In the exciting conclusion, Jeff and Aunt Beth reveal #’s 5-1 on their Best Movies of 2010s lists! Visitors from the future and the recent past await you, as do subconscious invaders and devoted football fans.
That’s Auntertainment! Episode 12: Best Movies of the 2010s Part 2
May 25, 2020
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That’s Auntertainment! Episode 12: Best Movies of the 2010s Part 1
May 24, 2020
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Aunt Beth and Jeff are finally ready to reveal their favorite movies of the past decade! In my part, they get through #’s 10-6, which includes awesomeness, subterfuge, and plenty of Emma Stone.
They also take some time at the top of the episode to memorialize the recently deceased Fred Willard and Ken Osmond.
2019: A Year at the Movies
January 1, 2020
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Watching it up on the Big Screen (PHOTO CREDIT: Robert Malone)
I saw a lot of movies in 2019, just like most years. Here are all the movies I saw in the theatre.
(Included with the list of titles are grades, dates, showtimes, theatre locations, and folks I saw the movies with.)
1. Escape Room – B- (1/2, 7:00 PM, Regal Union Square, New York, NY; myself)
2. Girl (2018) – (1/7, 7:00 PM, Light Iron, New York, NY; myself)
3. Perfectos Desconocidos – C+ (1/8, 7:30 PM, Cinépolis Chelsea, New York, NY; myself)
4. Arctic – B- (1/9, 10:00 AM, Park Avenue Screening Room, New York, NY; myself)
5. New Filmmakers Short Film Program (1/9, 6:00 PM, Anthology Archives, New York, NY; myself)
5a. Apophanistal?
5b. Jog
5c. Aperture
5d. A Man, Vanished
6. The Kid Who Would Be King – B- (1/12, 11:00 AM, Regal E-Walk, New York, NY; myself)
7. Glass – B+ (1/14, 6:30 PM, AMC Lincoln Square, New York, NY; myself)
8. Birds of Passage – B (1/16, 6:00 PM, Dolby Screening Room, New York, NY; myself)
9. The Image Book – B- (1/17, 6:00 PM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
10. Replicas – B- (1/19, 11:10 AM, E-Walk; myself)
11. A Dog’s Way Home – C+ (1/21, 7:10 PM, Regal Court Street, Brooklyn, NY; myself)
12. The Prodigy – C+ (1/24, 10:00 AM, Dolby Screening Room; myself)
13. Everybody Knows – B+ (1/29, 6:00 PM, Digital Arts Screening Room, New York, NY; myself)
14. Miss Bala – B- (1/30, 7:00 PM, AMC Empire, New York, NY; myself)
15. Cold Pursuit – B (1/31, 3:00 PM, Bryant Park Screening Room, New York, NY; myself)
16. Alita: Battle Angel – C+ (1/31, 7:00 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; myself)
17. The LEGO Movie 2 – B+ (2/4, 6:00 PM, WB Screening Room, New York, NY; myself)
18. What Men Want – C (2/6, 6:30 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; myself)
19. Fighting with My Family – B+ (2/8, 6:00 PM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
20. 2018 Oscar-Nominated Live Action Shorts (2/10, 3:10 PM, Alamo Drafthouse, Brooklyn, NY; myself)
20a. Madre
20b. Fauve
20c. Marguerite
20d. Detainment
20e. Skin
21. Happy Death Day 2U – A- (2/11, 6:00 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; myself)
22. Isn’t It Romantic – B+ (2/11, 8:00 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; myself)
23. Climax – C (2/13, 6:00 PM, Dolby Screening Room; myself)
24. Apollo 11 – B+ (2/14, 6:00 PM, Tribeca Screening Room, New York, NY; myself)
25. 2018 Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts (2/15, 6:45 PM, BAM Rose Cinemas, Brooklyn, NY; myself)
25a. Bao
25b. Weekends
25c. Late Afternoon
25d. Animal Behaviour
25e. One Small Step
25f. Wishing Box
25g. Tweet-Tweet
26. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World – B- (2/19, 6:30 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; myself)
27. Greta – B (2/20, 6:00 PM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
28. They Shall Not Grow Old – B+ (2/23, 6:30 PM, Cinépolis Chelsea; myself)
29. The Mustang – B+ (2/26, 6:00 PM, Dolby Screening Room; myself)
30. Captain Marvel – B (3/4, 6:00 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; myself)
31. The Brink – C (3/5, 6:00 PM, Dolby Screening Room; myself)
32. The Hummingbird Project – C+ (3/7, 10:00 AM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
33. Five Feet Apart – C- (3/12, 7:30 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
34. Hail Satan? – B+ (3/14, 6:00 PM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
35. Captive State – C+ (3/14, 7:30 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
36. Hotel Mumbai – C+ (3/18, 8:00 PM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
37. Us – A- (3/19, 6:30 PM, AMC Empire; Rob Malone)
38. Non-Fiction – C+ (3/20, 6:00 PM, Dolby Screening Room; myself)
39. Peterloo – B- (3/21, 5:00 PM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
40. Dumbo – B (3/25, 6:00 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; myself)
41. Teen Spirit – B (3/26, 6:00 PM, Dolby Screening Room; myself)
42. Gloria Bell – B (3/27, 6:45 PM, Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn; myself)
43. The Beach Bum – B- (4/1, 7:40 PM, Union Square; myself)
44. Her Smell – B (4/2, 10:00 AM, IFC Center, New York, NY; myself)
45. Shazam! – B (4/2, 7:00 PM, AMC Loews 34th Street, New York, NY; myself)
46. Pet Sematary (2019) – B- (4/3, 7:00 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
47. Missing Link – B (4/4, 10:00 AM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
48. Little – C (4/8, 6:30 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; myself)
49. The Man Who Killed Quixote – B (4/10, 7:00 PM, Regal Battery Park, New York, NY; myself)
50. 2019 Tribeca Film Festival: The Place of No Words – B- (4/15, 6:00 PM, Tribeca Screening Room; myself)
51. The Curse of La Llorona – B- (4/17, 7:00 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; myself)
52. Rifftrax Live: Octaman (4/18, 8:00 PM, Court Street; myself)
53. Booksmart – B (4/23, 6:00 PM, Bryant Park Screening Room; myself)
54. Under the Silver Lake – A- (4/28, 7:20 PM, Angelika Film Center, New York, NY; myself)
55. 2019 Tribeca Film Festival: Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound– B+ (4/30, 10:00 AM, Village East Cinema, New York, NY; myself)
56. The Biggest Little Farm – B (4/30, 7:30 PM, Quad Cinema, New York, NY; myself)
57. Tolkien – C (5/1, 6:00 PM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
58. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile – C (5/2, 9:15 AM, Village East Cinema; myself)
59. Avengers: Endgame – B+ (5/4, 11:00 AM, Regal Oxford Valley, Langhorne, PA; Bob Malone)
60. The Last Black Man in San Francisco – B (5/6, 6:00 PM, Dolby Screening Room; myself)
61. Detective Pikachu – B (5/7, 7:00 PM, AMC 34th Street; myself)
62. Poms – B- (5/8, 6:00 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
63. The Hustle – C- (5/8, 8:00 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
64. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum – C+ (5/9, 7:00 PM, AMC Kips Bay, New York, NY; myself)
65. A Dog’s Journey – C+ (5/14, 6:30 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; myself)
66. Wild Rose – B (5/15, 6:00 PM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
67. Aladdin (2019) – B (5/20, 6:00 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; myself)
68. Brightburn – C+ (5/21, 3:00 PM, Dolby Screening Room; myself)
69. Rocketman (2019) – B+ (5/22, 6:30 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; Yasmeen Gholmieh)
