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2024
Best Films of 2023: Appendix
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2023
Parallel Tracks: Past Lives and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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Cannes 2023: Recap
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Best Films of 2022
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2022
Best Films of 2021
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2021
Best Films of 2020: Living Room Lessons
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2020
Review: Shithouse
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Review: The Assistant
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Review: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
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Best Films of 2019
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2019
Review: Parasite
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TIFF Review: Knives Out
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TIFF Review: Waves
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TIFF Review: The Two Popes
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TIFF Review: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
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TIFF Review: Uncut Gems
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TIFF Review: Jojo Rabbit
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TIFF Review: Proxima
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TIFF Review: Marriage Story
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TIFF Review: True History of the Kelly Gang
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TIFF Review: Joker
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TIFF Review: Blackbird
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TIFF Review: Lucy in the Sky
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TIFF Review: Jungleland
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TIFF Review: Honey Boy
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Review: Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
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Review: The Last Black Man In San Francisco
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Cannes 2019: Recap
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Review: Avengers: Endgame
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Review: Paddleton
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Review: Alita Battle Angel
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Best Films of 2018: On Trauma and Our Response
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2018
Review: On The Basis Of Sex and Vice
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Review: Mid90s and Minding the Gap
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Review: If Beale Street Could Talk
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Review: Crazy Rich Asians
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Review: Sicario: Day of the Soldado
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Cannes Day 3: Shoplifters, Yomeddine, Under the Silver Lake
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Cannes Day 2: BlacKkKlansman, Knife + Heart, Wild Pear Tree
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Cannes Day 1: In My Room, Dogman, Sorry Angel
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Cannes Day 0: Burning
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Fundamentalism and The Miseducation of Cameron Post
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Tribeca Review: Zoe
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Tribeca Review: All About Nina
Tribeca Review: The Party's Just Beginning
Tribeca Review: Disobedience
Tribeca Review: State Like Sleep
Tribeca Review: The Seagull
Tribeca Review: Blue Night
Tribeca Review: Tully
SFFILM Review: Eighth Grade
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Review: Ready Player One
Review: Tomb Raider
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Review: Love, Simon
Review: Thoroughbreds
Review: Red Sparrow
Review: Annihilation
Review: A Fantastic Woman
Review: Black Panther
Review: Peter Rabbit
Review: 2017 Oscar-nominated Documentaries
Review: The Cloverfield Paradox
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Best Films of 2017
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Review: The Post
2017
Review: Call Me By Your Name
Review: Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Review: The Shape of Water
Review: The Disaster Artist
Review: Coco
Review: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
Review: The Florida Project
Review: Detroit
Review: The Big Sick
Review: Personal Shopper
Best Films of 2016
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2016
Review: Manchester By The Sea
Review: Arrival
2016 Oscar Predictions
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Review: The Witch
Review: Dirty Grandpa
Best Films of 2015
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Review: Anomalisa
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Review: The Big Short
2015
Review: Carol
Review: The Good Dinosaur
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Review: The Hunger Games: Mocking Jay Part 2
Review: Room
Review: Spotlight
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Review: Spectre
Review: Bridge of Spies
Review: The Walk
Review: The Martian
Review: Sicario
Review: Z for Zachariah
Review: Queen of Earth
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Review: Meru
Review: No Escape
Review: Mistress America
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Review: The Look of Silence
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Review: Straight Outta Compton
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Review: The End of the Tour
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Review: The Gift
Review: Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
Review: Southpaw
Review: Paper Towns
Review: Ant Man
Review: The Overnighters
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Review: San Andreas
Review: Mad Max: Fury Road
Review: Avengers: Age of Ultron
Review: Ex Machina
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Review: True Story
Review: Furious 7
Review: While We're Young
Throwback Review: Short Term 12
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Review: Divergent and Insurgent
Review: Run All Night
Review: CHAPPiE
Review: Kingsman: The Secret Service
Review: Unbroken
Review: Project Almanac
Oscar Ballot: Part 1
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Review: American Sniper
Review: Selma
Best Films of 2014
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Review: Into the Woods
Review: The Interview
Review: The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies
Review: Wild
Review: The Imitation Game
2014
Review: Exodus: Gods and Kings
Review: The Babadook
Review: Foxcatcher
Review: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1
Review: The Theory of Everything
Review: Rosewater
Review: Interstellar
Review: Big Hero 6
Review: Nightcrawler
Review: Birdman
Review: Whiplash
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Review: John Wick
Review: Fury
Review: The Guest
Review: The Judge
Review: Gone Girl
Review: The Equalizer
Review: The Skeleton Twins
Review: Ida
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Review: The Congress
Review: Starred Up
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Review: Museum Hours
Review: Frank
Review: The One I Love
Review: What If
Review: Snowpiercer
Review: Calvary
Review: Guardians of the Galaxy
Review: Lucy
Review: Boyhood
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Review: Wish I Was Here
Review: How to Train Your Dragon 2
Review: 22 Jump Street
Review: Edge of Tomorrow
Review: A Million Ways to Die in the West
Review: X-Men: Days of Future Past
Review: Godzilla
Review: Neighbors
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Review: The Amazing Spider-Man 2
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Review: Transcendence
Review: Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Review: Noah
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Review: The Grand Budapest Hotel
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