by Tori Potenza, Staff Writer
This felt like a banner year for films, and while crafting this list is always a challenge, this year felt particularly hard. From horror, to international to indie, to queer films, there was a plethora of incredible films to choose from.
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
Trying to pick 15 films I wanted to highlight as the best of the year is an impossible task. But the important thing to remember is that you can’t wake up if you don’t fall asleep.
by Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport & Editor in Chief
This is a picture that should be enjoyed from the comfort of a darkened theater with someone that treasures the cinematic experience.
Read MoreDirected by Yorgos Lanthimos
Written by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara
Starring Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz
Running time: 1 hour, 59 minutes
MPAA rating: R
by Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport
“Who’s your favourite* uncle, Rosie?”
This is a question that I have been incessantly asked from the age of consciousness until present day. With my mother being the eldest of four brothers, it probably comes as no surprise that this inquiry wore out its welcome. Even as a young child, what always fascinated me was the relentless commitment to a question that they already knew the answer to: YOU.
Read MoreDirected by Yorgos Lanthimos (2017)
by Hunter Bush
Yorgos Lanthimos' The Killing of a Sacred Deer will end up drawing a lot of comparisons - some of them from me - to his last film, The Lobster, because of Lanthimos' fondness for unusual stories and stilted dialogue and his decision to team with Lobster star Colin Farrell again. But while these similarities are there, Deer is the more grounded and at the same time more intangible of the two.
Read Moreby Wilson Holzhaeuser
What makes a movie weird?
We attach that label to so many films so often that it can often mean anything - from disturbing to whimsical to challenging to off putting. Some use it as simply a synonym for “bad” when they aren’t quite sure how to articulate what they dislike while others embrace anything superficially strange, holding up that strangeness as an accomplishment. If the term is going to be useful all of these readings cannot be correct. The word must hold content. What we need to do is determine what that content may be.
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