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2010 Stories by L.A. Weekly Film Critics

• The Social Network Named Best Movie of 2010

  published December 23, 2010

  BEST MOVIE1. The Social Network Directed by Aaron Sorkin314 points, 52... More >>

• AFI Fest A to Z: Hey Man, Yeah

  published November 4, 2010

  Reviews are by Phil Coldiron, Mike D'Angelo, David Ehrenstein, Ernest Hardy, Aaron Hillis, Karina Longworth, Nicolas Rapold and Vadim... More >>

• Movie Reviews: Piranha 3-D, Centurion

  published August 26, 2010

  GO CENTURION This highly enjoyable action-adventure, set in 117 A.D., tracks a small cohort of Roman soldiers... More >>

• Movie Reviews: The Tillman Story, Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, Brotherhood

  published August 19, 2010

  GO  THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF PHIL SPECTOR A portrait of a pop music genius as... More >>

• Movie Reviews: Mugabe and the White African, Peepli Live, Animal Kingdom

  published August 12, 2010

  GO  ANIMAL KINGDOM Happily sampling nasty beats and riffs from the Scorsese catalog, the new... More >>

• Movie Reviews: Enemies of the People, Step-Up 3D, The Other Guys

  published August 5, 2010

  THE CONCERT Beyond fans of Mélanie Laurent — who furiously fingers a fiddle and wears flashback wigs — The... More >>

• Movie reviews: Get Low, Life During Wartime

  published July 29, 2010

  AROUND A SMALL MOUNTAIN Around a Small Mountain travels with an itinerant one-ring circus of proud artisans, performing to... More >>

• Movie Reviews: Beautiful Islands, Kings of the Evening, Racing Dreams

  published July 22, 2010

  GO  BEAUTIFUL ISLANDS At a time when most advocacy documentaries seek to pummel you into a state of righteous fury,... More >>

• We Are the Mods, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead

  published July 15, 2010

  INCEPTION Inception is a chilling trip into the psyche ... of writer-director Christopher Nolan, an action director who... More >>

• Movie Revews: Predators, [REC] 2, Great Directors, Cropsey

  published July 8, 2010

  CROPSEY Despite gestures toward defining Staten Island or illuminating the fact-fiction membrane, Cropsey is really a scary... More >>

• Movie Reviews: The Last Airbender, Love Ranch, The Nature of Existence

  published July 1, 2010

  THE LAST AIRBENDER While the message boards continue to fume with charges of racism aimed at writer-director M. Night... More >>

• Movie Reviews: Restrepo, Eyes Wide Open, The Sun Behind the Clouds

  published June 24, 2010

  GO  EYES WIDE OPEN The subject of gay Orthodox Jews isn't new to film, but it's typically the... More >>

• LAFF: the Best of the Fest

  published June 17, 2010

  1428 "We don't know what to do at all." That statement, spoken by a Chinese woman whose home has been demolished by the... More >>

• Movie Reviews: Anton Chekhov's The Duel, Toy Story 3, I Am Love

  published June 17, 2010

  THE A-TEAM Joe Carnahan's big-screen adaptation of NBC's 1983 midseason-replacement-turned-three-seasons-running-hit is... More >>

• Movie Reviews: The A-Team, Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky, The Karate Kid and Killers

  published June 10, 2010

  THE A-TEAMJoe Carnahan's big-screen adaptation of NBC's 1983 midseason-replacement-turned-three-seasons-running-hit is... More >>

• Movie Reviews: Living in Emergency, Micmacs, The Painter Sam Francis

  published June 3, 2010

  AGORA Not lacking for conviction or cojones, Alejandro Amenábar’s Agora is a big, broad, stridently atheistic... More >>

• Movie Reviews: After the Cup, Shrek Forever After, Prince of Persia

  published May 27, 2010

  GO  AFTER THE CUP: SONS OF SAKHNIN UNITED A sobering counterpoint to Clint Eastwood's feel-good... More >>

• Movie Reviews: Here and There, The Philosopher Kings, The Oath

  published May 20, 2010

  BEST WORST MOVIE Michael Paul Stephenson, director of Best Worst Movie, debuted in straight-to-video as the freckled... More >>

• Movie Reviews: Trash Humpers, A Nightmare in Las Cruces, Letters to Juliet

  published May 13, 2010

  HAPPINESS RUNS Born and raised on a polygamous commune in the wilderness, embittered teen hippie Victor (Mark L. Young) has... More >>

• Behind the Burly Q, Breath Made Visible, Mother and Child

  published May 6, 2010

  BABIES Did I say "Awww" at Babies? I did. Did I giggle at the adorable things babies do in Babies? Oh my,... More >>

• Movie Reviews: Dirty Hands, Furry Vengeance, Harry Brown

  published April 29, 2010

  GO  DIRTY HANDS: THE ART & CRIMES OF DAVID CHOE Filmmaker Harry Kim has known acclaimed bad-boy... More >>

• Movie Reviews: The City of Your Final Destination, Oceans, Five Easy Pieces

  published April 22, 2010

  THE BACK-UP PLAN I'm no obstetrician, but I'd wager that Jennifer Lopez's own labor when birthing fraternal twins two years... More >>

• Movie Reviews: Exit Through the Gift Shop, Handsome Harry

  published April 15, 2010

  THE CARTEL A union-busting doc with an adamant — if not quite apolitical — focus on the children slipping through... More >>

• Movie Reviews: Women Without Men, The Square, After.Life, Phyllis and Harold

  published April 8, 2010

  AFTER.LIFE Somewhere in Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo's awkward debut feature is a macabre and almost quaint gothic mystery... More >>

• Movie Reviews: Clash of the Titans, The Greatest, Don McKay, Warlords

  published April 1, 2010

  CLASH OF THE TITANS A decade too old to convincingly be called "boy," Sam "Mr. Greenscreen" Worthington is badly cast as... More >>