70. High Life – B- (5/23, 7:20 PM, Village East Cinema; myself)
71. Ma – B+ (5/28, 6:30 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; myself)
72. Godzilla: King of the Monsters – C- (5/29, 7:00 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
73. Late Night – C+ (5/30, 6:30 PM, SVA Theater, New York, NY; myself)
74. Dark Phoenix – C (6/3, 6:00 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; myself)
75. Long Shot – B- (6/4, 7:20 PM, Regal Essex Crossing, New York, NY; myself)
76. The Dead Don’t Die – B (6/5, 10:00 AM, Dolby Screening Room; myself)
77. Rifftrax Live: Star Raiders (6/6, 7:30 PM, E-Walk; myself)
78. Men in Black: International – C- (6/11, 5:00 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; myself)
79. Shaft (2019) – D+ (6/12, 7:00 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
80. The Farewell – B (6/19, 6:00 PM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
81. Child’s Play (2019) – B- (6/19, 8:00 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
82. Anna – B- (6/23, 2:15 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
83. Annabelle Comes Home – B- (6/24, 7:00 PM, AMC 34th Street; myself)
84. Midsommar – B (6/25, 6:00 PM, Dolby Screening Room; myself)
85. Spider-Man: Far From Home – B (6/26, 7:00 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
86. Toy Story 4 – B+ (6/30, 8:30 PM, Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn; myself)
87. Brittany Runs a Marathon – B- (7/1, 6:00 PM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
88. Stuber – C- (7/2, 6:00 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
89. The Lion King (2019) – B- (7/10, 1:00 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
90. Luce – B (7/11, 6:00 PM, Dolby Screening Room; myself)
91. Aquarela – C+ (7/15, 6:00 PM, Sony Screening Room, New York, NY; myself)
92. Crawl – B (7/17, 8:35 PM, Court Street; Rob Malone, Marie Bardi, and Chadd Harbold)
93. Yesterday – C+ (7/20, 8:15 PM, Cinépolis Chelsea; myself)
94. Hobbs & Shaw – B- (7/30, 6:30 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; myself)
95. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – B+ (7/31, 8:30 PM, BAM Rose Cinemas; Rob Malone)
96. Where’d You Go, Bernadette – B- (8/1, 10:00 AM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
97. The Art of Racing in the Rain – C+ (8/1, 6:00 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; myself)
98. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark – B- (8/10, 8:00 PM, Oxford Valley; Walt Wojcik)
99. Good Boys – B- (8/12, 6:30 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; myself)
100. Ready or Not – A- (8/13, 6:00 PM, Dolby Screening Room; myself)
101. Tigers Are Not Afraid – B- (8/14, 6:00 PM, Digital Arts; myself)
102. Rifftrax Live: The Giant Spider Invasion (8/15, 8:00 PM, E-Walk; myself)
103. The Nightingale – B (8/21, 7:00 PM, Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY; myself)
104. Loro – B+ (8/22, 6:00 PM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
105. Blinded by the Light – A- (8/25, 4:00 PM, Oxford Valley; Bob Malone)
106. First Love – B (8/28, 6:00 PM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
107. The Death of Dick Long – B+ (9/3, 6:00 PM, Technicolor Screening Room, New York, NY; myself)
108. IT: Chapter Two – C+ (9/4, 7:00 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
109. Don’t Let Go – B- (9/5, 6:30 PM, Essex Crossing; myself)
110. Dora and the Lost City of Gold – B- (9/7, 12:40 PM, Essex Crossing; myself)
111. Hustlers – B+ (9/10, 7:00 PM, AMC Linclon Square; myself)
112. Downton Abbey – B (9/12, 6:00 PM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
113. The Report – B- (9/18, 6:00 PM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
114. Judy – C+ (9/19, 10:00 AM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
115. Ad Astra – B+ (9/22, 2:10 PM, Essex Crossing; myself)
116. Abominable – B- (9/24, 6:00 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
117. The King – C- (9/25, 7:00 PM, Digital Arts; myself)
118. The Lighthouse – B- (9/27, 1:00 PM, Tribeca Screening Room; myself)
119. Joker – B (10/1, 6:00 PM, Warner Bros. Pictures Screening Room, New York, NY; myself)
120. Parasite – A- (10/3, 6:00 PM, Digital Arts; myself)
121. Gemini Man in 120 FPS 2K 3D – C+ (10/7, 6:30 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; myself)
122. Jojo Rabbit – B- (10/14, 7:00 PM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
123. Zombieland: Double Tap – B- (10/15, 7:00 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
124. Honey Boy – B- (10/17, 6:00 PM, Tribeca Screening Room; myself)
125. Greener Grass – A- (10/20, 3:00 PM, IFC Center; myself)
126. The Current War – C+ (10/21, 10:00 AM, Dolby Screening Room; myself)
127. Terminator: Dark Fate – C+ (10/21, 7:00 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; myself)
128. Harriet – B- (10/28, 6:00 PM, Bryant Park Screening Room; myself)
129. Motherless Brooklyn – B (10/29, 6:00 PM, Warner Bros. Screening Room; myself)
130. Countdown – C+ (10/31, 7:45 PM, Essex Crossing; myself)
131. Last Christmas – B (11/5, 6:30 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; myself)
132. Doctor Sleep – B (11/6, 7:00 PM, AMC 34th Street; myself)
133. Charlie’s Angels (2019) – C (11/11, 7:00 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
134. The Good Liar – B (11/12, 7:00 PM, AMC 34th Street; Kaity Malone)
135. Dark Waters – B (11/18, 10:00 AM, Tribeca Screening Room; myself)
136. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood – A- (11/18, 2:00 PM, Dolby Screening Room; myself)
137. Knives Out – A- (11/20, 7:30 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
138. Queen & Slim – B- (11/21, 6:30 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; myself)
139. The Irishman – B+ (11/26, 7:50 PM, IFC Center; myself)
140. Ford v. Ferrari – B- (11/30, 6:15 PM, AMC Neshaminy, Bensalem, PA; Walt Wojcik)
141. Portrait of a Lady on Fire – B+ (12/4, 10:00 AM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
142. Bombshell – B (12/6, 10:00 AM, Bryant Park Screening Room; myself)
143. Richard Jewell – B (12/9, 2:00 PM, Warner Bros. Screening Room; myself)
144. Jumanji: The Next Level – B- (12/9, 7:00 PM, AMC Empire; Yasmeen Gholmieh)
145. Uncut Gems – A- (12/11, 6:00 PM, Dolby Screening Room; myself)
146. Spies in Disguise – C (12/12, 6:00 PM, AMC 34th Street; myself)
147. Black Christmas (2019) – C+ (12/15, 2:50 PM, Essex Crossing; myself)
148. Little Women (2019) – B+ (12/16, 7:00 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
149. Cats – C- (12/17, 7:00 PM, The Landmark at 57 West, New York, NY; Rob Malone)
150. 1917 – B- (12/19, 6:30 PM, Village East Cinema; Rob Malone)
151. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – B (12/20, 5:00 PM, Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn; Kaity Malone, Rob Malone, and Erin McGill; also 12/31, 4:30 PM, Oxford Valley; Bob and Sue Malone)
152. Frozen II – B- (12/29, 2:00 PM, Neshaminy; Walt Wojcik)
2018: A Year at the Movies
January 1, 2019
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Movies are all about the connections we make. (Photo Credit: Kaity Malone)
(Included with the list of titles are grades, dates, showtimes, theatre locations, and folks I saw the movies with.)
