2010s
While it’s set up with a poignant perspectives, Cubby fails to provide an introspective look into loss and growth.
Ruth Caudeli’s Second Star on the Right winningly captures our varying levels of maturation and individualism, with beauty and style.
Lacking a statement about the artist-muse relationship, Nick Broomfield’s Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love fails to live up to the promise of its title.
While it’s not the best made documentary of the year, The Great Hack is the most important documentary you’ll watch all year.
Good Girls Revolt is a significant and powerfully expressive series about sexual discrimination and harassment.
A baseball film almost without baseball, Moneyball is a revolutionary sports film. Lewis Punton takes a closer look at the conversations that fuel the plot.
Rather than looking skyward, Armstrong awkwardly looks at its feet, the film eclipsed by other efforts both fictional and factual.
Sometimes simple is all you need to make a fun movie, and with its quintessential man vs. nature thriller, we need more simple movies like Crawl.
Eaten By Lions will fill the void with laughs and wacky characters worth rooting for, and it just so happens to be a wonderful tale of brotherly love and multiculturalism.
For those looking for a film that both acts as a tribute to its roots while never straying from the course it’s set off on, see The Lion King with an open mind.
Romanian film I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History as Barbarians makes a bold statement about power and violence without resorting to fighting fire with fire.
Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster, Frankenstein is a wonderfully absurd, surreal comedy, satirically captures the story of Frankenstein, and the confusion which comes with it.
A Faithful Man is a charming farce that only the French could pull off, combining all of the best elements of vintage romances with a thoroughly modern take on gender roles.
While Luz has all of the trappings of a horror film of yesteryear, it is clear that Tilman Singer is an exciting new filmmaker to watch.
While The Farewell brings the identity crisis that many immigrant families face to the big screen, it also is a true-to-life reflection of family dynamics that everyone can relate to.