Two exceptional movies are making headlines on the awards circuit - American Sniper with Bradley Cooper and Still Alice with Julianne Moore and Kristen Stewart.
Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times thought the film was "potent, persuasive and hypnotic" and that it was "more than an exceptional superhero movie, it is masterful filmmaking by any standard".
A film that took more than four years and an extravagant amount of luck to make, Chimpanzee is an exceptional wildlife movie that should hold the interest of viewers from youngest to oldest.
A sharp screenplay, sublime visuals and benevolent outlook make for an exceptional family-friendly movie that manages to keep adults happy without adopting the standard reliance on regular Shrek-style pop culture references.
This story came to my mind while contemplating Mia Hansen-Løve's exceptional semi-autobiographical movie Goodbye First Love (aka Un amour de jeunesse), which covers a decade in the life of a middle-class Parisienne, Camille Schaeffer (Lola Créton), starting in 1999, when she's a 15-year-old schoolgirl, and continuing through her years as an architecture student.
This exceptional, award-winning movie about how Emad's village in the West Bank used non-violence to oppose the Israeli's government's decision to build a wall straight through their farms and village – only to see (and capture on camera) Israeli soldiers shooting unarmed Palestinian civilians – had become the first Palestinian documentary ever to be nominated by the Academy.
Nothing exceptional, though such movies are perhaps rarer these days than they used to be.
Indeed, you could make a case that Pinter is one of two East Londoners who have had an exceptional influence on movies -- the other is Alfred Hitchcock.
"I understand that there are forces aligned against Michael Eisner," Mr. Polone said, "and there's a lot of talk that seems to revolve around ABC failing, but from my perspective they're doing a good job of rebuilding the network and they're doing an exceptional job in movies".
Looking back at 2018, we realized it was an exceptional year for movies.
