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My choices for the 10 Best Films of 2022 make up the most international list I’ve logged since starting to review films here back in 2011. Those movies that moved me most represent filmmakers [...]

I saw three great animated films this year: GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO, MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON, and the holiday release PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH. I loved the feline character when [...]

Filmmaker Sarah Polley has pulled off a significant hat trick with WOMEN TALKING. Not only does her film boast the year’s best-adapted screenplay (which she wrote), but her cast is the best [...]

The comeback is legitimate as 90s leading man Brendan Fraser returns to glory in a performance that stands as one of the year’s very best. In THE WHALE, Fraser plays Charlie, a 600-lb. recluse of [...]

Stories about the days of early Hollywood have been told countless times in productions from the sublime (SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN and THE ARTIST) to the ridiculous (Ryan Murphy’s god-awful TV [...]

Upping the ante of 2009’s blockbuster AVATAR for a sequel might’ve been daunting for most any other filmmaker, but few are as bold, obsessive, or driven as James Cameron. He’s not only a [...]

Walt Disney set the gold standard for adaptations of Pinocchio in 1940, but many filmmakers have struggled to retell the tale since. Roberto Benigni tried to do a live-action version in 2002 and [...]

Noah Baumbach and Sam Mendes are two exceptional filmmakers. And yet they, like many other top directors before them, have now helmed miscalculated Oscar-bait releases that mostly disappoint. You [...]

Some are calling THE FABLELMANS “a Steven Spielberg film, 70 years in the making.” Indeed, it is his fictional biography relating key moments of his childhood and how they hastened [...]

So many attention-worthy films come out during awards season that it’s hard to keep up with all of the terrific content premiering. One such case is the Apple TV+ documentary SELENA GOMEZ: MY [...]