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…

  December 10, 2019

  Film

  Arrival, best of, film, Hell Or High Water, Lincoln, lists, Mad Max: Fury Road, Minding the Gap, 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 greatly enjoyed and mourned when…

  February 28, 2016

  Books, Film

  A.O. Scott, At the Movies, Bilge Ebiri, Brooklyn, criticism, New York Times, review, Roger Ebert, Samuel L. Jackson, Tangerine, The Lego Movie

• 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…

  January 11, 2015

  Film

  Boyhood, Calvary, Ida, Interstellar, Life Itself, Locke, Noah, review, Snowpiercer, The Lego Movie, They Came Together, Whiplash