Along with making a finalized Best Movies list, narrowing down the performances is always hard.  There were so many great performances in 2017 from actors new and old.  It hurt to leave some people off this list, but at the end of the day, these were the very best.  Here are my picks for the best performances of 2017. I will be breaking it down similar to the Oscars, with five nominees, which are essentially…

For this list, I’m looking back at the best individual scenes from 2017.  There were thousands to chose from, but these are the scenes that left the biggest impression on me.  Whether it was a scene of masterful acting, exciting action, or a simple conversation, these were the best scenes of 2017. Some of these choices will have clips attached to them so you can see the excellence for yourself. WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD!!!! There, you’ve…

Continuing to look at the best movies of 2017, I am going to look at the best of the techs.  What I mean by techs is the more technical categories, like screenplays, costumes, editing, cinematography, etc.  So here we go       BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY – THE SHAPE OF WATER Runner Up – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Guillermo Del Toro mixing fairy tales, science fiction, heist films, and love stories was unmatched by anyone in…

The 2017 movie year is officially over, so now begins the lists.  Over the next week or so, I will be counting down the best and worst movies and performances of 2017 over a number of lists. I am going to kick it off by talking about the comic book movies of 2017.  As usual, there were a number of comic book movies that were released this year and, as usual, we had our good,…

Today, February 9, 2018, I officially depart from my twenties and enter my thirties.  It has been a wild decade, as I started it in college studying film and have finished as an accredited film critic.  Crazy how the world works.  In honor of this momentous occasion, here are my picks for the best movies that came out over the last decade (2008 – 2017).           10 – GRAVITY (Alfonso Cuaron, 2013) Sandra…

2017 was an interesting year for movies, but a great year for movies.  The first half of the year was very hit and miss, with a couple great films thrown in the middle of some overrated hits and complete disasters.  However, the second half proved to be one of the strongest I have ever seen, with consistent greatness coming all the way until the end of the year.  The year had its up, its downs,…

The 2017 summer movie season is officially over!  This was a great summer movies.  I saw 41 movies over the last four months (49 total if you include the movies that were released this summer that  I saw earlier this year at Sundance), and most of them were good.  Some of them have made their way into my ten best movies of the year, others have made it on the bottom ten.  This list is…