List of Film Reviews/Analyses
12 Years a Slave
Plus The Three to See: The Birth of a Nation, Gone with the Wind, and 12 Years a Slave
The 15:17 to Paris
1917
20 Feet from Stardom
42
49th Parallel (AKA The Invaders)
50/5
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
A Quiet Place Part II
A Star is Born (2018)
The Accountant
Act of Valor
Ad Astra
Algiers (1938)
Alien: Covenant
Allied
Alone Yet Not Alone
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
American Underdog
American Hustle
American Sniper
Anastasia
Anne of the Thousand Days
Ant-Man
Applause (1929)
Around the World in 80 Days Two ’50s Films That “Shouldn’t Have Won” Best Picture
Arrival
The Artist
August: Osage County
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Avengers
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Avengers: Endgame
Avengers: Infinity War
Babes in Arms (1939)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
The Batman (2022)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Big Eyes
The Big Parade (1925)
The Big Short
The Big Sick
Birdman or (the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (AKA, Birdman)
Birth of a Nation (1915)
Plus The Three to See: The Birth of a Nation, Gone with the Wind, and 12 Years a Slave
The Birth of a Nation (2016)
Black Narcissus (1947)
Black Panther
Blonde Venus (1932)
Blue Jasmine
The Body Snatcher
Bohemian Rhapsody
Bombshell
The Bourne Legacy
Charles Boyer (see Algiers, Liliom, and Love Affair)
Boyhood
Brave
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
The Butler (see Lee Daniels’ The Butler)
Captain America: Civil War
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Captain Phillips
Casablanca
Clouds of Sils Maria
Courageous
Creed
The Crowd
Dancing Lady (1933)
The Dark Knight Rises
Darkest Hour
Denial (2016)
The Descendants
Diary of a Country Priest (French, 1951)
Quick Takes: Disenchanted and Spirited
Divergent
Do You Believe?
Downton Abbey
Downton Abbey: A New Era
Dune (2021)
Dunkirk
Elvis
Elysium
Emma.
Encounter: Quick Takes on Some Streaming Films
Enough Said
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Exodus: Gods and Kings
The Fall (2006, or -07, or -08, depending)
Far from the Madding Crowd
The Fault in Our Stars
The Favourite
Fences
Finding Dory
Florence Foster Jenkins
Follow the Fleet (1936)
For Me and My Gal
Ford v Ferrari Quick Cuts: Winter Holiday Films
Foxcatcher
Frozen
Frozen II
Fruitvale Station
The Garden of Allah (1936)
Gone Girl
The Good Dinosaur
The Good Earth
The Three to See: The Birth of a Nation, Gone with the Wind, and 12 Years a Slave
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Gravity
The Great Gatsby
The Great Ziegfeld
The Greatest Show on Earth Two ’50s Films That “Shouldn’t Have Won” Best Picture
The Greatest Showman
Guardians of the Galaxy
Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Hacksaw Ridge
Hail, Caesar!
Hallelujah (1929)
Harriet
Heaven is for Real
Hell or High Water
Her
Hidden Figures
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Holiday Inn
Hope Rises
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Hugo
The Hundred-Foot Journey
The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part Two
I Can Only Imagine
If Beale Street Could Talk
The Imitation Game
In the Heart of the Sea
In Which We Serve (1942)
Incredibles 2
The Informer (1935)
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)
Inside Out
Interstellar
Into the Woods
The Invaders (see 49th Parallel)
The Irishman
The Iron Lady
Iron Man 3
J. Edgar
Jackie
Jason Bourne
Jaws
Jersey Boys
Jesus Revolution
Joker
Judgment at Nuremburg
Judy
Jurassic World
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Jurassic World Dominion
King of Jazz
The King of Kings (1927)
Knives Out Quick Cuts: Winter Holiday Films
Kong: Skull Island
Lady Bird
Lady for a Day
La La Land
Late Night
Lee Daniels’ The Butler
The Lego Movie
Les Girls
Les Misérables
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Like Crazy
Liliom (1934)
Lincoln
Lion
Little Women (1949) Quick Cuts: Winter Holiday Films
Logan
Lola Montès (1955)
Love Affair (1939)
Loving
The Lost City of Z
A Man Called Otto/A Man Called Ove
A Man for All Seasons
Man of Steel
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
Manchester by the Sea
Marriage Story Quick Cuts: Winter Holiday Films
The Martian
A Matter of Life and Death/Stairway to Heaven (1946)
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
Mission: Impossible–Fallout
The Monuments Men
Moonrise Kingdom
Morning Glory
The Muppets
My Big Fat Greek Wedding II
Nebraska
Niagara
Nightcrawler
No Time to Die
Noah
Of Mice and Men (1939) Quick Cuts: Winter Holiday Films
Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood
One Night in Miami…
One Way Passage: A Tour Through Yesterday
Out of the Past
Oz: The Great and Powerful
The Nun’s Story
Parasite Quick Cuts: Winter Holiday Films
Passengers
Peg O’ My Heart
The People v. O.J. Simpson
Pépé le Moko (1937)
Phantom Thread
Philomena
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Post
The Power of the Dog
Premium Rush
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) Quick Cuts: Winter Holiday Films
Prometheus
Pygmalion
Quartet
Rampage
Red Notice: Quick Takes on Some Streaming Films
The Red Shoes (1948, British)
Red Tails
The Revenant
Risen
Road to Perdition
Rogue One: My Experience
Roman Holiday
Room
Rush
The Salesman (Iranian, 2016)
San Francisco (1936)
Saving Mr. Banks
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Selma
The Shack
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
She Said
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Show People (1928)
Skyfall
Sicario
Silver Linings Playbook
Soul Surfer
Spectre
The Spectacular Now
Spider-Man: Far from Home
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Quick Takes: Disenchanted and Spirited
Spotlight
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Still Alice
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
Sully
Take Shelter
The Theory of Everything
The Thin Man (1934)
Thor: Love and Thunder
Tick, Tick…BOOM! Quick Takes on Some Streaming Films
To the Wonder
Top Gun: Maverick
Tombstone (1993)
The Tree of Life, Part 1
The Tree of Life, Part Two
Two Days, One Night (Deux jours, une nuit)
The Two Great Film Anniversaries You Probably Didn’t Hear About
The Two Popes Quick Cuts: Winter Holiday Films
Two Women (1960/1961)
Unbroken
Uncut Gems Quick Cuts: Winter Holiday Films
Victoria and Abdul
War Horse
Watch on the Rhine (1943)
West Side Story (2021)
What Price Hollywood? (1932)
When Knighthood was in Flower
Whiplash
The Wolverine
Woman in Gold
Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman 1984
World War Z
X-Men Apocalypse
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Young Adult
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