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 December 30, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Dare I say 2016 feels like a throwback to the stellar work of great auteurs doing their thing in the 70s without fear of never working in the industry again? We have the science fiction, horror, and western genres all finding their way into awards conversation and the best dramas have proven themselves to be […]
Category essays, top 10 films · Tags Arrival, Blue Jay, Forushande, Hell or High Water, High-Rise, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, I Am Not Your Negro, Jackie, Manchester by the Sea, Midnight Special, Moonlight, The Eyes of My Mother, The Fits, The Salesman, The Witch, Toni Erdmann
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 31, 2016 · Leave a Comment
Below is my December 31st ballot for the 20th annual Online Film Critics Society Awards honoring movies released domestically in the United States during the 2016 calendar year. Group winners are highlighted in red. Best Picture #1Moonlight. #2Manchesterby the Sea #3Arrival. #4Jackie. #5The Witch. #6Hell orHigh Water #7La La Land. #8O.J.: Madein America #9The Handmaiden. […]
Category essays, top 10 films, z.slideshow · Tags 13th, Adam Driver, Amy Adams, Arrival, Barry Jenkins, Bradford Young, Cameraperson, Captain Fantastic, Casey Affleck, Certain Women, Damien Chazelle, David Birke, Denis Villeneuve, Denzel Washington, Efthymis Filippou, Elle, Emma Stone, Eric Heisserer, Fences, Finding Dory, Hell or High Water, Hidden Figures, I Am Not Your Negro, Isabelle Huppert, Jackie, James Laxton, Jeff Bridges, Joe Walker, Joi McMillon, Kenneth Lonergan, Kubo and the Two Strings, La La Land, Lily Gladstone, Linus Sandgren, Love & Friendship, Loving, Lucas Hedges, Mahershala Ali, Manchester by the Sea, Michael Shannon, Michelle Williams, Moana, Moonlight, Naomie Harris, Nat Sanders, Natalie Portman, Nels Bangerter, Neruda, Noah Oppenheim, Nocturnal Animals, O.J.: Made in America, Octavia Spencer, OFCS, Online Film Critics Society, Pablo Larraín, Paterson, Philippe Djian, Ruth Negga, Ryan Gosling, Sebastián Sepúlveda, Stéphane Fontaine, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Taylor Sheridan, Ted Chiang, The Handmaiden, The Lobster, The Neon Demon, The Red Turtle, The Salesman, The Witch, Tom Bennett, Tom Cross, Tom Ford, Toni Erdmann, Viggo Mortensen, Viola Davis, Weiner, Whit Stillman, Yorgos Lanthimos, Zootopia
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 29, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact impressionable souls will do so without fail. This monthly column (with a special year-end retrospective today) focuses on the film industry’s willingness to capitalize on this truth, releasing one-sheets to serve as not representations of what audiences are to […]
Category film features, posterized propaganda, top 10 lists, top 10 posters by year · Tags Adam Maida, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Binalogue, BOND, Concept Arts, Cosmos, Empire Design, Equals, Gravillis Inc., Hardcore Henry, InSync Plus, Into the Forest, Jackie, Jump Cut, LA, Leroy and Rose, Manheim, Money Monster, Moonlight, Morris from America, Nerve, Operation Avalanche, P+A, Right Now Wrong Then, Shut In, Sing Street, Switch, Sword Master, Tale of Tales, The Birth of a Nation, The Fits, The Girl on the Train, The Greasy Strangler, The Handmaiden, The Lobster, The Neon Demon, The Witch, Valley of the Sasquatch, Vasilis Marmatakis, WORKS ADV
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 6, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“When something’s written down—does that make it true?” It’s rather intriguing how we feel we know our presidents. They represent us as a leader of the free world and we in turn love them enough to mourn their passing even when it’s decades after their run in the Oval Office ceased. But what is it […]
Category biography, drama, film reviews, z.slideshow · Tags Beth Grant, Billy Crudup, Greta Gerwig, Jackie, John Carroll Lynch, Max Casella, Mica Levi, Natalie Portman, Noah Oppenheim, Pablo Larraín, Peter Sarsgaard, Richard E. Grant, Sebastián Sepúlveda, Stéphane Fontaine
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