I'm happy to report that 2014 was a year brimming with standout blockbusters, worthy festival favorites, and surprising sleeper hits. I was most struck by the...
Because, in the pressure to scramble together something before 2014 is a distant memory, I can think of hardly anything that defines this year to some signifi...
Not unlike the last few, this year has been one marked by change: more films of every size and scope released on VOD, bigger movies (budget-wise) in theaters,...
Top 10 lists from critics groups usually have a tendency to eliminate oddities and mellow out the field. But when you have personal selections, like many of m...
"Music and cinema fit together naturally. Because there's a kind of intrinsic musicality to the way moving images work when they're put together. It's been said that cinema and music are very close as art forms, and I think that's true," Martin Scorsese once said....
With each passing year, I lose less and less sleep over new releases. As of this writing on Dec. 30, I have logged 447 films on Letterboxd in 2014; the number...
2014 was a good year for films. I began this feature exactly the same way I did last year. What does that even mean? I suppose it means that there were lots o...
While I certainly won't evoke Chicken Little, and while the box office was down this year, the sky is not totally falling cinematically. But if we're speaking...
God, I hate this. Listing my 10 favorite films of any year turns into a kind of swirling existential nightmare faster than returning to my old high-school tow...
I don't want to label 2014 as a good, bad, or average year. I want to call it inventive, original, and delightfully dark. Whether it's doppelgänger paradoxes ...
