The 26 Best Movies of the 2010s, AKA the Twenty-Teens, AKA that Last Decade We Just Muddled Through
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63 Up, or: Still Above Ground (Mostly)
Time continues to get wider in Michael Apted’s lifelong documentary project.
Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is Better than You’ve Been Led to Believe
It’s all Gilliam, after all, and what more do you want in a movie?
Lone Wolf and Cub and The Art of Fatherhood
In which I learn that raising a baby is more complicated than at first I supposed.
Baby It’s You, John Sayles’s Un-‘80s ‘80s High School Movie
An ’80s high school movie not like the other ’80s high school movies.
The Beach Bum Has It Figured Out (Unless He Doesn’t)
In which Harmony Korine returns to befuddle and amuse you.
John McEnroe: In The Realm of Perfection, In Which Tennis Is Fiction
A pleasurably peculiar documentary about the intersection of film and tennis, of lies and truth, of McEnroe and clay.
BlacKkKlansman Sets History On Fire
Spike Lee’s period piece fights its way into the present and kicks you in the face.
Filmworker: On Leon Vitali, The Man Behind Kubrick
You like Kubrick? Leon Vitali likes him more.
Let’s Take a Look at the 50th Anniversary Unrestored Print of 2001: A Space Odyssey
It is here. It is big. It is beautiful.
Over the Edge, or: The Terror of the Bored Teenager
Give teenagers time and nothing to do, and they will set the world on fire just to watch it burn.
I See Movies, 2017 Edition
A list for thems what like lists.
Tom Waits’s Big Time Is Beautiful, And I’m Sorry You Can’t Watch It
Tom Waits made a bizarre, unique concert film people didn’t understand when it opened? And it’s actually wonderful? How very surprising.
The Karate Kid is Kind of Great
In which we revisit the ’80s classic and find it terribly charming.