For reasons that are probably obvious, I watched more films in 2020 than in any year since I've been keeping track (which is nearly a decade now!). I typically barely break 200 films in twelve months (if that), what with things like work and a social life keeping me from spending days on end with ...
Archives for December 2020
Review: Promising Young Woman
This time last year, I was writing about the film that ultimately landed at the top of my Best Films of 2019 list: Greta Gerwig's Little Women. In Gerwig's capable hands, Louisa May Alcott's all-American story of the March sisters growing up in the shadow of the Civil War became a sort of feminist ...
Review: Soul
It's fair to say that the cinema experience is richer, more impressive, more memorable when it takes place in an actual movie theater (as opposed to from one's couch), something I've missed sorely this last year. That pang of longing hit me quite sharply as the credits rolled on Soul, Pixar's latest ...