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#TimelessSeason3
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@allisonshoe
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We asked our writers to share their picks for 2022's most overlooked films. Here are 30 recommendations for your year-end lists [thread]:
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The Ten Best Films of 2023
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"COLLATERAL is essentially a long conversation between a killer and a man who fears for his life."
Read Roger Ebert's original review:
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"The world has to be reminded that watching a film at home while scrolling through your phone and checking emails and half paying attention is just not the way, although some tech companies would like us to think so."
--
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Showing in US theaters for one night only, Indian action epic RRR pushes the limits of industrialized pop cinema (via
@simonsaybrams
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"I put my whole soul into the show, my whole soul."
@BarryJenkins
speaks with
@812filmreviews
about the new
@Criterion
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"The movie seemed very comfortable in its own digital skin."
@mattzollerseitz
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"I think film is the art of time and manipulated time so that in one hour and a half you can spend one year of the life of two people. It's amazing. It's magic."
@rendy_jones
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Our writers recommend 25 underrated horror films for your Halloween viewing:
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The Top Ten Films of 2019:
10. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
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The Ten Best Films of 2020
Runner-ups: “Bacurau,” “Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets,” “I’m Thinking of Ending Things,” “On the Rocks,” “Sound of Metal,” “Time,” “The Vast of Night,” “Vitalina Varela,” “The Wolf House,” and “Wolfwalkers”
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RIP Sam Rubin (1960-2024)
Your good humor and informative messages will be missed.
Deepest condolences to your family from
@ChazEbert
and the whole team at
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"I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s a perfect cinematic object, a visual and aural and physical experience that worms its way into your mind."
@mattzollerseitz
on DUNE PART ONE:
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Ethan Hawke on
@Criterion
's new release of the BEFORE trilogy, how a fourth film might happen and more
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We are excited to announce expanded positions for three of our regular writers!
Welcome our new Weekly Critic
@peytondani
, Assistant Editor
@clintworthing
, and Social Media Manager
@oldfilmsflicker
Read more about them here:
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Edgar Wright's LAST NIGHT IN SOHO is an estimable, genuine horror movie that also manages to say something real. More from
#Venezia78
(via
@Glenn__Kenny
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"What I’m saying is that it’s not your imagination: art and entertainment are being straight-up mutilated by corporations now, without the slightest genuflection toward the idea that they have innate value."
@mattzollerseitz
on streaming ads:
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“It’s not just the completed film that gets deleted in cases like this, but everything associated with the film.”
@mattzollerseitz
examines the ramifications of studios withholding completed films COYOTE VS ACME for tax purposes.
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The Ten Best Films of 2022 with commentary by our writers.
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"People like to speak about a golden era of movies. . .when Hollywood made products that were sexier, smarter, and just generally better. Richard Linklater’s HIT MAN is for them."
Read
@Brian_Tallerico
's review:
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If we picked the Oscars, we'd give Best Supporting Actor to Sylvester Stallone for CREED
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Criterion's Trilogía de Guillermo del Toro is one of the Blu-ray events of the year via
@Brian_Tallerico
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ROGER EBERT | born June 18, 1942 | famous for his work in film criticism and was the first movie critic to win a Pulitzer Prize.
@ebertchicago
@ebertvoices
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One of Bong Joon-ho's absolute best films finally gets a wide US release.
@Brian_Tallerico
reviews:
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An excerpt from
@Honors_Zombie
's new book, BUT GOD MADE HIM A POET: WATCHING JOHN FORD IN THE 21ST CENTURY
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"DUNE: PART TWO is a robust piece of filmmaking, a reminder that this kind of broad-scale blockbuster can be done with artistry and flair."
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An excerpt from
@mattzollerseitz
's "Oliver Stone Experience" book by
@jumblejim
about a Vietnam vet watching PLATOON
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"George Lucas gets a lot of flak for his screenwriting, but credit must be given when due: Sheev Palpatine, the humble senator from Naboo who becomes a galactic despot in the STAR WARS movies, is one of the great screen villains."
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@mattzollerseitz
:
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.
@Ruby_Stevens
on the films of the 1980s that had their roots in neo-noir but considerably upped their levels of sex and violence
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Today's final group of essays on the best of the decade includes
@petersob13
on PHANTOM THREAD,
@christylemire
on MAD MAX: FURY ROAD,
@TomiLaffly
on INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS,
@Brian_Tallerico
on MOONLIGHT, and
@mattzollerseitz
on THE TREE OF LIFE.
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Come back tomorrow for
#10
-6 and Wednesday for 5-1, and read more about our choices, as well as our honorable mentions, here.
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"This film is about lonely, marginalized people finding dignity and value in work and in each other, and making the best of the hard-edged, often unforgiving world that they were born into."
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@mattzollerseitz
on ROCKY (1976):
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4 stars for Adam Wingard's GODZILLA VS. KONG, a straight-up action picture par excellence (via
@mattzollerseitz
)
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.
