diego convention that is sweetly empathetic where previous Spurlock works have been brash and confrontational. Plus, it's a lot of fun." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 4, 2012
4/5	86%	Bully (2012)	" If you feel like you've already read quite a bit about the documentary "Bully," you have. But that still won't prepare you for the experience of seeing it." — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 29, 2012
4/5	79%	The Deep Blue Sea (2012)	" Exceptionally well-made and completely fearless in its depiction of the widest range of romantic emotions, this is a film as fiercely committed to passion as its heroine, and that's saying a lot." — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 22, 2012
3.5/5	85%	The Hunger Games (2012)	" If, as the ads suggest, the whole world will be watching this, viewers will likely be satisfied with what they see." — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 21, 2012
4/5	99%	Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2012)	" "Jiro Dreams of Sushi"is as elegant and tasty as the splendid sushi prepared by the man in the title, and that is saying a lot" — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 15, 2012
4/5	90%	Footnote (2012)	" This is brainy, bravura filmmaking of the highest level, a motion picture that is as difficult to pigeonhole as it is a pleasure to enjoy." — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 15, 2012
4/5	83%	The Salt of Life (2012)	" Rueful, funny and wise, "The Salt of Life" is a comedy not of errors but of the tiniest of missteps." — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 8, 2012
2/5	54%	Dr Seuss' The Lorax (2012)	" This movie version adds a whole lot of other stuff, most of it not very good and not in keeping with the spirit of the Seuss original." — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 1, 2012
4/5	98%	This Is Not a Film (2012)	" Fascinating for what it signifies as much as what it shows, "This Is Not a Film" illustrates how Panahi is struggling to stay alive creatively and, paradoxically, can't help but demonstrate how much of a natural filmmaker he is." — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 1, 2012
2.5/5	25%	Act of Valor (2012)	" While the action is always crisp and to the point, the rest of the storytelling and the acting that goes along with it are pro forma at best." — Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 23, 2012
4/5	94%	The Secret World of Arrietty (2012)	" Beautiful, gentle and pure - but not without elements of genuine menace - it will make believers out of adults and children alike." — Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 16, 2012
4/5	96%	Undefeated (2012)	" "Undefeated" presents itself as a look at a single season in the life of a striving high school football team in impoverished North Memphis, Tenn., but really it's about so much more." — Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 16, 2012
4/5	87%	Bullhead (2012)	" Starts out like a thriller and turns into a disturbing tragedy in an unlikely and unexpected key." — Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 16, 2012
3.5/5	53%	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." — Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 9, 2012
4/5	83%	Crazy Horse (2012)	" It is a deft revelation of shared humanity, the kind of thing no one does better than Frederick Wiseman." — Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 2, 2012
4/5	95%	Pina (2011)	" Whether you're familiar with Pina Bausch's work or not, the new film "Pina" is a knockout." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 12, 2012
4/5	85%	In Heaven Underground: The Weissensee Jewish Cemetery (2011)	" A playful, poetic and all-around charming documentary, an off-center look at an unusual institution." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 12, 2012
4/5	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." — Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 29, 2011
2.5/5	56%	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." — Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 22, 2011
2.5/5	86%	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
3.5/5	72%	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." — Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 15, 2011
3.5/5	93%	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." — Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 15, 2011
4/5	76%	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." — Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 9, 2011
—	58%	Edge of Darkness (2010)	— Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 9, 2011
4/5	89%	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." — Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 8, 2011
4/5	83%	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
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
3/5	53%	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
4/5	98%	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
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
3.5/5	78%	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
4/5	88%	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
2/5	45%	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
—	82%	The Other Conquest (2007)	— Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 11, 2011
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
4/5	73%	The Conquest (2011)	" A smart, involving and strikingly adult drama about Sarkozy's rise to power..." — Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 10, 2011
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
3.5/5	80%	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
4/5	73%	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
4/5	84%	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
