Morgan arrives a year after Ex Machina captivated both critics and audiences, making many top
films of the year lists, and it's difficult not to make the comparison in light of so many similarities.
If you're in need of more
films of the year list action, take a look at ours.
Jack and Jill Rated PG for crude material including suggestive references, language and comic violence Available on DVD and Blu - ray While this is traditionally the exact kind of film that ends up being on every critic's worst
film of the year list and an obvious Razzie candidate, I found this Adam Sandler pic to be rather interesting.
Not exact matches
None
of the upcoming movies
listed over the next two
years will have women behind the director's chair and, as Casey Cipriani and Melissa Silverstein
of IndieWire have noted, no woman has directed a live - action
film for the studio since 2010.
The
list is sorted by the
film's release date rather than the number
of rentals in a
year.
Even though I go see exactly 1 or 2 new movies a
year, I read all
of the
year - end
lists like a
film devotee.
I am happy, for example, to recommend MUD, the
film most scandalously left off this
year «s
list of Oscar - nominees for Best Picture, to any movie - lover.
Along with promising comedies, a new David O. Russell
film, the latest offering from Pixar and a documentary about Hillsong, our
list of the most anticipated movies
of next
year is filled with reboots and remakes.
I am happy, for example, to recommend MUD, the
film most scandalously left off this
year «s
list of Oscar - nominees for Best Picture,....
Alba was the name
of a character in the 2009
film The Time - Traveler's Wife, and was used for over 150 babies in the United States last
year, making it another name that may take up a permanent spot on baby name
lists of the future.
Unlike previous
years, Ghana recorded a lot
of new faces on the nomination
list; some
of whom Included new actor, Joseph Otsiman who got the nod for Best Actor In Supporting Role for his performance in the drama thriller
film, The Cursed Ones directed by Nana Obiri Yeboah, who was also nominated for AMAA 2016 Award For Best Director category.
Beautifully
filmed in Hawaii, Lake Tahoe, Napa Valley, Santa Barbara and San Francisco, «Mindfulness Meditations for Anxiety» was on Amazon's Best Seller
list for much
of last
year.
Between Glamour's annual Women
of the
Year awards, the Dior - hosted Guggenheim International Gala and the premiere
of Tom Ford's latest
film, «Nocturnal Animals,» this past week served up a lot
of great fashion moments, making it pretty difficult to narrow our
list of the best dressed celebrities.
This
list was compiled in August 2012 on the basis that the
films were popular in the era
of release as well as successful at the Box Office and have» T is the season to watch lots
of films... and Christmas movies have certainly been lucrative over the
years.
Danish director Thomas Vinterberg has been on a bit
of a losing streak since his acclaimed 1998
film The Celebration, but The Hunt landed on several best -
of - 2012
lists a
year ago, and this summer's U.S. release found many critics hailing the drama as a return to form.
Of course, in hindsight it's hardly a stretch to make that assumption when just two years later the director gave us his magnum opus with the crushingly heartfelt Holocaust story «Schindler's List,» a film that many consider to be one of the best movies ever made about this dark hour in world histor
Of course, in hindsight it's hardly a stretch to make that assumption when just two
years later the director gave us his magnum opus with the crushingly heartfelt Holocaust story «Schindler's
List,» a
film that many consider to be one
of the best movies ever made about this dark hour in world histor
of the best movies ever made about this dark hour in world history.
A great deal
of the impact in The Piano Teacher comes from Isabelle Huppert's performance, which comes as her finest career moment, as well as one
of the
year's early choices for 2002's Best Actress (personal
list,
of course: I highly doubt that the conservative Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be able to make it through the
film).
In just its second full
year of operation, the New York - based A24 managed to release 11 films, with one (Under the Skin) landing on quite a few critic top - 10 lists, and two others (the Tom Hardy - starring Locke and the just - released A Most Violent Year) also greatly impressing review
year of operation, the New York - based A24 managed to release 11
films, with one (Under the Skin) landing on quite a few critic top - 10
lists, and two others (the Tom Hardy - starring Locke and the just - released A Most Violent
Year) also greatly impressing review
Year) also greatly impressing reviewers.
A few studios did release at least 7
film sin the U.S. last
year but are not
listed because some or all
of their
films do not have Metascores.
The Broken Tower is the first 2012 - released
film I have seen, and will most likely make it on my worst
of the
year list.
His 2016
film High Rise was on my
list of the worst
films of last
year.
Below is our updated running tally
of the
films most frequently mentioned by individual critics on the
year - end Top Ten
lists.
A few additional distributors did release at least 7
films in the U.S. last
year but are not
listed because most or all
of their
films do not have Metascores (these were mainly
films in foreign languages).