@mattzollerseitz
's tribute to the great Philip Seymour Hoffman, who would have turned 50 today
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The friends who grow closer together in Netflix's lighthearted CARNAVAL are just a step above stock characters (via
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In 2001, Roger wrote a Great Movies essay about Jonathan Demme's SILENCE OF THE LAMBS:
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With DOCTOR SLEEP, Mike Flanagan pulls off a difficult blend of Stanley Kubrick and Stephen King via
@Brian_Tallerico
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Our picks for the Ten Best films of 2022:
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“The influence of SEVEN SAMURAI is so generationally seismic, it’s as though it has penetrated the nitrate matter of film itself.”
On the release of a new 4K restoration,
@metaplexmovies
looks back at Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece
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"In any event, the prequels look better to me now than they did then because they’re a product of a singular consciousness with a definitive artistic signature."
@mattzollerseitz
looks back at THE PHANTOM MENACE at 25:
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"This is a film that concerns itself w/ the behavior of bigots and the institutional racism that exploits their insecurity for profit. But the movie isn’t about that. It’s about the friendship between Bart & The Kid."
@mattzollerseitz
on BLAZING SADDLES:
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On the 11th anniversary of Roger Ebert’s passing,
@clintworthing
collected eleven reviews from 2011 that demonstrated how much he still loved movies. Watch one of his favorite films from 2011 in his memory.
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The power of one person taking a stand in Tony Gilroy's MICHAEL CLAYTON feels like a miracle (via
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)
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"In the age of content, where the point is to create (or revive, or clone) something in order to create an endless stream of monetizable situations, movies seem to have trouble remembering how to be movies." -
@mattzollerseitz
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"It's maddening. It's monumental. It's art."
@mattzollerseitz
's review of ZACK SNYDER'S JUSTICE LEAGUE:
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The pandemic robbed a lot of good movies of a chance to be seen in theaters. Why not give them another chance?
@mattzollerseitz
on films like LUCA that should get their time on the big screen.
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PHANTOM OF WINNIPEG is a delightful, universally appealing doc about PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE super fans
#Fantasia
via
@nickallen_redux
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The Top Ten of 2022! First, the runner-ups, alphabetically:
"All the Beauty and the Bloodshed," "Benediction," "Bones and All," "EO," "The Eternal Daughter," "Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio," "Happening," "Hit the Road," "Jackass Forever," and "Mad God."
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Even just the audio film commentaries in Criterion's Trilogía de Guillermo del Toro box set make it a must-purchase
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THE LIGHTHOUSE is an impressive accomplishment, thanks to Robert Eggers' fearlessness and completely committed performances
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A previously-unpublished interview with Krzysztof Kieślowski about THE DECALOGUE
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"It is not enough for a white man to beat us from a position of equality or even near equality. He has to beat us from a position of mediocrity and ineptitude."
@Jamellpelle
champions Apollo Creed as the real underdog in ROCKY
#BlackWritersWeek
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The women of dull sequel
#BookClubTheNextChapter
deserve much better, and so do we (via
@nminow
)
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Starting Monday, 11/4, we will reveal the Best Films of the Decade right here and on the site.
#25
-11 on Monday with capsule entries on each, and our staff is writing essays for our top ten: 10-6 on Tue, 5-1 on Wed.
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Sanaa Lathan is fearless in Haifaa Al-Mansour's NAPPILY EVER AFTER via
@sheilakathleen
@netflix
@HaifaaMansour
@strongblacklead
@justsanaa
#NappilyEverAfter
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"You've heard the phrase "They said the quiet part out loud"? That's what this ad is doing.
It's not just speaking in room tones. It's practically crowing its happiness at the destruction of artists, their tools, & their process."
Read
@mattzollerseitz
:
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Netflix's STRANGER THINGS is an awesome homage to Spielberg, Stephen King, 80s films
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HIGH FLYING BIRD distills the frustrations of workers, basketball players and otherwise, whose voices have been alternately stifled, commodified, or ignored for decades (via
@roxana_hadadi
)
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"At the time, they were revelations. But with hindsight, we can now see them as the period when Kristen Stewart became Kristen Stewart."
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@TimGrierson
on the three films in
@criterionchannl
's Three Starring Kristen Stewart collection:
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"A frustrating and fascinating aspect of Marvel’s Decline Era is the way race and gender have become weaponized."
@Geniusbastard
looks at the history of Black cinematic villains and their place in the MCU
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UNFROSTED "doesn't care enough to communicate, even in the most basic and lighthearted sense, why it exists"
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@mattzollerseitz
's review:
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The lists are here! The individual top tens from all of our regular writers and most of our extended family of contributors for your perusal.
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"His influence on multiple generations of filmmakers, scholars, critics, and movie buffs is incalculable."
@mattzollerseitz
on the invaluable impact the late David Bordwell had on film culture:
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The Top Ten Films of 2021
Runner-ups: "Annette," "The Card Counter," "The Disciple," "Flee," "A Hero," "The Lost Daughter," "Passing," "Procession," "Titane," and "The Velvet Underground"
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"David’s relentless encouragement of seemingly every movie buff he ever read, worked with, corresponded with, or met only once kept coming up."
@mattzollerseitz
on the memorial service and legacy of David Bordwell
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"Theaters cannot survive, much less thrive, if they're treated as warehouses for human cattle"
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@mattzollerseitz
on the state of the theatrical experience:
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