The Best Films of 2022-Editors’ Picks
Coming off the two most turbulent years in our recent history, 2022 proved that one of the many ways to unite the world is, as corny as it sounds, through [...]
The Best Films of 2022-Robert Butler
What will be said about 2022 in cinema? Week after week, we continue to hear about dour box office numbers and that theaters are in crisis. Certain columns claim the [...]
1997 Retrospective: The Best Films of 1997
The monumental film of the time was James Cameron's Titanic, which broke box-office records and won 11 Oscars; including best picture and director. It was a landmark piece of cinema [...]
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 [...]
2006 Retrospective: The Best Films of 2006–15 Year Anniversary
It was a time where the War in Iraq saturated the news but it was on filmmaker's minds in 2006 as well, as George W Bush's incompetence and lies were [...]
1996 Retrospective: The 10 Best Films of 1996
More so than usual, reflecting back at the year 1996 it was truly a year of independent filmmaking. Executive Producers were able to raise cash with smaller films, headlined in [...]
The Best Films of 2020 – Noah Damron
2020 was unquestionably the most difficult year for us as a collective whole. Through the unimaginable hardships some of us have had to endure, to the newfound outlook of being [...]
The Best Films of 2020 – Robert Butler
As regularly, the best surprises came in smaller packages: One year after the foreign-language film "Parasite" wowed audiences, critics, and Oscar voters, foreign language films continued to reign supreme with [...]
The Best Films of 2019 – Robert Butler
2019 Year in Cinema How could anyone think cinema is dead when so many films this year were exceptional? Quite a few were masterpieces--some were overpraised, a handful were formally [...]
The Best Films of 2019 – Noah Damron
2019 is certainly a highlight year for cinema, so making a list of just 10 films is nearly impossible. Just naming this many films means leaving out many others I [...]