Critics’ Picks
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A rare chance to catch Thom Andersen’s exceptional documentary, a 2-hour-and-49-minute essay/meditation and labor of love on how this city has been depicted on the screen. Smart, insightful, unapologetically idiosyncratic and bristling with provocative ideas, “Los Angeles” serves up segments from more than 200 films, from 1913’s “A Muddy Romance” to “
--Kenneth Turan (Carlos Chavez / Los Angeles Times)