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We grappled with our list of the 101 best Los Angeles movies for weeks — Is this one ranked too high or too low? — but what did we forget? Was there a film you were expecting? We welcome your thoughts, counterarguments, even a healthy dose of outrage. L.A. contains multitudes and if there’s one thing our city inspires, it’s remakes.

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Joshua Rothkopf

Joshua Rothkopf is film editor of the Los Angeles Times. He most recently served as senior movies editor at Entertainment Weekly. Before then, Rothkopf spent 16 years at Time Out New York, where he was film editor and senior film critic. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Sight and Sound, Empire, Rolling Stone and In These Times, where he was chief film critic from 1999 to 2003.

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