There Will Be Food: ‘Phantom Thread’
“Behind every great man, there’s a great woman.” That’s a polite way of saying, “A great man is standing in front of every great woman.”
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Top Ten Films: 2007
My Top 10 for the year 2007 comes to you from the midst of the WGA Writer’s Strike of 2007-2008, when there was some doubt about whether or not a typical Oscar telecast would even be possible without those striking scribes. That would have been quite a shame, since 2007 is one of the very […]
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(Originally published at JustinPlusSeven on January 10, 2013.) You, dear reader, have the honor of reading this in the future, after the Oscar nominations have been announced. But I am writing from this from the near past, before we know which five contenders are fighting it out in each category. Of course, some are shoo-ins; […]
Read More Not-Oscars 2012: The Year’s Best PerformancesTop Ten Films: 2012
It’s Oscar time! As usual, the Academy Awards are poised to make some very wrong decisions this year. So as usual, I am prematurely correcting them by releasing my Top Ten of the year. That year is 2012, of course — real film critics release such lists at the end of December or beginning of […]
Read More Top Ten Films: 2012Trailer Trash: Steven Spielberg // ‘Lincoln’
The Oscars are coming! The Oscars are coming!
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REAL NOBODY 