I’m writing a review for Jane Schoenbrun I Saw the TV Glow but I also feel like I shouldn’t. I saw the movie at the beginning of the Sundance Film Festival, and though the festival is officially over as of writing this review, it is one of the movies I saw during the festival that I cannot stop thinking about. But also, it is a movie I think requires multiple viewings to get a…
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My viewing of Gaucho Gaucho, the latest documentary from filmmakers Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw, was an interesting one. At the Sundance Film Festival, there are films that you can see in person in a theater, but you also have the option to stream some of the films starting on a certain date during the festival. With scheduling conflicts with other movies, I was unable to see Gaucho Gaucho in a theater during the…
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Skywalkers: A Love Story is Man on Wire for a new generation. It’s a heart-racing documentary about a death-defining stunt, how the stunt people do it, and what brought them to that point. It’s a love story, crime film, and underdog sports story all rolled into one outstanding documentary. Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus are a thrill-seeking couple who travel around the world to perform death-defying stunts by illegally climbing the tallest buildings in…
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Ghostlight was one of the first movies I saw at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival and what a start to the festival it was. This is a charming, funny, deeply emotional story about a family coming together after a tragedy. Ghostlight takes place in Chicago and it is very much a Chicago movie. But it isn’t a Chicago movie like Ferris Bueller’s Day Off that features Chicago landmarks like Navy Pier or the Sears…
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The 2024 Sundance Film Festival is here! The Sundance Film Festival is my favorite film festival in the world. I have been attending the festival since 2011 and love it every single year I go. I love the atmosphere, the focus and love of cinema throughout the festival, and of course, the movies. I love the diversity of films at the festival. I love discovering new, talented filmmakers, actors, and creatives throughout the festival and…
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2023 is officially over and now it is time for my picks for the best movies of 2023. 2023 was a truly great year for cinema. Theaters were packed, we got great movies from great directors, saw new filmmakers emerge, and for me personally, I had an absolute blast. As I mentioned in my Best Director of 2023 piece, this year was loaded with films from some of my all-time favorite filmmakers; Martin Scorsese, Christopher…
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In my continued analysis of the best movies of 2023, here are my picks for the best performances of 2023. Every year this is the toughest list to make and every year I feel bad about leaving some performances off. While I loved performances by Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Taraji P. Henson, Natalie Portman, Abby Rider Fortson, Alma Pöysti, Adam Driver, and Aaron Pierre, among many others, I think the performances I chose are…
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Continuing my look at the best movies of 2023, I am now going to make my pick for the best director of 2023. 2023 was a great year for movies and one of my favorite aspects of it was how many of my favorite directors made movies. We got great films from legendary veterans like Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, Alexander Payne, Todd Haynes, David Fincher, M. Night Shyamalan, Kelly Reichardt, Ben Affleck, Wes Anderson, and…
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Continuing my look back at the best movies of 2023, I will now look at some of my favorite movie moments and scenes from the movies of 2023. Whether it was a masterclass scene of acting, a great line-reading, or a thrilling piece of action, these were all scenes and moments from 2023 movies that I loved. There were a ton of options to choose from, but this group of movie moments and scenes are…
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Continuing to look back at the best movies of 2023, we will now be looking at the best movies from each genre. I will be looking at my favorite foreign-language films, comedies, action movies, and a few other genres and categories. Each category will have five “nominees” (a.k.a my personal top five) with my “winner” (my favorite) in bold, followed by short reasoning as to why I picked it the best. Here are my picks…
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