A few additional distributors did release at least 7
films in the U.S. last
year but are not
listed because some or all
of their
films do not have Metascores (these were mainly
films in foreign languages).
Having won the Golden Lion at this
year's Venice International Film Festival and a Special Filmmaking Achievement Award (but no mention in the ten best
films list) from the National Board
of Review, Sofia Coppola's Somewhere is one
of the more highly anticipated independent releases
of December, especially if you liked her previous
films.
Lindhart took my breath away two
years ago in the Danish
film «Brotherhood,» which was on my Top 10
List of 2010.
It's a must - read: Pity the
film scholar who tries to discern something about our times from surveying this
list of best picture nominees 10, or 30, or 50
years from now.
Below is my
list of the 10
films that I would deem as «must - see» this
year as well as a few others recommendations that I will try to catch as well during the festival.
Some
of these
films won't get American distribution until next
year - one in particular, maybe not at all - but I can't leave them off my 2017
list, so much did they add to my moviegoing experience.
Now, a whopping five
years later, we get the just plainly ridiculous «Hot Tub Time Machine 2», which joins the
list of «Taken 3» and (while it could turn out to be a good
film) «The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel» as 2015 sequels that had no business being made.
All four
of those
films ending up topping our respective
lists for the best movies
of the
year.
Last
year, we at Bloody Good Horror polled our reviewers to come up with a
list of the best horror
films of the last decade.
That's our convoluted way
of saying that The A.V. Club looked both high and low for the best scenes
of 2015, culling from a whole spectrum
of films — some likely to appear on this week's best - movies -
of - the -
year list, others unlikely to appear on any such
list, and at least one certain to get called out in our public shaming
of the
year's worst movies.
Like Edmund Halley, who died just a couple
of years before seeing his prediction come true about the date when the comet bearing his name would return, the sad note about the
film is that Rad (
listed as director, producer, writer, editor, composer, production designer and set decorator) died in 2007 before he saw it gain new life.
While most end
of the year Best Of lists have a correlation that results in the same group of films ending up on multiple lists, there are outlier
of the
year Best
Of lists have a correlation that results in the same group of films ending up on multiple lists, there are outlier
Of lists have a correlation that results in the same group
of films ending up on multiple lists, there are outlier
of films ending up on multiple
lists, there are outliers.
It is nice to see Moonrise Kingdom on the
list as it is one
of the best
films of the
year and has been virtually forgotten by critics.
Limited 2011 Releases That Went Wider In 2012 It must be frustrating for those outside
of New York and L.A. to see certain
films crop up endlessly on
year - end
lists, only to discover that they might be weeks, or even months away from seeing them.
Two
years in a row, The A.V. Club named a
film from writer - director Richard Linklater the best movie
of the
year, with Before Midnight topping our 2013
list and Boyhood claiming the title in 2014.
Really unfortunate that The Second Mother - one
of the
year's best
films - didn't make it on this
list.
For those
of us who watch and critique these
films all
year long, there's
year - end «best
of»
lists to publish and people to argue with on Twitter, about why La La... [Read more...]
Here's a
list, in no particular order,
of 20
of the 40 women - centric
films —
films either starring, written or directed by women — expected to be released sometime this
year (as always, release dates are subject to change):
Woodley, meanwhile, has a long
list of forthcoming Hollywood roles — including the final two
films in the fantasy Divergent trilogy — and will this
year begin
filming on Oliver Snow's biopic
of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, in which she will play his girlfriend, Lindsay Mills.
Hopefully you'll find an eclectic batch
of interesting
films from these
lists, which best describes this great
year of film.
Like the last couple
of years (and in contrast to 2013), 2016 was light on great
films but offered a solid share
of good ones — so many, in fact, that I've considerably expanded my
list of honorable mentions.
It's likely you'll be seeing many
of these festival
films on our best -
of year - end
lists by the time 2012 is over.
Making a
list of the worst
films of any
year can be a painful yet dastardly fun experience.
In addition to presenting our Annual Awards and Top Ten
List, members
of the Indiana
Film Journalists Association stay active throughout the
year serving on
film festival juries, attending and sponsoring special screenings, appearing at
film and genre - specific conferences, and speaking to civic groups, schools, media outlets and many other places.
Rounding out the composite
list of the top 10
films of the
year were MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (2), LA LA LAND (3), HELL OR HIGH WATER (4), ARRIVAL (5), JACKIE (6), LOVING (7), 20TH CENTURY WOMEN (8), HACKSAW RIDGE (9) and SILENCE (10).
Another thing you should know is that, for the first time, I and contributing writer Ben Sachs, whose
year - end
list appears on the Bleader, agreed on three whole
films: Toni Erdmann, Nocturama, and Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall
of a New York Fixer.
Here is my
list of the 10 best
films in the first quarter
of the
year.