The Best of a Bleak Year
Confession time: I dragged my feet writing my Best Of list this year. The reasons are threefold:
This is one of my favorite ...
This movie, layered and memorable, played the Directors Fortnight portion of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival before making the festival circuit that year and into 2018. Though its obscurity is unfortunate, meaning that Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts won’t appear on very many year-end Best Films lists, it is nevertheless deserving of more as one of the outstanding cinema accomplishments of the previous several years.
This year was a great year for film, and as the year progressed, I looked back and found that most of the films I loved weren’t the ones necessarily making much at the box office.
Topical Issues Drive the Finest Cinema of the Past Year
2018 was an interesting year in film. It was a year that didn't pan out the way it was expected....
The Title Sounds Like an Invitation. The Film is a Sentence.
DIRECTED BY ROBERT ZEMECKIS/2018
While Welcome to Marwen might come from the director o...
Bumblebee Puts the Transformers Franchise on the Right Road.
DIRECTED BY TRAVIS KNIGHT / 2018
I really want to be kind to Bumblebee despite the fact ...
Mary Poppins Returns With a Marvelous, Mystical, Classical Musical
DIRECTED BY ROB MARSHALL/2018
I suspect many others will call Mary Poppins Returns “practi...
A Devastating Tale Of Addiction
DIRECTED BY FELIX VAN GROENINGEN/2018
2018 might just be the year that Hollywood looked at addiction and its causes, and...
Family, Politics, and Religion fuel this compelling film with standout performances by Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie.
Directed by: Josie Rourke/201...