4/5	——	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
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
4/5	83%	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
—	92%	Il etait une fois le Havre, son port, ses navires ()	— Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 21, 2011
4/5	99%	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
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
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
3/5	71%	Footloose (2011)	" Stays remarkably close to its predecessor in all the ways that count." — Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 13, 2011
3/4	50%	The Weekend (2000)	— Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Oct 7, 2011
4/5	93%	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
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
4/5	66%	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
3.5/5	95%	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
4/5	67%	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
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
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
4/5	95%	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
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
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	85%	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
4/5	73%	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
4/5	100%	The Interrupters (2011)	" It tears at your heart with its depiction of the intractability of the problem. But it simultaneously insists, and makes you believe, that change is possible one person at a time." — Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 25, 2011
4/5	92%	Senna (2011)	" "Senna" is a documentary with the pace of a thriller, a story of motors and machines that is beyond compelling because of the intensely human story it tells." — Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 11, 2011
4/5	82%	Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)	" "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" does it right. Smart, fun and thoroughly enjoyable, it's a model summer diversion that entertains without insulting your intelligence." — Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 4, 2011
4/5	95%	The Guard (2011)	" An impish and impudent black comedy that knows where it's going and how to get there, it gives veteran actor Brendan Gleeson one of the tastiest roles of his career and introduces a gifted writer-director with a familiar family name." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 28, 2011
1/5	44%	Cowboys & Aliens (2011)	" It's hard to say what is most depressing about "Cowboys & Aliens" - the film itself, or the fact that this was the best movie a posse of major Hollywood players could come up with." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 28, 2011
4/5	91%	Point Blank (2011)	" "Point Blank" will leave you breathless. Unfolding at a blistering clip from its slam-bang opening through its bravura close, it grips you at frame one and doesn't let go." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 28, 2011
4/5	73%	Sarah's Key (2011)	" "Sarah's Key" is more powerful than you expect, maybe even more powerful than it should be." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 21, 2011
3.5/5	79%	Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)	" Almost half of the film's running time elapses before Rogers gets any kind of power at all, and though its elements are awfully familiar, it's the most involving part of the film because it takes advantage of Evans' performance." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 21, 2011
4/5	98%	Project Nim (2011)	" What makes this film especially engrossing is that what happened between that chimp and the humans with whom he spent his life in intimate contact turns out to be only half the story that Marsh, who directed the electrifying "Man on Wire," has to tell." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 14, 2011
4/5	96%	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (2011)	" The Harry Potter films, like the boy wizard himself, have had their creative ups and downs, so it's especially satisfying that this final film, ungainly title and all, has been worth the wait." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 13, 2011
2/5	35%	Larry Crowne (2011)	" "Larry Crowne" is an inside-out movie, acceptable around the edges but hollow and shockingly unconvincing at its core." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 30, 2011
3.5/5	76%	Rejoice & Shout (2011)	" If you don't know gospel music, really know it, you are missing out on a lot, but don't lose faith. "Rejoice and Shout," a vibrant and comprehensive new documentary will take you there in style." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 23, 2011
2.5/5	79%	Page One: Inside the New York Times (2011)	" Watching "Page One: Inside the New York Times" is like talking to a smart person with a severe case of attention deficit disorder: A lot of what they say is intriguing, but you wish they could stick to the point." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 23, 2011
3.5/5	96%	One Lucky Elephant (2011)	" How affected are these animals by the physical pain of being trained or by childhood trauma? Can they suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder? What can trigger that if they can? All these questions are raised and, quite appropriately, left open." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 23, 2011
3.5/5	38%	Cars 2 (2011)	" "Cars 2" teaches gentle kid-friendly lessons about the importance of friendship and being yourself and introduces some great new characters in its parallel spy drama and auto racing plots." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 23, 2011
