Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 31, 2019 · Leave a Comment
If you asked me in 2010 which studios’ films would be amongst my favorites over the next ten years, I probably would have answered two correctly: Fox Searchlight (11) and Sony Pictures Classics (7). Those are two independent shingles of big Hollywood names that have been pumping out quality pictures for decades. Next up would […]
Category essays, top 10 films, top 10 lists, z.slideshow · Tags 12 Years a Slave, 50/50, A Quiet Passion, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, American Animals, Aniara, Arrival, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Black Swan, Blue Valentine, Bullhead, Call Me By Your Name, Calvary, Carlos, Carol, Cloud Atlas, Coherence, Custody, Dunkirk, Enemy, Ex Machina, First Man, For Sama, Frances Ha, Fruitvale Station, Fury, Get Out, Hell or High Water, Hellion, Her, High-Rise, Holy Motors, Honey Boy, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, I Am Love, I Am Not Your Negro, If Beale Street Could Talk, Inception, Inch'Allah, Inside Out, Intouchables, It Comes at Night, Jackie, James White, Lady Macbeth, Leave No Trace, Looper, Luce, Mad Max: Fury Road, Madeline's Madeline, Manchester by the Sea, Marriage Story, Melancholia, Midnight in Paris, Minding the Gap, Moonlight, Mudbound, Never Let Me Go, Oslo August 31st, ParaNorman, Parasite, Pariah, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Rabbit Hole, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Selma, Shame, Short Term 12, Son of Saul, Sound of My Voice, Spotlight, Spring, Spring Breakers, Steve Jobs, The Act of Killing, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, The Farewell, The Fighter, The Hunt, The Master, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Social Network, The Standoff at Sparrow Creek, The Tree of Life, The Witch, The Wolf of Wall Street, Thelma, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Toni Erdmann, Transit, Under the Skin, Upstream Color, Waves, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Whiplash, Wild Tales, Wildlife, Wonderstruck, You Were Never Really Here
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 29, 2019 · Leave a Comment
It’s a rare year when your top twenty-five films find the room to allow their usual Oscar-bait dramas to co-exist with foreign favorites, heartfelt documentaries, surreal comedies, and superhero fantasy adventures. Rarer still is a period of time such as 2018 wherein it happens two or three times over. And it’s not just about familiar […]
Category essays, top 10 films · Tags American Animals, Custody, First Man, If Beale Street Could Talk, Leave No Trace, Madeline's Madeline, Minding the Gap, Sorry to Bother You, Wildlife, You Were Never Really Here
Posted by Jared Mobarak on February 25, 2019 · Leave a Comment
What a wild ride this Oscars season has been. After so much recent talk about inclusivity and a changing of the guard, it was bound to happen that we’d receive an awkward period of flux. There’s the young crowd cheering a Marvel Cinematic Universe chapter to the franchise’s first Best Picture nominee and the older […]
Category essays, oscars, z.slideshow · Tags A Star Is Born, Alfonso Cuarón, Andrew Wyatt, Anthony Rossomando, Bao, Becky Neiman-Cobb, Black Panther, Bob Persichetti, Bohemian Rhapsody, Brian Hayes Currie, Charles B. Wessler, Charlie Wachtel, Christopher Miller, David Rabinowitz, Domee Shi, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Evan Hayes, First Man, Free Solo, Green Book, Greg Cannom, Guy Nattiv, Hannah Beachler, Ian Hunter, If Beale Street Could Talk, J.D. Schwalm, Jaime Ray Newman, Jay Hart, Jim Burke, Jimmy Chin, John Casali, John Ottman, John Warhurst, Kate Biscoe, Kevin Willmott, Lady Gaga, Ludwig Göransson, Mahershala Ali, Mark Ronson, Melissa Berton, Nick Vallelonga, Nina Hartstone, Olivia Colman, Patricia Dehaney, Paul Lambert, Paul Massey, Period. End of Sentence., Peter Farrelly, Peter Ramsey, Phil Lord, Rami Malek, Rayka Zehtabchi, Regina King, Rodney Rothman, Roma, Ruth Carter, Shannon Dill, Skin, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Spike Lee, The Favourite, Tim Cavagin, Tristan Myles, Vice
