Kenneth Turan's best movies of 2018: 'Black Panther' and 'Leave No Trace' top a banner year
by Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Dec 13, 2018
3 minutes
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In movie business parlance, a four-quadrant film is one that appeals to each of a potential audience's four demographic groups: men and women, those over and those under 25 years of age. A film that succeeds with all four quadrants - think "Star Wars," "Toy Story," "Lord of the Rings" - is doing very well indeed.
Critics don't look at films in a four-quadrant way but you could say that there is an equivalent, that a year's worth of movies can also be divided into four groups: big studio
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