Critics' Picks
AddLOTR: The Return of the KingKenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
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. ... Read More
AddLord of the Rings: Fellowship of the RingKenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Made with intelligence, imagination, passion and skill, propulsively paced and shot through with an aged-in-oak sense of wonder. ... Read More
AddThe IncrediblesKenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
[An] unprecedented film that is not just a grand feature-length cartoon but a grand feature. ... Read More
AddThe Dark KnightKenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
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. ... Read More
AddThe PianistManohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times
With The Pianist, Polanski's strange genius serves Szpilman's remembrance and, in doing so, rescues his legacy from the blunder of much of the director's recent work. ... Read More
AddHowl's Moving CastleKenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Miyazaki's gift for wonder, an ease with fantasy that makes enchantment second nature, is so great it obliterates differences in language. ... Read More
AddHeatKenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Michael Mann and a superlative cast have taken a classic heist movie rife with familiar genre elements and turned it into a sleek, accomplished piece of work, meticulously controlled and completely involving. ... Read More
AddDonnie Darko: Director's CutKevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Now that it has returned in a 20-minute longer -- and richer -- director's cut, it seems sure to be ranked as one of the key American films of the decade. ... Read More
AddSling BladeKevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
A mesmerizing parable of good and evil and a splendid example of Southern storytelling at its most poetic and imaginative. ... Read More
AddAlmost FamousKenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
See it and it'll stay with you as your own memories do: funny, poignant, bittersweet and irreplaceable. ... Read More
