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1959 Ten Best Movies
This is no good. We're on top of the monument. Ranking movies within years is compulsive behavior; ranking the years themselves is quite another level of crazy. However, if one were to do such a thing,...
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1921 Ten Best Movies
Chaplin and Coogan, The Kid The Kid is Chaplin’s first feature, and a devastating example of a simple idea (just an hour long) made rich in the doing. According to its description it ought to be...
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1999 Ten Best Movies
Blue Christmas, in Eyes Wide Shut Looking at the movies of 1999 and searching for some kind of end-of-the-millenium sort of theme, a summing-up that would round off the fabulous century…I got no such...
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1979 Ten Best Movies
Much of 1979 is clearer to me than stuff that happened last week, so sorting through the movies of the year is easier than usual. Maybe it’s the influence of having just read David Thomson’s piece on...
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1931 Ten Best Movies
Movie restorations are good and admirable and the people who do them are to be commended. On the other hand, setting things right with a movie can mess with your relationship with that film. Which is...
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2001 Ten Best Movies
Jeanne Balibar, Va Savoir 2001 was the only year I ever went to the Cannes Film Festival, and looking over the year’s most significant movies I can see what an influence the experience had on my...
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1920 Ten Best Movies
The #1 this year was not difficult for me; The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is not a musty old film classic but a truly unnerving and gripping experience (especially when seen in a restored print, as has...
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1946 Ten Best Movies
James Stewart, on the possibility of shaking the dust of this crummy little town off my feet. I began giving over my Sunday mornings to this project in the first week of 2009, and now we’ve run out the...
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Best of 2010 (Weekly Links)
Tahar Rahim, A Prophet As always, a slow week for new openings; but I wrote these for the Herald: Best movies of 2010. Which also includes the worst. Made in Dagenham. “Artificially inflated by pop...
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2011 Ten Best Movies
Oldman's Smiley: TTSS And we wrap up 2011 with another list, this one for the Herald. Read the story here. The actual lists of best (and worst!) are arranged as a slideshow, so you have to do a lot of...
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Her Wolf Secret (Weekly Links)
Joaquin Phoenix, enjoying a day at the beach with Her. Links to reviews I wrote this week for the Herald and Seattle Weekly, and etc. The Wolf of Wall Street. “All this sound and fury falls short.”...
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Movie Diary 1/2/2014
The 2013 Critics Wrap, held at the Frye Art Museum, is about to debut on the Seattle Channel. This might’ve been the best Critics Wrap we’ve had, so do please give it a look. Thanks to the Frye, to...
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Ten Best of Promised Miserables Unchained (Weekly Links)
Waltz and Foxx: They’ve got spurs that djingle djangle djingle Links to reviews I wrote this week for the Herald, and much etc. Django Unchained. “One walks away reeling from the audacity of it all.”...
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2014 Ten Best Movies (and etc.)
L’Air de Panache: Ralph Fiennes in The Grand Budapest Hotel Links to my reviews published this week in the Herald and Seattle Weekly, and etc. Winter Sleep. “How small incidents can open up an entire...
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Hateful Home Carol-ing (This Week’s Movies)
Samuel L. Jackson, The Hateful Eight Links to my reviews published this week in the Herald and Seattle Weekly, and etc. The Hateful Eight. “A slyly anti-romantic Western by a filmmaker who loves...
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Ten Lion Elle (This Week’s Movies)
Isabelle Huppert: Elle Links to my reviews published this week in the Herald and Seattle Weekly, and etc. Elle. “It’s provocative, and Huppert is indeed fantastic, but I’m not convinced.” Lion. “A...
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2017 Ten Best Movies
Kyle MacLachlan, Twin Peaks: The Return For 2017, I have an annotated list at Seattle Weekly, and a list that includes a Ten Worst at the Herald. Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch) Phantom Thread...
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Selfish Ride (Weekly Links)
Ice Cube and Kevin Hart as Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy, Ride Along Links to reviews I wrote this week for the Herald and Seattle Weekly, and etc. Ride Along. “Mostly you get the impression that Hart...
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2018 Ten Best Movies
Brady Jandreau: The Rider (Sony Pictures Classics) Here’s my list for 2018. I didn’t have a single obvious, slap-in-the-face #1 for the year, so almost any of the top half-dozen here could have been on...
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2019 Ten Best Movies
Brad Pitt: Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood (Columbia Pictures) Here’s my Ten Best list for the Herald, the article linked here. Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino) The Irishman (Martin...
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