2002 Retrospective: The Best Films of 2002
2002, if nothing else, was a stellar year for genre reinvention. While audiences were lining up in doves for fantasy epics and superheroes way back in 2002 with The Lord [...]
Kimi
Returning to a more stripped-down style that he departed from recently with No Sudden Move and Let Them All Talk, Steven Soderberg retains his visual skills but dispenses with some [...]
Jockey
Just as the title suggests, Jockey is the title of a horse jockey in Clint Bentley's impressive debut feature that made its premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. A [...]
Sundown
A very austere and deeply mysterious character study drama whose subtext is to expose the world's haves and have-nots, Sundown is Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco's most gripping and visually pleasing [...]
The Worst Person in the World
There's a reason for the film's title, but to think the main character is some one-dimensional woman who hurts, betrays, and eventually finds redemption in the full circle of things [...]
Belle
The eagerly awaited follow-up to the highly acclaimed Japanese animated feature Mirai, Mamoru Hosoda's latest Belle is a cleverly conceived updated adaptation of the classic Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont novel [...]
A Hero
In his first film since his 2016 Oscar winning The Salesman, Iranian filmmaker, Asghar Farhadi, once again merges social commentary with realism as he explores the lives of ordinary characters living day-to-day in [...]
Flee
A deeply moving subject on the impacts of war atrocities and seeking refuge, Jonhas Poher Rasmussen's animated documentary titled Flee is one of the most essential and powerful films of [...]
The Best Films of 2021-Robert Butler
It was a year for looking back and documenting a specific time and era. Perhaps filmmakers wanted audiences to escape our modern, COVID reduced world as democracy appears to be [...]
Parallel Mothers
Writer-director Pedro Almodovar continues his sweeping melodrama streak with Parallel Mothers--the story of two single women who meet at a hospital when they are both about to give birth--is an [...]