“Los Angeles Plays Itself, Andersen’s sprawling and incisive meditation on the many uses and abuses of the city of L.A. in the movies, may be the unlikeliest great movie of the year.” - Newsday

“Andersen’s idiosyncratic, three-hour masterpiece is both a dazzling work of film criticism and a fascinating piece of urban anthropology centered on the one city on earth where one could be mistaken for the other.” - TV Guide’s Movie Guide

“Addressing the interplay of reality and representation in the city’s geography, architecture, political history and omnipresent film culture, Andersen’s movie is enormous in scope yet thoroughly engaging.” - Eye Weekly

“Andersen’s key accomplishment is to profoundly alter the viewer’s assumptions of what is good in movies.” - Variety

“Mr. Andersen takes movies involving his hometown as his subject, his source of evidence, and the target of a thought provoking indictment.” - New York Times