Let me state this from the offset: there are probably many, many more movies that could and should be on this list. I just haven't gotten around to seeing them, partly out of my own lazy inertia (which I will completely own) but mostly because the movie industry has for most of its existence been …
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You may be wondering (probably derisively) why in the world I put out a list of the best movies of 2017 four months into 2018, a full month after the Academy Awards are done, and when the world has generally moved on to other seemingly more important things? The most obvious reason is that due …
This year I did something I have never done before. I plopped myself in front of a computer at 8:19 am sharp and streamed the Oscar announcements, finding myself completely engrossed as they announced the nominees. There are two reasons why I had never done this. The first is that for many years I lived …
Call Me By Your Name; Phantom Thread; A Fantastic Woman; Wonderstruck; The Shape of Water; The Post; The Florida Project; Faces/Places; The Disaster Artist; I, Tonya; Downsizing; Thelma; Professor Marston and the Wonder Women; Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri; Darkest Hour; All The Money In The World; Molly's Game; Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool; …
Halfway through the film Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) is told by her teacher Sister Sarah Joan that "It's clear from your writing that you love Sacramento." This comes as a complete surprise to Lady Bird because she has spent a good chunk of her high school life talking about how much she hates …
Here we are. Labor Day Weekend. For those lucky enough not to be in school yet, this is the last hurrah of freedom before we get plunged into the maelstrom that is the school year. I haven't really paid attention to the start of the school year since I finished grad school but this year …
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