Tony Scott Movies Ranked
What did I learn after watching and reviewing every Tony Scott movie? Well, that I really like marathoning a director’s entire filmography, and I’ll be picking up at the start of another very soon. More notably and to the point, I learned that I freaking love Tony Scott movies! I already kind of knew that, […]
George Miller Movies Ranked
Over the last few months, I marathoned and wrote about every Tony Scott movie (culminating in a post just like this one – Tony Scott Movies Ranked), but somewhat more quietly, I’ve been running through the filmography of Australian director George Miller. This was primarily in an effort to keep up with the podcast Blank […]
Best Quotes from Quentin Tarantino Movies
Quentin Tarantino is one of the most well-regarded writer-directors in recent cinematic history, and as such, Quentin Tarantino films are packed crackling dialogue and incredible quotes. Unlike, for example, Wes Anderson movie quotes, the best Tarantino movie quotes are often lengthy monologues or detailed conversations. Many memorable Tarantino movie quotes also contain language I don’t […]
The Best Movies of 2019
I’ve always said that if you can’t find enough movies to call a given year “great,” then you aren’t watching enough or digging deep enough to find the best titles. So perhaps the onus is on me, but I found 2019 pretty damn underwhelming as a movie year overall. A late push probably elevates it […]
The Best Movies of the Decade (2010-2019)
The 2010s were an incredible decade for cinema, and these are the 100 titles I’ll cherish the most.
The Best Films of 2018
This was a weird year—a great one for film, but a weird, confusing, exhausting one personally. I haven’t been all the way there when it comes to maintaining this site OR keeping up with the year’s best cinema. I’ve had prolific spurts broken up by life’s unpredictability, but I’ve seen enough that a post honoring […]
10 Performances to Watch This Fall
I’ve already written a bit about the movies that have my attention as the calendar turns toward autumn, but what about the performances? Too often, I overlook actors in favor of their directors and screenwriters (both when I write about films and when I anticipate them), but this fall’s crop of titles has the potential […]
The James Bond Movies, Ranked
I wrote a version of this list six years ago, shortly after the release of Skyfall, but recent news, and the commentary surrounding it, have had me feeling nostalgia for the series of films that, more than any other, got me interested in and thus writing about film. While Danny Boyle’s exit from “Bond 25” […]
Top 10 Most Anticipated Fall 2018 Movies
On first glance, the fall 2018 movie season looks a little ragged. Blockbuster-wise, we’ve got another Fantastic Beasts film, Aquaman, Bumblebee, and Venom. Woof. But the indie circuit appears as strong as ever with lots of long-awaited directorial returns and emerging studios (Netflix, Annapurna) making what appear to be their strongest pitches for awards relevance […]
Ranking the Mission: Impossible Films
The NOC list, chimera virus, rabbit’s foot, nuclear launch codes, the Syndicate, plutonium orbs. Track them down. Save the world. These are your missions if you choose to accept them. For more than two decades, Tom Cruise and a host of talented co-stars and directors have been thrilling audiences with impossible mission after impossible mission. […]
It’s the Pictures Podcast: Episode 13
In our latest episode of the podcast, Max and I share some of our most-anticipated fall movies and preview the lineups of Venice, TIFF, and NYFF, respectively. We also discuss Kubo, Florence Foster Jenkins, the new Arrival trailer, the November Criterion lineup, and … hot iced coffee? Listen to the episode over at our libsyn […]
When and How You Can Watch 2015’s Best Movies
John’s Top 20: The Hateful Eight “In the dead of a Wyoming winter, a bounty hunter and his prisoner find shelter in a cabin currently inhabited by a collection of nefarious characters.” (In theaters) Carol “An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman.” (In theaters) The Big Short “Four denizens of the […]
The Best Films of 2015
Looking back at my list of the best films of 2014, I led with this statement: “It seems you’re supposed to open your end-of-year favorite films list with an assessment of the movie year as a whole, but I’ve never really been interested in that. Good, bad, or somewhere in between—I have no idea what […]
2015 Fall Movie Preview
Expectations are a tricky thing. In years past, I’ve listed duds like Labor Day, Carnage, Love and Other Drugs, and various The Hobbit movies in various iterations of this very column. On the flip side, there’s something like Wild last year, which I expected to be an obnoxiously transparent Oscar play. Or Drug War from […]
The Biggest Movie of the Fall of 2015 Will Be…
We’re in the midst of a record-breaking box office year. It’s almost unbelievable. Jurassic World broke the record for the all-time biggest opening weekend. It currently ranks third on the list of all-time worldwide money makers—just a bit ahead of Furious 7 (#5) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (#6). Take that in. Three of the […]
Ranking Every Pixar Film
A ranked countdown of the Pixar film catalog is the most basic of lists for a critic—something he or she could break out every year or so when the world’s foremost animation studio shares with us, the world, its next stroke of creative genius. And it’s that fawning fanboy attitude that’s prevented me from sharing […]
