The Criterion Collection has a history of highlighting the first feature films from notable contemporary directors, such as Christopher Nolan’s Following, Wes Anderson’s Bottle Rocket, Danny Boyle’s Shallow Grave, Joel & Ethan Coen’s Blood Simple, and many more. There’s just...
Medicine for Melancholy may be a mumblecore film in its aesthetics, but its financial and physical confines don’t hinder the film from achieving something emotionally and societally transcendent.
10. Eighth Grade I put off seeing Eighth Grade for much of the year because, put simply, I’m not a fan of Bo Burnham. His work as a standup, while undeniably smart, mostly struck me as fatiguingly self-referential and apparently...
10. BlacKkKlansman You hear the words “return to form” a lot with BlacKkKlansman, but Spike Lee has always been making bold and irreverent films during his entire career. However, this latest film gets a boost because of its mainstream success...
With 2016’s brilliant blue Moonlight and even with 2008’s nearly monochromatic Medicine for Melancholy, Barry Jenkins has made it clear how much he values the use of color as a means of transmitting moods, situations, stories and fates. With his newest...