It’s that time of year again, where I struggle to put together a best-of list. For once, I’ll save everyone the spiel about how I don’t like...

Hey, you know what? 2024 was a great year for movies. They all are, despite many talking heads claiming otherwise—they just aren’t looking o...

It’s that time of year again. 2023 has wound down, the holidays, whatever that looks like for you, are here, and this is the natural moment ...

It’s that time again. The time of year where we pour over what we’ve watched in the past year and whittle it down to our favorites. Not my p...

I t’s that time of year again, where I hem and haw about making a best-of 2021 (or whatever year  it happens to be) list only to ultimately ...

Don’t know if you noticed, but 2020 was a weird year for movies. Not sure why. Oh yeah, that’s right, the sweeping worldwide pandemic that s...

Once again, it’s that time of year. I’m not a fan of ranking or even rating movies, though I do. (It’s an unfortunate necessity.) Every...

Okay, it’s that time of year again, the time of year I swear I’m not going to make a best-of list, only to cave and ultimately do just ...

Every year, I debate whether or not to make a year-end best-of list. I hate ranking movies (or giving them grades for that matter),...

Another Seattle International Film Festival has come and gone. That means I spent the bulk of the last six weeks (preview screenings...

2016 is in the books and took with it countless celebrities, lingering notions of human decency, and my expectations of not being an...

‘Tis the season for lists and lists and lists. I already did my top ten movies of 2016 , followed by my top ten horror movies of 201...

It’s the last week of 2016, I don’t have any reviews to write, Carrie Fisher just died, and the whole world is covered in shit. For s...

Without fail, some people grouse about how that particular 365-day journey around the sun was a bad year for movies. 2016 is no excep...

Recently, the BBC polled almost 200 film critics from around the world to compile a list of the top 100 movies of the 21st century so...

Yesterday the Seattle International Film Festival announced its award winners, both those selected by a jury and those voted on by t...

Every year I tell myself I’m not going to make an end-of-year top ten list. I hate ranking films, but every year I cave and wind up thr...

I wasn’t initially going to do a top ten list this year. It seems like indulgent ego stroking, a lot of work for very ...

Now that we’ve got that pesky 2012 out of the way, we can turn our attention to the year ahead of us. 2013 still seems sparkly and ne...

I couldn’t think of any clever or interesting takes on the end of the year list, so I’m going to stick with the old standby: the top te...