“The 100 Best Movies Of The 2010s”

100 movies. How many have you seen? None? A few? Enough? Because let me tell you, that’s a whole lot of movies. Continue reading →

“‘Beale Street’ and Time”

In the Baldwin novel, time is a motif, but in Jenkins’ adaptation, it’s a theme that spans his filmography all the way back to “Medicine for Melancholy.” Continue reading →

“Trevante Rhodes Does His Most Important Work Before 8 a.m.”

No better way to preamble this piece than by saying that speaking with Trevante Rhodes was a humbling experience; he’s a gracious man, to say nothing of his talents as an actor or his Herculean physique, and while we did do some press about his new movie (Susanne Bier’s Bird Box), we talked more about male identity … Continue reading →

The 10 Best Movies in Theaters Right Now (March 10th Edition)

We’re back with Paste Magazine’s routine and newly evergreen “10 best movies in theaters” feature! (Meaning: We’re going to update this sucker on a regular basis without remaking a new list every time the month changes over. Seems more efficient, yeah?) This round-up features, among other films, XX, Get Out, Kong: Skull Island, and of course Moonlight, which got … Continue reading →

2017 Oscars Preview: Who Will Win and Who Should Win

In 2017, you’re either a La La Land partisan or a Moonlight partisan. If you follow this blog, or really if you’ve been following it since October, you know which movie I favor, so you’re probably next to not at all surprised to hear that I stumped hard for Barry Jenkins’ extraordinary movie about ordinary life in Paste … Continue reading →

OFCS Announces 20th Annual Award Winners

This is it, dudes and dudettes: My last “best of 2016” post, at least I think it is, because who knows, I could have written a thing or three for other lists that I’ve just plum forgotten about.  Anywho, what the title says. The Online Film Critics Society has announced the winners of its 2016 … Continue reading →

BOFCA 2016 Year-End Top Ten Podcast

Funny fact/fun fact: The Boston Online Film Critic Association‘s year-end top ten podcast lasts about as long as most of the films on the actual top ten itself, so you can either listen to the podcast, or you can go watch one of those films. Or you could listen to the podcast and watch all … Continue reading →

Paste Magazine’s 50 Best Movies Of 2016

Happy New Year! Here is another link to a piece at Paste Magazine about everything that was good in 2016 (which is not to say that I personally like every movie that appears on the list, because I don’t, but more that Paste’s collective writer pool has a set of very diverse tastes). I wrote … Continue reading →

The Definitive 10 Best Films Of 2016, Period

Well, you all know what this post is about. A brief intro: Most years, I agonize over my top ten list to the bitter end, and then for a while after, too. This largely has to do with volume. I don’t tend to see all of the movies that I want or need to in a … Continue reading →

Movie Mezzanine’s Year In Film, Superlatives

Nobody ever gets sick of list-writing exercises or year-end reminiscences, so here’s a double dose from Movie Mezzanine, where I wrote about the 2016 film that’s most likely to inspire future filmmakers (Moonlight), and my favorite older discovery made during the year, The Executioner.

The Playlist’s 25 Best Performances Of 2016

The year end train continues! Over at The Playlist, I wrote a few capsules about a few of the best performances of 2016, notably the dueling works of Isabelle Huppert, who appears in both Elle and Things to Come, two very different movies where she plays very similar roles. You should maybe take a looksie, eh?   … Continue reading →

The Playlist’s 25 Best Films Of 2016

As though you need to be reminded that it’s that time of year, I have, in addition to my BOFCA voting, been contributing to year-end lists, the first of which is The Playlist’s 25 Best Films Of 2016 list. I didn’t say much, just around 200 words or so about Anna Rose Holmer’s excellent fiction … Continue reading →

The Boston Online Film Critics Association’s 2016 Awards

You’re aware, I imagine, that I am a member of BOFCA, the Boston Online Film Critics Association, and if you are aware of that, then you are also likely aware that every year, we vote, as critics groups do, to determine with authority which movies of the last 365 days were, in a word, “best.” … Continue reading →

The 10 Best Movies In Theaters Right Now

We’re changing it up, y’all! Instead of telling you what the ten best movies in theaters are in a given month, we at Paste Magazine are going to tell you what the ten best movies in theaters are right now, at this very moment, and that’s how it’s gonna be. (Makes sense: It’s sort of hard to … Continue reading →

Review: Moonlight, 2016, dir. Barry Jenkins

I’ve not yet stumbled upon a review of Moonlight that has found a way to associate the film’s message with the central philosophies of the Black Lives Matter movement, mostly because that movement is not germane to the film’s messages and because, I suspect, any white author writing about Barry Jenkins’ extraordinary second feature is smart … Continue reading →

The Best Movies in Theaters, October 2016

Well, I meant to share this on the ol’ blog sooner, but we’re only three days out from last month so I don’t think the delay is that great an infraction: Paste Magazine’s got their list of the best ten movies in theaters as of October, and you should go look at it! Great flicks, … Continue reading →