1. Insidious: The Last Key – C+ (1/2, 6:30 PM, AMC Lincoln Square, New York, NY; myself)
2. Paddington 2 – B+ (1/3, 6:00 PM, WB Screening Room, New York, NY; myself)
3. 12 Strong – C (1/8, 6:00 PM, WB Screening Room; myself)
4. The Commuter – B+ (1/9, 7:00 PM, Magno Screening Room, New York, NY; myself)
5. Forever My Girl – D+ (1/10, 10:00 AM, Magno; myself)
6. A Fantastic Woman – B+ (1/12, 2:00 PM, Sony Screening Room, New York, NY; myself)
7. The Final Year – B (1/15, 6:00 PM, Park Avenue Screening Room, New York, NY; myself)
8. Maze Runner: The Death Cure in RPX – B- (1/16, 6:00 PM, Regal E-Walk, New York, NY; Rob Malone)
9. Den of Thieves – C (1/17, 6:00 PM, AMC A, New York, NY; myself)
10. Like Me – B- (1/25, 7:00 PM, IFC Center, New York, NY; Rob Malone)
11. Nostalgia – C+ (1/31, 10:30 AM, Magno; myself)
12. Winchester – C (2/1, 7:00 PM, Regal Union Square, New York, NY; myself)
13. Peter Rabbit – B- (2/2, 11:00 AM, Lincoln Square; myself)
14. The Party (2018) – C+ (2/7, 10:00 AM, Magno; myself)
15. Fifty Shades Freed – D+ (2/7, 6:30 PM, Lincoln Square; myself)
16. Early Man – B (2/9, 3:30 PM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
17. Loveless – B (2/12, 2:00 PM, Sony Screening Room; myself)
18. Black Panther – B (2/13, 6:00 PM, Lincoln Square; myself)
19. The Young Karl Marx – C (2/15, 11:00 AM, The Metrograph, New York, NY; myself)
20. Red Sparrow in RPX – B- (2/15, 6:00 PM, E-Walk; Michael Stewart)
21. Annihilation – A (2/20, 7:00 PM, E-Walk; myself)
22. The Endless – B+ (2/21, 6:00 PM, Magno; myself; also 4/7, 7:20 PM, IFC Center; myself)
23. Thoroughbreds – B- (2/22, 6:00 PM, Magno; myself)
24. Foxtrot – B (2/26, 11:00 AM, Sony Screening Room; myself)
25. Strangers: Prey at Night – C- (2/26 6:00 PM Magno; myself)
26. Death Wish (2018) – C+ (2/28, 7:00 PM, Lincoln Square; myself)
27. Gringo – B- (3/6, 7:30 PM, Lincoln Square; myself)
28. Unsane – B+ (3/7, 10:00 AM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
29. 7 Days in Entebbe – C- (3/7, 6:00 PM, Magno; myself)
30. The China Hustle – B (3/8, 6:00 PM, Magno; myself)
31. Tomb Raider (2018) – C+ (3/14, 7:00 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
32. Isle of Dogs – A- (3/15, 6:00 PM, Dolby 88 Screening Room, New York, NY; myself)
33. Final Portrait – C (3/19, 10:00 AM, Sony Screening Room; myself)
34. Midnight Sun – B- (3/19, 6:00 PM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
35. Pacific Rim: Uprising – C- (3/20, 6:30 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
36. Game Over, Man – C- (3/22, 7:00 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
37. Gemini – B+ (3/26, 7:00 PM, Crosby Hotel Screening Room, New York, NY; myself)
38. Ready Player One – B- (3/27, 7:00 PM, Lincoln Square; myself)
39. A Quiet Place – B+ (3/29, 6:30 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
40. Blockers – B (4/2, 6:30 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
41. The Rider – B (4/3, 6:00 PM, Sony Screening Room; myself)
42. The Death of Stalin – B+ (4/4, 6:00 PM, Alamo Drafthouse, Brooklyn, NY; myself)
43. RBG – B (4/5, 6:00 PM, Dolby 24 Screening Room, New York, NY; myself)
44. Truth or Dare – B- (4/10, 6:30 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
45. Rampage – C (4/11, 7:00 PM, Lincoln Square; myself)
46. On Chesil Beach – C- (4/12, 6:30 PM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
47. A Wrinkle in Time – B- (4/15, 6:15 PM, Regal United Artists Court Street, Brooklyn, NY; myself)
48. I Feel Pretty – B+ (4/16, 6:00 PM, E-Walk; Marissa Sblendorio)
49. First Reformed – B+ (4/17, 6:00 PM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
50. 2018 Tribeca Film Festival: Disobedience – B (4/18, 9:30 AM, Cinépolis Chelsea, New York, NY; myself)
51. 2018 Tribeca Film Festival: The Seagull – B- (4/22, 10:00 AM, Cinépolis Chelsea; myself)
52. Most Likely to Murder – B- (4/24, 7:30 PM, Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn; myself)
53. 2018 Tribeca Film Festival: Little Woods – B+ (4/25, 9:30 AM, Cinépolis Chelsea; myself)
54. 2018 Tribeca Film Festival: Little Women (2018) Episode 1 (4/27, 5:00 PM, SVA Theater, New York, NY; myself)
55. Tully – B+ (4/30, 6:00 PM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
56. Beast – B (5/1, 6:00 PM, Magno; myself)
57. Overboard (2018) – B- (5/2, 7:30 PM AMC Empire; myself)
58. American Animals – B+ (5/8, 6:00 PM, Magno; myself)
59. Breaking In – C- (5/9, 6:30 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
60. Deadpool 2 – C+ (5/10, 4:30 PM, Lincoln Square; Kaity Malone)
61. Pope Francis: A Man of His Word – B+ (5/14, 6:00 PM, Magno; myself)
62. Solo: A Star Wars Story – B (5/21, 6:00 PM, Lincoln Square; myself)
63. Damsel – B+ (5/22, 6:00 PM, Magno; myself)
64. Avengers: Infinity War – B+ (5/28, 9:35 AM; Regal Oxford Valley, Langhorne, PA; Bob Malone)
65. Won’t You Be My Neighbor – B (5/29, 6:00 PM, Magno; myself)
66. Adrift – B- (5/30, 7:00 PM, AMC Loews 34th Street, New York, NY; myself)
67. Hereditary – B+ (5/31, 6:00 PM, Dolby 88 Screening Room; myself)
68. Hotel Artemis – C (6/4, 6:00 PM, Magno; myself)
