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
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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
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