Tag: The LEGO Movie

• Favorite Films of the 2010s

  See also: my favorite books, TV shows, and albums of the 2010s. My initial list for this endeavor had 77 movies. After I barely managed to winnow it down to 50, I just couldn’t figure out how I’d get to that arbitrary yet appealing round number of 10. But once I realized most of the…

  Dec 10, 2019

  # Arrival, best of, film, Hell Or High Water, Lincoln, lists, Mad Max: Fury Road, Minding the Gap, movies, Spider-Man, Spotlight, The LEGO Movie, The Social Network, This Is Martin Bonner

• Better Living Through Criticism

  I’ve been a fan of A.O. Scott since his too-short time co-hosting At the Movies with Michael Phillips, which was my favorite post-Ebert iteration of the show. Their tenure was a salve after the brief and forgettable stint of Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz. Phillips and Scott brought a benevolent wonkiness to the show I…

  Feb 28, 2016

  # A.O. Scott, At the Movies, attention, Bilge Ebiri, books, Brooklyn, criticism, film, movies, New York Times, review, Roger Ebert, Samuel L. Jackson, Tangerine, The LEGO Movie, writing

• Favorite Films of 2014

  Because synchronicity has been on my mind recently, I wondered while considering my favorite films of 2014 if any of them were thematically aligned, explicitly or otherwise. Turns out they are. The ten-ish films that lodged themselves into my brain this year naturally arranged themselves into pairs or groups—some odd ones, to be sure, but nevertheless interesting. I…

  Jan 11, 2015

  # best of, Boyhood, Calvary, film, Ida, Interstellar, Life Itself, lists, Locke, movies, Noah, review, Snowpiercer, The LEGO Movie, They Came Together, Whiplash