69. Ocean’s 8 – B- (6/6, 7:00 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
70. Blindspotting – B (6/7, 6:00 PM, Magno; myself)
71. Incredibles 2 – B+ (6/11, 6:00 PM, Lincoln Square; myself)
72. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom – B- (6/12, 6:00 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
73. Rifftrax Live: Space Mutiny (6/14, 8:00 PM, E-Walk; myself)
74. Sorry to Bother You – A (6/18, 7:00 PM, Magno; myself; also 8/17, 3:00 PM, Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn; myself)
75. Three Identical Strangers – B+ (6/19, 6:00 PM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
76. Leave No Trace – B (6/21, 6:00 PM; Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
77. Sicario: Day of the Soldado – C (6/25, 7:00 PM, AMC Empire; Chris Regimenti)
78. Ant-Man and the Wasp – B (6/26, 7:00 PM, Lincoln Square; myself)
79. Uncle Drew – B- (6/27, 10:00 AM, Magno; myself)
89. Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot – B- (6/28, 7:30 PM, Lincoln Square; myself)
90. The First Purge – B- (7/2, 6:30 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
91. Skyscraper – C (7/9, 6:30 PM, Lincoln Square; Margot Levinson)
92. Eighth Grade – A- (7/10, 10:00 AM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
93. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again – C+ (7/16, 6:30 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
94. Never Goin’ Back – B- (7/19, 5:00 PM, Tribeca Screening Room, New York, NY; myself)
95. Unfriended: Dark Web – B- (7/20, 8:20 PM, Regal Battery Park, New York, NY; myself)
96. The Miseducation of Cameron Post – B (7/24, 6:00 PM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
97. Teen Titans Go! To the Movies – B+ (7/25, 7:00 PM, Lincoln Square; myself)
98. BlacKkKlansman – A- (7/31, 10:00 AM, Bryant Park Screening Room, New York, NY; myself)
99. Christopher Robin – B (8/1, 6:00 PM, Lincoln Square; myself)
100. Mission: Impossible – Fallout – B+ (8/11, 3:15 PM, Oxford Valley; Bob Malone)
101. Crazy Rich Asians – B (8/13, 7:00 PM, Lincoln Square; myself)
102. Mile 22 – C- (8/15, 7:00 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
103. Searching – B+ (8/16, 7:00 PM, Lincoln Square; myself)
104. The Meg – C+ (8/19, 2:10 PM, Court Street; Rob Malone)
105. The Happytime Murders – B (8/20, 7:00 PM, AMC 34th Street; myself)
106. Monsters and Men – B- (8/22, 6:00 PM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
107. Rifftrax Live: Krull (8/23, 8:00 PM, E-Walk; myself)
108. The Little Stranger – B- (8/27, 6:00 PM, Dolby 88 Screening Room; myself)
109. Love, Gilda – B (8/30, 4:00 PM, Digital Arts, New York, NY; myself)
110. The Nun – C+ (9/4, 6:00 PM, Lincoln Square; myself)
111. Lizzie – B- (9/5, 10:00 AM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
112. Peppermint – C- (9/5, 7:00 PM, Lincoln Square; myself)
113. The Predator – C+ (9/10, 7:00 PM, Lincoln Square; Chris Regimenti)
114. The Sisters Brothers – B (9/11, 10:00 AM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
115. A Simple Favor – B+ (9/12, 10:00 AM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
116. Assassination Nation – B+ (9/13, 6:00 PM, Dolby 88 Screening Room; myself)
117. Mandy – B- (9/16, 1:25 PM, Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn; Rob Malone)
118. The House with a Clock in Its Walls – C+ (9/17, 6:30 PM, AMC 34th Street; myself)
119. Life Itself – C- (9/18, 10:00 AM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
120. Fahrenheit 11/9 – B (9/18, 8:30 PM, Dolby 24 Screening Room; myself)
121. The Oath – B- (9/20, 6:00 PM, Tribeca Screening Room; myself)
122. Smallfoot – B- (9/22, 11:00 AM, AMC Empire; myself)
123. Beautiful Boy – B (9/24, 6:00 PM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
124. The Hate U Give – B+ (9/25, 3:00 PM, Lincoln Square; myself)
125. Suspiria (2018) – B+ (9/25, 6:00 PM, Tribeca Screening Room; myself)
126. Bad Times at the El Royale – B+ (9/27, 6:00 PM, E-Walk; Chris Regimenti)
127. First Man – B (10/1, 6:30 PM, AMC Empire; Chris Regimenti)
128. Boy Erased – B+ (10/2, 6:00 PM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
129. A Star is Born – B (10/3, 5:30 PM, AMC 34th Street; myself)
130. The Old Man & the Gun – B+ (10/7, 3:00 PM, BAM Rose Cinemas, Brooklyn, NY; myself)
131. Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween – C+ (10/9, 5:00 PM, E-Walk; myself)
131. Burning – B- (10/11, 6:00 PM, Tribeca Screening Room; myself)
132. Can You Ever Forgive Me? – B+ (10/12, 7:00 PM, Whitby Hotel, New York, NY; myself)
133. Johnny English Strikes Again – B- (10/13, 4:00 PM, Tribeca Screening Room; myself)
134. Halloween (2018) – B+ (10/15, 6:30 PM, Lincoln Square; Rob Malone)
135. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – B- (10/17, 6:00 PM, Dolby 24 Screening Room; myself)
136. Bohemian Rhapsody – C (10/24, 6:30 PM, Fox Screening Room, New York, NY; myself)
137. Cold War – B (10/25, 6:00 PM, Soho House, New York, NY; myself)
138. Nosferatu – B (10/26, 7:00 PM, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, NY; Evan Cardona, Maya Bee, Anton Rayn, and Avery ???)
