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 [...]
The Best Films of 2018 – Noah Damron
1 - Hereditary (d. Ari Aster) As a viewer, I long to have my imagination set on fire. Not only is that when I get the most creativity, but [...]
The Best Films of 2018 – Robert Butler
1. Roma (d. Alfonso Cuaron) Hands down, the finest piece of cinema of 2018. A fragmented period piece of a specific place and time, [...]