The Best Cinematography Of 2016
As we slowly and eagerly await the end of a year that history will squint back on forever, we can take some solace in knowing that it hasn’t been completely devoid of good things. And if you’ve been following o...
Pablo Larrain’s ‘Neruda’ Starring Gael Garcia Bernal Is A Thrilling Love Letter To The Very Concept Of Fiction [Review]
A surpassingly strange chimera of visual magic and verbal delight, leavened with humor both bawdy and bittersweet, Pablo Larrain's "Neruda" takes the surname of its subject as its title, but in absolutely no ot...
The 30 Best Film Scores & Soundtracks Of 2016
It’s been something of a mixed year for movies in some ways — a fairly sparse first half of the year, including the worst blockbuster season in living memory, followed by an absolutely rammed fall season that, ...
‘La La Land’ Starring Ryan Gosling & Emma Stone Is A Primary Colored Explosion Of Pure Delight [Review]
Sometimes you don't know what you need until you get it. And the world — as well as cinema, history, art, nostalgia, sincerity, joy, music, love and creativity — needs Damien Chazelle's "La La Land" right now. ...
Pablo Larrain Paints A Devastatingly Human Portrait In ‘Jackie’ Starring Natalie Portman [Review]
There is a broad, prestige Oscar-bait biopic that "Jackie, Starring Natalie Portman As Tragically Bereaved First Lady Jackie Kennedy!" implies. It has a central performance that will be declared "towering," and...
Self-Serious ‘Man Down’ Starring Shia LaBeouf Squanders Its B-Movie Potential [Review]
The world is a vast and wonderful place, filled with inexplicable and peculiar things, and one of them is the career of musician-turned-model-turned-author-turned-director Dito Montiel. Perhaps with a backstory...
Mia Hansen-Løve’s ‘Things To Come’ Starring Isabelle Huppert Is An Unflinching, Compassionate Look At Late Middle-Age [Review]
Here's what is great about Mia Hansen-Løve's "Things to Come," apart from everything: In a fit of pique, recently separated philosophy professor Nathalie, played with immaculate transparency by Isabelle Huppert...
The 50 Best Horror Movies Of The 21st Century So Far
We’ve been having a bit of a horror-fest at The Playlist this month (terrifying Halloween party costumes of choice at Playlist Towers include: Mike Pence, the ghost of the never-made second season of “Vinyl” an...
The 25 Best Horror Films Of The 1980s
With October being the spookiest month, we’ve been placing a particular focus on the horror genre in the weeks leading up to Halloween —we’ve already looked at the best Foreign Language Horror movies, and last ...
The 20 Most Anticipated Films Of The 2016 Venice Film Festival
Next week, the first of the big fall film festivals kicks off, in which hordes of international journalists will surely threaten to sink the 11km-long sandbar island that is the Lido di Venezia. The Venice Film...