139. Venom – B+ (10/28, 1:45 PM, Court Street; myself)
140. The Nutcracker and the Four Realms – B- (10/30, 6:00 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
141. The Fog (1980) – B (10/31, 7:00 PM, The Metrograph; myself)
142. Ben is Back – B (11/1, 10:00 AM, Digital Arts; myself)
143. The Girl in the Spider’s Web – C+ (11/5, 7:00 PM, Battery Park; myself)
144. The Grinch – C+ (11/6, 6:30 PM, Lincoln Square; myself)
145. At Eternity’s Gate – B (11/7, 10:00 AM, Tribeca Screening Room; myself)
146. Overlord – B (11/7, 7:00 PM, Lincoln Square; myself)
147. Widows – A- (11/8, 6:00 PM, E-Walk; myself)
148. Green Book – B+ (11/12, 6:30 PM, Battery Park; myself)
149. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald – C (11/14, 7:00 PM, AMC 34th Street; myself)
150. Creed II – B (11/15, 11:00 AM, Lincoln Square; myself)
151. The Favourite – B+ (11/19, 12:00 PM, Fox Screening Room; myself)
152. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – B+ (11/19, 8:00 PM, Lincoln Square; myself; also 12/29, 1:40 PM Oxford Valley; Bob Malone)
153. Ralph Breaks the Internet – B+ (11/24, 2:00 PM, Oxford Valley; Bob Malone and Walt Wojcik)
154. Anna and the Apocalypse – B- (11/26, 11:00 AM, Tribeca Screening Room; myself)
155. Vox Lux – B+ (11/28, 6:00 PM, Technicolor Screening Room, New York, NY; myself)
156. Instant Family – B+ (11/29, 7:40 PM, E-Walk; myself)
157. The Front Runner – C+ (12/2, 4:00 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
158. Mary Queen of Scots – B- (12/3, 10:00 AM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
159. On the Basis of Sex – B- (12/3, 6:00 PM, Dolby 88; myself)
160. Stan & Ollie – B (12/4, 8:00 PM, Sony Screening Room; myself)
161. If Beale Street Could Talk – B (12/5, 10:00 AM, Tribeca Screening Room; myself)
162. Free Solo – B+ (12/6, 8:15 PM, Angelika Film Center, New York, NY; myself)
163. The Mule – B- (12/10, 2:00 PM, WB Screening Room; myself)
164. Mortal Engines – C+ (12/10, 6:30 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
165. Vice – B (12/11, 3:00 PM, Tribeca Screening Room; myself)
166. Destroyer – B- (12/11, 7:00 PM, SoHo House; myself)
167. Bumbleebee – B (12/13, 6:00 PM, Lincoln Square; myself)
168. Roma – B- (12/16, 3:00 PM, Cobble Hill Cinemas, New York NY; myself)
169. Aquaman – B- (12/17, 7:00 PM, Lincoln Square; myself)
170. Welcome to Marwen – C (12/18, 6:30 PM, AMC 34th Street; Yasmeen Gholmieh)
171. Second Act – C+ (12/19, 7:00 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
172. Mary Poppins Returns – B- (12/31, 3:40 PM, Oxford Valley; Bob Malone, Sue Malone, Claire Dansbury, and Pat Dansbury)
Best Movies of 2018
December 28, 2018
Best in Film 2018, Best of 2018, Cinema Annihilation, Best of 2018, BlacKkKlansman, Eighth Grade, First Reformed, Isle of Dogs, movies, Sorry to Bother You, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Endless, Unsane, Widows Leave a comment
CREDIT: Courtesy of the Studios
This post was originally published on News Cult in December 2018.
I saw nearly 200 new movies in 2018, a personal record, and yet, there were still a couple dozen that I wish had more time to see. If you had told me just three years ago how many movies I would see this year, I would assume that everything would be crossed off my 2018 cinema checklist. But as I get deeper and deeper into the world of film journalism and analysis, I become ever more aware of just how seemingly limitless the cinematic landscape is. Despite my shortcomings, I am confident that I managed to put together a top 10 list that at the very least hints at all the storytelling diversity that the medium had to offer this year.
But before we get to that, here are some more 2018 movies that I loved: Assassination Nation, Bad Times at the El Royale, Boy Erased, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, The Commuter, The Death of Stalin, The Favourite, Gemini, Green Book, The Hate U Give, Hereditary, Instant Family, The Old Man & the Gun, Paddington 2, Pope Francis: A Man of His Word, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Searching, A Simple Favor, Suspiria, Teen Titans Go! To the Movies, Three Identical Strangers, Tully, and Venom.
10. Unsane – Claire Foy gets totally gaslit about her mental state, while Steven Soderbergh captures the whole charade on an iPhone. It’s more than a gimmick, as he expands his cinematic language, and a disturbing scam gets indicted in the process.
9. Isle of Dogs – Wes Anderson’s Japan-set animated canine adventure navigates some tricky business about cultural appropriateness, but it’s still a whimsical, yet thrillingly dangerous tale with delightfully quirky animation and an evergreen warning against tyrannical government.
8. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – The best superhero movie of 2018 was molded by the baggage of history while managing to also be revolutionary in a way that didn’t seem possible anymore in this era of comic book movie overload. Every Spider-Man story has partly been about how we all have the capacity to be heroic Spider-Beings; few prove it as imaginatively as Into the Spider-Verse.
7. Eighth Grade – Eighth Grade is basically anxiety distilled into its purest cinematic form. How could it not be? It focuses on a teenage girl in 2018 whose life is inexplicably tied to her screens, and it’s directed by Bo Burnham, who has captured his own anxiety for the raw material in his live shows. It sounds like a nightmare, and it kind of is, but it is also singularly exhilarating and inspiring.
6. BlacKkKlansman – Colorado Springs’ first black detective picks up the phone and cold-calls the KKK, setting off a batty infiltration that comments on the persistence of bigotry and the inspiration of blaxploitation. If Ron Stallworth’s story weren’t true, would Spike Lee have to have created it? He certainly had to do something to get us electrified in this still-way-too-discriminatory real world.
