Anna Paquin appears on the cover of LA Weekly Magazine dated December 25-29, 2011! She covers the issue because LA Weekly picked Anna’s movie, Margaret for Best Film of 2011!

Check out the cover and picture below!

The images above were taken on Dec. 13 by Kevin Scanlon at the Viceroy in Santa Monica.

This is what they said about her movie, Margaret…

Margaret, written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan (You Can Count on Me), starring Anna Paquin with key supporting performances from Matt Damon and Mark Ruffalo, is the best film of 2011. Chances are very, very good that you haven’t seen it — or weren’t even aware that it was something you could see. And right now, it isn’t — at least, not in LA.

Written in 2003, shot in 2005 and mired in post-production troubles and subsequent lawsuits, Margaret was not theatrically released until September of this year — and almost as soon as it arrived in theaters (very few theaters), it disappeared. A coming-of-age tale infused with post-9/11 anxiety, Margaret features Paquin — in the female performance of the year, per the 95 critics who participated in our annual Critics’ Poll — as Lisa, a Manhattan high schooler whose role in a fatal bus accident leads to a battle with her self-absorbed actress single mom, a few reckless (if awkward) seductions and the obsessive pursuit of retribution on behalf of the accident victim. (There is no character named Margaret — the film gets its title from the Gerard Manley Hopkins poem “Spring and Fall.”)

Is Lisa traumatized — or is she a teenager? The movie makes that ambiguity fascinating by refusing to make those options mutually exclusive. Both dryly funny and deeply affecting, Margaret is novelistic in its scope and theatrical in its approach. Its performances are heightened, but its gaze is distanced, even distracted; there’s no audience surrogate, because identifying with a character would prevent us from seeing him or her as a complete person.

If Margaret is unequivocally my choice for the film of the year, after that, it gets complicated. As I went through the annual end-of-year process of catch-up, re-evaluation and revision, my top five films solidified — and roughly 30 films took turns occupying the remaining five slots. In the end, all things being equal, I went with the titles that gave me the most pure pleasure as a filmgoer.

Interestingly enough, coming in at 2nd place, LA Weekly chose for Best Film of 2011 is none other than Alexander Skarsgard’s Melancholia. Check out what they said about it below!

The sheer beauty and personal depth of Lars von Trier’s triangle of depression, anxiety and cosmic apocalypse have been well documented. What has been overlooked, I think — and what pushes Melancholia into masterpiece realm, for me — is its subversion of Hollywood’s two primary currencies: the special effects epic, and, in the casting of Kirsten Dunst as von Trier’s alter ego, the celebrity confessional.

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This isn’t the first rave review about Anna’s movie, Margaret. Not sure if I’m planning on seeing it or not, but I did find it interesting that again – both Margaret and Melancholia are picked for Best Films of 2011, by movie critics. Hope this means what I think it means…one or the other or both movies will be nominated for an Academy Awards!

You know what that might mean – Skarsporn-in-a-tux coming soon!

YUM. That is all.

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