A typical year spent traversing the cinematic landscape results in straddling some kind of line: one foot confidently marches off into the future while the other remains firmly planted in…
Evaluating performances is such a deeply subjective endeavor that finding a meaningful consensus can often feel like an impossibility. Truly extraordinary ones tend to work in…
This was the year when the biggest artists on the planet spent more time than anyone’s patience would allow teasing albums that never came.…
It’s true, we didn’t really cover music all that extensively in 2015 (unless reviews of a 10-disc set of live Brad Mehldau material and a 4Minute…
There were times during this especially tumultuous year when it seemed as if the world at large was on the verge of collapsing. A…
For a while, it seemed like 2013 had front-loaded its highlights; many films making our Top 20 either played the festival circuit in 2012 before…
All one need do is look at the many and varied riches cinema had to offer in 2012 to disprove the crowing — yes,…