EPL Picks - Best of 2011- Movies
Annotation:"Few filmmakers juxtapose cruelty and beauty as audaciously as Japan's Takashi Miike. A master director with great style and panache, Miike's latest, 13 Assassins, is a classic samurai movie, right up there among the finest in the genre." - Los Angeles Times
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Annotation:"The smartest, funniest cheap monster-movie import… Attack the Block is a near-perfectly balanced seasonal trifle: Anchored in social realism yet determinedly goofy, it's neither too eager for laughs nor overtly preachy." - The Village Voice
Annotation:"A sad, sweet, funny and ultimately unforgettable love story about a man and a woman and a father and son, and also ranks among the most affectionate and sensitive portraits of homosexuality ever crafted by a straight person." - Salon.com
Annotation:"Bridesmaids is hilariously funny, but what makes it exhilarating is how boldly it defies that conventional wisdom about what men and women like." - Chicago Reader
Annotation:"Buck is a movie to be revisited again and again, like passages from a satisfying self-help book. Riding experience isn't necessary to realize how extraordinary this man and his calling are." - St. Petersburg Times
Annotation:“It's a privilege and a pleasure to be present in a sacred space where the human and the mystical effortlessly intertwine, and we are in Werner Herzog's debt for that great gift.” - Los Angeles Times
Annotation:“One of those sunny-natured indie comedies that comes out of nowhere to put a smile on your face.” - Empire
Annotation:“The Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami's delicious brain tickler, Certified Copy, is an endless hall of mirrors whose reflections multiply as its story of a middle-aged couple driving through Tuscany carries them into a metaphysical labyrinth.” - New York Times
Annotation:"Like a proper action sequel, it’s bigger, louder, and sillier than its predecessors, but it’s more streamlined, too, smartly dumping the tired underground racing angle in favor of a crisp, hugely satisfying Ocean’s Eleven-style heist movie." - The Onion A.V. Club
Annotation:“This outing not only doesn't disappoint; it surpasses high expectations. This is a terrific, smartly designed adolescent adventure, visually rich, narratively satisfying, and bound to resonate for years to come.” - Globe and Mail
Annotation:“Here we have an odd cross between a fairy tale and a high-tech action movie. It could have been a fairly strained attempt at either, but director Joe Wright (Atonement) combines his two genres into a stylish exercise that perversely includes some sentiment and insight.” - Chicago Sun-Times
Annotation:“Although the film runs more than two hours, the story is so compelling and the production so beautifully controlled that we are gripped by the characters' quest right up to the shocking end of the story.” - Hollywood Reporter
Annotation:“This is rock-solid entertainment. McConaughey, a cunning mesmerizer in the courtroom, steers this Lincoln into what could be a hell-raising franchise.” - Rolling Stone
Annotation:“A haunted-house movie that has some of the most shivery and indelible images I've seen in any horror film in decades. Yes, it's that unsettling.” - Entertainment Weekly
Annotation:“Meek's Cutoff is as unsentimental and determined as Ms. Williams's character, its absolutely believable heroine. It is also a bracingly original foray into territory that remains, in every sense, unsettled.” - New York Times
Annotation:“Rango, which may take place entirely within its hero's head - that kind of ambiguity worked in Inception and Black Swan, so why not here? - is about the appetite for myths and stories, whether or not they make sense. It is about the worlds we dream inside our fishbowls, helped by the weird reflections on the walls.” - New York Times
Annotation:“This is hair-raising, clever and winning entertainment. Even if his protagonists aren't entirely what they seem to be or think they are, [director Duncan Jones] is, it's increasingly clear, the real thing.” - Portland Oregonian
Annotation:“This story about Joyce McKinney, a one-time beauty queen who found herself not once but twice at the center of outrageous, tabloid-friendly news stories, is another of Morris' alternately hilarious and disturbing inquiries into the slippery nature of truth.” - Salon
Annotation:“Humanistic without being moralistic, and very funny, Terri is a measured, observational examination of the stratification of teenage loser-dom.” - Village Voice
Annotation:“Better than a masterpiece - whatever that is - The Tree of Life is an eruption of a movie, something to live with, think, and talk about afterward.” - The Village Voice
Annotation:“It's a relentless and relentlessly funny game of one-upmanship as the two men, playing somewhat exaggerated versions of themselves, roam the hills and dales, posh inns and poetic ruins of England's Lake District.” - Philadelphia Inquirer
Annotation:"A film with a big heart; it's an eccentric dramedy and a crowd pleaser." - Box Office Magazine
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