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"Foxcatcher" (2014) by Bennett Miller staring Channing Tatum, Steve Carell, and Mark Ruffalo in the true story of the relationship between two Olympic Wrestling Champions of the 1984 Olympics and million dollar mogul, John DuPont is at the top of my list of Best Films of 2014. I saw this at the 2014 AFI Fest Premiere in Los Angeles. Although I will admit that the venue and event I saw this at added to the film's spectacle and my anticipation, the film was truly beautiful. The aesthetics and overall mood of the film grabbed me. If Bennett Miller thought to himself to "I want to make this film a dark, creepy, and suspenseful." then he truly succeeded. Foxcatcher embodies darkness yet the cinematography and lighting of the DuPont estate being a mansion surrounded by nature and later the light of the snow completely contradict your emotions of darkness and suspense. Although the rave is around Steve Carell for his depiction of John DuPont, Channing Tatum, I feel, doesn't steal the show but he is the show. His performance is what we follow the whole film and It is hard to see anyone else in this part. The acting done by the cast being Carell, Tatum, and Ruffalo are superb and it is hard to see anyone else in their parts. The story is dark with humor which you aren't sure is more creepy than funny. 8/10 Silver Rating.

Los Olvidados- Mexico 1950 This is the 17th movie on the list.

Los Olvidados. The young and the damned. At first I couldn't tell, is this "The Young. The Damned" or the young are also damned.

I feel the story tells both. In this movie, it's not the production or big director that can be commented on, its the story. The young are damned in this movie of depression era Mexico. Even the Spanish in the movie is pretty bad. The story is of young people who are run-aways and have no place to live or food to eat. It centers on one boy's struggle. That's all I'll say.

The young. The Damned. The story centers around a young boy who is trying is hardest to be a young boy. He doesn't know where he fits. He is the young. Everyone else in the story is the damned. Even the boy's mother sins in the most obvious of ways. Everyone here commits a sin, other than small eyes. It's terrible, but the story does live up to the young and the damned.

Also the story just ends. It's very abrupt so don't expect much.

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Let the Right One In (Låt den Rätte Komma In)- Sweden 2008

Let the Right One In is #14 on the list. This movie is complicatedly long.

OK before I start, just know I liked it. The movie was alright. But the story was so good, or at least the idea. Was So goooodd.

The story could've gone in so many directions. Any where really. But instead they (being the directory and the producers) took the easy, Foreign-Indie way out. Trying to capture pretty shots of a 12 year old blonde Caucasian and another who is a brunette vampire is not very good for this type of movie. So please stop.

The best parts of the movie involved the girl's father. I have not much to say but the fact that this movie is slow, doesn't grab the viewer and has a subtle climax.... or it has multiple climaxes, so ambiguous and the same you can't tell.

Now that I think of it, just by writing this and thinking of the movie I get mad at all of the wrong things done. or all of the... the normal things done with such a big idea.

SilverRating: was 6. Now 4/10