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Top 100 Films of the Decade: 2010-2019
2019/12/31 2020/03/31 Jared Mobarak
If you asked me in 2010 which studios' films would be amongst my favorites over the next ten years, I probably would have answered two correctly: Fox Searchlight (11) and Sony Pictures Classics (7). Those are two independent shingles of big Hollywood names that have been pumping out quality pictures for decades. Next up would have been The Weinstein Company (5), Warner Bros. (4), Paramount (4), Universal (4), and Sony Pictures (3) because they were cinema. So why are they barely beating those other two combined? Because the game changed.…
Top 10 Films by Year, Top 10 Lists12 Years a Slave, 50/50, A Quiet Passion, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, American Animals, Aniara, Arrival, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Black Swan, Blue Valentine, Bullhead, Call Me By Your Name, Calvary, Carlos, Carol, Cloud Atlas, Coherence, Custody, Dunkirk, Enemy, Ex Machina, First Man, For Sama, Frances Ha, Fruitvale Station, Fury, Get Out, Hell or High Water, Hellion, Her, High-Rise, Holy Motors, Honey Boy, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, I Am Love, I Am Not Your Negro, If Beale Street Could Talk, Inception, Inch'Allah, Inside Out, Intouchables, It Comes at Night, Jackie, James White, Lady Macbeth, Leave No Trace, Looper, Luce, Mad Max: Fury Road, Madeline's Madeline, Manchester by the Sea, Marriage Story, Melancholia, Midnight in Paris, Minding the Gap, Moonlight, Mudbound, Never Let Me Go, Oslo August 31st, ParaNorman, Parasite, Pariah, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Rabbit Hole, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Selma, Shame, Short Term 12, Son of Saul, Sound of My Voice, Spotlight, Spring, Spring Breakers, Steve Jobs, The Act of Killing, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, The Farewell, The Fighter, The Hunt, The Master, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Social Network, The Standoff at Sparrow Creek, The Tree of Life, The Witch, The Wolf of Wall Street, Thelma, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Toni Erdmann, Transit, Under the Skin, Upstream Color, Waves, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Whiplash, Wild Tales, Wildlife, Wonderstruck, You Were Never Really HereLeave a comment
We pretty much knew last year's Best Picture Oscars race was coming down to La La Land and Moonlight right after the completion of the Toronto International Film Festival in September. But while there's something to be said about the strength of films able to ascend to frontrunner position, I can't help loving the idea of heading into March without a clue as to who might win. Ask ten different critics what their favorite of 2017 is and I'd estimate hearing at least eight unique titles. There's a level of excitement to this reality…
Top 10 Films by Year, Top 10 ListsA Fantastic Woman, A Quiet Passion, Algee Smith, Armie Hammer, C'est la vie, Call Me By Your Name, Christian Bale, Christopher Nolan, Clair Obscur, Coco, Cynthia Nixon, Daniel Kaluuya, Daniela Vega, Dee Rees, Despicable Me 3, Dunkirk, Edgar Wright, Frances McDormand, Get Out, Guillermo del Toro, Holly Hunter, Hong Chau, It Comes at Night, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jane, Jason Mitchell, Lady Macbeth, Last Men in Aleppo, Laurie Metcalf, Loving Vincent, Meryl Streep, Mudbound, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Octavia Spencer, Princesita, Rebecca Hall, Sally Hawkins, Sam Rockwell, Split, Strong Island, The Breadwinner, The Shape of Water, The Work, Thelma, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Timothée Chalamet, Todd Haynes, Unrest, Willem Dafoe, WonderstruckLeave a comment
The 90th Oscars recap through tweets …
If you thought this year's Oscars were going to do something crazy or exciting, you haven't been paying attention. Between the envelope-gate incident of 2017 and the fact that this was a "multiple of ten" anniversary, the 90th Annual Academy Awards was going to do everything it could to right the ship and ensure nothing overshadowed the winners' list. And for the most part they succeeded—often at the detriment of the show itself. But that's their fault for alway trying to make it more than what it is: an awards…
Essays, Oscars, z.slideshowA Fantastic Woman, Academy Awards, Alex Gibson, Alexandre Desplat, Allison Janney, Blade Runner 2049, Bryan Fogel, Call Me By Your Name, Chris Overton, Coco, Dan Cogan, Darkest Hour, Darla K. Anderson, David Malinowski, Dear Basketball, Dunkirk, Frances McDormand, Frank Stiefel, Gary A. Rizzo, Gary Oldman, Gerd Nefzer, Get Out, Glen Keane, Gregg Landaker, Guillermo del Toro, Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405, Icarus, J. Miles Dale, James Ivory, Jeffrey A. Melvin, Jimmy Kimmel, John Nelson, Jordan Peele, Kazuhiro Tsuji, Kobe Bryant, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Lee Smith, Lee Unkrich, Lucy Sibbick, Mark Bridges, Mark Weingarten, Oscars, Paul Denham Austerberry, Paul Lambert, Phantom Thread, Rachel Shenton, Richard King, Richard R. Hoover, Robert Lopez, Sam Rockwell, Shane Vieau, The Shape of Water, The Silent Child, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing MissouriLeave a comment
