The Year's Best Films
1. Chi-Raq The right film at the right time, Spike Lee’s latest is his most creatively fertile and socially immediate narrative feature in years. A grabber from its opening sequence, a lyric video for Nick Cannon’s gut-punching... 
The Year's Best Films
1. Moonlight In skillfully adapting Tarell Alvin McCraney’s unproduced play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, writer-director Barry Jenkins shows a deep curiosity about one person’s development and inner life. We see this person grow from boy to teen... 
The Year's Best Films
1. The Florida Project Sean Baker’s follow-up to the stylish, street-level Tangerine is the sort of film that sticks with you, whether you like it or not. In part a tribute to The Little Rascals, The Florida Project works on that level alone, with a low... 
The Year's Best Films
1. The Other Side of the Wind A long-coveted Holy Grail for cineastes, Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind finally dropped in 2018, 33 years after its maker’s death. Wind in many ways serves as a sort of semi-autobiographical bookend to Citizen Kane in ruthlessly dissecting a deeply flawed but high-pow... 
The Year's Best Films
1. The Lighthouse Robert Eggers’ blinding vision, set in a psychosexual landscape of a mind on the brink, has everything we go to the movies for: meticulously effective sight and sound, confident storytelling, humor and horror, dream and nightmare. One of the all-time two-handers, The Lighthouse pits Willem Dafoe&rsqu... 
The Year's Best Films
1. Vitalina Varela There’s a transcendence to Pedro Costa’s filmmaking that earns the term “art film.” In this spinoff from Costa’s Horse Money, the writer-director collaborates with the titular heroine—a Cape Verdean in Lisbon—to tell her own story of seeking the truth about... 
The Year's Best Films
1. Memoria (in theatres TBD) Apichatpong Weerasethakul's films contain multitudes. With Memoria, Weerasethakul invites you "to feel and to be in a space" along with Tilda Swinton's befuddled protagonist. As she seeks to identify and explain a hallucinatory sound, Memoria parses dreams, curses, viruses, altered states,... 
The Year's Best Films
TIM SIKA (Celluloid Dreams The Movie Show) · TOP TEN MOVIES 2022 (PETER CANAVESE) CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW (SCREEN SCENE) 12-29-22
1. Aftersun (in theaters & on VOD) In an astonishingly confident feature directorial debut, writer-director Charlotte Wells explores the coming of age of an 11-year-old... 
The Year's Best Films
1. Waltz with Bashir Waltz with Bashir works equally well as a potent anti-war film and as a creative examination of the nature of memory. Mature and possessed with significant psychological depth, Ari Folman’s animated film is an autobiographical documentary as much as it is anything else. Folman, unable to recon... 
The Year's Best Narrative Films 1. Sita Sings the Blues Notice a theme here? 2009 was a banner year for animated films, and the most creative was this little charmer written, directed, produced, and animated by Nina Paley (it’s legally available for free online, but don’t be a cheapskate: make a donation or buy the DVD). Paley app... 
The Year's Best Films
1. Blue Valentine This master class in acting from the next generation of top talent (Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams) takes the pulse of modern love. With American divorce rates still hovering near 50%, few stories could be more wistfully relevant than this intimate look at the birth and death of love. First-time di... 
The Year's Best Films
1. The Tree of Life No studio release this year was more ambitious, emotional, or elegant than The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick's searching epic about our place in a family, a town, a galaxy, the universe. Emmanuel Lubezki's innovative cinematography beautifully painted with light and shadow and color, while boy lead H... 
The Year's Best Films
1. This is Not a Film This is the rare film that is more: a rebellious yawp over the rooftops of the world, a vital social document, a moral but illegal political statement. World-class filmmaker Jafar Panahi (Crimson Gold) has frequently tangled with the... 
The Year's Best Films
1. Her The "zeitgeist"-y American movie of the year is a slightly futuristic tale that reflects blindingly on our present. Written and directed by Spike Jonze with elegant, melancholy calm, Her functions as a sincere and most unusual romance—between a human and a f... 
The Year's Best Films
1. Boyhood The deceptively simple idea behind Richard Linklater's magnum opus was to shoot a few days a year for twelve years, and thus capture the growth and development of a middle-class Everyboy (Ellar Coltrane) and his family. Linklater's rest... 
The Year's Best Films 1. Away from Her 2. Brand Upon the Brain! 3. 3:10 to Yuma 4. Forever 5. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 6. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 7. No Country for Old Men 8. Ratatouille 9. Persepolis 10. Syndromes and a Century
Runners-up: Into the Wild, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, I'm Not There, The Savage... 
The Year's Best Films 1. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu 2. Lady Vengeance 3. Inland Empire 4. Deliver Us From Evil 5. The Queen 6. The Departed 7. L'Enfant 8. Half Nelson 9. Three Times 10. Brick
Honorable mention: Army of Shadows.
Runners-up: Curse of the Golden Flower, The History Boys, A Scanner Darkly, Pan's Labyrinth, Old Joy, Borat: Cultural Le... 
The Year's Best Films 1. Yes 2. Brokeback Mountain 3. Saraband 4. Syriana 5. Good Night, and Good Luck. 6. Asylum 7. Ballets Russes 8. Nobody Knows 9. Caché 10. Mysterious Skin
Runners-up: 2046, The Aristocrats, Batman Begins, The Constant Gardener, Downfall, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, A History of Violence, Kung Fu Hustle, Gus V... 
The Year's Best Films 1. Hero 2. Vera Drake 3. Dogville 4. Spartan 5. Kinsey 6. Sideways 7. Crimson Gold 8. Touching the Void 9. The Five Obstructions 10. Goodbye Dragon Inn
Runners-up: Bad Education, The Aviator, Million Dollar Baby, Before Sunset, Shaun of the Dead, House of Flying Daggers, The Mother, The Motorcycle Diaries, Spider-Man 2, Alexa... 
The Year's Best Films 1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 3. The Magdalene Sisters 4. Hulk 5. Cidade de Deus (City of God) 6. Mystic River 7. American Splendor 8. Lost in Translation 9. The Station Agent 10. The Fog of War
Runners-up: House of Sand and Fog, Thirteen, Raising Victor Va... 
The Year's Best Films 1. Bloody Sunday 2. Adaptation 3. Spirited Away 4. The Hours 5. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 6. The Pianist 7. Daughter From Danang 8. Rivers and Tides 9. Late Marriage 10. About a Boy
Runners-up: 25th Hour, Spider, Minority Report, About Schmidt, The Believer, Y tu Mamá También (And Your Mom Too), Tal... 
The Year's Best Films 1. Mulholland Drive 2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 3. In the Mood for Love (China) 4. Djomeh (Iran) 5. Memento 6. Hedwig and the Angry Inch 7. Ghost World 8. Startup.com 9. Tape 10. In the Bedroom
Runners-up: The Pledge, Series 7: The Contenders, Waking Life, Thomas in Love, Iris, Faithless, Cure, The Ma... 
RSS or
Email.
Permalink