5. Widows – A trio of women lose their criminal husbands and are left to pull off a multimillion dollar heist in their (dis)honor. Meanwhile, Chicago’s political machine keeps dirtily chugging along. Steve McQueen’s top-notch skills elevate the message and thrills of every single frame.
4. First Reformed – The movie of 2018 that I’ve thought about the most since seeing it. Ethan Hawke plays Ernst Toller, a reverend counseling a man who has grown profoundly fatalistic over the state of a world ravaged by global warming. He catches something from this member of his flock – is it a disease, or perhaps an epiphany? If you’re alive in 2018 and cannot relate to Toller, you’re not paying attention.
3. The Endless – Two brothers are living on their own after escaping from the cult they grew up in, but they cannot quite escape the pull of its gravity. Upon returning for a visit, they discover the elliptical truth of what is really going on, and a new landmark vision of sci-fi horror comes to fruition.
2. Sorry to Bother You – Cash Green uses his “white voice” to become a successful telemarketer, and that’s only the start of capitalism taking him for all that he’s worth. Boots Riley’s incendiary clarion call to workers’ rights is bold, everything-AND-the-kitchen-sink filmmaking.
1. Annihilation – A group of scientists and doctors (who all happen to be female) head into Area X, where a bunch of weird goings-on confound and entrance them. All forms of life in this realm are more or less cross-bred with each other, creating utter strangeness, terrifying abominations, and above all, sublime beauty.
2017: A Year at the Movies
January 1, 2018
A Year at the Movies, Cinema A Year at the Movies, Jeffrey Malone, movies Leave a comment
2017 movies had me like… (Photo Credit: Kaity Malone)
(Included with the list of titles are grades, dates, showtimes, theatre locations, and folks I saw the movies with.)
Now that I see movies as part of my job, I was easily able to break my yearly moviegoing record by September. I hope to break it again in 2018, as I hope to go more often when it is not work-related.
1. Tower – B+ (1/4, 7:00 PM, Greenwich Lane Screening Room, New York, NY; myself)
2. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – B (1/5, 6:45 PM, Regal E-Walk, New York, NY; myself)
3. Monster Trucks – C+ (1/7, 10:00 AM, E-Walk, New York, NY; Kaity Malone)
4. Bitter Harvest – C- (1/11, 4:00 PM, Park Avenue Screening Room, New York, NY; myself)
5. The Bye Bye Man – B- (1/11, 7:30 PM, AMC Empire, New York, NY; myself)
6. I Am Not Your Negro – B (1/12, 6:00 PM, Magno Screening Room, New York, NY; myself)
7. Silence – B+ (1/13, 6:50 PM, Regal Union Square, New York, NY; myself)
8. The Salesman – B (1/17, 3:00 PM, Cohen Media Group Screening Room, New York, NY; myself)
9. Split – B+ (1/20, 7:55 PM, Regal Oxford Valley, Langhorne, PA; myself)
10. A Dog’s Purpose – C (1/23, 6:30 PM, E-Walk; myself)
11. The Space Between Us – C (1/25, 6:00 PM, Magno Screening Room; myself)
12. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter in RPX 3D – C (1/26, 7:00 PM, Regal United Artists Court Street, Brooklyn, NY; myself)
13. Fences – B+ (1/27, 9:15 PM, Court Street; myself)
14. Lion – B+ (1/28, 8:15 PM, Angelika Film Center, New York, NY; Kaity Malone)
15. John Wick: Chapter 2 – B (2/6, 6:00 PM, Magno Screening Room; myself)
16. A Cure for Wellness – B- (2/8, 2:00 PM, Dolby 88 Screening Room, New York, NY; myself)
17. The Great Wall – C+ (2/15, 6:30 PM, E-Walk; myself)
18. Logan – B+ (2/16, 5:00 PM, E-Walk; Rob Malone)
19. Get Out – B+ (2/24, 7:45 PM, Regal Battery Park, New York, NY; myself)
20. Before I Fall – B- (2/27, 6:00 PM, Magno Screening Room; myself)
21. The Sense of an Ending – C- (3/1, 7:00 PM, AMC Lincoln Square, New York, NY; myself)
22. Wilson – B (3/2, 6:00 PM, Fox Screening Room, New York, NY; myself)
23. Cézanne et Moi – C (3/6, 6:00 PM, Dolby 24 Screening Room, New York, NY; myself)
24. Dean – B (3/9, 10:00 AM, Dolby 88 Screening Room; myself)
25. T2 Trainspotting – B (3/13, 7:00 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; myself)
26. Their Finest – B (3/15, 6:00 PM, Magno Screening Room; myself)
27. 3 Generations – C (3/16, 4:00 PM, Magno Screening; myself)
28. Life (2017) – C+ (3/22, 7:00 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
29. Free Fire – C+ (3/27, 6:00 PM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
30. Raw – B (3/30, 8:45 PM, Alamo Drafthouse, Brooklyn, NY; myself)
31. Born in China – C- (4/5, 4:00 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
32. Going in Style – C (4/5, 7:00 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; myself)
33. The Lost City of Z – B (4/6, 10:00 AM, Magno Screening Room; myself)
34. The Dinner – C (4/6, 6:00 PM, Magno Screening Room; myself)
35. Rifftrax Live: Samurai Cop (4/13, 8:00 PM, Union Square; myself)
36. Beauty and the Beast (2017) – B- (4/14, 7:45 PM, AMC Neshaminy, Bensalem, PA; Bob and Sue Malone)
37. The Fate of the Furious – B- (4/15, 7:45 PM, Oxford Valley; myself)
38. The Promise – B- (4/17, 3:00 PM, Magno Screening Room; myself)
39. The Little Hours – B (4/19, 10:00 AM, Magno Screening Room; myself)
40. Unforgettable – B- (4/19, 7:00 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; myself)
41. 2017 Tribeca Film Festival: Psychopaths – B- (4/21, 1:15 PM, Cinépolis Chelsea, New York, NY; myself)
42. 2017 Tribeca Film Festival: “Last Exit” Shorts (4/23, 1:45 PM, Cinépolis Chelsea; myself)
42a. Oh Damn – B
42b. Don’t Mess with Julie Whitfield – B-
42c. Cul-De-Sac – B-
42d. Retouch – B
42e. Buckets – B
42f. Baraka – B
43. Sleight – B- (4/24, 7:00 PM, Dolby 88 Screening Room; myself)
44. 2017 Tribeca Film Festival: The Clapper – C+ (4/26, 3:00 PM, Cinépolis Chelsea; Marissa Sblendorio)
45. Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 – B (4/26, 6:00 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
46. 2017 Tribeca Film Festival: The Circle – B- (4/27, 10:00 AM, Cinépolis Chelsea; Marissa Sblendorio)
47. 2017 Tribeca Film Festival: Take Me – B+ (4/28, 12:15 PM, Cinépolis Chelsea; myself)
48. 2017 Tribeca Film Festival: Copwatch – B- (4/29, 1:15 PM, Cinépolis Chelsea; myself)
