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, Review

  A.O. Scott, At the Movies, Bilge Ebiri, Brooklyn, criticism, New York Times, 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, Review

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