This may be the personally oddest and most eclectic “Best Of” list I’ve ever compiled. Half is strongly art-house and indie minded, while the other half is not simply mainstream, it is firmly entrenched in solid blockbuster territory. How to explain it? Simple. These were my favorite films of the year. These were the ones [...]

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Eat your heart out Wes Anderson. Ever since the sublime Rushmore, director Wes Anderson’s films have arrived on a slippery scale of diminished returns, visually transcendent but emotionally vacant. As if implicitly understanding that nature abhors such [...]

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