5/5	91%	City of Life and Death (2011)	" It's a film strong enough to change your life, if you can bear to watch it at all." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 17, 2011
3/5	26%	Green Lantern (2011)	" More science-fiction space opera than superhero epic, it works in fits and starts as its disparate parts go in and out of effectiveness, but the professionalism of the production make it watchable in a comic book kind of way." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 16, 2011
2.5/5	82%	Super 8 (2011)	" This melding of two cinematic sensibilities, though effective at moments, is finally not as exciting or involving as it we'd like it to be." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 9, 2011
4/5	91%	Nuremberg (2010)	" Compels us as much because of its complicated and fascinating history as for what it has to show, which is a lot." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 5, 2011
4/5	87%	Submarine (2011)	" Writer-director Richard Ayoade has the knack." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 2, 2011
2.5/5	84%	The Tree of Life (2011)	" Are you looking for serious philosophizing, fluid filmmaking and stunning images? Or are satisfying drama and deep emotional connection what draws you in? Ideally you would have both, but that is not the case here." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 26, 2011
4/5	93%	Midnight in Paris (2011)	" Here's a sentence I never thought I'd write again: Woody Allen has made a wonderful new picture, "Midnight in Paris," and it's his best, most enjoyable work in years." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 19, 2011
3/5	77%	Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and 'To Kill a Mockingbird' (2011)	" Though it's more than a little awestruck and feels padded even at 82 minutes, the story it tells remains completely fascinating." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 13, 2011
4/5	100%	Poetry (2011)	" "Poetry" is daring in the ways only quiet, unhurried but finally haunting films have the courage to be." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 5, 2011
2.5/5	77%	Thor (2011)	" "Thor" has its strengths, but it is finally something of a mishmash with designs on being more interesting than it manages to be." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 5, 2011
4/5	83%	The Double Hour (2011)	" It's a wild tale that's so full of surprises, reversals and double-jointed plot twists that you wouldn't think there'd be room for anything else. But there is." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 28, 2011
4/5	96%	Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2011)	" The director is excellent at contextualizing these venerable wall paintings, at discussing them with a variety of scientists in a way that allows us to think about them with a perspective we otherwise might not have." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 28, 2011
5/5	94%	Journal d'un curé de campagne (Diary of a Country Priest) (1951)	" A film that words fail." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 21, 2011
3/5	61%	Water for Elephants (2011)	" There is quite a bit to enjoy in a film that certainly qualifies as broad-based popular entertainment." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 21, 2011
4/5	100%	Nostalgia for the Light (2011)	" A film of rare visual poetry that's simultaneously personal, political and philosophical, it's a genuine art film that's also unpretentious and easygoing." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 21, 2011
4/5	84%	The Princess Of Montpensier (2011)	" Epic and intimate, historical and contemporary, moving and thought-provoking." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 15, 2011
3.5/5	55%	The Conspirator (2011)	" "The Conspirator" is first, last and always a political drama, and, Wright's performance aside, it is the play of events of history that most holds our interest." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 14, 2011
2.5/5	71%	Hanna (2011)	" Blessed with considerable virtues, including a clever concept, crackling filmmaking and a charismatic star, it ultimately squanders all of them, undone by an unfortunate lack of subtlety and restraint." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 11, 2011
4/5	92%	Circo (2011)	" "Circo" is a marvel of a documentary, a clear-eyed and affectionate film that tells a remarkable story with both visual and personal sensitivity." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 7, 2011
4/5	68%	Joueuse (Queen to Play) (2011)	" Though Kline handles his role expertly, "Queen to Play" succeeds as well as it does because of Bonnaire." — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 31, 2011
4/5	77%	In A Better World (2011)	" Bier has a potent gift for turning abstract, moral questions like these into edge-of-your-seat compelling dramas that examine, with devastating effect, the complex web of feelings that make us who we are." — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 31, 2011
3.5/5	91%	Source Code (2011)	" With a twisty, mind-bending plot that frequently changes direction and occasionally overreaches, "Source Code" wouldn't work at all without a cast with the determination and ability to really sell its story." — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 31, 2011
3.5/5	83%	Potiche (2011)	" "Potiche" is a glossy throwback made with a modern eye, an old-fashioned romantic fantasy starring Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu that's been knowingly updated with tart, contemporary touches." — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 25, 2011
3.5/5	99%	Bill Cunningham New York (2011)	" Obsessive artists often create exceptional bodies of work." — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 24, 2011

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