“I saw a lot of terrific films in 2022, but they’re becoming increasingly more difficult for audiences to find, siloed off onto separate subscription services or buried in brief, barely-advertised engagements and feast-or-famine scheduling. Studio malpractice and streamer sabotage have me less optimistic about the future of the theatrical experience than I’ve ever been.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 12/20/2022
“Paul Thomas Anderson’s loose, loopy tale of teenage adulation in 1973 is the director’s most endearing picture, an episodic ramble through fading fashions, ephemeral fads and memories that endure. There’s magic in their misfit, Hollywood-adjacent misadventures, and a wistful evocation of just how fleeting such connections can be. I didn’t want it to end.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 12/15/2021
“It must be swell to live in Jon Stewart’s imaginary America where race, religion and women’s rights are never mentioned and the divisions driving people to the polls are merely matters of educated liberals using big words and eating fancy foods that alienate real, meat-and-potatoes patriots. His deeply incurious satire feels like the worst film of 2004.” – North Shore Movies, 12/26/2020
“Some of the year’s most affecting pictures were about just making it through to tomorrow. This terrifying time of isolation made emotional connections onscreen feel all the more precious and fragile, with crowd scenes and hugs feeling like gifts we’d been taking for granted. Whatever the new normal may be, I hope some of the lessons of 2020 will be remembered.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 12/21/2020
“The un-kitty valley CGI turning these performers into Island Of Dr. Moreau half-feline hybrids is deeply creepy, with their monkey tails and the not-to-scale sets making you wonder if anyone involved has ever seen a cat. This may sound like a kitsch classic, except remember the show is just the same scene over and over and feels like it’s never going to end.” – North Shore Movies, 12/31/2019
“It’s a movie about waking up one morning and realizing you’ve gotten old, that your career never really worked out and that the culture has passed you by. It’s also a movie about how much this director loves all sorts of things I likewise adore: drinking buddies, old Westerns, neon lights, movie theater marquees, bubblegum pop hits and pretty girls’ feet.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 12/23/2019
1. Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood 2. The Irishman 3. Ash Is Purest White 4. Little Women 5. Portrait Of A Lady On Fire 6. Parasite 7. Atlantics 8. High Life 9. Diane 10. Dolemite Is My Name
Honorable Mentions: Amazing Grace, Apollo 11, Climax, Dragged Across Concrete, The Farewell, Her Smell, The Hottest August, The Image Book, The Lighthouse, Monos, Non-Fiction, Pain And Glory, Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story By Martin Scorsese, Tigers Are Not Afraid
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