Picking Winners at the 90th Annual Academy Awards
The 90th Annual Academy Awards hits airwaves Sunday, March 4th, 2018 at 8:00pm on ABC. For those handicapping at home, here are the guesses of Buffalo film fanatics Christopher Schobert, William Altreuter, and myself. Jared Mobarak: This new look Academy is really starting to pay dividends. The fight for representation might have begun with a focus on the acting categories (there are four POC actors nominated this year out of twenty slots), but it's expanded much further in a very short period of time. This 90th year of Oscar becomes…
Essays, Oscars, z.slideshowAaron Sorkin, Allison Janney, Call Me By Your Name, Christopher Nolan, Christopher Plummer, Daniel Day Lewis, Daniel Kaluuya, Darkest Hour, Dee Rees, Denzel Washington, Dunkirk, Emily V. Gordon, Frances McDormand, Gary Oldman, Get Out, Greta Gerwig, Guillermo del Toro, James Ivory, James Mangold, Jordan Peele, Kumail Nanjiani, Lady Bird, Laurie Metcalf, Lesley Manville, Margot Robbie, Martin McDonagh, Mary J. Blige, Meryl Streep, Michael Green, Michael H. Weber, Octavia Spencer, Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread, Richard Jenkins, Sally Hawkins, Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan, Scott Frank, Scott Neustadter, The Post, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Timothée Chalamet, Vanessa Taylor, Virgil Williams, Willem Dafoe, Woody HarrelsonLeave a comment
Online Film Critics Society Ballot 2017
Below is my December 24th ballot for the 21st annual Online Film Critics Society Awards honoring movies released domestically in the United States during the 2017 calendar year. Each category is ordered according to my preferential rankings. Group winners are labeled in red. (We were only allowed to vote for one nominee per category this year, but I ranked them all like previous years anyway.)
Top 10 Films by Year, Top 10 Lists, z.slideshowA Ghost Story, Aaron Sorkin, Allison Janney, Armie Hammer, Benny Safdie, BPM (Beats Per Minute), Brooklynn Prince, Call Me By Your Name, Christopher Nolan, Coco, Cynthia Nixon, Dafne Keen, Dan Laustsen, Daniel Kaluuya, Darius Khondji, Dawson City: Frozen Time, Dunkirk, Ex Libris: New York Public Library, Faces Places, First They Killed My Father, Frances McDormand, Gary Oldman, Get Out, Greta Gerwig, Guillermo del Toro, Holly Hunter, Hoyte Van Hoytema, In This Corner of the World, James Franco, James Gray, James Ivory, Jane, Jonathan Amos, Jordan Peele, Lady Bird, Laurie Metcalf, Lee Smith, Loving Vincent, Margot Robbie, Mary J. Blige, Michael H. Weber, Michael Stuhlbarg, Mother, Mudbound, Nocturama, OFCS, Online Film Critics Society, Patrick Stewart, Paul Machliss, Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread, Rachel Morrison, Raw, Richard Jenkins, Robert Pattinson, Roger Deakins, Ronald Bronstein, Sally Hawkins, Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan, Scott Neustadter, Sidney Wolinsky, Sofia Coppola, Tatiana S. Riegel, The Breadwinner, The Florida Project, The LEGO Batman Movie, The Post, The Shape of Water, The Square, The Work, Thelma, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Tiffany Haddish, Timothée Chalamet, Vanessa TaylorLeave a comment
REVIEW: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri [2017]
It's hard to know what to do. It's no coincidence that the dumbest character in Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri says the most revealing line of dialogue throughout the entire film: "Anger begets more anger." I guess it's because Penelope (Samara Weaving) isn't dumb as much as she's naïvely innocent and young. She's still idealistic about a world that has yet to throw any great tragedies her way. She's still elastic enough to take being laid off from work in stride because there's always another job out there.…
Drama, Film Reviews, z.slideshowAmanda Warren, Caleb Landry Jones, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Frances McDormand, John Hawkes, Kathryn Newton, Lucas Hedges, Martin McDonagh, Peter Dinklage, Sam Rockwell, Samara Weaving, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Woody Harrelson1 Comment
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Tracklisting:Disc 11. "Pink Lightning" • Purity Ring • 04:15 • Womb, 4AD Ltd2. "Drop A Tear (ft. Lil Baby)" • Bankrol Hayden • 03:02 • Pain is Temporary, Atlantic Recording Corporation3. "Numb" • Elderbrook • 03:50 • Why Do We Shake In the Cold?, Parlophone Records Limited4. "Too...
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