20 BEST FILMS OF 2019 *AnonymousFilm Comment
ROAD TO PERDITION, the astonishingly overlookedAWAY WE GO, andSKYFALL.1917will be etched into the hallows of the greatest war movies ever made. It separates itself from theSAVING PRIVATE RYANandBLACKHAWK DOWNtype films that show a lot of actual warfare, and instead feels more in the countenance...
In Joanna Hogg’s films, the camera frame is a proscenium arch, with actors moving in and out of the space, talking off-screen, sometimes having full arguments off-screen. Hogg rarely cuts in for a close-up. Although the camera rarely moves, the effect achieved is not static. On the c...
The Best Movies of 2019 What a year 2019 has been for movies. We came into it knowing we’d be getting new films from filmmaking heavyweights like Martin Scorsese (The Irishman), Quentin Tarantino (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood), and Greta Gerwig (Little Women), and their efforts did ...
of American history. But it’s not violence that brings them down — it’s debilitating age. That searing note of poetic justice makes The Irishman unique among Scorsese’s Mob films, from Goodfellas to The Departed, and earns a place in the cinematic canon.”– Mark Olsen, Los ...
Films big and small have caught our attention to date, and we’ve purposefully left off movies we’ve seen at last year’s festivals, in order to give fresher titles a fairer hearing. As this is just a taking of the temperature, rather than a full diagnosis of the year in film, the...
Best Films of 2019 Having not yet seen Bong Joon-Ho’s critically-acclaimed Parasite yet, I already feel like this list isn’t 100% complete. That being said, 2019 was a pretty damn good year for film. It finally feels like major studios are realising that unimaginative reboots & sequel...
STX Films Hustlers Hustlersis one of those movies you should see on the big screen with a group of your best girlfriends. The star-studded film, which includes Jennifer Lopez, Constance Wu and Lili Reinhart, is based on a true story and offers a unique look at female friendship, social ...
loving and supportive mother (Scarlett Johansson, perfect) and the Jewish girl hiding in the closet (Thomasin McKenzie, a star in the making) to ask how we can undo all the hate and fear society feeds us. The answer is tender, funny, clever and one of easily the best films of 2019....
Presenting the best films of 2019. 10. Marriage Story Marriage Story is more universal and less searingly specific than Noah Baumbach’s previous films about divorce and family squabbles (The Squid and the Whale, The Meyerowitz Stories). Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson play mid-divorce couple...