By now, you’ve read countless assessments of 2020 as a traumatic and unprecedented year. I won’t bother recapping the numerous troubling developments the world over in the last twelve months, except t...
Without fail, in any given year, some friend or fellow film writer will complain about the state of cinema, remarking that it was a lousy year for movies. Maybe I am an optimist (I am not), but I don’...
A lot has happened in the last decade. At the beginning of the 2010s, Netflix had only just started its streaming service. DVDs and Blu-rays still appealed to mainstream consumers (whereas today they’...
Every year, the equally painstaking and pointless task of creating a year-end Top 10 List fills me with frustration and dissatisfaction. Frustration because I realize this list is fleeting, and my cur...
Putting together a Top 10 List is never an easy task, especially when you know that in a month, week, or even a few days, the list as you would make it may change. Nevertheless, it’s a tradition I hav...
Top 10 lists always seem a little silly if only because, in a year or so, I will probably look back and think to myself, Number 6 should have been in the Number 3 spot, or I really should have include...
One of the best years for film in recent memory, 2015 packed the bulk of its finest titles in the last month or two of the year. 2015 also gave us several artful releases and plenty more great enterta...
Deep Focus Review’s list of the Top 10 Films of 2014 was a challenge to compile, more so than previous years’ Top 10 lists. In part, this is because 2014 was not a banner year for new cinema. There we...
This is Deep Focus Review’s Top 10 Films of 2013 and year-end review. 2013 started off slow. Just a few titles stuck with me from early in the year (Side Effects, Disconnect, Stoker, and The Place Bey...
