2016 has been my favorite year in film since I began writing for Battleship Pretension a few years ago. It pains me that I can’t include more films on this list, so before I begin, I want to list all...
What makes one year better than the other regarding the movies? There was an awful lot of complaining regarding cinematic landscape of 2016, and yet there’s no shortage of titles to rank and categorize. As if a nation of people...
This was an interesting year of movies for me, I made an effort this year to see more documentaries and foreign films and was pleasantly rewarded with some of my favorite movies of the year. This list is of my...
10. 20th Century Women Mike Mills’ semi-autobiographical character dramedy might be the most resolutely pro-feminist artwork to ever totally fail the Bechdel test. Of course, you don’t need me to mansplain to you how the Bechdel is an imperfect metric of a film’s...
10. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping A pop culture parody almost on par with Spinal Tap. Like Tap, this film balances exaggerated comic moments with characters who have deep backstories and are brought to life by committed performances. While this...
Honorable mentions: 20th Century Women, The Edge of Seventeen, Everybody Wants Some!!, Fences, Hell or High Water, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Indignation, Moana, Our Little Sister, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, Weiner Really honorable mention: Silence I anguished for hours...
