LOS ANGELES – Associated Press reviewers Christy Lemire and David Germain saw the same films in 2011, but they clearly weren’t seeing the same pictures.
They usually have a fair amount of overlap in their top 10 lists, but this time, they agreed on only one film. Here are their picks.
The top 10 films of 2011, according to AP Movie Critic Christy Lemire:
“Martha Marcy May Marlene” — The year’s most haunting film, with a star-making performance from Elizabeth Olsen as a young women who struggles to assimilate to the outside world after fleeing a cult. Writer-director Sean Durkin, making his astoundingly confident feature debut, cuts seamlessly between the psychological abuse of her past and the paranoia of the present. Olsen’s placid, open face reveals nothing and yet suggests seething torment. And as the group’s creepy, charismatic leader, John Hawkes radiates menace without ever raising his voice.
“50/50″ — It’s a comedy about cancer, which would sound like a tricky proposition, but director Jonathan Levine has crafted a film that’s uproariously funny, and he finds just the right tone every time. Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as a young man who learns he has a rare tumor on his spine, one he has a 50-percent
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