Best Movies

The Chicago Critics Film Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary from May 5th through May 11th at Music Box Theater in Chicago. This is an excellent film festival that offers up some of the best and most exciting movies that have been making their way around the film festival circuit, as well as some classics. This year’s festival is loaded with great titles and here are a few that I am most excited about.   A Disturbance in the…

The 2023 Sundance Film Festival has officially come to an end. I saw 28 feature films at this year’s festival and a handful of shorts. Overall, I thought this year’s festival was pretty solid. There were a number of movies that I really liked and only a few that I truly did not like, for one reason or another. However, missing from this year’s festival, as has been missing from the past couple of festivals,…

The 2023 Sundance Film Festival is just around the corner, returning in-person and virtually for the first time since 2020. I will be attending this year’s festival in person and I cannot wait to go back to the snowy mountains of Park City, Utah.  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…

It’s that time of the year again. Time to look at the very best movies of 2022. I’ve broken down what I think are the best movies from each genre, the best technical achievements, and the best actors and directors of the year, and now it’s time to look at what I think were the best movies of 2022. Overall, 2022 was a strong year for movies and it also felt like a normal movie…

In my continued analysis of the best movies of 2022, here are my picks for the best performances in 2022. Every year this is the toughest list to make and every year I feel bad about leaving some performances off, but I think the performances I chose are all truly great and deserve all the recognition they get.  Like previous years, I have broken the performances down by category, much like the Oscars, with Best…

Continuing my look back at the best movies of 2022, I am now going to look at some of my favorite movie moments and movie scenes from the movies of 2022. Whether it was a masterclass scene of acting, a great line-reading, or a moment of pure entertainment, these were all scenes and moments from 2022 movies that I loved. There were a ton of movie moments that I loved in 2022, but this group…

Continuing my look at the best movies of 2022, I am now going to look at the directors of 2022. With a great year of movies comes a great year of directing and that’s exactly what 2022 brought us. We got great films from legendary veterans like Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Michael Bay, Steven Soderbergh, George Miller, and Baz Luhrman, new films from exciting young artists like Jordan Peele, Ti West, the Daniels,…