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Top 10: MovieMaker’s second, and perhaps even more pretentious, “Best Films of 2012” list

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James Kaelan

6) Starlet (2012), dir. Sean Baker 

Starlet masquerades as a mumblecore film, and then 30 or 40 minutes in, transmogrifies into something much, much more ambitious. Filled with a plethora of stumbling blocks (directionless youths, cute dogs, directionless youths befriending depressed old people, bingo, depressed old people losing directionless youths’ dogs), Sean Baker’s third feature hurdles all of them with incredible confidence. Also, there’s some really explicit sex. Like, really explicit.

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