I generally do a favorite fifteen list, so cutting those five films off of this list was painful. For the record, they were: Maggie’s Plan, Born To Be Blue, The Edge of Seventeen, Certain Women, and The Invitation. I also...
There were a lot of great movies in 2016, but it seemed that I was mostly attracted to coming-of-age movies. There’s just something about young people discovering who they are for the first time that interests me. Honorable Mentions: 20th...
Another year, another top 10 list. I feel like every year around this time I say this was a particularly great year, that it was difficult to choose only ten films, yadda yadda yadda. It’s true and it always is....
I struggled with the final form of this list, trying to truly ascertain the degree to which I loved much-beloved films. Usually I enjoy – and am quite comfortable with – including mostly personal choices that few others have on...
There’s been some discussion over the past several years about the relative value of miserablism in cinema, specifically art-house cinema. And there’s probably something to the notion that some filmmakers use horrifying scenarios lazily, not really considering the implications of...