Posted by Jared Mobarak on February 20, 2019 · Leave a Comment
The 90th Annual Academy Awards hits airwaves Sunday, February 24th, 2019 at 8:00pm on ABC. For those handicapping at home, here are the guesses of Buffalo film fanatics Christopher Schobert, William Altreuter, and myself. Jared Mobarak: It’s the type of year where hashtags rhetoric simply won’t work. There’s just not one all encapsulating buzzword to […]
Category essays, oscars, z.slideshow · Tags A Star Is Born, Academy Awards, Adam Driver, Adam McKay, Alfonso Cuarón, Amy Adams, At Eternity's Gate, Barry Jenkins, Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, Bohemian Rhapsody, Bradley Cooper, Brian Currie, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Charlie Wachtel, Christian Bale, Christopher Schobert, Cold War, David Rabinowitz, Deborah Davi, Emma Stone, Eric Roth, Ethan Coen, First Reformed, Glenn Close, Green Book, If Beale Street Could Talk, Jeff Whitty, Joel Coen, Kevin Willmott, Lady Gaga, Mahershala Ali, Marina de Tavira, Melissa McCarthy, Nick Vallelonga, Nicole Holofcener, Olivia Colman, Oscars, Paul Schrader, Pawel Pawlikowski, Peter Farrelly, Rachel Weisz, Rami Malek, Regina King, Richard E. Grant, Roma, Sam Elliott, Sam Rockwell, Spike Lee, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, The Favourite, The Wife, Tony McNamara, Vice, Viggo Mortensen, Will Fetters, Willem Dafoe, William Altreuter, Yalitza Aparicio, Yorgos Lanthimos
Posted by Jared Mobarak on January 2, 2019 · Leave a Comment
Below is my December 27th ballot for the 22nd annual Online Film Critics Society Awards honoring movies released domestically in the United States during the 2018 calendar year. Group winners are highlighted in red. (No option to abstain was supplied this year.) Best Picture #1If Beale StreetCould Talk #2You Were NeverReally Here #3Hereditary #4Eighth Grade […]
Category essays, top 10 films, z.slideshow · Tags A Star Is Born, Adam Driver, Adam Gough, Alfonso Cuarón, Anne Rosellini, Annihilation, Ari Aster, Barry Jenkins, BlacKkKlansman, Bo Burnham, Boots Riley, Bradley Cooper, Burning, Carlos López Estrada, Charlie Wachtel, Christian Bale, Cold War, David Rabinowitz, Deborah Davis, Debra Granik, Eddie Hamilton, Eighth Grade, Elizabeth Debicki, Emma Stone, Ethan Hawke, First Reformed, Free Solo, Gillian Flynn, Hereditary, If Beale Street Could Talk, Incredibles 2, Isle of Dogs, James Laxton, Jeff Whitty, Joaquin Phoenix, Joe Walker, John David Washington, Justin Hurwitz, Kevin Willmott, Lady Gaga, Linus Sandgren, Ludwig Göransson, Lukasz Zal, Lynne Ramsay, Mahershala Ali, Michael B. Jordan, Minding the Gap, Mirai, Nicholas Britell, Nicole Holofcener, Olivia Colman, Paul Schrader, Rachel Weisz, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Regina Hall, Regina King, Richard E. Grant, Robbie Ryan, Roma, Shirkers, Shoplifters, Sorry to Bother You, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Spike Lee, Steve McQueen, Steven Yeun, Suspiria, The Favourite, Thom Yorke, Thomasin McKenzie, Three Identical Strangers, Tom Cross, Toni Collette, Tony McNamara, Won't You Be My Neighbor?, Yalitza Aparicio, Yorgos Lanthimos, Yorgos Mavropsaridis, You Were Never Really Here, Zama
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 10, 2018 · Leave a Comment
“Flesh of each other’s flesh” Fonny Hunt (Stephan James) puts out his arms for a hug upon seeing an old friend in Daniel (Brian Tyree Henry) after too much time and too many men their age have passed. Smiles and laughter enter the scene before they are soon replaced by beers and reminiscing. And then […]
Category drama, film features, film festival, film reviews, romance, toronto international film festival, z.slideshow · Tags Aunjanue Ellis, Barry Jenkins, Brian Tyree Henry, Colman Domingo, Dave Franco, Diego Luna, Ed Skrein, Emily Rios, Finn Wittrock, If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin, James Laxton, KiKi Layne, Michael Beach, Nicholas Britell, Regina King, Stephan James, Teyonah Parris, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival
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