My Top 12 Films Of 2024: One Critic’s Best Of The Year List
I watched over 250 films this year, so if one of your favorites didn’t make the cut, don’t take it personally.
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My Top 25 Films Of 2023: One Critic’s Best Of The Year List
Top 25 Films Of 2023: I’m singling out 25 narrative films out of 260-plus that I saw this year – not every good to great film can make it in
My Top 25 Films Of 2022: One Critic’s Best Of The Year List
We’re talking about top 25 films of 2022 that stood out from a field of nearly three hundred that I watched
A Movie About Everything And Everywhere, And Its All At Once
Perhaps the greatest thing we can get from Everything Everywhere All At Once is a movie is that is accessible to almost everyone.
My Favorite Movies Of 2021: One Cinephile’s Best Of The Year List
The return of major titles to the release schedule in 2021 made many announce with joy, “The movies are back!”
Citizen Paddington: Why Some Consider The Lovable Bear’s Films Among The Greatest Ever
“Every house should have a marmalade day”, and, well, I believe every film collection should have the Paddington films in its library.
“It’s A Fat Camp!”: How The Box Office Bomb Heavyweights Became A 90s Kids’ Cult Classic
Heavyweights was seemingly a one and done bust kids movie that Disney could write off as a failed venture. And then a funny thing happened…
Paciencia Y Fe: In The Heights Is The Movie I’ve Been Waiting A Lifetime For
In the Heights isn’t just the movie of the year to me, or of the summer, but its perhaps the movie of my lifetime that I’ve been waiting for
The Race For The 93rd Best Picture Oscar: The Contenders
The favorite to win Best Picture Oscar is a cursed place to be since the preferential ballot and the expansion of nomination slots became a reality.
The Race For The 93rd Best Picture Oscar: The Nomination Stage
Of course to win the race for the Best Picture Oscar one must get nominated, so here are my top 25 contenders for the big award’s nomination
Movie Theaters are Mostly Dead
Movie theaters were already on their last legs before COVID. The pandemic just turned them into dead men walking.
2020 In Film: The Virus Complicates Cinema
Now as 2020 starts to churn towards the end, it’s time for another report card for the film industry.
For Your Consideration: A Preview Of The 92nd Academy Awards
With the nominees officially announced, I give my two cents with some personal takes, who i’d vote for, and what I think the likely winners will look like.
Sunday Morning! “Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles”
Chantal Akerman’s 1975 masterpiece is a nail biting Hitchcockian thriller about housework. Really.
Sunday Morning! The Apu Trilogy
This week, I finally watched a marvelous landmark of world cinema: Satyajit Ray’s “Apu Trilogy”
Sunday Morning! Rewatching Antonioni
He was considered a lion of European art house cinema. I consider Antonioni to be one of the great directors of emotional horror movies.
George Romero Made A Perfect Movie
George Romero has died. His contributions, like his beloved monsters, have not.
In Praise of the Treehouse of Horror
Where I reflect on the importance of The Simpsons and their Halloween specials.
