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Gregory Ellwood’s Top 10 Of 2019: ‘Parasite,’ ‘I Lost My Body,’ ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’

December 24, 2019 11:59 pm

If my top 75 films of the decade list demonstrated anything it's that I'm a sucker for cinema that sticks with you. That's what made 2019 individually a hard year to pull a top 10 for. It's not that there wer...

Biggest Entertainment Stories Of The Decade [2010s]

Gregory Ellwood

December 24, 2019 10:30 am

Awards Campaign, News, Television

Has Hollywood transformed more over the course of its 100-year history than from 2010 to 2020? Perhaps the last time there was such fundamental change was when television reshaped America in the 1950s. Maybe ...

Edgar Wright Is Back With His Top 50 Songs Of 2019 Playlist

Charles Barfield

December 11, 2019 2:53 pm

News

Well before he synced a film to music with “Baby Driver,” Edgar Wright has been one of the foremost filmmakers unafraid of putting an iconic needle drop in his movie. Whether it’s Queen in “Shaun of the Dead” o...

Film Comment’s Best Of 2019 Includes Underseen Gems Like ‘Transit,’ ‘Atlantics,’ & ‘An Elephant Sitting Still’

Charles Barfield

December 11, 2019 1:15 pm

News

While most film publications stick to a fairly typical list of Best of the Year, Film Comment does things a bit differently. Instead of just listing the very best films that 2019 produced, the outlet goes a ste...

The Best Movie Trailers Of 2019

The Playlist Staff

December 10, 2019 2:54 pm

Features, News

Everything-is-epic culture has transformed film trailers over the last few years. What used to be a commercial for a movie has now changed into a mini-event. Now, we get the teaser, the teaser for the teaser, t...

The Best TV Shows & Mini-Series Of 2019

Elazar Fine and The Playlist Staff

December 9, 2019 3:51 pm

Features, News, Television

As we noted and suggested in our Best TV & Mini-Series of The Decade feature, it was a pretty nutty decade for television. The advent of streaming, peak TV, prestige TV, and now, in late 2019, the new 2nd a...

Best Movie Posters Of 2019

Ella Kemp

December 6, 2019 2:38 pm

Features, News

In the Always On™ age, first impressions are everything. When a movie receives its Sundance premiere in January— but often won’t reach audiences until many months later— reviews are important. However, posters ...

Quentin Tarantino’s Top 3 Films Of 2019 Include Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’ & Two Horror Films You Probably Don’t Expect

Charles Barfield

December 6, 2019 12:04 pm

News

Last month, Quentin Tarantino shocked quite a few film fans when he disclosed that his favorite film of the year, so far, was “Crawl,” the horror film about a girl and her dad trying to survive a flooded Florid...

The 25 Best Films Of 2019

Jessica Kiang and The Playlist Staff

December 5, 2019 12:39 pm

Features, News

So here we are suddenly, after all that fuss, in December — the nursing home of the year — looking back with wistfulness, regret and not a little self-mythologizing at the friends we made and betrayed, the tall...

Time’s Top 10 Films Of 2019 Has A Lot Of Familiar Picks In A Surprising Order

Charles Barfield

December 3, 2019 12:27 pm

News

As we make our way through the post-Thanksgiving haze and into the world of winter holidays, it’s time for retrospection. For some of us, that means looking back at our last 12 months and trying to figure out w...

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