Individual Lists Aaditya Aggarwal Contributor 1. Mambar Pierrette — Rosine Mbakam 2. Mountains — Monica Sorelle 3. Janet Planet — Annie Baker 4. Babygirl — Halina Reijn 5. Queer — Luca Guadagnino 6. The Room Next Door — Pedro Almodóvar 7. Last Summer — Catherine Breillat 8. Girls Will Be Girls — Shuchi Talati 9.
Convergence and divergence are sometimes indistinguishable from each other, especially when occurring in an ecosystem so rapid, cacophonous, and reflexive. This is the bubble…
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In October of 1972, a chartered airplane carrying four dozen people including a Uruguayan rugby team and their friends and families crashed in the Andes. Those who weren’t killed upon impact or…
When the 2018 remake of old Hollywood standby A Star is Born dropped, it marked the culmination of over a decade’s worth of effort…
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French auteur Jacques Rivette’s relationship to novelist Honoré de Balzac lasted throughout his entire life. His fascination first made its way into his directorial…
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Jerry and Marge Go Large presents its larger-than-life tale with restraint and sincerity, imbuing its caper framework with the tenderness of a Christmas comedy. If…
I Never Liked You continues Future’s streak of doing nothing more than the minimum, with moderately successful results. It’s been a while since we…
Future It’s been a while since we last heard from Future — if, and only if, one goes off of his previous track record’s…
— The Film Canon — A Note on Selection and Organization Criteria The films in our canon were categorized according to the year of their U.S. theatrical release and the distributor behind it — except in cases where a.) the time between the film’s international release and its U.S. one exceeded five years, or b.)
The Marksman is a sturdy and uncomplicated but mostly satisfying entry into the Neeson oeuvre of stoic, righteous masculinity. Another exercise in stoicism and dignified masculinity, replete with a dash of reactionary violence and a grizzled lead performance? Smells like a Liam Neeson movie. In The Marksman, Neeson plays…
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There are a lot of movies released in a year — and that’s even once you cut the crop down to just those that receive a wide release. Among this past year’s blockbusters there was also a lot of probable-dross, stuff we just didn’t feel the need to get to…
Toxic masculinity had a year; scan the top three titles on this list and you’ll find three films about self-involved men belaboring the value of ‘their art’ — made by three self-involved men belaboring the value of their art. That may seem like a dispiriting regression, especially considering…
Proof of the lasting influence of Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1966 docudrama The Battle of Algiers can be glimpsed in two relatively recent films making a sizable dent in last year’s new-release landscape: Ana DuVernay’s Selma and Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper. In Selma — as was the case with the film that is arguably its spiritual forerunner, Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln — there…
There were times during this especially tumultuous year when it seemed as if the world at large was on the verge of collapsing. A whole commercial jetliner seemingly disappeared without a trace, leading some ostensibly serious news outlets to put forth honest-to-god inquires about the possibility of supernatural…