Picking the best performances is a spoil of riches. Every year, I could make a list of fifty performances that I loved. Unfortunately, that’s not how the game works. For this year, like I did last year, I have broken the performances down by category, much like the Oscars. I will list the “nominees” and then pick a winner and go further in depth as to why they gave the best performance in their category. …
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This is always the toughest list to make, but also my favorite to make. Movies are comprised of many scenes and when you see as many movies as I do, that leads up to thousands of scenes I see in a year. But these scenes are the ones that stuck with me the most throughout 2018. Whether it was a scene that scared me, thrilled me, or one of just pure entertainment, these are the…
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Continuing to look at the best movies of 2018, it is now time to look at the genres. I like to see movies from all genres from all around the world and this is the opportunity to highlight the best from all genres. There are some conventional categories, like Best Animated Film and Best Foreign Film, but also categories you won’t find at the Oscars. Here are my picks. BEST ANIMATED…
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My picks for the films with the best technical aspects in 2018.
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Every year, I take a look back at all the movies that I saw over the year, as well as think about major news headlines and stories that broke during the year, and I reflect. What did we learn? What did we see? Is there a new trend brewing? What shook cinema this year? Here are the things I learned and took away from the movie year that was 2018. …
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Another year, another plethora of superhero movies. 2018 brought us nine superhero movies, which is the most that we’ve ever had in a single year. From the Black Panther juggernaut to the Spiderverse and plenty in-between, the superhero movies in 2018 were pretty good. Of the nine movies that came out, there was only one that I wasn’t a fan of, and even then I didn’t hate it. We got some of the biggest, most unique…
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The 76th annual Golden Globes are happening tonight. The Globes are a very hit and miss show in terms of how they affect the Oscar race. On the one hand, it gives us a slight idea of how these voting branches are leaning for voting. On the other hand, Alice in Wonderland was nominated for Best Picture in 2010, so you get both sides of the coin. With this year’s Oscar race still relatively open, I hope…
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2017 was an interesting year for the DC Extended Universe, or whatever this cinematic universe is called. Wonder Woman was a gigantic success and easily the best movie in the universe. Then Justice League came out, a film that was supposed to be one of the biggest movies ever made, bringing together all the legendary heroes of DC comics, and that film crashed and burned and barely exists now. The DCEU was in a cinematic limbo of…
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There is one word and one word only to describe Mary Poppins Returns: delightful. As soon as you hear Lin Manuel Miranda sing “(Underneath the) Lovely London Sky” on the cobblestone streets of London, you are immediately transported back to Robert Stevenson’s original 1964 film, smacking a cheek-to-cheek smile that doesn’t leave until you leave the theater. Making a sequel over 50 years from the first film is a very Hollywood idea, especially in this current age…
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One of the things I try to do as a film critic is keep an open mind during all movies. There are critics and other film personalities that I follow that see movies before I do and post their reviews or thoughts, which I of course read. I try my best to not let their opinion set a certain expectation before I even see the movie. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a movie that took the…
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