Each week this column will highlight one winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture, progressing chronologically until all winners have been discussed. There will be a brief discussion of the film itself followed by a mention of what we wish won from the nominees in the given year (though in many cases there were…
Kern: When we started the site and pitched ideas for columns, I decided to go with covering each film in the AFI Top 100. Finishing up watching every film on the list was already a project I’d been working on and I thought it was a great way, like your Best Picture column, to structure…
Kern: This week’s topic we want to discuss is franchises, but not just how we think of it in today’s terms of shared universes and whatnot, but more broadly. We’re bringing you in, Chris, because I know you take a particular interest in film franchises and series and I have to ask upfront: what about…
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I’m starting off by breaking the rules a bit and listing 26 instead of the 25 we agreed each of these lists would be because rather than continuing to switch two of them every few hours to try and get the best version of this list, I figured I’m the editor-in-chief here and that’s gotta…
10. The Tribe The Tribe remains one of the toughest viewing experiences I’ve ever endured. The Ukrainian drama follows a new arrival at a boarding school for deaf teenagers and his induction into a bleak world of crime. Though it unfolds entirely without dialogue and offers no subtitles to translate the sign language used, The…
25. Enemy 24. Her 23. I Saw The Devil 22. Walden 21. Tower 20. Lost River 19. A Long Day’s Journey Into Night 18. The House That Jack Built 17. Blue Valentine 16. Mother! 15. High Life 14. The VVitch 13. Post Tenebras Lux 12. Apocalypse After 11. Hard To Be A God 10. Holy…
Honorable Mentions: Columbus (2017), Frances Ha (2012), Under the Skin (2013), Inside Out (2015), The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015), Hugo (2011), Personal Shopper (2016), Carol (2015), Mommy (2014), Clouds of Sils Maria (2014), Call Me by Your Name (2017) 25. Before Midnight (2013) – Richard Linklater 24. Tyrannosaur (2011) – Paddy Considine 23.…
A Serious Man The Coen brothers have made a career of great films so distinct in style that there is no confusing them for anyone else’s work, yet so different from each other that everyone has a different favorite. After winning their Oscars for No Country for Old Men, the brothers made the type of…
With each new film, Terrence Malick burrows even deeper into his niche. He’s an artist in the truest sense of the word, with his recent body of work consisting of uncompromising and challenging films that serve as sublime visual poetry for some and patience-burning wastes of time for others. A Hidden Life is his most…
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