Top Ten Films: 2017

It was a very good year. (At the movies, anyway.)

Amazon Prime: ‘Wonder Woman’ & ‘City Of Z’ Explore Uncharted Territory

This just in: WOMEN can direct MOVIES. Despite their menstruation and inability to lift heavy things, females are either as capable or even more capable than men at making films that involve punching and kicking! Still with me? Okay! As it turns out, women, who are not historically known for either punching or kicking, can […]

Not-Oscars 2012: The Year’s Best Performances

(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; […]

Top 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 […]

Swept Away: ‘The Impossible’

(Originally posted on JustinPlusSix on November 8.) Well, it’s been a hell of a week. In the time since I wrote my review of Cloud Atlas last week, we’ve had Hurricane Sandy, Halloween, and we re-elected Barack Obama. (I know Sandy was technically more than a week ago, but I wrote my review beforehand.) I […]