Online Film Critics Society Ballot 2017

Below is my December 24th ballot for the 21st annual Online Film Critics Society Awards honoring movies released domestically in the United States during the 2017 calendar year. Each category is ordered according to my preferential rankings. Group winners are labeled in red. (We were only allowed to vote for one nominee per category this year, but I ranked them all like previous years anyway.)

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REVIEW: Dawson City: Frozen Time [2017]

What else is Dawson going to uncover? I’m dating myself by talking about my days in grade school and the numerous films we watched on an actual projector synched to a tape player, but there was something about this form of visual information dispersal that we’ve lost today with televisions, computers, tablets, and smart boards. Now teachers put on a video to grade papers or take a much-needed break because the lesson doesn’t demand his/her participation. Back when I was going to school, however, these filmstrips weren’t so “talk”-heavy. They…

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