49. The Hero – B (5/3, 6:00 PM, Dolby 24 Screening Room; myself)
50. Lowriders – C+ (5/3, 8:00 PM, Magno Screening Room; myself)
51. The Wall (2017) – B- (5/4, 10:00 AM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
52. Alien: Covenant – B+ (5/5, 5:30 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; myself)
53. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword – C+ (5/8, 11:00 AM, WB Screening Room, New York, NY; myself)
54. Snatched – C (5/8, 7:00 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; Marissa Sblendorio)
55. Everything, Everything – C+ (5/17, 7:00 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
56. Baywatch – C- (5/22, 6:00 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; myself)
57. Beatriz at Dinner – B (5/24, 10:00 AM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
58. It Comes at Night – B+ (5/31, 10:00 AM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
59. 3 Idiotas – B (5/31, 7:30 PM, AMC Loews 34th Street, New York, NY; myself)
60. Megan Leavey – B- (6/5, 6:00 PM, Magno Screening Room; myself)
61. The Mummy (2017)- C- (6/6, 6:00 PM, Regal E-Walk; myself)
62. The Bad Batch – B+ (6/7, 6:00 PM, Magno Screening Room; myself)
63. The Big Sick – A (6/12, 7:00 PM, Union Square; myself)
64. Lady Macbeth – A- (6/14, 4:00 PM, Magno Screening Room; myself)
65. 47 Meters Down – B- (6/14, 6:00 PM, E-Walk; Kaity Malone)
66. Brigsby Bear – B+ (6/14, 5:00 PM, Sony Screening Room, New York, NY; myself)
67. Rifftrax Live: Summer Shorts Beach Party (6/15, 8:00 PM, Union Square; myself)
68. Okja – B+ (6/19, 6:00 PM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
69. The Beguiled (2017) – B+ (6/20, 10:00 AM, Bryant Park Screening Room, New York, NY; myself)
70. War for the Planet of the Apes – B+ (6/21, 6:30 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; Rob Malone)
71. Baby Driver – B+ (6/22, 7:00 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
72. Despicable Me 3 – B- (6/26, 6:30 PM, E-Walk; myself)
73. A Ghost Story – C+ (6/28, 10:00 AM; Dolby 88 Screening Room; myself)
74. Spider-Man: Homecoming – B (6/28, 6:00 PM, AMC Kips Bay, New York, NY; Kaity Malone and Marissa Sblendorio)
75. The Book of Henry – C (6/29, 7:10 PM, Landmark Sunshine, New York, NY; myself)
76. Wonder Woman – A- (7/7, 7:00 PM, Union Square; myself)
77. Wish Upon – C (7/10, 7:00 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
78. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets – B+ (7/11, 10:00 AM, AMC Empire; myself)
79. Detroit – B+ (7/19, 4:00 PM, Light Iron, New York, NY; myself)
80. Dunkirk in IMAX 70MM – B+ (7/19, 7:00 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; myself)
81. Whose Streets? – B (7/20, 6:00 PM, Magno Screening Room; myself)
82. Atomic Blonde – B (7/24, 6:30 PM, AMC Empire; Rob Malone)
83. Wind River – B (7/25, 10:00 AM, Dolby 24 Screening Room; myself)
84. An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power – B- (7/25, 4:00 PM, Paramount Screening Room, New York, NY; myself)
85. Ingrid Goes West – B (7/26, 6:00 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; myself)
86. Good Time – B (7/31, 4:00 PM, Digital Arts, New York, NY; myself)
87. The Dark Tower – D+ (8/2, 7:00 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; myself)
88. Patti Cake$ – B- (8/3, 10:00 AM, Fox Screening Room; myself)
89. Birth of the Dragon – C- (8/3, 6:00 PM, Magno Screening Room; myself)
90. Annabelle: Creation – B- (8/12, 8:15 PM, Oxford Valley; Walt Wojcik)
91. Logan Lucky – B+ (8/14, 6:00 PM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
92. Leap! – C (8/15, 10:00 AM, Magno Screening Room; myself)
93. The Tiger Hunter – C- (8/16, 6:00 PM, Magno Screening Room; myself)
94. Rifftrax Live: Doctor Who – The Five Doctors (8/17, 8:00 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
95. Close Encounters of the Third Kind – B+/A- (9/2, 9:40 PM, Oxford Valley; Walt Wojcik and Karl
96. Stronger – B (9/7, 10:00 AM, Dolby 88 Screening Room; myself)
97. Winning (2017) – C (9/7, 5:00 PM, Cinépolis Chelsea; myself)
98. Tulip Fever – C (9/8, 7:40 PM, Angelika Film Center; myself)
99. Brad’s Status – B (9/10, 10:00 AM, Magno Screening Room; myself)
100. Woodshock – D+ (9/12, 10:00 AM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
101. Battle of the Sexes – B (9/13, 10:00 AM, Magno Screening Room; myself)
102. Victoria & Abdul – A- (9/13, 6:00 PM, Bryant Park Screening Room; myself)
103. Kingsman: The Golden Circle – B- (9/14, 6:30 PM, AMC Empire; Marissa Sblendorio)
104. mother! – A- (9/16, 8:00 PM, Cinépolis Chelsea; Kaity Malone)
105. Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House – C- (9/18, 6:00 PM, Magno Screening Room; myself)
106. The LEGO Ninjago Movie – B (9/19, 4:00 PM, WB Screening Room; myself)
107. Friend Request – C- (9/20, 7:00 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
108. Human Flow – B- (9/21, 6:00 PM, Magno Screening Room; myself)
109. Zardoz – ??? (9/24, 9:30 PM, Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn; Rob Malone and Chadd Harbold; myself)
110. American Made – B+ (9/25, 6:30 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
111. Professor Marston and the Wonder Women – B+ (9/28, 10:00 AM, Dolby 24 Screening Room; myself)
112. Wonderstruck – B+ (9/28, 6:00 PM, Magno Screening Room; myself)
113. My Little Pony: The Movie – C+ (10/1, 11:00 AM, AMC Empire; myself)
114. The Florida Project – B+ (10/2, 2:00 PM, Dolby 88 Screening Room; myself)
115. Marshall – B (10/4, 6:00 PM, Magno Screening Room; myself)
116. The Killing of a Sacred Deer – B- (10/5, 7:00 PM, Soho House, New York, NY; myself)
117. Blade Runner 2049 – B+ (10/8, 1:30 PM, BAM Rose Cinemas, Brooklyn, NY; Rob Malone)
118. Breathe – C (10/9, 10:00 AM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
119. The Foreigner – B- (10/9, 6:00 PM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
120. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) – B+ (10/10, 10:00 AM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
121. Happy Death Day – B+ (10/10, 6:30 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
122. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – A- (10/11, 4:00 PM, Magno Screening Room; myself)
