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"Modern Romance" (1981): Albert Brooks' masterpiece isn't just one of my favorite films about (spoiler alert) marriage, it's one of my favorite films of any sort ever made. It's honest, sweet and one of the flat-out funniest films there is. I could quote the entire script right here and now! In a recent interview in Vanity Fair, Brooks revealed that on seeing the film, the late, great Stanley Kubrick called him and described it as the best movie about jealousy ever made. Ah, but here, jealousy is code for love. "A Separation" (2011): If you do not like foreign films, "A Separation" will change your mind. A story about a middle-class couple in Iran ... separating. Done with an ease and grace and reality level to which I and all of the people I've ever worked with making films aspire. It's a simple story, no fireworks, yet you will never forget it. It's that good. ___ Think of any others? Share them with AP Movie Critic Christy Lemire through Twitter: http://twitter.com/christylemire And with Barry Mendel: http://twitter.com/barrymendel
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