123. Only the Brave – C+ (10/16, 7:30 PM, AMC Empire; myself)
124. Novitiate – B+ (10/17, 6:00 PM, Sony Screening Room; myself)
125. All I See is You – C+ (10/18, 10:00 AM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
126. The Snowman – D+ (10/18, 6:30 PM, AMC Loews 19th Street East, New York, NY; myself)
127. The Square – B (10/19, 6:00 PM, Magno Screening Room; myself)
128. Thank You for Your Service – B- (10/23, 6:30 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; myself)
129. Suburbicon – C (10/24, 6:30 PM, Paramount Screening Room; myself)
130. Thelma – B+ (10/25, 10:00 AM, Soho House; myself)
131. Last Flag Flying – B (10/25, 6:00 PM, Digital Arts; myself)
132. Thor: Ragnarok – B (10/26, 6:00 PM, AMC Loews 34th Street; myself)
133. Blade of the Immortal – B (10/31, 10:00 AM, Magno Screening Room; myself)
134. Lady Bird – A- (11/1, 10:00 AM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
135. The Man Who Invented Christmas – C+ (11/2, 6:00 PM, Dolby 24 Screening Room; myself)
136. I Love You, Daddy (11/6, 3:00 PM, Dolby 88 Screening Room; myself)
137. Murder on the Orient Express (2017) – C+ (11/6, 6:30 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; Mike Stewart)
138. Daddy’s Home 2 – B- (11/7, 6:30 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; myself)
139. Darkest Hour – C+ (11/8, 10:00 AM, Bryant Park Screening Room; myself)
140. Call Me by Your Name – B (11/8, 8:00 PM, Magno Screening Room; myself)
141. Wonder – B (11/14, 10:00 AM, Magno Screening Room; myself)
142. IT (2017) – B+ (11/14, 7:15 PM, Union Square; myself)
143. I, Tonya – A- (11/15, 10:00 AM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
144. Justice League – C (11/15, 7:00 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; myself)
145. The Shape of Water – B+ (11/21, 6:00 PM, Magno Screening Room; myself)
146. Wonder Wheel – C- (11/27, 10:30 AM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
147. The Disaster Artist – A- (11/28, 7:00 PM, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Marissa Sblendorio)
148. Molly’s Game – B- (12/5, 2:00 PM, Magno Screening Room; myself)
149. Hostiles – C+ (12/6, 10:00 AM, Crosby Street Hotel Screening Room, New York, NY; myself)
150. The Post – B (12/6, 6:00 PM, Dolby 88 Screening Room; myself)
151. Happy End – C+ (12/7, 2:00 PM, Sony Screening Room; myself)
152. Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool – B (12/7, 5:00 PM, Sony Screening Room; myself)
153. Please Stand By – B (12/12, 10:00 AM, Dolby 88 Screening Room; myself)
154. Star Wars: The Last Jedi – A- (12/15, 3:45 PM, Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn; Rob Malone, Kaity Malone, and Erin McGill)
155. Phantom Thread – B (12/18, 6:00 PM, AMC Lincoln Square; myself)
156. Downsizing – B (12/19, 4:00 PM, Paramount Screening Room; myself)
157. All the Money in the World – B (12/20, 6:00 PM, Park Avenue Screening Room; myself)
158. Coco – B (12/27, 6:40 PM, Oxford Valley; myself while my family went to Darkest Hour)
Best Movies of 2017
December 31, 2017
Best in Film 2017, Best of 2017, Cinema Best of 2017, Brigsby Bear, I Tonya, Lady Bird, Lady Macbeth, mother!, movies, The Big Sick, The Disaster Artist, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Wonder Woman Leave a comment
CREDIT: YouTube Screenshots
This ranking was originally posted on News Cult in December 2017.
There are several women-centric films on my 2017 best-of list, with multiple ladies and women appearing right there in the titles. As this has been the year of #MeToo, is this female presence a trend, or just a coincidence? My gut says the latter, as any year’s cinema is deep, wide, and collaborative, and therefore resulting from a multitude of sources. But fresh storytelling resonates with me (and with most critics, I believe), so it makes sense that those who have been previously silenced are highlighted among the best when they are finally able to tell their stories.
Great movies that didn’t quite make my list include Alien: Covenant, Blade Runner 2049, Detroit, The Florida Project, Get Out, Happy Death Day, Logan, Logan Lucky, Okja, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Victoria & Abdul, and War for the Planet of the Apes.
10. The Disaster Artist
James Franco finds his perfect passion project in revealing and gussying up the making of the best worst movie of all time. The ethos of the confused but accidentally brilliant The Room and its fandom are inherently infused in this mix of the conventional and the once-in-a-lifetime.
Best Films of 2015
December 31, 2015
Best in Film 2015, Best of 2015, Cinema Best of 2015, Bridge of Spies, Ex Machina, Inside Out, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, movies, Sicario, Spotlight, Star Wars The Force Awakens, Steve Jobs, The Big Short, What We Do in the Shadows 1 Comment
Clockwise from Top Left: Inside Out; Spotlight; Ex Machina; The Big Short (CREDIT: YouTube Screenshots)
Box office records kept falling in 2015, and some of the biggest blockbusters were actually among the best films of the year! This is appropriate enough, as bigness was the name of the day in 2015, with Big Emotions and Big Ideas all over this list. Whether it was through muckraking journalism and statesmanship, the birth of new heroes, or the burning desire to make personal connections, the makers of the best films of 2015 made sure audiences heard what they had to say.
This top 10 list was originally posted on Starpulse in December 2015.
1. The Big Short – Spoiler alert: as the wild ride of Adam McKay’s adaptation of Michael Lewis’ bestselling nonfiction thriller about the players who anticipated the bursting of the U.S. housing bubble settles into its conclusion, the epilogue reveals that every Wall Street fraudster was imprisoned and new stringent legal regulations have been implemented to prevent another crisis. Except, of course, that didn’t happen. This is an esoteric topic, but the audience for “The Big Short” knows it has been screwed. The level at which this swindling occurred is astounding and ridiculous, and the filmmaking that captures it is just as absurdly gut-wrenching.
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